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June 14, 2008
McCain Cancels Texas Fundraiser, Keeps Cash
No more Monday fundraiser in Texas for Senator John McCain. The event, which was to be hosted be 1990 gubernatorial candidate Clayton Williams, got abruptly eighty-sixed after ABC News contacted the McCain campaign about a controversial Williams comment from way-back-when.
"These were obviously incredibly offensive remarks that the campaign was unaware of at the time it was scheduled," said spokesman Brian Rogers.
According to an AP story from March 1990, Williams compared rape to the bad weather. "If it's inevitable, just relax and enjoy it," Williams said to ranchhands and reporters invited to the event. Here's a follow up to the story from the New York Times.
A McCain aide says he will not return the $300,000 already raised by the Midland Republican for Monday's canceled event.
The DNC pounced: "Mr. Williams' comments are not only outrageous and disgusting, they degrade our values as Americans," Finney said in a statement. "John McCain should make it clear that he understands just how offensive these comments are by not only canceling a fundraising event but also returning the money Williams raised for his campaign. Senator McCain should know that you cannot expect the American people to trust you if you say one thing when you stand on the stump and turn a blind eye to this kind of language when you think no one will notice."
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May 15, 2008
Tight Poll Numbers Help Cornyn, Too
Last week two separate polls (Rasmussen and Research 2000) came out showing Democrat Rick Noriega just four points behind incumbent Republican US Senator John Cornyn. There are reasons to suspect those numbers, but the Noriega campaign proudly trumpeted both polls. Hey, a closer-than-expected race could convince on-the-fence donors to give.
But a "real race" helps Cornyn drum up the cash, too. Tonight, his finance director sent out the following message: We don't put much validity in either poll, but Democrats certainly are. Liberal bloggers and Democrat partisans alike have pounced on the results, claiming they spell doom for Senator Cornyn this fall.
The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, lead by liberal New York Senator Chuck Schumer, proclaimed in an email that the polls show "John Cornyn in serious trouble..."
Ultra-liberal blogger Daily Kos, who commissioned and paid for the second poll, called the results "nothing short of remarkable," and claimed they "hint that this may be a top-tier race before long..."
No one can deny that our opponent and his allies are in desperate need of anything to help them raise resources and give national Democrats reason to invest untold millions into the race, and we must stop them.
Please contribute $10, $25 or $50 to help debunk the myths our opponent and his liberal allies are trying to tell about Senator Cornyn.
The facts are clear, the extreme left is energized and unscrupulous, and our opponent is shamelessly aligned with them and will say and do anything it takes to gain much needed relevance and resources. Noriega's the one hurting for cash, but for both sides, I imagine any amount is helpful in a costly statewide campaign. (If that came out the wrong way, this is not intended to encourage you to donate.)
April 15, 2008
Cornyn's Got The Benjamins
The re-election bid of US Senator John Cornyn, R-Texas, won't be cash-strapped. His first quarter fundraising is at $2.2 million, and $1.6 million of it came since the March 4th primary which decided his Democratic opponent (State Rep. Rick Noriega, D-Houston).
Individual donors? 7,121
Average donation this cycle? About $309.
Cash-on-hand? $8.7 million
"We're grateful to the thousands of Texans who are coming forward and showing support for Sen. Cornyn and his positive message for Texas," campaign Manager Rob Jesmer said.
March 6, 2008
Money, Money, Money
Weird. Someone at my station must have signed me up for emails from Barack Obama, because a missive from Obama just landed in my inbox. For whatever reason, the email was addressed to someone named "Todd". Who is this Todd guy? Anyway, Obama is sharing with supporters his record breaking $55 million take in February: No campaign has ever raised this much in a single month in the history of presidential primaries. But more important than the total is how we did it -- more than 90% of donations were $100 or less, and more than 385,000 new donors in February pushed us past our goal of more than 1,000,000 people owning a piece of this campaign. Later in the email he pivots to a request for even more money. And below that email is a forwarded note from campaign manager David Plouffe, who discusses delegate math.
I'm curious why the campaign waited until today to drop the big fundraising number, because it's such an easy thing to do to distract the press. Had the campaign dropped the news on Monday, it would at least be a diversion from a bad 36 hours of press before the crucial Texas and Ohio primaries.
November 11, 2007
A Rockin' Saturday Night
What did you do with your Saturday night? We ate too much Mexican food and subsequently watched the complete, four-hour long Iowa Jefferson-Jackson Dinner on C-SPAN. If you missed it, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi played emcee, and halfway through the speeches from the Democratic candidates for president, Iowa US Rep Leonard Boswell displayed his startling skills as an auctioneer and auctioned off "Nancy Pelosi's scarf". The high bid was $6,000. For the Speaker's scarf.
Then, a few minutes later, Pelosi admits on stage that it was "a scarf I've never seen before". NOT COOL, Nancy.
We were fully awake for LONG speeches by Pelosi, Iowa Lt Gov Patti Judge, Edwards, Dodd, Iowa Governor Chet Culver, Richardson, the surreal scarf auction, and the loquacious US Sen. Tom Harkin, but Harkin pretty much did me in and we were only semi-awake for the speeches by Obama and Clinton.
P.S. How could I forget!?!? Before the fake-Speaker scarf went for six grand, Boswell also successfully auctioned off a stuffed donkey with all the presidential candidates' signatures on it. That went for around two grand. And I'm not sure if Mike Gravel was allowed to sign it.
November 8, 2007
John Kerry, Temporary Texas Blogger
So, I wander onto left-learning Burnt Orange Report to find the top post written by none other than "French-looking, aristocrat-looking"* US Senator John Kerry.
(*Can you remember who said that about Kerry, before the primaries in 2004? Answer's after the jump.)
Lest you think he's been a Burnt Orange blogger all along, he says he's never posted on Burnt Orange before. He's a little pissed about the President being in Houston today to raise money for U.S. Senator John Cornyn. And he's also pissed because he says GOP senators are blocking a veterans appropriations bill that they used to support.
He's plugging a new site called Roadblock Republicans. I think it's safe to say they consider U.S. Senator John Cornyn one of the R-R's they want to "kick to the curb".
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