Politics: Onward from New Hampshire

[Replaced_Texan]

Dunno if anyone else is following this, but Tom DeLay's PAC could be in serious trouble. The Travis County District Attorney is investigating the PAC for improper campaign contributions, and pretty much every major GOP campaign in Texas has gotten money from the PAC.

The issue will rest on what is "administrative" activity and what is a direct contribution to a campaign.

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory...politan/243236

[Not Me]

I think Prez Kerry would be in office about as long as Vince Foster was the deputy White House counsel, IYKWIM.

[The Larry Davis Experience]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Dunno if anyone else is following this, but Tom DeLay's PAC could be in serious trouble. The Travis County District Attorney is investigating the PAC for improper campaign contributions, and pretty much every major GOP campaign in Texas has gotten money from the PAC.

The issue will rest on what is "administrative" activity and what is a direct contribution to a campaign.

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory...politan/243236

Looks like that link is missing a digit. Here's another try.
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory...olitan/2432367

Pretty amazing that the fundraising letters basically said "your corporate donation to us won't be stuck paying overhead like with other PACs."

Is this big news in TX these days, or just more of the usual background noise of partisan sniping? This seems big, but then again I thought that using fed resources to track down the runaway legislators was a big deal and that went nowhere.

[Atticus Grinch]

in which Ralph Nader consistently polls 6% for the next eight months, then dramatically withdraws from the race on October 26th and urges all of his supporters to cast their vote for Kerry, like el matador pirouettes with su capote from the path of el toro. I'm sure there's an ambassadorship he would find attractive.

We can then use our spiffy new electronic voting technology to track down and euthanize everyone who voted for Nader anyway by anything other than absentee ballot postmarked before 10/26.

Who's with me?

[Aloha Mr. Learned Hand]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
in which Ralph Nader consistently polls 6% for the next eight months, then dramatically withdraws from the race on October 26th and urges all of his supporters to cast their vote for Kerry, like el matador pirouettes with su capote from the path of el toro. I'm sure there's an ambassadorship he would find attractive.

We can then use our spiffy new electronic voting technology to track down and euthanize everyone who voted for Nader anyway by anything other than absentee ballot postmarked before 10/26.

Who's with me?

Or you could just euthanize Nader and save a few steps...

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by Aloha Mr. Learned Hand
Or you could just euthanize Nader and save a few steps...

That's inside-the-box thinking. I want Nader to campaign to draw votes from the disgusted progressives who think the Dems and the GOP are indistinguishable, then do what should have been done in 2000 --- tell them that "there's no difference" is bullshit and anyone respirating in the past four years knows it's bullshit.

I want Nader to atone for his sins. This is the way to enter retirement with dignity. Ralph, call me. I'll be your campaign "manager."

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
in which Ralph Nader consistently polls 6% for the next eight months, then dramatically withdraws from the race on October 26th and urges all of his supporters to cast their vote for Kerry, like el matador pirouettes with su capote from the path of el toro. I'm sure there's an ambassadorship he would find attractive.

We can then use our spiffy new electronic voting technology to track down and euthanize everyone who voted for Nader anyway by anything other than absentee ballot postmarked before 10/26.

Who's with me?

Someone alert the producers of the West Wing that its Democratic viewer base is likely to remain solid through '08, and to maybe go a little heavier on the moralizing, please.

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Someone alert the producers of the West Wing that its Democratic viewer base is likely to remain solid through '08, and to maybe go a little heavier on the moralizing, please.

Classic market allocation scheme. You get JAG, we get WW.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
Classic market allocation scheme. You get JAG, we get WW.

Great. i now declare an end to (major) sweeps week competition!

[Dave]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
in which Ralph Nader consistently polls 6% for the next eight months

There may be mass consumption of crack required to realize this dream. Not even a few of GWB's millions are going to get Ralph a sniff of 6%.

Stick with VP Idol.

I'd lay better odds on Sharpton than on Hillary for VP -- her ideal road to the White House is for Kerry to lose (somehow), so there's no D standard bearer and no R incumbent blocking her way.

[Not Me]

Originally posted by Dave
no R incumbent blocking her way.

Speaking of R's running for Prez in 2008, any thoughts on likely candidates?

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by Not Me
Speaking of R's running for Prez in 2008, any thoughts on likely candidates?

W won't be constitutionally barred from running. Why not him?

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
W won't be constitutionally barred from running. Why not him?

Oh! you propose the "3rd term is okay if you dad was president " constitutional amendment. it'd be good, but i'm afraid the votes aren't there.

[Hank Chinaski]

Here's a link showing the attendance/work record of a well-connected guy, whose family connections got him a "job" that he apparently hardly showed up for.
http://www.congressmerge.com/onlined...r=&fullvotes=1

Check out the "Not Voting" record.

[bilmore]

AP POLL: NADER AT 6 %

Washington, DC: Just ten days after announcing his presidential candidacy, an Associated Press poll released today has Ralph Nader at 6 percent.

[See: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...545EST0695.DTL ]

The support Nader is receiving in polling is consistent with the response to the Nader campaign. More than 5,000 people filled out volunteer forms on-line in the first week of the campaign and hundreds of résumés of people eager to work on the campaign from across the country have been received. The campaign has raised approximately $250,000 in the first ten days.

"This country does not belong to the two corporate-controlled major parties," said Theresa Amato, Nader’s Campaign Manager. "Voters are yearning for more voices and more choices. Ralph Nader’s candidacy is providing an alternative to politics as usual."

Nader’s announcement on Meet the Press, on February 22, followed by a press conference at the National Press Club the next day, resulted in a wave of media attention. "The more the public hears Ralph’s message, and learns about his decades-long fight for the health, safety and economic well-being of the people, the more people will support him. His right to run to hold the two parties accountable and to help reform the broken political system is the American way. The public recognizes a candidate who tells truth to power. That resonates with the injustices people endure and the solutions available to address them," said Amato.