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Wednesday, October 11, 2006 12:00 AM

Foley factor

Rep. Tom Reynolds is running scared, as the Capitol Hill sex scandal threatens to topple the four-term incumbent -- and his plans to keep a GOP grip on the House.

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Tuesday, October 10, 2006 08:16 PM

Davis disappears...why?

As I write this, jackdavis.org is down. No response. Maybe that's because lots of people are trying to see it...but in any case, it's bad, bad, bad.

I looked up the site to see that "blistering" ad - I love that stuff. Actually, the first place I checked was YouTube, and it's not there. So I went to jackdavis.org...and hit a brick wall.

Apparently Jack Davis doesn't care to capitalize on a once-in-a-lifetime political opportunity. I wonder why?

Tuesday, October 10, 2006 10:01 PM

JackDavis.org is fine

Try http://www.jackdavis.org/new/

Great article!!!

Wednesday, October 11, 2006 05:10 AM

Reynolds

is a bloated neo-con who needs to get a new day job for the good of America. His descent to the bottom is long overdue.

Wednesday, October 11, 2006 05:28 AM

Meanwhile in NC

Brad Miller (D, NC-13) incumbent is running against what can only be called an unhinged loon named Vernon Robinson who's ads state that Brad Miller wants to pay illegal aliens to come to the US to burn the American flag. The sad thing is that the redneck retards here are listening. So never count out the screeching dumbfuck voter demographic in America.

Wednesday, October 11, 2006 06:47 AM

Peter

I think I know why there's nothing on youtube and his site can't take the traffic. They said in the article that his 8 or so workers are all a bit ... um ... older than the average campaign worker. They probably don't even know what the hell youtube is.

Where is the DNC to help this guy? Isn't this what the Party is for? And they wonder why I only give to candidates and never to the Party itself.

Wednesday, October 11, 2006 09:28 AM

Thank you SR

Thank you for reminding me how my Democrats are not ever going to win over the red states. We are called elitest because of ignorant statements like yours. The sad thing is that people like you keep proving that the Republicans smear machine has a grain of truth.

I just hope there are others that realize the "rednecks" are the very people we need to reach.

Wednesday, October 11, 2006 10:26 AM

Foley Factor

Jackdavis.org works fine for me.

You can see the Davis ad at Buffalo Pundit at this link (Just scroll up).

http://buffalopundit.wnymedia.net/archives/4052#comments

Also, just read this from Buffalo Pundit (Buffalo, NY is in Erie County):

"John McCain was supposed to come and be the keynote speaker at an upcoming Erie County Republican Committee fundraiser, but he unexpectedly canceled yesterday. The excuse given was “scheduling conflict”.

“Scheduling conflict” is French for “don’t want to be seen within 100 miles of Tom Reynolds”.

McCain’s replacement will be the guy who orchestrated some very nasty things against McCain in 2000.

Karl Rove is coming to town."

So far this campaign season Western New York has had President Bush (in the late spring), last month it was Vice President Cheney, last week Laura Bush, and now Karl Rove.

Wednesday, October 11, 2006 12:24 PM

No mention of Reynolds' use of children as human shields in press conference?

I'm quite surprised that an article describing Tom Reynolds' troubled re-election bid and subsequent desperate measures didn't mention the scumbag tactics he employed to skirt the Foley issue last week.

For anyone who missed this, the honorable (cough) Representative held a press conference on October 2, in which he must have known reporters would be asking about the teen Congressional page sex scandal swirling around Rep. Mark Foley. Instead of facing reporters head-on, Reynolds, the chair of the National Republican Congressional Committee, surrounded himself with a few dozen "supporters"--young children with their parents.

Not surprisingly, reporters were uncomfortable pursuing a line of questioning about sexual matters in front of the kids, who looked to range in age from roughly 2 to 12 years old:

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REPORTER: Congressman, do you mind asking the children to leave the room, so we can have a frank discussion on this, because it's an adult topic, and it just doesn't seem appropriate to me.

REYNOLDS: Well, I'll take your questions, I'm not gonna ask any of my supporters to leave.

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Oddly enough, CNN didn't air that part of the conference. Link to MediaMatters.org here: http://mediamatters.org/items/200610040011

Just when you think you've seen the worst behavior that greed and self-interest can inspire, someone crawls a little deeper into the muck . . . oy.

Wednesday, October 11, 2006 01:06 PM

Read the article, read the letters

Ho hum...they're giving it to us...

and when I say us I mean moderates...which is why Salon is among the few wonderful moderate sites (their readers) as I am more to the left than most here...

ummm - what was I saying...oh yeah..and we're (democratic candidates) not paying attention and trying to give it back...I don't blame you ...who would want to take over and fix this mess...anyone running is an idiot narcissist(my favorite critisism of politicians) or a true Patriot.

God I wish Arnold could run for president and fix all of this mess...but it'll take till at least 2012...so I guess I'll vote Democrat...then hold my breath.

Arnold seems more like he would support slavery over capitolism...at least you know who to blow in that environment.

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