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Sununu announces veterans group - Tue, 07 Oct 2008
U.S. Sen. John Sununu (R-Waterville Valley) has announced that 400 veterans have signed-up to join the "Veterans for Sununu" coalition.
The coalition will be chaired by Paul Chevalier of Hudson, Griffin T. Dalianis of Nashua, and William R. Grimm of Franklin.
DCCC ramps up for Shea-Porter - Tue, 07 Oct 2008
WASHINGTON - Anticipating a competitive race, national Democrats are ramping up their efforts to defend U.S. Rep. Carol Shea-Porter (D-Rochester).
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee's independent expenditure arm has reserved more than $2 million in the expensive Boston-New Hampshire media market, a four-fold increase from its initial media buy, according to a source with knowledge of the reservation. All told, the committee plans to air seven weeks of ads targeting Shea-Porter's Republican opponent, former U.S. Rep. Jeb Bradley.
The DCCC began its offensive in the district in mid-September with a $490,000 advertising blitz aimed at Bradley's record in Congress.
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Sununu: "The Worst thing I've ever seen in politics." - Tue, 07 Oct 2008
According to today's Concord Monitor, at yesterday's debate John E. Sununu announced to the world what he considered to be the worst thing he has ever seen in politics. Given the past practices of Republican operatives in New Hampshire, he certainly has a lot to choose from:
1. Phone jamming, 2002
2. NRCC voter phone jamming, 2006
3. Anonymous postcards attacking Gordon Humphrey's wife in the Republican primary, 2000
4. Phoney PAC doctoring quotes and attacking Democratic senate candidates, 2000.
5. Failure of Daniel Webster PAC to comply with NH registration and filing laws, 2008 - oops, that was Sununu's own PAC, he probably doesn't think that was wrong.
And then there is the disgraceful behavior of Republican operatives;
1. The smear phone calls in the South Carolina presidential primary, 2000
2. The ugly anti-Max Cleland ads, 2002
3. The riot by Republcian operatives to stop the recount in Florida, 2000
4. The "caging" being conducted to try to stop people from voting inMichigan and other states.
5. Any one of a number of efforts to suppress the vote in election after election across the country.
6. Ted Stevens plundering the federal treasury for his friends and cronies while Sununu twiddled his thumbs.
7. Willie Horton?
I could go on.
But no, Senator* John Sununu doesn't think any of those rise to the level of the "worst thing" he's ever seen in politics. NOOOOOOO.
The worst thing he has ever seen in politics? A tv ad criticizing poor John E. Sununu for his efforts to privatize social security, and linking Sununu to George W. Bush:
Sununu complained that an ad about Social Security by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee that shows Bush's face morphing into Sununu's "one of the worst things I've seen in politics." Sen. Chuck Schumer, of New York, who leads the committee, is laying out huge sums, Sununu said, "and he is using that $10 million to scare senior citizens."Sununu said the recent upheaval in the stock market doesn't change his support for creating private accounts within Social Security.
John "It's All About ME" Sununu, finds the worst thing in politics to be an ad telling the truth about Sununu's position on social security. No wonder he still hasn't shown any outrage about phone jamming, or any of the other outrages committed by Republicans who seem to think that the biggest tool in their arsenal is a series of efforts to suppress, scare, intimidate and interfere with the right to vote.
No, Senator*, that ad isn't what scares voters. What scares voters is how out of touch you are with your constituents. Wrong on Iraq, wrong on the economy, wrong on choice, wrong on the environment, wrong on energy.
People are losing their homes, their jobs, their pension plans, their health care because of the failures of the Bush/Sununu years - and Senator* Sununu is whining about a political ad.
There is really nothing else to say, is there?
Open Thread: "I'm Not Your Doremus, Sarah," Edition - Tue, 07 Oct 2008
Not so Deep Thought: Sarah Palin reminds me of Buzz Windrip more than George W. Bush ever did.
This is an Open Thread*
* Poster from an unknown WPA artist, 1937.
p.s. If you're tired of Bad Robots masquerading as female leaders, come check out Michelle Obama in Keene on Wednesday.
