NV-Sen: Chicken Lady, meet Couch Lady? Does Tea Party fave Sharron Angle have a Scientology problem? It looks like Angle scrubbed a passage from her campaign website about how she, along with actresses Kelly Preston and Jenna Elfman, lobbied John Ensign to sponsor legislation prohibiting school employees from requiring students to take psychotropic drugs. Preston and Elfman are noted Scientologists, and psychotropic drugs are considered to be anathema to that, uh, belief system. Another curious nugget is Sue Lowden’s attacks on Angle for “her support in 2003 of a drug-treatment program for inmates that included saunas and massages as treatment”. It’s amazing how this race has transformed itself from one of the most depressing to one of the most amusing.
MI-Gov: Hotline OnCall sits down for an entertaining interview with Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero, the populist progressive choice in the Democratic gubernatorial primary. Calling himself a “FDR-Kennedy-Truman-Obama Democrat” and the candidate most in-touch with average angry voter, Bernero is blasting his opponent, House Speaker Andy Dillon, as the “Speaker of the Mess”.
SC-Gov: Dick Cheney is showing his lovable mug in South Carolina, issuing an endorsement for Rep. Gresham Barrett, who was the House equivalent of Some Dude for most of us before he announced his gubernatorial campaign. One of Barrett’s opponents, state AG Henry McMaster, used the news as an opportunity to remind voters of Barrett’s vote for the Cheney-backed TARP legislation.
AL-05: If you want the endorsement of the freakshow Minuteman Project and its founder, Jim Gilchrist, be prepared to cut a fat check to the Election Impact Group, a political firm run by a close associate of Gilchrist. Ben Smith takes a thorough look at the financial strings attached to a Gilchrist endorsement, specifically honing in Republican Mo Brooks, who lobbied for a Gilchrist endorsement but was rebuffed after he refused to hire the Impact Group. Five months later, Gilchrist endorsed turncoat Rep. Parker Griffith instead… just two weeks after Griffith paid $6500 to the Gilchrist-connected firm. Sleazy stuff, all around.
CA-11: David Harmer, a demi-hero among Republicans for his decent performance against John Garamendi in the CA-10 special election last year, says that he is “disgusted” by healthcare reform, stimulus packages, and bailouts. The only problem? Harmer previously worked for Washington Mutual, which was acquired by JPMorgan Chase, who in turn received $25 billion in TARP funds. JPMorgan Chase then sent Harmer out the door with a $160,000 bonus and severance package.
ID-01: Raul Labrador proudly boasts that he’s been called one of the “most extreme conservatives in the legislature”. I love this guy.
KS-03: The Kansas City Star hears word that physician and teabagger Milton Wolfe — a cousin of Barack Obama — may run in the Republican primary for the seat of retiring Dem Rep. Dennis Moore. If he does, he’ll certainly turn the heads of a few national media types.
SC-01: National Research Inc for the Club for Growth (5/23-24, likely voters):
Tim Scott (R): 30
Carroll “Tumpy” Campbell III (R): 10
Paul Thurmond (R): 9
Clark Parker (R): 9
Larry Kobrovsky (R): 8
W. Stovall White (R): 6
Mark Lutz (R): 4
Others: 4
(MoE: ±5.7%)
For the sake of completeness (this is Swing State Project, after all), a poll from early April that we missed showed Tumpy in the lead. The poll, commissioned by ex-Charleston County School Board member Larry Kobrovsky and taken by Victory Communications, had Tumpy with 18%, the Club for Growth-backed Scott at 16%, and Kobrovsky at 10%.
SC-05: Public Opinion Strategies for Mick Mulvaney (5/17-18, likely voters, October in parens):
John Spratt (D-inc): 43 (48)
Mick Mulvaney (R): 41 (35)
(MoE: ±5.3%)
Twitter: As of this writing, SSP is only ten followers shy of a cool 2000 on Twitter. Who will step up to push us over the top? Begging is my business.
http://www.quinnipiac.edu/x128…
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This is vewy vewy sewious. Russ Feingold is in big big twubble against former Miami Vice star Ron Johnson – oh wait that was Don Johnson!!! Anyway, Scotty Wasmussen told me so, so it must be twue!!!
I guess Scott has decided to go all the way in for his party this time around.
Lets look at the candidates…
Teabagger Party – Potential Felon
Republican Party – Chicken Lady or Couch Lady
Democratic Party – Incompetent Senate Leader
You cannot make this stuff up.
I never would have thought Reid had a chance to be re-elected, but he is definitely in the game against this crowd.
The Dems better put forward a top-tier candidate. I don’t care if it’s supposed to be a Republican year, the Dems have no excuse not to try. Lots of people who usually vote Republican will be turned off by a growther.
Of all places. Jim Geraghty details more crazy stuff. The scientology stuff is the tip of the iceberg. Let’s put it this way: the title of the article is “The Anti-Beer Libertarian”
http://article.nationalreview….
If she wins the nomination, Reid will wipe the floor with her.
(btw: in his regular Campaign Spot, Geraghty gives a shout out to two SSP commentators from the Simmons thread).
… Mulvaney isn’t even a decent candidate. With the health issues Spratt is facing, I am getting worried about his one.
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Like the article says, it may be/is inflated by Barnes’ TV presence, but it would be nice to avoid a runoff and let Barnes run positive ads while the Republicans destroy each other in their own runoff.
Clyburn knows better than this from a political standpoint.
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I understand the part about him wanting to talk up HCR, but if his intention is not to hurt Barrow, why not wait until after the Primary?
He can say he’s endorsing Barrow all he wants, but it seems like the opposite.
Georgia’s not as easy to peg as it seems. Just because Bishop and Barrow’s seat went for Obama does not mean they’re liberal districts.
Ah well, I guess the pro-Thomas crowd can get excited now, maybe she’ll hit 15%.