Me too. I think I've found a campaign I will volunteer for.
Posted on 07/02/2010 5:55:51 PM PDT by neverdem
The last time Gary Berntsen went after such a formidable adversary in hostile territory, he was commanding a small band of fellow spies and commandos in pursuit of Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan after 9/11. After helping drive the Taliban from power, they tracked him to the mountains of Tora Bora, only to see him slip away.
His current assignment could make that one look easy.
Mr. Berntsen, a Long Island-bred C.I.A. operative who retired in 2005, decided earlier this year to try to serve his country in a new, and not exactly clandestine, way: by running for office.
While he spent his career influencing the politics of countries in the Middle East, South Asia and Latin America, he has next to no experience here at home. He did not even vote in the last presidential election.
But in his maiden campaign, Mr. Berntsen, 52, a Republican, has set out to bag the biggest game in New York: Charles E. Schumer, the state’s senior senator, whose fund-raising...
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The previously unknown Mr. Berntsen’s fervent support from Tea Party groups, for whom Mr. Schumer is a symbol of everything wrong with government, won him the Republican Party’s designation as its preferred candidate this month. He faces a primary against Jay Townsend, a veteran political consultant from Cornwall-on-Hudson.
So far Mr. Berntsen has Republican leaders in New York and Washington cheering him on, but making no commitments of financial support. Indeed, in taking on Mr. Schumer, Mr. Berntsen would head into battle without anything like the firepower and air support that emboldened him as a spy. In Afghanistan, he wrote, he lugged a Rubbermaid trunk containing $8 million in government-issued $100 bills, which he used to buy trucks and warlords’ support. So far Mr. Berntsen’s campaign has reported raising less than $40,000...
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I'd give my eye teeth to see this guy beat Chuck U.
Me too. I'd like to see him win the election as well.
BUMP -— Out with Schmuckie Chuckie
I’m going to do what I can.
Bookmarked
With his background, I hope he takes him out.
That makes him more qualified than the illegal alien in Wash DC.
I’ll donate just to see what skeletons this guy can pull out of chuckie’s closet..
Retiring Schmuckie in NY and defeating Boxer here in CA. What a wonderful night of celebration I’ll have if this occurs.
My wife and I are trying to go there this Sunday and will pay all gas and tolls if someone is interested in driving there and back this Sunday and has room for us.
The event web site is here:http://www.independencehalltpa.com/
The FR thread is here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2535887/posts?page=1
We live near the upper 90’s on the East Side, and can meet somewhere reasonable if picking us up is dramatically out of the way.
If enough non-drivers are interested, I can try and get a rental car to share but they are few and far between this close to the holiday weekend.... otherwise, its the chinatown bus...
FRgards - Yehuda
FReepmail me if you want on or off my New York ping list. Yehuda sent me that request. I figured I might as well give it some circulation.
Here’s an interesting thing to do when you retire from the CIA.
LOLOLO
i heard him interviewed on the radio this week...very, very, very, very impressive...
he was on the mark simone show who replaced joe scarborough on WABC- hannity’s home base...
after the interview simone went on and on about how great the guy was- he also mocked schumer resume and “service to country” compared to Bernsten....
I really hope their have a few televised debates...
mark
Contributions can also be mailed to:
Gary Berntsen for U.S. Senate
P.O. Box 905
Smithtown, NY 11787
Just put my money where my mouth is and contributed to his campaign (couldn’t do much, as I just started working again after a year of being unemployed, but I’ll chip in what I can).
You betcha.
I intend to send this ex-spy a check tomorrow.
it's spelled SCHWULER!!!
(Schwuler = Fag in German)
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