Tagged: Christine O’Donnell

Posted: April 28, 2011 at 6:56 am

Christine O’Donnell Tries to Explain Campaign Finance Alleged Irregularities, Will Rick Hill Be Next?

She’s Back: Christine O’Donnell is back in the news trying to explain the alleged irregularities in her campaign finance reports.

O’Donnell’s 2010 campaign finances are under investigation by the Federal Election Commission and the Department of Justice, following complaints filed last September by a group called the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.

The group accused O’Donnell of using campaign funds for personal living expenses, a claim she denied.

According to the most recent campaign finance reports filed by embattled gubernatorial candidate Rick Hill, every month the campaign pays $329 to the American Honda Finance Corporation. The campaign finance report is online in pdf form here, and here is a screenshot of some of the payments:

In 2004, the press wrote about Schweitzer’s American truck that he purchased in Idaho, with his own money, but I guess they see no problem with the fact that Rick Hill is spending campaign donations to allow him to criss-cross Montana in the finest of Japanese automotive luxury.

The justification for such a campaign expense is questionable, unheard of in Montana state level politics, however, it is true that some sitting members of Congress have been known to lease themselves personal vehicles to travel around their home states in style. I guess Rick Hill’s just been in Washington too long to realize that he should be driving the state in a used pickup like everybody else. Regardless, we hope someone will provide more information on the matter soon.

Posted: January 4, 2011 at 5:02 pm

Michael Steele Needs Atticus Finch

Back in the segregationist South, if a white guy raped a white woman his best bet for getting away with it was to falsely accuse a black guy of the rape, and get a racist jury and judge to convict him of it.

Like in the novel “To Kill a Mockingbird.” A man rapes his daughter and accuses an innocent black man of the rape. The daughter refuses to speak up and goes along with the fraud. The defendant’s innocence is made obvious in court with help from his lawyer, the famous literary character Atticus Finch. But the black man is convicted and then killed by a mob.

So you’ve got to love the shades and overtones of Jim DeMint, the South Carolina Senator and national Tea Party leader, pointing the finger at Michael Steele, the RNC chair, and calling for Steele’s resignation and blaming him for the fact that Republicans failed to win the US Senate.

As anyone who followed the 2010 election knows, DeMint is the obvious violator. Not that I care a whit about the GOP, but DeMint took advantage of the GOP voters for his own gratification and narcissistic pleasure, inflicted harm, and is now blaming the black guy for the damage.

DeMint was the major force in ensuring that the Republicans did not take the Senate. It was he who led the charge that helped two Tea Party candidates–Sharron Angle and I’m-Not-A-Witch Christine O’Donnell– take GOP nominations despite the fact that they were two of the most ridiculous and embarrassing people ever to run for federal office in America. And of course, they both lost handily.

This was a shocking turn around, because early in 2010 those two states seemed to be practically in the bag for the Republicans. Harry Reid appeared to have little hope in a hypothetical match-up against Sue Lowden, a popular moderate Republican running in the Nevada primary. And in Delaware, Mike Castle, a Republican U.S. House member who enjoyed huge statewide popularity among Republicans and Democrats alike, was presumed to be an easy winner in a general election.

But these two candidates were shoved aside the Tea Party insurgency and their national self-appointed leader DeMint. He made key endorsements of candidates like O’Donnell and Angle, and thus made national news as the new Tea Party king-maker. Thankfully for those who care about America, the end result was a several-vote advantage for the Democrats in the Senate.

But now he needs someone to blame, and so DeMint has found an excellent outlet for his own anger at himself for blowing the whole deal: he is saying it’s all Steele’s fault that Republicans didn’t take control of the Senate. “He didn’t mount a good ground game,” is what DeMint had been saying on Fox News lately.

In other words, they’d have won the Senate, but for the black guy. We will see if the GOP, in the upcoming party election for chair, goes along like a segregationist jury. Of course, Michael Steele probably shouldn’t hold his breath waiting for someone like Atticus Finch to take his case.

Posted: October 8, 2010 at 5:42 pm

Complete Disaster

The minute you record the ad that starts with “I am not a witch,” you know your campaign is over. But that’s the least of TEA Party Republican Christine O’Donnell’s problems. She’s got watchdog groups saying she’s misusing and misreporting campaign donations. Sound familiar? She’s in a world of trouble. And like TEA Party Republicans here in Montana, she goes around saying and doing crazy things, for example, that she thinks that scientists have developed mice with fully functioning human brains.

Christine O’Donnell, like the rest of the TEA Partiers, would do nothing like the rest of us would do in Congress. Brilliant move getting candidates like this on the ballot in Montana and across the nation.