Is Texas Republican governor primary candidate Debra Medina continuing to tread outside the Republican primary main stream with these latest comments at a Texas Tea Party rally this weekend on who’s to blame for Joe Stack’s flying a single engine plane into the Austin IRS building? Is she appealing to new voters who she’ll need to make the GOP runoff, or is she talking herself onto an island?
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A quick follow up on the saga of whether or not Connecticut Democrat Secretary of State Susan Bysiewicz is qualified to seek the office of attorney general – an office for which she is actively campaigning. The current occupant of the office, Democrat Attorney General Richard Blumenthal is running for United States Senate, with Chris Dodd out of the way he can finally do something, has essentially stopped Bysiewicz’s candidacy in its tracks.
During a news conference in his office, Blumenthal said Bysiewicz, who recently dropped a bid to run for governor and, instead, run for attorney general, does not have enough years as a practicing attorney.
Blumenthal said Bysiewicz, of Middletown, has not accumulated 10 years in the legal profession. In a formal opinion, Blumenthal said that the requirement for “active practice” means more than retaining a law license.
“Active means something more than being a member of the bar,” Blumenthal told reporters.
The Connecticut Post has the full story. You can imagine that Democrat former legislator George Jepsen and current Democrat State Representative Cameron Staples are gleefully pushing this story around Connecticut. And, a story like this makes for a better February day for Republican State Senator Andrew Roraback, Republican former prosecutor John Pavia, and GOP State Representative Arthur O’Neill – who are all reportedly mulling or exploring the race.
Susan Bysiewicz might be toast.
Is it right, regardless of what state law says, for a candidate to use campaign funds to pay for clothes for candidates? We heard about this is in 2008 – and it’s popping up again, this time in Texas. If you’re a candidate, what would you do?
CNN Just Got it Wrong
Sep 11
And they won’t be apologizing. Watch as they spin and try to say it’s somebody else’s fault on T.V. here and down below. Via Politico:
Gibbs said he wouldn’t second-guess Coast Guard leadership for holding a Potomac River exercise on the morning of the 9/11 commemoration. But he took a shot at CNN, which initially didn’t know the maneuvers in the Potomac were an exercise and erroneously reported that gunshots were fired – something the homeland security department said didn’t occur.
“Let’s understand that best I can tell there was reporting based on listening to a police scanner that was not verified, and then it was on television and now we’ve raced back to find out that it’s a training exercise. So I think it appears as if a lot of this might have been avoided,” Gibbs said.
Gibbs told reporters that the Coast Guard was holding a news conference to explain the exercise. “Hopefully CNN will go,” Gibbs quipped. “My only caution would be that before we report things like this, checking would be good.”
Hmmm…there appears to be some friction between the Virginia Democrat blog community and the Democratic Governors Association. From Virginia’s own Not Larry Sabato:
Hot Tubbing Creigh to the Governor’s Mansion
Does it seem like the Democratic Governor’s Association has gotten quiet since the primary? Anyone else wondering where they have been?
Well now we have an answer. Their Executive Director Nathan Daschle is busy leaving blog comments at 6:53 on a weeknight while he is according to his own words: “Sitting in my hot tub in DC”.
Nathan, why don’t you Hot Tub after 9 p.m. and drive across the bridge to the Deeds office and help them phonebank from 7-9 at night if you have nothing else to do? kthxbai.
The post has generated just a handful of comments from loyal NLS readers.
Jon Corzine jumps the shark
Jul 10
This has to speak for itself. From PolitickerNJ:
Randal Pinkett, who went to work for Donald Trump after winning Season 4 of The Apprentice, is receiving serious consideration to become the Democratic candidate for Lt. Governor, according to Democrats connected to Gov. Jon Corzine. Corzine has been actively searching for an African American running mate.
Pinkett, a 38-year-old Rhodes Scholar who runs a Newark-based management, technology and policy consulting firm, joins State Senators Barbara Buono (D-Metuchen) and Loretta Weinberg (D-Teaneck) as the leading contenders to run with Corzine in November. The Franklin Township resident is a graduate of Rutgers University and received a doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He worked for General Electric, AT&T Bell Laboratories and Lucent Technologies before launching his own company and working for Trump’s Atlantic City casino.
UPDATE 1: From the Ashbury Park Press:
An announcement that Corzine has selected Pinkett to run for lieutenant governor on the party ticket was expected to coincide with the visit of President Barack Obama to New Jersey Thursday, according to the source, who asked not to be identified.
UPDATE 2: GOP Christie leads Dem Corzine by 12 pts.
Blocking Traffic
Jul 7
West Virginia state delegate Clif Moore seems to be mad as heck, and by all appearances isn’t going to take it anymore. According to the Charleston Daily Mail the latest increase in tolls on West Virginia’s 88 mile turnpike has finally gone to far. Starting August 1, Delegate Moore is going to start blocking traffic at the Ghent Toll plaza with his car to protest the toll increase. It’s not like this is some inane strategy, while we don’t know just how may lanes the Ghent Toll Plaza has, we do know that other protesters have used this strategy, including supporters of exiled Honduran President Manuel Zelaya.
And it’s not like Delegate Moore copied the Hondurans - no sir, he made his plan public long before the Hondurans made theirs.