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Subscribe to RSSARIZONA: Democrats perfect candidate: “Richard Carmona, the Democratic candidate for senator from Arizona, had a rough childhood in New York City. His Puerto Rican parents had drug and alcohol problems, and he was homeless for a time. He dropped out of high school and went to Vietnam, where he won two Purple Hearts and two Bronze Stars,” The Washington Post writes. “Carmona has yet to leap a tall building in a single bound, but Democrats here are counting on him to provide some political heroics: They’re hoping Carmona will not just take a Republican seat but also give President Obama the boost he needs to win Arizona, the one red state his campaign thinks can be turned blue this year.”
MASSACHUSETTS: "The half-court basketball shot that Senator Scott P. Brown sank on Friday during a visit to a youth center — recorded by his staff and widely circulated on the Web — was just the beginning,” The New York Times writes. “So far this week, Mr. Brown, a Republican, has won endorsements by Democratic former mayors of Boston and Worcester, given a speech emphasizing his votes across party lines and released a radio ad calling on Americans to “work together now” despite partisan differences. By contrast, Elizabeth Warren, his main Democratic challenger for the United States Senate seat once held by Edward M. Kennedy, has been engulfed in controversy stemming from accusations by the Brown camp that she sought an unfair advantage in her academic career by claiming American Indian ancestry. For the last two days, she has kept a low profile in Massachusetts, though she spoke at a union convention in Washington on Tuesday.”
According to The Boston Herald: “A law school directory where Elizabeth Warren touted her Native American roots in the late 1980s and early 1990s once served as a tip sheet for administrators looking to identify and hire minority professors, according to a former chairman of the American Association of Law Schools…The AALS is an association of more than 160 law schools that published the directories where Warren identified herself as a minority for nearly a decade.”
VIRGINIA: The Tim Kaine (D) campaign is up with a video hitting George Allen (R) on comments he made supporting privatizing Social Security in the Senate race.
WISCONSIN: “Gov. Scott Walker raised an unprecedented $13.2 million over three months to fight off the recall bid against him, outdistancing his Democratic challengers and driving home the challenge they will have in beating the Republican incumbent,” the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reports. “Crisscrossing the country on fundraising trips, Walker has raised more than $25 million since January 2011 and has $4.9 million in cash on hand - numbers unlike any that have been seen for a political candidate in Wisconsin. Two-thirds of Walker's money came from out of state.”
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Howie Carr on "Pocahantas" Liz Warren, the phony Senate candidate in Massachusetts:
"Funny thing, I think Ted Williams was one-fourth Mexican. He was white. Johnny Bench is one-eighth Indian. I always think of him as white. And then there’s Pocahantas Warren, the blue-eyed, one-32nd Cherokee (or so we’re told) who went from the Southwest Conference to the Ivy League over the course of a decade in which she was claiming to be a “minority professor.”
"But once she’d parlayed the racial-spoils racket all the way to a tenured position at Harvard Law, she decided to ... pass, as they used to say in the old South. Once she’d reached the pinnacle of her trade, she ditched the fake-Indian routine. Maybe White Eyes Warren saw the smoke signals and figured out that someone was going to call her out on her ancestry. She was right".
My maternal grandfather emigrated to the US from Norway, but I do not consider myself Norwegian-American. Rather, I identify with my Puritan ancestors, who arrived in the 1600's. Does that make me a "fake" New Englander?
This is America. You can be whatever you want to be. Bush was born in New England, and educated at Yale, but he called himself a Texas Cowboy, same thing.
Same thing? You can't be serious?
74% of the people donating to Walker do not live in Wisconsin.
Now we see why Wisconsin Republicans refuse to vote on legislation that would ban campaign contributions from people living outside of Wisconsin.
Wow, management is really serious about holding onto the subsidiary of Koch Industries formerly known as the state of Wisconsin, aren't they?
It seems to me that every one of the Dem. ads should start with how much money came from out of state.
Why just Democratic ads? Why not all of them?
Why not stop big money from hiding behind innocent-sounding names like "Americans for Prosperity"?
Why not overturn the legalized bribery of Citizens United?
Walker and so many other repubs are so very unhonorable. Truly to the point of being unamerican in my opinion. What is wrong with these people? Polarized to the point of obvious ignorance. They simply want the power to run any and every aspect of the freedom our fathers fought for. Disgaceful bunch you repubs.
As Deep Throat said - follow the money. If someone was dropping $25 million on a school class president election, you'd start to question either their sanity or why it was so important to be class president. Here we have a bunch of rich guys and businesses that will spend whatever it takes to keep Walker in office. Why? It's not like he's a fellow lodge member or is owed a favor for saving their lives. I doubt it has even much to do with public sector unions or state pensions. It's not like the Kochs care about the guy or gal at the DMV, or that they fear that their oil and paper interests will suddenly be under union pressure. No, these guys want to protect something real bad. Something we they get a direct phone line to the governor. My guess - they want to neuter or at least gridlock the federal government, and then buy the state governments (they are so much cheaper). If their federal judges gum up the federal EPA, they want to make sure they have the states to relax all local environmental and zoning regs.
if brown rec dem support they cant really be dems, just look at his voting record on human rights, women, children, and senior citizens. deplorable!