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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: thundley4 on September 16, 2010, 01:55:58 PM
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wndycty (1000+ posts) Thu Sep-16-10 02:35 PM
Original message
We like to talk a lot shit but O'Donnell hauls in $1 million/Coons $125K since election. . .
. . .its time to step up.
We are so confident that we are going to win this seat that we are not putting our money where our mouths are? If we (PROGRESSIVES NETROOTS GRASSROOTS et al) don't get off our asses we deserve whatever happens to us in Delaware and everywhere else.
O'Donnell Hauls In $1 Million, Coons Takes In $125,000
The best spin coming from the Republican Party in the wake of Christine O'Donnell's primary victory in Delaware this past Tuesday has been that a GOP already fueled with conservative enthusiasm is now even more energized.
Appearing on MSNBC Thursday afternoon, RNC Communications Director Doug Heye relayed that the committee had received a $10,000 donation on Wednesday "because they were excited about Christine O'Donnell's win."
Reports emerged shortly thereafter that O'Donnell herself raised more than $1 million online on Wednesday, a staggering total that could go a long way in a state like Delaware.
How wary this makes Democrats is an open question and not just because the going bet is that no amount of money can make O'Donnell palatable to general election voters.
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9146606
Dawson Leery (1000+ posts) Thu Sep-16-10 02:37 PM
Response to Original message
1. Koch Brothers anyone?
:mental:
Grass Roots, anyone?
wndycty (1000+ posts) Thu Sep-16-10 02:40 PM
Response to Reply #1
3. Excuses?
I understand we can all give s it doesn't only come down to money but are progressives mobilizing at all for Coons?
Sheepshank (1000+ posts) Thu Sep-16-10 02:38 PM
Response to Original message
2. Fundies have learned, during prop 8.....
money talks louder than the constiuents.
Really? Money can walk into the voting booth?
wndycty (1000+ posts) Thu Sep-16-10 02:41 PM
Response to Reply #2
5. Well it appears in 2008 we scrapped pennies together to get Obama elected. . .
. . .I know that many of us have fewer pennies but we should at least be organizing. . .
In reality, most of Obama's cash came from big donors and overseas. The money you donated through the DUmp gave Skins a well deserved vacation.
Cognitive_Resonance (220 posts) Thu Sep-16-10 02:41 PM
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4. Money and resources the GOP could be applying more effectively elsewhere
Democrats should continue to fight here, but the Republicans know the DE Senate race is a drain for them. They're saving some face with token support, but Castle is not endorsing and their defacto national campaign manager/bag man (Karl Rove) already went on national TV to brand O'Donnell as an unelectable fraudster.
And Rove has pissed people off, making them fight that much harder for her. Maybe Rove is a genius?
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It's dangerous to underestimate the Rovemeister. Deep are the plans, and long the game.
:popcorn:
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It's dangerous to underestimate the Rovemeister. Deep are the plans, and long the game.
:popcorn:
I agree. Did you all know he has a photographic memory? Just a bit of info for anyone who cares!
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Now at $1,050,000 and growing. http://christine2010.com/
I bet none of this came from overseas or from HAMAS like Obam's did.
Now, DUchebags say it slowly, "Senator O'Donnell."
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It's dangerous to underestimate the Rovemeister. Deep are the plans, and long the game.
:popcorn:
Well, supposedly she was down 25 right after the primary and today is just down 11! So Lord Rove might indeed be a genius!
I here the VRWC is goin' to hand out $10 bills at the voting booths in Nov in Deleware, so teh DUmmies will look like fools again! hehe!
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Rove did indeed apologize, and donate to Christine's campaign though, so I'm not sure if Carl was indeed being a genius, or a bonehead with his comments.
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He sure pissed off the Tea Party Movement! That sure as hell wasn't a good idea!
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It seems to me he dislikes the Obama tipe of hopey changey crap, but he doesn't seem to want the decent change that is coming like an Amtrak train either. Status quo is his bread and butter. That just doesn't wash anymore.
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It seems to me he dislikes the Obama tipe of hopey changey crap, but he doesn't seem to want the decent change that is coming like an Amtrak train either. Status quo is his bread and butter. That just doesn't wash anymore.
An Amtrak Train? You're kiddin' right? Tell me again why we should keep funding something that loses loses millions of dollars a year? Decent change? What part of: "We're frikkin' broke", don't you understand?
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Momentum. The Primitives can feel it like giant footsteps getting closer and closer...
(http://img714.imageshack.us/img714/8211/elephantl.jpg)
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Rove did indeed apologize, and donate to Christine's campaign though, so I'm not sure if Carl was indeed being a genius, or a bonehead with his comments.
He was being a bonehead and got his ass handed to him. The last thing voters want to hear is some jackoff like Castle or some big wig GOP power broker telling them who to vote for.
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Momentum. The Primitives can feel it like giant footsteps getting closer and closer...
(http://img714.imageshack.us/img714/8211/elephantl.jpg)
Here you go:
(http://membres.lycos.fr/frodon9/hpbimg/oliphant.jpg)
Shop some of these bad boys in there.
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Cognitive_Resonance (220 posts) Thu Sep-16-10 02:41 PM
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4. Money and resources the GOP could be applying more effectively elsewhere
Democrats should continue to fight here, but the Republicans know the DE Senate race is a drain for them. They're saving some face with token support, but Castle is not endorsing and their defacto national campaign manager/bag man (Karl Rove) already went on national TV to brand O'Donnell as an unelectable fraudster.
It's not the GOP contributing the money, it's CONSERVATIVES who prefer to donate to CONSERVATIVE candidates directly and refuse to give a dime to the RNC until they clean up their act (haven't donated to the RNC for 5 years now, and everytime they send me a letter and a pre-paid envelope asking for a donation? I write on the stub I refuse to donate a dime until the Republicans start acting like Republicans not Democrats, and I send it back, it costs them 42 cents and no donation!)
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Momentum. The Primitives can feel it like giant footsteps getting closer and closer...
(http://img714.imageshack.us/img714/8211/elephantl.jpg)
:lmao:
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An Amtrak Train? You're kiddin' right? Tell me again why we should keep funding something that loses loses millions of dollars a year? Decent change? What part of: "We're frikkin' broke", don't you understand?
By "decent change" I meant the gigantic Tea Party movement that is gaining steam. I also wasn't talking about Amtrak being a great company that's going to benefit us. I was just trying to make the relation that that those trains go really fast. As does the Tea Party movement. I should've made those points more clear. Should have worded it differently.
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Imagine that you stupid DUmmies and progressives!! Real Americans stepping up to the plate. Eat shit! :bird: :censored:
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Or the other option posed a while ago...a bag of dicks.
It's really up to them.
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Or the other option posed a while ago...a bag of dicks.
It's really up to them.
How true! :cheersmate:
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Not to post for the sake of posting, but I do believe Sparky said "FAT bag of dicks" now that I think about it for a bit. :rotf:
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He was being a bonehead and got his ass handed to him. The last thing voters want to hear is some jackoff like Castle or some big wig GOP power broker telling them who to vote for.
Agree with you.
What I saw was real and no deception. I saw Rove having a visceral reaction to O’Donnell; he impugned her honesty, her sanity, said he was not impressed by her, and just about said anything you’d have expected from the most rabid of Dem operatives. Mainly, though, I return to my impression that what he said was spoken without any deep plan. It was spontaneous and it was real.
So I just have to say my impression was that this was not part of any deep Rove gambit. I don’t just don’t buy that Rove pooh-pooing her was the root of O’Donnell’s surge in online fundraising---that race was already on everyone’s radar. We were all already paying attention to this race.
And his “apology†was really a non-apology. He repeated that he said that he’d support the Republican candidate, as if this 3-second throwaway wasn’t overwhelmed in a flood of criticism. He said, again, that he had to put on his Fox News Analyst hat, but saying she made nutty pronunciementos and insisting she’d given no adequate explanations for—what, needing time to pay off a student loan?—that sex is better than masturbation?, which is how I interpret her words on this highly important campaign issue—was well beyond analysis, and his physical agitation and anger were evident.
What does this mean to me? Means he’s human. Doesn’t undo all the other great public service he’s done, and the fact he’s endured such crap from the precincts of the psychotic left Washington-media mixmaster. If he keeps walking the dog forward (if the cat goes back, the dog goes…) on this one, it’s cool.
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Unless the Koch brothers are doling it out a thousand at a time, it's grassroots donations. I've been reloading her site since Rove gave her a beating, and it has been a steady gradual rise... up 1.25 million now.
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He was being a bonehead and got his ass handed to him. The last thing voters want to hear is some jackoff like Castle or some big wig GOP power broker telling them who to vote for.
The word that I'm getting from my son's friends that work on "The Hill"......is that the viseral reaction was due to the fact that Rove and Castle are personal friends, outside of politics, and have been for some time.
Unprofessional for a pundit, but a bit more understandable under those circumstances.
doc
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He was being a bonehead and got his ass handed to him. The last thing voters want to hear is some jackoff like Castle or some big wig GOP power broker telling them who to vote for.
Thats exactly why her fund raising is so successfull...
That and the RNC refusing to send her funds, seems to me the message is loud and clear. The quite conservatives are pissed off and will not be silenced by anyone...Rove included.
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She's up to $1,281,801.85 right now!
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That web page is making every politician in WDC crap their pants. $1,297,374.00 in 40 hours.
The people are pissed and the establishment is going to hike the rhetoric big time.
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$1,301,286.00
:lmao:
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Funny, Chris Coons' website has no fundraising data on it.
Look at this guy's endorsements:
AFSCME
American Postal Workers Union
Communication Workers of America
Council for a Livable World
Delaware AFL-CIO
Delaware State Education Association
International Association of Machinists
NJDC
People for the American Way
SEIU
Sheet Metal Workers
Stonewall Democrats
Teamsters
UAW
United Food and Commercial Workers
VetPAC
If someone like that came knocking on my door, I would chase him away with a crucifix and a Bible.
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It's not the GOP contributing the money, it's CONSERVATIVES who prefer to donate to CONSERVATIVE candidates directly and refuse to give a dime to the RNC until they clean up their act (haven't donated to the RNC for 5 years now, and everytime they send me a letter and a pre-paid envelope asking for a donation? I write on the stub I refuse to donate a dime until the Republicans start acting like Republicans not Democrats, and I send it back, it costs them 42 cents and no donation!)
It's actually 44 cents now, and will increase to 46 on Jan 2.
I heard someone doing this to a Democrat donation letter. It, too, was a "Business Reply" envelope, meaning the postage will be paid by the original sender. He put a brick (or some other heavy object) in a box, taped the envelope to the outside, and mailed it back! :rotf:
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The word that I'm getting from my son's friends that work on "The Hill"......is that the viseral reaction was due to the fact that Rove and Castle are personal friends, outside of politics, and have been for some time.
Unprofessional for a pundit, but a bit more understandable under those circumstances.
doc
And that's a pretty good explanation, TVDOC. Simple, makes sense, explains why he was so unusually agitated. Thanks for the skinny.
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Funny, Chris Coons' website has no fundraising data on it.
Look at this guy's endorsements:
AFSCME
American Postal Workers Union
Communication Workers of America
Council for a Livable World
Delaware AFL-CIO
Delaware State Education Association
International Association of Machinists
NJDC
People for the American Way
SEIU
Sheet Metal Workers
Stonewall Democrats
Teamsters
UAW
United Food and Commercial Workers
VetPAC
If someone like that came knocking on my door, I would chase him away with a crucifix and a Bible.
That would actually make a great O'Donnell ad, she can say look who's supporting Coons and look who's supporting me.
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It's actually 44 cents now, and will increase to 46 on Jan 2.
I heard someone doing this to a Democrat donation letter. It, too, was a "Business Reply" envelope, meaning the postage will be paid by the original sender. He put a brick (or some other heavy object) in a box, taped the envelope to the outside, and mailed it back! :rotf:
:lmao:
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Funny, Chris Coons' website has no fundraising data on it.
Look at this guy's endorsements:
AFSCME
American Postal Workers Union
Communication Workers of America
Council for a Livable World
Delaware AFL-CIO
Delaware State Education Association
International Association of Machinists
NJDC
People for the American Way
SEIU
Sheet Metal Workers
Stonewall Democrats
Teamsters
UAW
United Food and Commercial Workers
VetPAC
If someone like that came knocking on my door, I would chase him away with a crucifix and a Bible.
If ya want, I can send ya some of my Tamarack stakes and a wooden mallet! I'd prefer ya just drove one thru his heart and left him out in the sunlight! That way, there's no hazardous waste! They evaporate into thin air!
I'm also havin' a sale on Garlic for those who are not up to the "task"!
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OH NOES!!!!!1111!!!!eleventy
O'Donnell at $1,506,689.14.
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OH NOES!!!!!1111!!!!eleventy
O'Donnell at $1,506,689.14.
Ha hahahaha :rotf:
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Amazing. :cheersmate:
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Rove did indeed apologize, and donate to Christine's campaign though, so I'm not sure if Carl was indeed being a genius, or a bonehead with his comments.
He apologized? Got a link?
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$1,568,833.00
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And climbing,......
and climbing! :cheersmate:
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He apologized? Got a link?
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/09/karl-rove-gives-in-to-odonnell-fever-video.php
Only one I could find, but there is is, I guess.
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$1,667,661 with a goal of a cool two million chickens.
Now repeat after me, very fast, Senator Christine O'Donnell.
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$1,723,785.00.
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He apologized? Got a link?
He was on O'Reilly tonight and you could tell he was bitter that his old pal lost. Plus, he certainly was not gung ho about supporting O'Donnell.
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$1,723,785.00.
Well, if she doesn't get elected, it won't be because she was underfunded against the "Rats"!
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Races like this cause me an ethical dilemma. Personally I think it should be illegal for a candidate for house or senate to take a single dime from anyone that lives outside of their districts. They are supposed to be representing THEIR DISTRICT and no one else.
Since however it is legal for them to take contributions from out of district/state, the dem's have used the law for years to pour millions into hotly contested races to put their candidates over the top.
While I'd like to see campaign finance reform eliminating such donations, I haver started myself sending money to candidates in targeted districts around the country where I think a few extra bucks can make the difference.
It's right against wrong and while many refuse to accept it the future of our nation and our children is at stake and it's time conservatives start utilizing the same tactics that have gotten us beaten for years in close races to secure conservative victories.
I'd encourage anyone else to do the same.
Candidates like her will make the difference starting with the seating of the new congress as to what direction we as a nation will take. Will we follow the Obama, Pelosi, Reid path or will we start taking the country back one bill at a time?
I vote for the latter and I'm voting with my dollars.
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Races like this cause me an ethical dilemma. Personally I think it should be illegal for a candidate for house or senate to take a single dime from anyone that lives outside of their districts. They are supposed to be representing THEIR DISTRICT and no one else.
If only their decisions only effected their districts, I would agree. However as the
latest O'Bumbler socialistic boat anchor they've dropped on the American Taxpayer has proven, their votes effect us all!
Especially when you consider they can be bought off by pork in order to get Zero's agenda passed! How many whores were there in the healthcare bribe? The worst one being Mary Landrieu in LA!
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At least the donations are coming from Americans and not from the Middle East like they did for Obama.
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If only their decisions only effected their districts, I would agree. However as the
latest O'Bumbler socialistic boat anchor they've dropped on the American Taxpayer has proven, their votes effect us all!
Especially when you consider they can be bought off by pork in order to get Zero's agenda passed! How many whores were there in the healthcare bribe? The worst one being Mary Landrieu in LA!
ITA! things like Obamacare, Cap and Tax affect all of us whereas State Legislatures are local and I would think most of those contributions are given locally.
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Ethics mean absolutely nothing to our current congress critters! The waiver on Medicare to certain States, to out and out bribes for State bail Outs, even though their constituency disagreed, proves it!
I don't know how some of these whores sleep at night! To think the Repubs would resort to dragging a nominee thru the dirt in order to keep one of their "good 'ol boys" in office says all we need to know about politics in DC!
Apparently Cassle has sucked enough political dick, even though he rarely followed the Repubs line, gives us all an idea just how low these asshats will go in order to suck each other off!
The "I'll scratch your back if you scratch mine" BS is so entrenched in both parties they are willing to go against the people! How in the world the RNC could back this lib against the conservative in the election is so far over the line it's embarrassing! The fact they continue to do it without regard to their own political well being is astounding!!
It can't get any worse! It's time there is a complete housecleaning of the "Old Guard"! Screw this lobbyist mind set! We send conservatives to DC in order to represent the people, not their asshole bandit large cash contributors!
These MSM junkies would rather screw us in order to get face time on "Meet the Press"!
How much of a publicity junkie do you have to be in order to ignore the fact they're only givin' ya face time in order to make ya look like a fool? When was the last time ya actually saw a Repub get a favorable interview?
Hell, they set 'em up from the opening conversation and wait for 'em to **** it up so they can rub their nose in it!
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The DUmmies are all impressed that Russ Feingold raised a little over 400k in a day.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=433x446099
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I'm still waiting for this magical PPP poll that the DUmmies claim Feingold is "miles ahead" of his Republican opponent when the last PPP poll for WI was done in June and all the recent polls from Rasmussen and Magellan are a statistical tie.
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I'm still waiting for this magical PPP poll that the DUmmies claim Feingold is "miles ahead" of his Republican opponent when the last PPP poll for WI was done in June and all the recent polls from Rasmussen and Magellan are a statistical tie.
I checked PPP yesterday and nothing yet.
And Christine is up to $1,839,950.00.
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In less than one wek O'Donnell has reached $2,020,114. When the ads start in earnest watch her eat up the lead that the bearded tax raising marxist has.
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In less than one wek O'Donnell has reached $2,020,114. When the ads start in earnest watch her eat up the lead that the bearded tax raising marxist has.
She will be over 3 million by the end of the month.
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$2,158,700.20
Still have 9 days to raise approx $850k.
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$2,158,700.20
Still have 9 days to raise approx $850k.
Is there a deadline on October 1st?
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I didn't thouroughly go through her site, so I am not sure if there is a deadline to raise funds or not. I would assume so, but I have no idea of the date. I was just kind of replying to Lacarnut.
Little help here guys? Anyone know if there's a deadline?
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I didn't thouroughly go through her site, so I am not sure if there is a deadline to raise funds or not. I would assume so, but I have no idea of the date. I was just kind of replying to Lacarnut.
Little help here guys? Anyone know if there's a deadline?
There may be, for FEC reporting purposes.
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O'Donnell now at $2,331,986. For lurking DUmbassses and Obama voters she is still hauling in over $150,000/day.
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O'Donnell now at $2,331,986. For lurking DUmbassses and Obama voters she is still hauling in over $150,000/day.
She is so gonna smoke the "Bearded Marxist"! All she has to do is flood the local market with his own televised admissions!
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She is so gonna smoke the "Bearded Marxist"! All she has to do is flood the local market with his own televised admissions!
She could send out a flyer highlighting his writings when he came back from KENYA.