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Current Events => Politics => Topic started by: bijou on January 06, 2010, 02:07:11 PM
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New York State may later this year provide the nation with a fascinating internecine battle over its U.S. Senate seat with a possible challenge to Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand from former Tennessee Rep. Harold Ford Jr.
Yes, it does seem somewhat unusual that a former Tennessee congressman, who failed to win a Senate seat in the Volunteer State, would be mulling a run for a Senate seat to represent New York.
But as a New York Times piece notes, New York loves its carpetbaggers. Sen. Hillary Clinton and Robert F. Kennedy are the two cited in the piece.
Ford evidently moved to New York several years ago and is a vice chair at Merrill Lynch. The NYT reports that he is being courted to run against Gillibrand because the current senator, from upstate New York, has failed to win over "key constituencies" in New York City. That apparently includes big Democratic fundraisers in New York City.
An excerpt: ...
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2010/01/harold_ford_jr_of_tennessee_mu.html
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Please keep your phony ass in New York, Harold. We don't want you back.
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Isn't this the same bastard who was convicted of corruption, or bribery or some such while in the Tennessee state senate?
Damn, between Trafficant, this guy, and half of the misbegotten oxygen theives with 'Czar' positions in the current Reich's Chancellery, the DimRats sure can pick 'em.
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That was his father. And his uncle. His aunt's no peach either.
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That was his father. And his uncle. His aunt's no peach either.
So Junior's just getting started in the family biz, then... :therock:
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Yeah, the good ole Ford Crime Family.
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Tennessee once had a U.S. Senator, William Brock (R), who served 1971-1977, but lost in 1976. I dunno why he lost re-election, as he seemed a pretty good guy.
Some years later, Brock ran for the U.S. Senate from Maryland, and lost big time.
James Buckley (C) was a U.S. Senator from New York, who served 1970-1977, but lost in 1976, to Daniel Monihan (D).
Some years later, Buckley ran for the U.S. Senate from Connectict, and lost.
Just some history trivia while I'm being inundated with snow out here.
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Speaking of corruption ... (http://baltimore.bizjournals.com/baltimore/stories/2010/01/04/daily31.html)
Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon is stepping down, the result of a guilty plea entered Wednesday on one count of perjury.
Dixon’s resignation will become official Feb. 4, when she is sentenced. Dixon, a Democrat, was convicted in December on one count of embezzlement stemming from her use of gift cards given to the city by Patrick Turner, a developer. Turner claimed the gift cards were intended for the needy.
The trial offered a window into what critics have long derided as a pay-to-play mentality at City Hall that tarnished Baltimore’s reputation. ...
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Speaking of corruption ... (http://baltimore.bizjournals.com/baltimore/stories/2010/01/04/daily31.html)
Im case you didn't know this, madam, Bela Pelosi is the daughter of a late mayor of Baltimore, d'Allesandro or something like that, one of the usual standard run-of-the-mill corrupt machine politicians.
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Im case you didn't know this, madam, Bela Pelosi is the daughter of a late mayor of Baltimore, d'Allesandro or something like that, one of the usual standard run-of-the-mill corrupt machine politicians.
Funny that you would call her "Madam", sir, as she seems to be in charge of the country's oldest continuously operating whorehouse.
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Im case you didn't know this, madam, Bela Pelosi is the daughter of a late mayor of Baltimore, d'Allesandro or something like that, one of the usual standard run-of-the-mill corrupt machine politicians.
So the next Mayor of Baltimore is unlikely to be much better? It doesn't say much for the electorate there.
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Funny that you would call her "Madam", sir, as she seems to be in charge of the country's oldest continuously operating whorehouse.
You read that too fast, sir.
"Madam" was referring to a lady of class and distinction and sensitivity, our esteemed colleague bijou, who's from England and might not know trivia about American politics.
It happens; I'm guiltier than most, of reading things too fast.
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So the next Mayor of Baltimore is unlikely to be much better? It doesn't say much for the electorate there.
Baltimore is a quagmire of corruption, like Detroit.
And other big blue cities run by corrupt Republican machines.
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Yep... the family business. The Ford family runs a funeral home, and have for many years in Memphis. What better way to gather useful information from the recently deceased. Why, when I think of "funeral home", naturally the next step is "politics". Or it would be if I were a Democrat.
The RNC ran some great ads during that campaign.
[youtube=425,350]cWkrwENN5CQ[/youtube]
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You read that too fast, sir.
"Madam" was referring to a lady of class and distinction and sensitivity, our esteemed colleague bijou, who's from England and might not know trivia about American politics.
It happens; I'm guiltier than most, of reading things too fast.
:shucks:
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es, it does seem somewhat unusual that a former Tennessee congressman, who failed to win a Senate seat in the Volunteer State, would be mulling a run for a Senate seat to represent New York.
Not unusual at all for a state that welcomed with open arms a sour fat ankled pear shaped carpet bagger from Arkansas.
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Good...we won't have to deal with him again down here!!!
NY is stupid enough to elect him too.
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Why not? They were stupid enough to elect the last DimRat carpet
muncher bagger that wandered up? Hell, they re-elected her on the promise that she was running to serve New Yorkers, and not to postion herself for a White House run. :mental:
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One more liberal in New York won't make a difference. They're welcome to him.