I'm looking forward to that one too. Watch for lil Timmah and Cardin to try to spring some surprise on Steele. Scour the DBM for stories with rumors of bad behavior by Steele of some sort in the late part of this coming week. Timmah will need something to point to as the source for a nasty question. Cardin will have some focus group tested sound bite all ready to go. They may even ask Cardin about some rumored accusation against Steele to let him get in the first shot.
How is Steele in toe to toe fighting?
You can bet lil Timmah won't ask Cardin about his staff making anti-black anti-Semetic comments or this:
There's a Pierre Cardin fake, but a Ben Cardin fake?
Politics Central ^ | Richard Miniter
Posted on 10/18/2006 10:06:48 AM PDT by Republican Red
There's a Pierre Cardin fake, but a Ben Cardin fake?
Original (?) Pierre Cardin watch According to Pajamas Medias’ Washington Editor Richard Miniter, Democratic senatorial candidate from Maryland Benjamin Cardin has been playing fast and loose with the “fine art” of political advertising. A supposedly verité Cardin commercial purporting to show “average Joes and Janes” across his state supporting the Cardin candidacy is actually populated by his own campaign workers playing roles. (Note to campaign workers: sign a Screen Actors Guild contract and you will get residuals.)
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by Richard Miniter
Benjamin Cardin, who is running for the U.S. Senate seat open in Maryland, apparently paid campaign staffers to pose as students, workers and other “real people” in a campaign advertisement.
In contrast with other commercials, it is considered unethical to fail to identify paid spokesmen or to have them pose as random members of the public in political advertisements.
Cardin’s campaign did not disclose the links between these “real people” and his campaign.
In Cardin’s ad, a number of Marylanders endorse Cardin. Ashley Peddicord, apparently a college student, says “Thanks to Ben, I can afford college.” In reality, Peddicord works for the campaign. Her campaign email is: Ashley@bencardin.com.
Kelton Anderson, posing as an ordinary working man, is in fact a high-ranking official with United Auto Workers union, which has endorsed Cardin. The UAW gave $9,258,308 during 2006 election season, virtually all of it to Democrats, according to the non-partisan Center for Responsive Politics. Cardin
And there’s Carl Tuvin, who tells the camera “And he’s fighting for better health care.” What he does not say is that he is a paid Democratic party organizer, who has long worked with Cardin.
“These revelations demonstrate that Ben Cardin has not been honest with the voters of Maryland. If he can’t be honest about having real people as supporters, what else is he lying about?” said Doug Heye, spokesman for Michael Steele, the Republican candidate for Maryland’s U.S. Senate seat. “After 20 years in Congress, you would think he would have some actual real people who support him.”
Oren Shur, Cardin’s spokesman, repeatedly failed to respond to inquiries.
Cardin’s ad has aired 174 times in the Washington and Baltimore television markets and cost the Cardin campaign $162,000 so far, according to the Campaign Media Analysis Group. Campaign Media Analysis Group is the leading provider of television advertising tracking data to trade associations, Fortune 100 firms, broadcast networks, and hundreds of national, state and local political campaigns. This is not the first time the Cardin campaign has been faulted. One campaign workers, Ursula Gruber, was fired for making anti-black and anti-Semitic comments on her private blog. In addition, two staffers at the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee were caught stealing Steele’s credit report. They were promptly fired and later faced criminal charges.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1721657/posts
Well...Bob Beckel said on Hannity and Colmes a week or so ago...that Steny Hoyer has done a LOT more for black people than Michael Steele will ever do...
And, he got away with it....never heard a complaint about what he said from anyone...even Hannity.
Be sure to add this link to your preview thread next week. It is a very long read, and hidden in the very middle of it is the info that Steele was president of the student body at his High School in DC, and at JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY!
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/politics/bal-te.md.steele22oct22,0,5883630.story?page=2&coll=bal-home-headlines
Michael S. Steele
A personality for politics
Steele's reviews are mixed, but his charisma puts him at center stage
By Jennifer Skalka and Matthew Hay Brown
Sun reporters
Originally published October 22, 2006
NB: The SUN has a "but" in the subhead of every article about a Republican.
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"He was a great kid," says the Rev. Edson Wood, then the dean of students at what was an all-male school [John Carroll]. "He had the kind of personality that makes everybody feel at ease when they're around him."
Steele graduated in 1977 and entered the Johns Hopkins University on a partial scholarship. His fellow freshmen elected him class president. He continued to act and briefly took up fencing.
The extracurricular activities nearly cost him his place at Hopkins. In an alumni magazine profile last year, he said the school kicked him out after his freshman year for poor grades. According to Steele, he was readmitted after earning A's in four summer classes at George Washington University.
Back at Hopkins, Steele was elected president of the junior class and the student body, and won the title role in The Music Man. He earned a B average, according to the magazine profile, and graduated in 1981 with a degree in international relations.