Posted on 09/15/2004 4:01:18 PM PDT by mountaineer
McGraw's Labor Day tirade focus of new WVGOP ad on 40+ stations
CHARLESTON – Warren McGraw's bizarre Labor Day tirade at Racine is the focus of a new radio ad paid for by the West Virginia Republican Party.
The ad will begin today in Charleston and go statewide Tuesday on more than 40 stations across West Virginia, including Hoppy Kercheval's Metro News Talkline network and The Sports Flash network, as well as some single station buys.
The ad focuses on McGraw's bizarre delivery and comments on Labor Day, including his Howard Dean-like scream to open his remarks, and expressing his belief that he is being followed by people "looking for ugly."
Following is a text of the script.
Announcer: Three guesses who this is.
MCGRAW: AAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa (scream)
Announcer: Nope, not Howard Dean.
MCGRAW: AAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Announcer: Huh uh. Not Tarzan.
MCGRAW: AAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Announcer: You got it. That's Supreme Court Justice Warren McGraw on Labor Day at Racine.
MCGRAW: AAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Announcer: Let's listen to some more from Warren McGraw that day.
McGRAW: They followed us through Marmet today, they followed us to Hinton, they follow us everywhere we go...
Announcer: Can you say "paranoid?"
McGRAW: They follow us looking for ugly.
Announcer: Looking for who?
McGRAW: Looking for ugly.
Announcer: Anybody seen ugly?
MCGRAW: Ugliness.
Announcer: Oh, anybody seen ugliness?
McGRAW: I want you to join with me...
Announcer: I think I'll pass.
McGRAW: Who do they think elected me?
Announcer: Uhhhhh....
McGRAW: Who do they think elected me?
Announcer: Still thinking....
McGRAW: Ugliness.
Announcer: Warren McGraw...
McGRAW: Ugliness.
Announcer: ...is on the Supreme Court of West Virginia.
McGRAW: Ugliness.
Announcer: On November 2, let's correct that problem.
Paid for by the West Virginia Republican Party.
More info: Justice Warren McGraw
Democrat.
Term expires 2004
Largest source of Supreme Court campaign contributions: personal injury lawyers. W.Va. Justice Watch
Some commentary:
I have made mention before of the endemic economic problems in West Virginia. Many of our problems can be solved by getting rid of two men. Allow me to introduce you to Darrell and Warren McGraw. These two are so corrupt that Gray Davis looks like a choir boy next to them. Now, I know that their names mean nothing so let me tell you who they are.
Darrell is the attorney general for the state of West Virginia and Warren, his brother, is a justice on the supreme court. Now this should create all kinds of conflict of interest problems, but these two rednecks will tell you with a straight face that their is no conflict of interest and they can be objective. Now Darrell and Warren McGraw have not met a business they haven't liked to sue. That's their game. Darrell sues the business for some imaginary infraction and Warren, who should by all legal ethics(please no oxymoron jokes)excuse himself from the case hears it anyway and suprise suprise votes to agree with his brother.
That is why no businesses will come to West Virginia. rest of article
West Virginia has been a Democratic state for a half-century, but it seems that over the last few years, esp. with going for Bush in 2000, West Virginians are realizing something--these Democrats haven't done a damn thing for them!
It's becoming a Republican state, methinks.
To get rid of the utterly corrupt McGraw, West Virginians must vote for Brent Benjamin for Supreme Court!
West Virginia 50 years of Democrat leadership. How's that working for you?
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Now that is funny. Thanks for posting that for us all to enjoy.
How do you think? If it weren't for the Bush tax cuts and the resultant relatively low unemployment rate, we'd be in even deeper dung.
The Democrats have controlled the state legislature for the past 70 years or so - and we continually rank 49th or 50th in every economic, social and quality of life category. Hmmm, don't suppose there's a connection, do you?
Is it any wonder Govener Wise has to use boondoggles like the Corridor D Project to bring in money???
Still, I continue to have hope for my state-like maybe we'll become part of Virginia again or something...
< West Virginia 50 years of Democrat leadership. How's that working for you? >
It's 60 years and I've lived 53 of 'em. It hasn't been pleasant being a Rebublican in this state until recently. Times are changing but it is very slow. We are generations away from changing the minds of the people in the area of WV where this speech took place.
The speech that McGraw made was to union thugs and their misguided friends and families. This Labor Day event is in coal minin' country and is the home of the yellow-dog Democrats. They are mostly well-meaning people who just can't see that they don't need the union to get them thru life. The ubiob tells tham who to vote for. Rallies in this area are typified by the hell-fire and brimstone speech, much like you've heard from Gore lately. It's a carry over from the traditional Sunday sermon that is preached in the churches of the area.
Oops! ubiob=union and tham =them.
Got carried away.
Kentucky was a Democrat state for 40 years. We now have one branch of the house Republican and tossed another corrupt democrat out of the state house.
There is always home.
Go W Va.
I am starting to believe that being a Democrat is a mental illness. This guy is a raving lunatic. But no more so than Howard Dean or Al Gore. By the way, I'd like to take this opportunity to thank my native state of West Virginia for keeping Al Gore out of the White House.
West Virginia PING.
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I heard Monty Warner on talk radio today. His campaign has no money, but he described the Labor Day 'rally' in Southern WV, and his encounter with McGraw. Although Warner was an invited speaker, he was not allowed to do so. He was given a time slot to speak, but they kept delaying it until after Kerry appeared. He then knew he would never have an opportunity to speak.
He said he was confronted by McGraw and was accused of telling lies. He was screamed at, and McGraw became out of control about the Republican lies. Warner tried to shake his hand but it became worse. Warner then tried to introduce McGraw to his wife but he refused to shake the wife's hand. It was an attempt by Warner to diffuse McGraw but he was completely irrational by then. Warner is now saying he was 'dissed' as was his wife.
Not something you will be reading in the mainstream press. However, PM talk radio in Charleston (AM dial 580) has promised to try to follow up the story tomorrow afternoon. Should be interesting....
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
UGLY!
We need to help this guy get into the Dems 2008 Presidential Primary!
Wouldn't it be wonderful to have a "McGrawless" West Virginia? Maybe people will finally see the light.
Another instance of a Democrat candidate embarrassing the entire state:
JOE MANCHIN EMBARASSES WV IN NATIONAL PRESS
Warner Say WV Needs Positive, Not Negative Coverage
CHARLESTON, WV- In a recent interview published in the Fall 2004 issue of Capacity magazine, Joe Manchin was asked what the state would look like after he had served two terms as governor. Manchin said his dream, after eight years in office, would be to say “maybe you’ve read about us in the
Wall Street Journal.”
Yesterday, people around the entire nation were able to read about West Virginia and Joe Manchin in the Wall Street Journal in an editorial entitled “Nader’s Complaint.”
”Congratulations Joe, even before your dream of becoming governor has ever come to pass, you have already surpassed your vision for the state by having everyone around the country read about West Virginia in the Wall Street Journal. By not doing your job as Secretary of State, you have embarassed the state once again and only added to a perceived notion that West Virginia cannot handle elections,” said Monty Warner, Republican gubernatorial nominee.
The WSJ editorial addressed the Ralph Nader petitions and the lawsuit that challenged the petitions in West Virginia. It mentions three other states besides West Virginia where a federal lawsuit was filed charging “some Democrats are misusing their official power.”
The editors of the Wall Street Journal picked out West Virginia as “the fishiest situation” because as they describe it: “what was curious was that those objecting were the very state officials charged with instituting fair elections -- that includes Secretary of State Joe Manchin."
”Status Quo Joe Manchin must be proud. He made it into the Wall Street Journal yesterday and also the New York Times the day before, once again, for not doing his job as the chief elections officer of West Virginia. It’s time to bring honor and trust back to state government and it starts this November 2nd by throwing out the career politicians and instituting a new government of the people,” Warner added.
On September 13, 2004, the New York Times wrote an article about absentee ballots and talked about West Virginia’s record of unclean elections. Investigator Damon Slone was also mentioned in the article: “In West Virginia, Mr. Slone said that three years ago he was forwarding information to the Federal Bureau of Investigation about absentee votes being swapped for $15 and flasks of whiskey when a new Secretary of State replaced him with compliance officers who said he did not have the skill to ferret out fraud.”
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