For Sher, et al - It could be worse...

[minsue]

The good voters of AZ have seen fit to elect as County Attorney (the main prosecutorial office here, similar to the DA elsewhere) the man who's 1994 book Crime and the Sacking of America: The Roots of Chaos* states in part that both sides of the polical spectrum "share a poisonous obsession with individual rights."

How did this man get elected you ask? He was the Republican nominee. That's all it takes here. Warning to snowbirds - come spend your winters here, but check your civil liberties at the door.

*On sale at Amazon for $1.81. Must be a hell of a book.

 

[McKenna]

Poor Min. *hugs*

 

[shereads]

The good voters of AZ have seen fit to elect as County Attorney (the main prosecutorial office here, similar to the DA elsewhere) the man who's 1994 book Crime and the Sacking of America: The Roots of Chaos* states in part that both sides of the polical spectrum "share a poisonous obsession with individual rights."

How did this man get elected you ask? He was the Republican nominee. That's all it takes here. Warning to snowbirds - come spend your winters here, but check your civil liberties at the door.

*On sale at Amazon for $1.81. Must be a hell of a book.

It is worse.

Compliments of Florida, the U.S. Senate will now include a Republican so disreputable that an entire TV commercial for his opponent consisted of quotes from other Republican Senators about what a despicable human being he is.

His name is Mel Martinez. His campaign against Democrat Betty Castor, a former university president, was based on her having "allowed her university to be poisoned by terrorists." Translation: 2 years before 9/11 she was informed by teh FBI that a professor was under investigation for a possible link to a terrorist organiation. He wasn't charged with anything, so she didn't fire him. The same professor was among the guests at a Bush fundraising dinner, at a time when the evidence against him was growing and while, coincidentally, one of the co-chairs of Bush's Florida campaign was....

{drum roll}

Can you guess? Try to guess who was in charge of the campaign when that terrorist professor was invited to a campaign fundraising dinner! I'll bet you can't.

 

[Boxlicker101]

Re: Re: For Sher, et al - It could be worse...

It is worse.

Compliments of Florida, the U.S. Senate will now include a Republican so disreputable that an entire TV commercial for his opponent consisted of quotes from other Republican Senators about what a despicable human being he is.

His name is Mel Martinez. His campaign against Democrat Betty Castor, a former university president, was based on her having "allowed her university to be poisoned by terrorists." Translation: 2 years before 9/11 she was informed by teh FBI that a professor was under investigation for a possible link to a terrorist organiation. He wasn't charged with anything, so she didn't fire him. The same professor was among the guests at a Bush fundraising dinner, at a time when the evidence against him was growing and while, coincidentally, one of the co-chairs of Bush's Florida campaign was....

{drum roll}

Can you guess? Try to guess who was in charge of the campaign when that terrorist professor was invited to a campaign fundraising dinner! I'll bet you can't.

My guess would be Katherine Harris.

We still have an AG who is the only person in history to be so despised by the voters of his state that he lost a senatorial election to a dead man.

Before a senator can take office, he has to be accepted by the other senators. So far, nobody has ever been rejecterd. Could it happen this time?

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

... Can you guess? Try to guess who was in charge of the campaign when that terrorist professor was invited to a campaign fundraising dinner! I'll bet you can't.

Saddam Hussein!

So THAT’s the connection between Iraq and the Al Qaeda terrorist network.

 

[Edward Teach]

Bill Clinton

 

[shereads]

You're both wrong, silly girls.

It was Mel Martinez.

Tim Russert asked Martinez during a TV debate why voters should reject Betty Castor for failing to fire the professor at the beginning of the FBI investigation, but should elect him, when he hosted the professor at a fundraising dinner when the investigation was well underway. Martinez said the question was irrelevant.

I suspect that Martinez is really RealGuyUSA. Congratulations, Senator GuyUSA!