By GottaLaff
How amusing that this news broke smack dab in the middle of the Super Bowl:
Scott Lee Cohen (D), the Democratic nominee for Illinois lieutenant governor, "removed himself from the campaign Sunday, freeing Gov. Pat Quinn from the baggage Cohen brought to the ticket, but also leaving him without a running mate," NBC Chicago reports.If? If?? Yeah, look where you are.
Said Cohen: "I'm someone who made mistakes in my life. And look where I am. If I let you down I"m sorry".
By GottaLaff
From the Dep't. of What? What'd I say?
"My grandmother was not a highly educated woman, but she told me as a small child to quit feeding stray animals. You know why? Because they breed. You're facilitating the problem if you give an animal or a person ample food supply. They will reproduce, especially ones that don't think too much further than that. And so what you've got to do is you've got to curtail that type of behavior. They don't know any better."Bauer the R from SC should be curtailed. Apparently he doesn't know any better either. Then again, he may just be a stray.
-- South Carolina Lt. Governor Andre Bauer (R), quoted by the Greenville News, comparing poor people to stray animals.
"You show me the school that has the highest free and reduced lunch, and I’ll show you the worst test scores, folks. It’s there, period." [...]How do people like this get to hold office?
Bauer later insisted that he “wasn’t saying people on government assistance ‘were animals or anything else.’” (HT: Jamie Sanderson)
By GottaLaff
Yes, the new RNC chairman received a party salary to run:
When the newly elected RNC Chair, Michael Steele, ran for Lt. Governor of Maryland in 2002, he was paid a salary -- "consulting fees" -- by the Republican Party to do so. [...]
Eventually, the Baltimore Sun wrote an article on the rather unusual "pay to run" arrangement:
The Maryland Republican Party is paying Michael S. Steele $5,000 a month in consulting fees under an arrangement that began shortly after his selection as gubernatorial candidate Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.'s running mate.
Although the payments appear legal, Democrats said the GOP's contract with Steele raises ethical questions and suggests the party might be subsidizing the living expenses of a candidate for statewide office.
"It looks to me like they've hired themselves a candidate," said David Paulson, a spokesman for the state Democratic Party.
Steele - who held the unpaid position of Republican Party chairman when he was tapped to run for lieutenant governor - defended the consulting arrangement yesterday, saying he negotiated the deal as a way to continue working on party issues while he campaigns. The contract was not a condition of his candidacy, he said.
"I have a consulting business. I have consulting clients. I have to take care of my family," he said. "The state is paying (the salary of Lt. Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend) while she is running for governor. So what's the difference?"
But Paulson said "there's something obscene" about the arrangement. "They are paying a guy to be on this ticket whose very presence is being used by Ehrlich and Republicans as a show of diversity," he said of Steele, who is black. "They are the ones who call it the 'opportunity ticket.' We just didn't know how much of an opportunity it was."
This must be the kind of "something different" Steele said he'd bring to the Republican party, along with:
"Get ready, baby, it's time to turn it on. And work to do what we always do well, and that is win."
Yep, no matter what it takes.
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Yea they deny that they get that check from old Obamie and Co but bet you they rush to the bank to cash it from them. [...]
Also if you have never taught in public schools then I suggest you shut your pie hole! I can tell you most the food goes in the trash and yes the kids will in deed SELL their free lunch for half price then turn around and go to the vending machines where they get candy and cokes.... Ha yea real nutrition there, then they get to come into class and bounce off the walls and we call it ADD or another of these wonderful excuses they dream up. FACT- Put your big girl panties and big boy underwear on and deal with this thing called LIFE!!!!