“Sean, I’m happy for Christine O’Donnell
and I’mma let you finish, but Mike Castle
had one of the best campaigns of all time!”
Posted on 09/16/2010 4:53:36 PM PDT by nhwingut
If we attack President Obama for putting people who can’t pay their taxes into his Administration, how can we defend a Republican candidate who doesn’t pay some of her taxes, her college bills, or her mortgage; has had no visible means of support; and sued a reputable conservative organization claiming she was the victim of sex discrimination? She didn’t win the lawsuit: her employer said she was fired for trying to run her own pr consulting firm out of their offices while on their clock. We conservatives want conservative candidates, but we do our cause little good by nominating conservatives with serious questions about their fitness and character.
Here are some of the articles that helped shape my thinking, in addition to my impression after meeting her briefly last year:
O’Donnell faces campaign debt, back-tax issues The News Journal (Wilmington, DE) By Ginger Gibson March 20, 2010
When U.S. Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell first launched a bid for Congress challenging longtime incumbent Joe Biden, she capitalized on grass-roots support by preaching fiscal and social conservatism.
She gained the endorsement of the state Republican party and appeared on cable networks like Fox News and CNN and as a guest on “Politically Incorrect” with Bill Maher. More recently, she has marketed herself as a member of the tea party, a populist movement expected to influence the 2010 mid-term elections.
But while she was courting voters, she amassed thousands of dollars in campaign debt, was confronted by the IRS about unpaid income taxes and sold her Wilmington home to a campaign staffer to avoid a sheriff’s sale ordered to settle mortgage claims, a News Journal investigation shows.
O’Donnell, who entered national politics as an anti-pornography crusader, attributed her financial predicament to misunderstandings and errors.
“I think the fact that I have struggled financially is what makes me so sympathetic,” O’Donnell said.
She called the IRS lien “puzzling” and chalked up the mortgage mess to a technical error by the bank.
She’s working to settle the debts from her previous campaign, O’Donnell said, and has already raised $11,000 for her 2010 Senate campaign, now headed to a primary against Republican Rep. Mike Castle. She appeared to blame questions about back taxes and debts on her opponent.
“This type of malicious behavior from supporters of a desperate career politician is to be expected because he cannot defend his big spending, liberal voting record,” O’Donnell said Friday when asked about past legal troubles. “Just because the lords of the backroom have an obnoxious sense of entitlement to promote one of their own, doesn’t mean their gutter politics are in the best interests of the voters.”
State Republican Chairman Tom Ross said the party is aware of the “considerable amount of debt” O’Donnell has amassed in the last two elections.
“As a party, we take individual responsibility and fiscal responsibility very, very seriously,” Ross said. “Our hope is that Ms. O’Donnell will do the same.”
Debts long-ranging
O’Donnell owes the federal government $11,744.59 in taxes and penalties from the 2005 tax year, according to a lien filed by the IRS on March 2, 2010, with the New Castle County Recorder of Deeds.
According to the IRS Web site, liens are placed after a taxpayer has been notified of a debt and the person fails or refuses to pay within 10 days. Liens attach to all current and future property owned by the taxpayer, including vehicles.
O’Donnell said she is currently being audited by the IRS and contacted the agent responsible for her case when she received the lien.
“That’s a mistake,” she said. “The IRS agent handling my audit was even perplexed by that questionable lien notice because he’s in the process of resolving my audit.”
Her federal campaign committee reported $23,776 in debt, more than the $10,585 cash in her campaign account, according to her most recent filings with the Federal Elections Commission. The FEC has cited her eight times for failure to report her contributions between 2007 and 2009.
She owes outstanding payments to staffers, consultants and volunteers, according to a campaign finance filing from January.
“Many of the past campaign debts were from invoices that were not approved,” she said. “We’re in the process of processing the legitimate ones.”
O’Donnell said she is raising money to pay off the 2008 campaign debt and informing donors some of the money she gets now will be used to settle past campaign claims.
“It’s not unusual for candidates to have campaign debt,” she said.
O’Donnell also said she is doing “odd jobs” to pay her living expenses.
In campaign finance reports, O’Donnell lists her occupation as “self-employed.” Her previous campaign sites have described her work as freelance public relations.
Her legal woes date back to 1994, when her alma mater, Fairleigh Dickinson University, in Rutherford, N.J., sued her for $4,823 in unpaid expenses, according to New Jersey and California court documents. The university won a judgment in New Jersey for the entire amount. In 2000, the judgment was transferred to California, where O’Donnell lived at the time, as unpaid, according to court documents.
O’Donnell said the dispute was over student loans.
California reported the debt as satisfied in 2003, but she was never conferred a degree by Fairleigh Dickinson because of non-payment.
“They were withholding the diploma until I paid the bill,” O’Donnell said. “I finished the coursework.”
New residence
On Jan. 12, 2010, O’Donnell changed her Delaware address in the voter registration, according to Elections Commissioner Elaine Manlove.
She shares her new residence, a three-bedroom, two-bath town home in Greenville Place, with David Hust, a campaign staffer who is originally from Houston, Texas. Hust promotes himself on his Web site as a Christian rock music singer.
Greenville Place lists the prices of a town house rental between $1,645 and $2,020 a month, depending on the number of bedrooms and square feet.
O’Donnell said she pays half of her rent with campaign donations because she also uses the town home as her Senate campaign headquarters.
“I’m splitting it, legally splitting it and paying part of it,” she said. “This is our technical headquarters.”
O’Donnell said she has separate, private quarters and that staffers, like Hust, live in the other portion of the home.
“I am renting from the campaign,” she said. “I’m an unconventional candidate because I believe that we have to make sacrifices.”
While the Federal Election Commission frowns on mixing campaign funds with living expenses, Judith Ingram, an FEC spokeswoman, said the commission will consider approving unusual rental arrangements.
House foreclosed
O’Donnell moved to Delaware from Washington, D.C., in 2003 to work for the conservative publisher Intercollegiate Studies Institute. In D.C., she was the founder of the Savior’s Alliance for Lifting the Truth, which lobbied Congress on moral issues.
She began working for ISI in Hockessin on March 12, 2003, and was to be paid an annual salary of $65,000, according to court filings.
She purchased a home on Lincoln Street in Wilmington in August of 2003, taking out a mortgage with CitiBank for $98,500, according to New Castle County property records.
O’Donnell was fired by ISI on Feb. 26, 2004, after she complained to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that she was the victim of gender discrimination, according to court filings. O’Donnell sued ISI in U.S. District Court in 2005, alleging she was fired in retaliation for complaining to the EEOC. In her suit, O’Donnell sought back pay, future pay and punitive damages.
ISI countered that O’Donnell was running a for-profit public-relations business while on the clock.
In January 2008, O’Donnell dropped the lawsuit against ISI, saying at the time she could no longer afford an attorney.
O’Donnell was also having trouble paying her mortgage, according to the lawsuit filed by the mortgage holder on March 5, 2008. The mortgage company secured a default judgment against O’Donnell for $90,421.31 on May 13, 2008.
A sheriff’s sale date was set for Aug. 1, 2008, in the heat of O’Donnell’s campaign against Biden, who was about to join Obama’s presidential ticket.
But a month before the sheriff’s auction, O’Donnell sold the house at 518 N. Lincoln Street for $135,000 to Brent Vasher, who was working as legal counsel for her Senate campaign.
O’Donnell said she sold it to Vasher, who was her boyfriend at the time, with the intention of buying it back.
“I had every intention of buying it back, eventually, even as of this fall I wanted to buy it back,” she said. “I chose to run for office instead.”
Vasher, an attorney at SEI Financial in Oaks, Pa., declined to comment for this article.
O’Donnell said she was not aware of the mortgage company lawsuit and that she never received a notice of foreclosure.
She said she used the money raised by selling the house to pay off a home equity loan.
“I sold the house to Brent,” she said. “I got out of debt so I could financially run for office and that’s why I chose not to buy it again this fall.”
Continues to rent
O’Donnell continued to live in the Lincoln town house until the summer of 2009, paying rent to Vasher, she said.
Next-door neighbor Kathleen Benedetto, 51, said O’Donnell arrived at the house one day last summer and couldn’t get in. Benedetto said the locks had been changed. Neither O’Donnell nor Vasher would confirm why O’Donnell moved out.
“I told her she was a day late and a dollar short,” Benedetto said.
Benedetto said it was miserable living next door to O’Donnell for five years. She said Vasher gutted the home, removing piles of trash after taking possession.
Wilmington city records detail several complaints about the upkeep of the house while O’Donnell lived there.
In September 2008, she was ticketed for high grass and weeds, according to city records. The ticket was appealed and later paid. The ticket was a result of a complaint that the high grass was providing a breeding ground for opossums, according to Wilmington spokesman John Rago.
O’Donnell said the ticket was issued in the middle of the campaign season while she was busy running for office.
Benedetto said the opossums were getting into her own backyard and that the high grass also coincided with a mice infestation in several row homes. She said her house cat killed about a dozen mice that summer.
O’Donnell blamed neighbors for feeding the opossums, but refused to say which neighbors.
During the summer of 2009, O’Donnell moved out of the Lincoln residence and in with a friend, O’Donnell said. Three months later, she moved to Greenville Place. She said she consulted an attorney about using campaign money to help pay the rent.
“If there is anything questionable, it is not our intent to break a law,” O’Donnell said. “I do try to do what’s right.”
Citing “Mental Anguish,” Christine O’Donnell Sought $6.9 Million in Gender Discrimination Lawsuit Against Conservative Group …and falsely implied she was taking Master’s degree classes at Princeton. Weekly Standard BY John McCormack 11:50 AM, Sep 12, 2010 http://weeklystandard.com/tws/daily/daily.asp#blog-494794
Court documents obtained Saturday by THE WEEKLY STANDARD reveal surprising new details about the gender discrimination and wrongful termination lawsuit filed by Christine O’Donnell in 2005 against her former employer, the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, a conservative non-profit based in Delaware.* O’Donnell, who is now challenging moderate congressman Mike Castle in the September 14 Delaware GOP Senate primary, sought $6.95 million in damages. In a court complaint, she extensively detailed the “mental anguish” she suffered after allegedly being demoted and fired because of her gender. And, although she didn’t have a bachelor’s degree until this year, O’Donnell implied she was taking Master’s degree classes at Princeton University in 2003.
O’Donnell alleged in a July 1, 2005 complaint filed in district court that she had been demoted because ISI’s conservative philosophy dictated that women must be subordinate to men. She claimed she was fired when she contacted the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission regarding her demotion. ISI told the Delaware News Journal that she had been “terminated for operating a for-profit business.”
O’Donnell’s finances, honesty, and stability have been called into question in light of her false and strange claims. The court complaint raises further questions on all fronts. O’Donnell, who made an annual salary of $65,000 at ISI, sought up to $6,952,477 million in damages, claiming, among other allegations, that ISI had defamed her and had violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. O’Donnell sought:
–Up to $3,952,447 in “Direct Damages, including back pay” and “lifetime lost income and liftetime damage to reputation.”
–Up to $500,000 “for emotional distress, humiliation, emotional pain, embarrassment, depression.”
–Up to $3.5 million in punitive damages for “willful, legally-malicious and outrageous conduct” by ISI.
O’Donnell claimed that ISI had caused her to suffer “mental anguish, loss of enjoyment of life, mental and physical pain and anguish”–and that, according to an amended complaint, she had to “seek treatment for her distress.”
According to O’Donnell’s July 1, 2005 complaint submitted by herself:
Miss O’Donnell was and is profoundly humiliated by this demotion of being asked to perform clerical and administrative tasks, after appearing on national television as a media and public relations expert and spokeswoman, for a man who was hired straight out of college as ISI’s receptionist and clerical assistant, and whom she had been asked to train previously [emphasis in original]. [...]
For at least six months after being fired, Miss O’Donnell suffered enormous pain, cried frequently at the sense of personal loss and failure caused by ISI, and at the sense of injustice, and could not sleep at night, often wide-awake, replaying the whole scene in her mind, until 5:30 am, and has suffered from understandable and resulting depression.
“Miss O’Donnell’s mother and sister both noticed and spontaneously told her at the time, prior to litigation, that she was differently [sic], and urged her to seek medical evaluation,” according to the complaint.
According to an amended complaint filed by a lawyer on behalf of O’Donnell in September 2005 claimed that O’Donnell did, in fact, “seek treatment for her distress.”
“Ms. O’Donnell has suffered extreme emotional harm as a result of the actions taken or not taken by ISI, and statements made by and on behalf of ISI, in the form of grief, shame, humiliation, embarrassment, anger, chagrin, disappointment and worry. This harm has caused physical manifestations, and caused Ms. O’Donnell to seek treatment for her distress.”
The amended complaint also claimed that in one instance a male colleague made a lewd comment to her. “On one occasion during her employment, a co-corker, Mr. Cain, in connection with Ms. O’Donnell’s efforts and work on the Gala, ordered or stated to Ms. O’Donnell to ‘strap it on,’ which was a crude and demeaning reference to an artificial male sexual organ used by some females in order to act like a male in sexual acts,” the complaint alleged. “To Ms. O’Donnell’s knowledge and belief, Mr. Cain was never disciplined or reprimanded for making this offensive statement.”
Curiously, the July 2005 complaint alleges that “ISI violated its promise to allow Miss O’Donnell time to take Master’s degree classes at Princeton,” thus causing a loss of “earning power.”
“Moreover, Miss O’Donnell has lost the increased earning power that a Master’s degree from Princeton would have created. In the future with proper finances, Miss O’Donnell should probably be able to return and complete that program, however that increased earning power has been disrupted and delayed for at least three years, given college application cycles, and the damage to her reputation, creating a loss of increased earning power estimated at up to $50,000 per year, for three lost years at $150,000.”
According to the amended complaint, O’Donnell had considered not taking the ISI job because “she had applied for admission to a Master’s Degree program at Princeton University, to start in the fall of 2003, and was concerned that the ISI position would not fit with her plans.”
But, in fact, O’Donnell had not yet received her bachelor’s degree at that time and had not been accepted to a Master’s program at Princeton.
The Delaware News Journal reported on Saturday: “[O'Donnell's] alma mater, Fairleigh Dickinson University, sued her in 1994 for about $4,000 in unpaid tuition. She satisfied the debt in 2003 and received her diploma this month after completing an additional course.” O’Donnell’s campaign manager Matt Moran acknowledged in an email received at midnight Saturday that O’Donnell “was not admitted to a Masters Degree program at Princeton. She took an undergraduate non-matriculated class at PU on constitutional government.” Moran has not yet replied to a subsequent email asking why O’Donnell claimed “ISI violated its promise to allow Miss ODonnell time to take Master’s degree classes at Princeton in return for a salary as small as $65,000 for her credentials and expertise, and as a result of ISI’s breach of its agreement, Miss O’Donnell was forced to quit her courses at Princeton, losing her time and money invested in this course of study at Princeton. [emphasis added].”
O’Donnell decided to drop the lawsuit in 2008, claiming that she couldn’t afford the legal fees. “I definitely felt that there was gender discrimination,” O’Donnell told me in a September 2 phone interview, but she declined to elaborate. “I believe that right now that if we unite in the conservative movement, the bigger picture is at stake, and we need to put that behind us.”
Still, the implication that O’Donnell was accepted to a Master’s degree program at Princeton is the latest of many false statements to come to light in recent weeks. Conservative radio host Dan Gaffney challenged O’Donnell on September 2 for claiming she had won two out of three counties in Delaware when she ran for Senate in 2008. In fact, she didn’t win any.
According to her financial disclosure form, O’Donnell only made $5,800 last year. “I made more than $5,800,” O’Donnell told me in the September 2 interview, but said she did not have to and would not disclose how much.
As the Delaware News Journal notes, O’Donnell “has denied that she was ever sued by her mortgage company or that a foreclosure sale date had been set.” But:
“During her 2008 run, her mortgage company sued her, claiming she stopped making payments in October 2007, according to court documents. It received a judgment and the home was set to go to sheriff’s sale, according to court documents. She sold it days before to her then-boyfriend, who was acting as her campaign legal counsel, she said.”
“She has a shady history and we’re not talking ancient history,” conservative radio host Dan Gaffney tells THE WEEKLY STANDARD. “We’re talking current history, and she lies about it.”
“You know, everyone is allowed to have financial difficulties,” Gaffney continued. “Everyone is allowed to take time to go to college. But misrepresenting yourself, lying about it, that’s what I have a problem with. I don’t understand why she has to lie about stuff she doesn’t have to lie about.”
Even more disturbing, says Gaffney, is O’Donnell claim in her recent WEEKLY STANDARD interview that her home and campaign office were broken into and vandalized and burglarized in 2008. O’Donnell did not report the alleged burglary and vandalism to the police, but suggested that Castle supporters may have been the ones who committed the alleged crime.
“If that’s true and she didn’t call the police, she’s not only endangering herself but her neighbors,” says Gaffney. “She also likes to say there are people hiding in her bushes.”
“It doesn’t sound stable when you add it all up.”
*Disclosure: I had a 2006 summer internship at National Review and a 2007-2008 writing fellowship at The Weekly Standard that were funded by the Collegiate Network, a program administered by ISI. To the best of my recollection, I’ve only spoken to one person named in O’Donnell’s lawsuit, Kenneth Cribb, only once in my life, back in 2005. I have not spoken to any current or former ISI/CN employees in months and did not obtain any information in this report from current or former ISI/CN employees.
O’Donnell remarks erode her support The News Journal (Wilmington, DE) By Ginger Gibson September 3, 2010 http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20100903/NEWS02/9030345/1007/-Followers–may-cost-O-Donnell-followers
U.S. Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell alleged in a published interview Thursday that her political opponents follow her home at night and hide in the bushes, suggesting Republican leadership is behind a plot against her since 2008 when she was their endorsed candidate.
Only a few days ago, O’Donnell saw an upswing in national attention as she was pegged as the next great tea party candidate in the wake of Joe Miller’s Senate primary victory in Alaska. The California-based Tea Party Express pledged to spend up to $250,000 on her campaign ads.
Following publication of the interview, however, several national conservative bloggers who had trumpeted Miller in Alaska endorsed U.S. Rep. Mike Castle in Delaware, O’Donnell’s opponent in the Sept. 14 Republican primary.
Castle also has the party’s endorsement.
The Weekly Standard, a conservative magazine based in Washington, reported Thursday that O’Donnell said unnamed opponents are following her.
“They’re following me,” the magazine reported O’Donnell said. “They follow me home at night. I make sure that I come back to the townhouse and then we have our team come out and check all the bushes and check all the cars to make sure that — they follow me.”
O’Donnell said she has never reported the alleged incidents to police.
State GOP Chairman Tom Ross called the claims “disgusting,” adding that in 2008 the party did everything possible to help her.
Mike Castle’s campaign issued a one-word response: “delusional.”
Neither O’Donnell nor her campaign responded to multiple phone calls and e-mails seeking a comment. They have declined interviews with The News Journal for more than a month.
During the interview with The Weekly Standard, O’Donnell raised questions about where she lives, saying she leaves her townhome at Greenville Place Apartments every night. The townhome is rented using campaign funds and is listed as her address on voter registration. O’Donnell refused to say where she sleeps for “security reasons.”
O’Donnell suggested Ross and Castle were behind the stalkings, saying her campaign office was vandalized in 2008, when she was running against Democrat Joe Biden.
“I’m not sure who did it, but I know for a fact that Mike Castle and Tom Ross were campaigning against me,” O’Donnell told The Weekly Standard. “They’ve been sabotaging my candidacy since 2008. So who knows who did it back then.”
She suggested they could also be behind the most recent incidents.
“What makes me think they won’t do the same distasteful things they did in 2008, when the stakes are even higher, when we’re even more viable,” she said in the interview.
Ross said the Republican party paid for O’Donnell’s filing fee in 2008 and let her use their office space. “To be frank, she is a delusional liar,” he said. “We tried to help Christine, but quite frankly she’s beyond help. She is so delusional and so far out there, eventually you just, you really do just have to stand up and say, ‘enough is enough.’ ”
The interview with The Weekly Standard on Thursday followed a contentious on-air clash between O’Donnell and conservative Sussex County radio host Dan Gaffney on WGMD.
Gaffney, who supported her candidacy in 2006 and 2008, challenged O’Donnell on the truth of several statements she made campaigning this year, her third bid for the U.S. Senate.
He asked her about a statement she made this summer at a Pennsylvania event in which she claimed she “won in two counties” in the ’08 challenge to Biden.
“I don’t think I ever said I won two out of three counties,” O’Donnell said.
Then Gaffney played the video clip in which she is heard to say, “I won in two out of three counties.”
“I meant tied,” she said.
“You didn’t tie him either,” Gaffney responded. Gaffney pressed her on the issue, insisting that since she got less votes, she had not tied.
“We absolutely did,” O’Donnell said.
According to the Department of Elections, O’Donnell lost to Biden by 272 votes in Sussex County, 9,093 in Kent County and 116,944 in New Castle County.
O’Donnell tried to distance herself from a video posted Wednesday by her recently departed campaign spokesman Yates Walker on the Liberty.com site that suggested Castle was having an affair with a man.
“That’s tacky,” O’Donnell said. “I never called him gay.”
Gaffney also questioned O’Donnell about the fact that she has more than $11,000 in unpaid campaign debts from 2008 and that she sold her Wilmington home to her boyfriend to avoid a sheriff’s sale. He also suggested that her campaign workers appeared to bully critics at recent political events.
In response, O’Donnell charged Gaffney with being paid off by the Castle campaign, which he called “ridiculous.”
When O’Donnell tried to turn questions about her finances into an attack on Castle, Gaffney muted her microphone.
Despite the shift by prominent conservative bloggers to endorse Castle, Tea Party Express is standing by its candidates.
“The two candidates are taking everything extremely personally, and it’s going to be a mean fight right down to the end,” the group’s spokesman Levi Russell said. “I don’t think it’s going to be all clean and smiles.”
17 years later, O’Donnell earns degree By: David Catanese September 3, 2010 12:21 PM EDT http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=D86704A0-18FE-70B2-A8C2EA13A35BA191
Seventeen years after she attended the school and two weeks before her Republican primary against Rep. Mike Castle, Delaware Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell officially earned her college degree, according to an official from Fairleigh Dickinson University.
Scott Giglio, assistant director of public relations at the Madison, N.J., university, told POLITICO the Tea Party Express-backed Senate hopeful was officially awarded her bachelor of arts degree in English literature on Wednesday.
Citing privacy reasons, Giglio could not explain the reasoning behind the timing, but O’Donnell’s campaign manager said Friday the candidate met a final course requirement this summer.
“She’s gone through the process to receive her degree, that’s not the story. She fulfilled the last course requirement this summer. It was just a general elective course,” said O’Donnell campaign manager Matt Moran.
But that contradicts previous explanations O’Donnell has given about her education history.
Her 2006 Senate campaign website described her as a “graduate of Fairleigh Dickinson University.” In March of this year, she told the Delaware News Journal that FDU was withholding her diploma because she had not yet paid off her student loans. “I finished the coursework,” O’Donnell told the newspaper.
After attending the cap and gown ceremony in 1993, Moran said it took 12 years for O’Donnell to pay off the outstanding debt. He said she met with FDU President Michael Adams after her 2008 Senate campaign to make sure “she went through all the proper measures to achieve [the degree].”
But when pressed about why the university didn’t award the degree until this week, Moran said, “They don’t issue these in a heartbeat. They award them three times a year.”
Several articles that chronicle O’Donnell’s 2006 and 2008 campaigns say she was awarded a degree from FDU, however, her current campaign website only notes she attended the university.
Tom Ross, chairman of the Delaware Republican Party — which is strongly backing Castle’s bid – said the latest revelation is just more evidence of the O’Donnell campaign’s inability to tell the truth.
“Christine O’Donnell keeps demanding a debate. The debate I would like to see is Christine O’Donnell versus the facts. She’s said so many different things . . . I’m not sure Christine even knows what the truth is anymore,” Ross told POLITICO.
Without provocation, Moran said Ross was anything but a fair arbiter. “Tom Ross is clearly a whack job,” he said.
As O’Donnell’s campaign has attracted notoriety, it’s also found itself increasingly on the defensive over previous statements about everything from campaign debt to her electoral success in prior races. On Thursday, O’Donnell told The Weekly Standard that her political enemies were following her home at night and hiding “in the bushes.” Conservative blogger Erick Erickson, who has said he would prefer a Democrat be elected to the Senate over Castle, announced on RedState.com that he was “pulling the plug” on her candidacy because of her association with Liberty.com.
The conservative group, which employs a former staffer of O’Donnell’s, posted a video this week implying that Castle was having a gay affair.
Though running as a fiscal conservative, O’Donnell has fended off questions about her own personal financial responsibility and campaign debt she has yet to pay off from her 2008 run against now-Vice President Joe Biden. Her latest campaign finance report filed with the Federal Election Commission shows $9,950 in campaign debt with $20,374 on hand to spend.
“Turd Blossom” is asking to be flushed here!
The conservative group, which employs a former staffer of O’Donnell’s, posted a video this week implying that Castle was having a gay affair.
Huh. How is she responsible for this? He has gone to far.....What a dick.
He repeats every slur and slam thrown at Christine by the castle-istas.
Karl Rove is a Democrat’s best friend..He is an a-hole..I think that pretty much sums it up
To Karl:
I hope you read this. You are a useless puke. A snake. Creepy. Now get lost and leave this movement to people with integrity.
Rove is done as a respected (conservative) Republican... let it be and let it be known....Toast!
Yep, I received mine this morning. I’ve already responded. The guy’s nothing if not determined to get that hole to China dug. I wish him well, and I also can’t wait for him to go away.
Looking more and more as though Karl wants the RAT to win.
You seriously trying to say this was an email from Karl Rove??????
This is the email I received this morning, the one to which I responded this afternoon.
Well damn, now that would be right up Rove's back alley.
Weird he didn’t sign his ‘email’ to you...
I smell a rat and it’s name isn’t Karl.
Of all the BS, so basically O’Donnell ran for office, and lost money doing so, for Rove’s worldview that is an indictment?
Cynically one can say that Rove’s beef with O’Donnell is not the Candidacy, it is the lack of effort to line her own pockets so she could run with GOP monies.
Rove should put down the shovel as the hole is only growing deeper.
So what. Her vote is all that matters; once she gets in the Senate. Her ‘baggage’ is not of a ‘marxist’ nature. It is inexcusable that Karl Rove & company could do this to a republican but sat on their fat asses while Obama was campaigning; never mentioning anything about him or digging into his background. You’re right....scum is the word.
-—”he conservative group, which employs a former staffer of O’Donnell’s, posted a video this week implying that Castle was having a gay affair.
Huh. How is she responsible for this? He has gone to far.....What a dick.”-—
Ummm....yeah. How ‘bout we apply that standard to your guy, Mitt Romney, Karl?
Absolutely. I received mine this morning after sending him a blistering email yesterday. The email address I mailed to was Karl@Rove.com. My reply was from that same address with my initial comments included. It was from him alright.
First of all, she earned her degree when she completed her coursework. The fact that the degree was held until her college loans were paid is another matter. How long did it take Obama to pay off his loan, ask most doctors how long it takes them to pay off their college loans.
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