» U.S. House http://www.parchedstate.com Thu, 27 May 2010 18:09:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 No strings attached http://www.parchedstate.com/2010/04/09/no-strings-attached/ http://www.parchedstate.com/2010/04/09/no-strings-attached/#comments Fri, 09 Apr 2010 20:16:05 +0000 Parched http://www.parchedstate.com/?p=449 Everybody wants their politicians to come with no strings attached right?

]]> http://www.parchedstate.com/2010/04/09/no-strings-attached/feed/ 0 Just Embarrassing http://www.parchedstate.com/2009/10/15/just-embarassing/ http://www.parchedstate.com/2009/10/15/just-embarassing/#comments Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:12:37 +0000 Parched http://www.parchedstate.com/?p=302 John Garamendi is the Democratic Lt. Governor of California.  John Garamendi is the Democratic candidate for the special election being held fill the open U.S. House district 10 in California.  John Garamendi is an experienced politician.  John Garamendi was endorsed by former President Bill Clinton.  John Garamendi is running an aggressive campaign.  John Garamendi…send out a direct mail attack piece that attacked a man who isn’t running against him, who doesn’t live in California, and who probably only now knows who John Garamendi is.

The problem is, the David Harmer it cites isn’t the same David Harmer who is running for Congress.

The citation refers to a Deseret News article from 2004, which quotes a David Harmer who is executive director of the state’s Department of Community and Economic Development.

The David Harmer running for Congress says that’s not him, and that he wasn’t living in Utah at the time.

“Garamendi has mailed a completely false and inaccurate charge against David Harmer, and we demand he immediately apologize and retract his smear attack,” Harmer campaign manager Mike Caporusso said.

What’s more – John Garamendi didn’t apologize for getting the facts 100% wrong.  Read the story and see the mailer from The Hill.

]]> http://www.parchedstate.com/2009/10/15/just-embarassing/feed/ 0 The Pyramids, The Taj, and A Congressional Candidate’s House http://www.parchedstate.com/2009/09/18/the-pyramids-the-taj-and-a-congressional-candidates-house/ http://www.parchedstate.com/2009/09/18/the-pyramids-the-taj-and-a-congressional-candidates-house/#comments Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:05:07 +0000 Parched http://www.parchedstate.com/?p=288 What do they all have in common?  This is a refreshing take on an old – though not frequent – issue in legislative races at all levels.   This time it’s the race between GOP Congressman Eric Cantor and Democrat challenger Charlie Diradour.  Tip of the chapeau to Virginia’s own Bearing Drift and Virginia Virtucon.

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