House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) is turning a blind eye to his one-time rival Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.), even as the veteran lawmaker appeals for help in whats become the political fight of his career.
In recent days, Murtha has been turning to his fellow lawmakers for money, and many have answered the call flooding his coffers with more than $130,000 in past few days.
But Hoyer, who dueled with Murtha two years ago for the Majority Leader post, has not. That makes him the only elected member of House Democratic leadership yet to contribute to the Pennsylvania Democrats suddenly tight re-election battle.
Hoyer and Murthas bitter contest in 2006 divided the Caucus and prompted then Speaker-designate Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to weigh in on behalf of Murtha, her longtime ally. Hoyer won the race by 63 votes in what Pelosi at the time acknowledged was a stunning victory. But tensions between Hoyer and Murtha have lingered.
Now, Murtha is facing a surprisingly tough re-election challenge from Republican candidate William Russell. The vocal Iraq War critic was expected to coast to his 19th term but complicated that task recently when he referred to his own constituents as racists and rednecks.
To fund a last-minute blitz aimed at saving his seat, Murthas campaign is hitting up every possible source of funds, with appeals to liberal activists, defense industry lobbyists and fellow lawmakers.
Pelosi, Democratic Caucus Chairman Rahm Emanuel (Ill.), and Caucus Vice Chairman John Larson (Conn.) have ponied up $7,000 each $2,000 from their respective re-election accounts and $5,000 from their political action committees. Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.) cut a check for $2,000 from his re-election account.
Murtha also picked up another $9,300 combined from Reps. Rosa DeLauro (Conn.) and George Miller (Calif.), co-chairs of the Democratic Steering and Policy Committee.
Meanwhile, fellow members of the Appropriations Committee, on which Murtha chairs the Subcommittee on Defense, have kicked in more than $37,000 this week. His Keystone State colleagues contributed another $12,000. And Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), whom Murtha backed in the presidential primary, forked over $5,000 from her leadership PAC.
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Wouldn't it be fun if congress critters could only take campaign contributions from their own districts? Like, only from the people they're supposed to represent and not special interests from all over the country? Would it not then be easier to get rid of some of the mad cows like Murtha who so desperately need to be turned out to pasture? Not gonna happen though, is it?
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Marine vet at Russell rally: Murtha a 'fat little bastard'
By Alex Roarty, PolitickerPA.com Reporter
NEW STANTON -- Republican congressional candidate Bill Russell's rally on Sunday featured several Iraq war veterans vehemently criticizing U.S. Rep. John Murtha (D-Johnstown), who they say betrayed them when he said troops in Iraq killed innocent civilians in Haditha "in cold blood."
Those remarks sparked Russell to run against Murtha and have been a theme of his campaign ever since.
During the rally, Shawn Bryan, a former sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps., said Murtha visited his unit in Iraq in 2005. At the time, Murtha told the troops "what a great job we did," Bryan said, only to see him tell his district back home he no longer supported the effort.
Bryan said he didn't put his life on the line for his country "just so some fat little bastard can come back and run his mouth."
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"Bryan said he didn't put his life on the line for his country 'just so some fat little bastard can come back and run his mouth.'"
And the problem is....?
Ooo, Ooo - I know! It's not nice to call fat people fat.
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11/03/2008 16:25 Comments ||
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Wouldn't it be fun if congress critters could only take campaign contributions from their own districts? Like, only from the people they're supposed to represent and not special interests from all over the country? Would it not then be easier to get rid of some of the mad cows like Murtha who so desperately need to be turned out to pasture? Not gonna happen though, is it?
Well yes, but in this case if Colonel Russell hadn't received donations from Marines and vets (like me)from all over the country he wouldn't have had a chance to get this "fat bastard" out of office.
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Glad you did, bman. But what about all the lobbyists who keep this sack of excrement in office throughout all of his previous terms? It's very, very difficult to defeat an incumbent and that's part of the reason.
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My Dem incumbent here in PA-7 (SE Pa) Cng. J. Sestak (ret Navy) has raised $3.6M this campaign, but has only spent about $1M, (he's sitting on $2.6M). I'm voting for (R)Craig Williams (ret USMC-GulfWar), Duke grad/JAG/Mstrs Columbia/DOJ Prosecutor/Joint Terrorism Task Force..
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He has a whole repertoire of arrogant street-thug intimidation and dismissal. Used it on Hillary all the time, used it on Joe Lieberman on the floor of the Senate, uses it with a swagger whenever he's hangin' wi his boys.
. . . Alex Holmes Sr. has been at rest in that cemetery for 15 years. But recent election records show he cast a ballot in this year's primary.
And our 5 On Your Side investigation found a home on Cleveland's east side listed as Holmes' address. Jeremy Moore, Holmes' grandson, was stunned. "He's deceased. Deceased since 1993," Moore said.
And it doesn't appear to be a name mix-up. Records reveal Alex Holmes Jr. -- who is still alive -- voted in the same election as his deceased father.
Cuyahoga County Elections Director Jane Platten said she'll look in to it. "Without having full detail, I have no idea why that would have happened," Platten said.
But this isn't the first time we've uncovered dead voters. Two years ago, another 5 On Your Side investigation exposed 13,000 dead voters registered in Cuyahoga County. More than two dozen of them cast ballots.
Back then, NewsChannel5 was told dead voters would be removed from the rolls. Now, on the eve of an historic election -- when every vote in Cuyahoga County is considered crucial -- our NewsChannel5 investigation has once again uncovered thousands of dead voters still on the rolls, and ballots still being cast from beyond. The exact number of dead voters is difficult to say this time because Ohio's Secretary of State issued a directive to Boards of Elections across the state to withhold dates of births in public records requests. That information is important in positively identifying dead voters. . . .
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11/03/2008 12:21 ||
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How do we know that this is the same Barack Obama who was born in Hawai'i? He well may be true impostor set up by Ayers and his ilk backed by big time Soros money and money from the middle east. The American far-left are enamored with radical Islam much like they were in the 60's and 70's with the Black Panthers and SDS, et. al. Beside Cashill I believe American Thinker had this theory about a month ago. Then you have the Prairie Fires dedication to Sirhan-Sirhan. We're screwed.
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I never believed Obama actually wrote anything. Listening to him speak (which is becoming quite a challenge for me personally) is most revealing. Unrevealing however is his college studies, courses taken, Harvard Law Review articles, grades, etc.
As president of the Harvard Law Review and a law professor in Chicago, Senator Barack Obama refined his legal thinking, but left a scant paper trail. His name doesn't appear on any legal scholarship.
But an unsigned and previously unattributed 1990 article unearthed by Politico offers a glimpse at Obama's views on abortion policy and the law during his student days, and provides a rare addition to his body of work.
The six-page summary, tucked into the third volume of the year's Harvard Law Review, considers the charged, if peripheral, question of whether fetuses should be able to file lawsuits against their mothers. Obama's answer, like most courts': No. He wrote approvingly of an Illinois Supreme Court ruling that the unborn cannot sue their mothers for negligence, and he suggested that allowing fetuses to sue would violate the mother's rights and could, perversely, cause her to take more risks with her pregnancy
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Are you kidding? Someone will have to write the policy papers and draft the regulations to bring in the New World Order.
Somebody will be found. The one thing no glorious leader can tolerate are people who knew him before (look up what happened to the entire Georgian Communist Party).
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You could be right. It would be a deeply cynical way to present the appearance of caring about patriotism to ditch Ayers once his usefulness was diminished.
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House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) is turning a blind eye to his one-time rival Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.), even as the veteran lawmaker appeals for help in whats become the political fight of his career.
. . . Alex Holmes Sr. has been at rest in that cemetery for 15 years. But recent election records show he cast a ballot in this year's primary.
