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PDC Directs Pro-Gregoire PAC To Return Illegal $250,000 Contribution
http://www.wsrp.org/NewsBack.a.....e2f342233e
An Honest mistake?
Or just more failed illegal efforts to tilt the Governor’s mansion back towards Gregoire?
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gee Darryl, looks like the rantings of Zapporo are all that passes your muster this morning.
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Hint: The Seattle Times moderates it’s comments and shapes the opinion expressed in it’s threads to create support for it’s agenda.
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If Obama wins, what do you want progressives going to do, to find common ground with conservatives?
If McCain wins, what do you want conservatives to do, to find common ground with progressives?
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I’ll start
Personally, I like many conservative ideals. But when you put them into practice is where I bet it bothers conservatives.
I’d want my elected officials to work with conservatives about keeping a strong defense, but stop needless invasions, be it Iraq or Bosnia.
I’d want my elected officials to work with conservatives to promote self reliance but maintain and pay for a social safety net when it’s not enough.
I’d want my elected officials to work with conservatives to promote strong families, but not just straight ones, families of all types.
I’d want my elected officials to work with conservatives to promote a strong education, but in the context of the public school system.
Obamas aunt is here ILLEGALLY living in
public housing. If that was McCains aunt
it would be front page news. Obama is a piece
of shit. A real family man. God you tards are
blind.
Fuck common ground.
Because it’s not news, if it was Obama or mccain’s family. And just because it’s on drudge, doesn’t make it true.
The person we are electing, their actions is what is important. I don’t care about what mccains or obama’s relatives are doing. I’m not voting for them.
How does this information change at all, Obama’s ability to lead the country?
No really, finding common ground is important.
Without it you are no better than a republican. We have to be better than that.
I am sad that no matter who wins Tuesday Bush has left them with an inherently less secure country. Bush didn’t like either candidate though, so it’s to be expected he would screw them over as much as possible.
And of course, port cities tend to run more “blue” than the rest of the country. So he couldn’t give less of a crap about them.
@1 Low Tax Looper should have given us a premonition of all this. Low Tax Looper exemplifies the Republican spirit. He ran for 4 offices simultaneously while under simultaneous indictments on half a dozen corruption charges. And instead of trying to get elected fair and square, he he tried to game the election by exploiting a loophole in Tennessee election law that prohibited candidate substitutions less than 30 days before an election. Looper figured he was sure to win if he had no opponent, so he murdered the popular state senator he was running against 29 days before the election.
Unfortunately for Looper, his plan went awry in a couple of respects. First, he got caught. Second, he failed to consider the possibility of a write-in candidate. The senator’s widow, as a write-in, got 96% of the votes. Today, she’s still serving in the Tennessee senate and Looper is still serving his life-without-parole sentence at Brushy Mountain Penitentiary.
Looper’s 4% showing sets a standard of electoral performance for all other Republican candidates to aspire to. So far, none have come close. When Motherbeater Irons ran against Ron Sims 2 years ago, he got beaten by cigaret smoke, but he way the hell outpolled Low Tax Looper. Even Mark Griswold, who posted on Sound Politics that he thinks we need another terrorist attack because too many people are voting for Democrats, broke into double digits against Frank Chopp, losing by an 85%-15% margin. Yessiree Bob, it’s gonna be tough to challenge Low Tax Looper’s 4% — you have to be a minor-party candidate to have a shot at it.
But the way things are going the GOP may become a minor party and its candidates will be able to routinely look forward to getting 1% or 2% of the vote. Then they’ll be able to brag that they’re not only less popular than cigaret smoke, but even less popular than Low Tax Looper.
@2 You bitch about a pro-Gregoire group illegally spending $250K but say nothing about Rossi illegally raising millions? Fucking hypocrite.
@4, 5. This ain’t the Seattle Times. Goldy has a responsibility to give wingnuts a public venue to beat off in, so they won’t spend their time stalking little kids.
@7 Are you going somewhere? Have you decided to move to another country after the election? My reason for asking is I’ll help you pack.
@9 “Obamas aunt is here ILLEGALLY living in
public housing.”
So? What’s that got to do with Obama?
@10 My sentiments exactly. They shoved their agenda down our throats, and we should reciprocate in kind. Oh, and don’t forget to kick ’em while they’re down.
This guy is ruthless and a liar he doesn’t know anything all his life unless it’s posted on a teleprompter.
He’s blind leading the blind to slaughter.
“She attended Obama’s swearing-in to the U.S. Senate in 2004, but campaign officials said ”
“Obama provided no assistance in getting her a tourist visa and doesn’t know the details of her stay. The campaign said he last heard from her about two years ago when she called saying she was in Boston, but he did not see her there.
Onyango moved into public housing a year before her request for asylum was rejected, a spokeswoman for the Boston Housing Authority told FOXNews.com.”
@12 I disagree. When you’re cleaning up after vandals, you don’t let the vandals supervise the cleanup crew. You hand them pails and scrub brushes and tell them to get to work.
@21
The same way you Democrats treat the poor in this country.
@ 20
Let me see if I understand this: Sen. Obama did not use his position as a Senator to advance his aunt’s claim for political asylum, and, according to you, this reflects badly on Sen. Obama.
I guess we can thank you for admitting that this kind of nepotism is a core Republican value.
Rabid Rabbit @15 –
Please.
If you have a link to an accurate, truthful Rossi article from an objective news source, by all means post it. Prove your point.
Gregoire is in negotiations with the union for pay and benefits and the union tries to drop $250,000 into her campaign??????
Talk about abuse of power and poor election safeguards, not to mention a five alarm conflict of interest for Gregoire.
@23
She was living here Illegally at the time.
“She attended Obama’s swearing-in to the U.S. Senate in 2004, but campaign officials said ”
What a idiot he is, never asking here how did you get here when you where kicked out of the country and she never left to being with.
His Harvard degree in law is a forgery.
obama’s doctor writes note on his health.
Senator McCain releases volumes of records on his health.
Obamas, truthfulness never begins with him.
HE is SCARY!
http://www.americans-away-from-home.com/node/283
@19
They dump truckloads of shit on us for years, or pull crap like this; http://www.guardian.co.uk/comm.....my-banking
and the first thing we’re supposed to do is mosey up and ask what we can do to make them feel warm and comfortable? Vive le guillotine!
#8 I have a good political reason for this.
some large fraction of the population is conservative. I want to cut them off at the knees for as long as possible by finding what we have in common and promoting that. I want to make it as hard as possible, for a long as possible, for them to get any traction with the general public. Be a better progressive, not a liberal mind with the heart of a republican.
I don ‘t mean give in to them, I don’t trust a conservative politician or talk show host with anything. I mean to win over the hearts and minds of the people with our deed and good PR. (That term was on purpose. If it’s good sense over there, it’s good sense here.) Show the populace reasons to vote for progressive causes because they understand it’s for their own good, even it ‘s not completely what they want. If we go after our agenda as arrogant jack booted thugs, we are no better than what we call think of republicans and will fail in 4 years.
We need to have reconciliation. We need to be American first, not do more of the divisive politics of the republicans.
I plan to party like a man released from jail when Obama wins, and after the hangover wears off, I am going to make sure our progressive officials to act like it.
Many of the conservatives will hate the democrats if we win. What are we going to do, to put our agenda forward, but not do it in an arrogant way? If we can bend some and give them something that doesn’t destroy the spirit of what we want to do, why shouldn’t we?
Now do you get my question?
@28
This will never happen with the current Democrat party.
When Americans don’t get their checks,Free Health care,homes,cars,daycare and whatever else he promised, all hell will break lose.
Kids will never vote again!
Biden promises a bipartisan spirit in White House…..
“We have to unite this country,” Biden told about 1,600 people at a downtown rally. “We need to move past the political attacks that we have seen in the last few weeks of this campaign.”
Then he rips the Republicans.
Biden said Republican John McCain and his running mate, Sarah Palin, were running an entirely negative campaign.
“They’re trying to take the low road to the highest office in the land,” he said. “They are calling Barack Obama every name in the book.”
Yes Joe, lets come together.
What about obama and his illegal fundraising?
I’m sure you’ve heard about it, I’m sure you would rather stick your head back on your hole and ignore it.
Your candidate of change turned off his AVS credit card checking so you can contribute over the legal limit.
Like you said, “Fucking hypocrite.”
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It reflects poorly on his policy of spreading the wealth around. He’s not willing to spread his own wealth to help his own family.
It reflects badly on his compassion for his own family.
It reflects badly on him as a member of the human race. If obama was poor, so be it. He’s a multi-millionaire, why isn’t he helping his own family?
How’s his grandmother?
Why couldn’t he visit his mom as she was dying? No compassion?
Do you have any relatives living here illegally?
Can’t he live by the same laws you live by?
MADDOW: Well, yes, actually. I mean, other Democrats, you will hear them talk about the GOP as the party that’s been wrong on all the big stuff. Creating Social Security, civil rights, the War in Iraq. But, you don’t really do that. Do you think there is a stark difference between the parties?
OBAMA: Well, I do think there’s a difference between the parties, but here’s my belief. That I’m talking to voters. And I think they’re a lot of Republican voters out there, self-identified, who actually think that what the Bush administration has done, has been damaging to the country.
And, what I’m interested in, is how do we build a working majority for change? And if I start off with the premise that it’s only self-identified Democrats who I’m speaking to, then I’m not going to get to where we need to go. If I can describe it as not a blanket indictment of the Republican Party, but instead describe it as the Republican Party having been kidnapped by a incompetent, highly ideological subset of the Republican Party, then that means I can still reach out to a whole bunch of Republican moderates who I think are hungry for change, as well.
$260 in documented illegal contributions from Obama’s Aunt.
Living illegally in this country.
With a brother living in Kenya on $12 a year.
That’s some real family values.
And then we find out that Obama went to Hawaii to seal his birth record?
Is that a fact?
Unbelievable.
Any candidate for the highest office in this nation has a CONSTITUTIONAL duty to make their birth records available.
@36
So sue him. It’s your CONSTITUTIONAL right after all.
Irrelevant @37
Nah. I’ll just send $12 to Kenya to double his brother’s living standard.
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@36:
Poor Zaporro – you want to compare?
McCain first wife waited for years for him to get out Vietnam. When he came back he said she looked ugly because she was partly disabled. He had an affair with Cindy while he was still married, dumped his first wife and married for money and lied about his age to her.
To summarize – your “values” candidate dumped his first disabled wife who stood faithfully by him after , had an affair and then married the ultra rich second wife who could boost his political career.
Obama doesn’t even know his half-brother since his Dad left him at age 2.
So – let’s talk values…..idiot.
Moron at 36: Really, you want to show me where it says in the constitution that the candidate for president MUST make their birth records available?
All it says it that a person must be an American citizen and Obama has released his valid birth certificate from Hawaii that shows that.
So what are you going on about? This stupid attack was debunked long ago – check snopes you idiot.
Is this all you have? Pathetic old arguments and stupid slanders?
I notice you can’t talk about issues like the economy. Maybe because you know that the republicans have made the biggest mess since the great depression.
You can tell the integrity, the seriousness and the truthfulness of a campaign and a candidate by the attacks they make. McCain’s sad socialist attack covers up his tax cuts to the rich and the big corporations like Exxon. He is covering up his weaknesses by attacking a straw man.
@34: I think Marvin is here illegally – the mentally deficient are not allowed in the country.
Hey Marvin – how should Obama have stopped the aunt he did not know was here illegaly from being here illegally?
Yup – you make a lot of sense Marvin – to someone who is certifiably insane.
@31: As usual, Marvin is full of accusations but has ABSOLUTELY no proof of illegal activity of any kind by the Obama campaign.
If you do – then show it Marvin. We do know that republicans illegally jammed phones on 2004 and were convicted for it – and we also know that the case is still going because the FBI has stalled on it – because it goes all the way into the White House.
Put up or shut up Marvin – where is yuour proof? Do you have ANY facts to back up what you say? where are the indictments or convictions? Interesting how NO ONE else has reported on any indictments or convictions.
But we do know that Ted Steven Republican was just indicted for illegal contributions and influence peddling.
We do know that Duke Cunnigham was convicted for his role with Abramoff.
We do know that Tom DeLAY the republican majority leader had a close relationship with Abramoff.
We do know that Bush’s guy in the GAO, David Safavian was convicted for corruption with Abramoff.
Yup – there IS evidence of republican corruption – but do you have ANY hard evidence of anything from Obama?
No Comparison @36
Yes, your lack of critical thinking skills has forced you to resort to name-calling. As ignoble as your conduct is, I will cast that aside and help you understand the truth.
John McCain did divorce his first wife after 14 years of marriage and 5 1/2 years of internment in a POW camp, followed by extremely painful physical therapy to treat his war wounds.
He openly and honestly admitted his affairs, took responsibility for his actions, paid for his wife’s medical bills, gave her the two houses, and to this day, is on friendly terms with her. She has said that he is the best candidate to lead America.
John McCain and Cindy Hensely have been married 28 years. During those 28 years, Cindy has suffered from addition to pain killers and a stroke. Still happily married after 28 years.
There is no comparison between John McCain’s first 14 year marriage and Barrack Obama’s family values, of which he seemingly has none.
@44&36
Neither McCain or Obama have campaigned on “family values” or on being holier than thou. I don’t see it as an issue in this race.
@45 – Illegal campaign contributions from an Aunt living in the US as an ILLEGAL ALIEN isn’t a family value, it’s a campaign issue.
Obama can’t even turn over medical records instead a doctors note he’s in good health where is the outrage? Then we have his birth God only knows where. His trip to the island wasn’t to see his dying grandmother but, seal the records.
Why would anyone think he’s a honest person.
When confronted he says I didn’t know,I didn’t see and I didn’t hear or I was …………
Where going to have fun the next 4 years if we survive as a nation.
43. correctnotright spews: @31: As usual, Marvin is full of accusations but has ABSOLUTELY no proof of illegal activity of any kind by the Obama campaign.
Yo, idiot incorrectnottobright and neverbeenright; Newsweek asked the original question about Obama campaign funding. Now others are. Where are all those credit card payments coming from? Still trying to determine where you got your “brain cell” from.
I bet Newsweek already knows but like the LA Times won’t break the story until after Nov 4th.
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