Posted on 11/13/2008 6:01:55 PM PST by MitchellC
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen.-elect Kay Hagan this afternoon dismissed her lawsuit against the woman she defeated, Sen. Elizabeth Dole, over an advertisement that Hagan said attacked her personal faith.
Dole, a Republican, had launched an ad in the last week of the campaign tying Hagan to a political action group called "Godless Americans" that promotes the separation of church and state. The advertisement ended with a photo of Hagan and another woman’s voice saying, "There is no God."
Hagan, a Democrat, attended a fundraiser in August at the Boston home of a couple who is active in the group. The fundraiser also was hosted by U.S. Sen. John Kerry. Dole's campaign staff later said the advertisement was meant to highlight Hagan's judgement.
Hagan, an elder in her Presbyterian church, responded with her own ad. She accused Dole of attacking her Christian faith, and she filed a lawsuit in Wake County Superior Court.
She dismissed that suit today.
Spokeswoman Colleen Flanagan said Hagan wanted to focus on solving problems and working across party lines.
"This lawsuit would just continue the focus on a very personal and negative attack against Kay, instead of focusing on the people of North Carolina," Flanagan said in a prepared statement. "We need leadership now more than ever, and Kay is prepared to get down to work with (Republican Sen.) Richard Burr and the rest of the North Carolina delegation and help the people of this state."
My last name is Hagan, I hope to God I am not related to her. If she is, I don’t claim her.
Dole did more for the org - free, national publicity - than they could have achieved on their own in a decade.
Can anyone tell me why Dole lost in a landslide?
I suspect its partly due to democratic straight ticket voting. But I live in NC and still don’t have any idea why it happened
I supposed people got tired of her being a Beltway insider. We didn’t hear much about her in NC the whole 6 years she served. You have to remain in people’s minds if you want another 6 years. I also supposed that she was tired and didn’t really set her mind to campaigning.
I voted for her and am sorry that she didn’t win.
Elizabeth Dole conceived and implemented the nationwide 55 MPH speed limit, she is responsible for that stupid 3rd brake light, and most importantly, the concepts of the primary seatbelt laws and DWI fishing expedition checkpoints can be traced directly to her.
Good riddance.
Unfortunately, we will never be able to rid ourselves of these legacies.
The 55 MPH speed limit implemented by the 1974 National Maximum Speed Law. Dole did not become the Secretary of Transportation until 1983.
she is responsible for that stupid 3rd brake light
The third brake light is not stupid. It saves lives. People are stupid for not noticing the other two brake lights.
IIRC, she is also credited with coining the phrase “the glass ceiling” ...
Okay, she perpetuated the 55 MPH speed limit.
Mainly, it just presents one more burned-out lightbulb opportunity for the constabulary to stop you and jack you up.
To be fair, she was still Secretary of Transportation when they changed the law to allow 65 MPH.
ALLOW?
Most of those highways were engineered to allow 80 MPH+.
I would be pleased to know why and how the federal government came to have the authority to be concerned with speed limits anyway.
It can’t justify it Constitutionally... then again it can’t justify most of what it does Constitutionally.
A relative just had their light partly burn out and found out it was basically impossible to fix by yourself because part of the car had to be disassembled to reach it. But, on the plus side:
"At the end of a 10-month experiment, taxis with a third brake light had suffered 60.6% fewer rear-end collisions than had the control-group taxis. Additionally, drivers of taxis with the third brake light that were struck in the rear by other vehicles were injured 61.1% less often than were drivers of taxis without the light, and repairs to all taxis with the light cost 61.8% less than did repairs to taxis without the light." - link
The same with seatbelts.
Tip O'Neil once said, "all politics is local." The Democrats live and die by that maxim. They get the local government hack jobs and organize into public worker and teacher unions. They spend working hours relentlessly pushing legislation. The working stiffs are too busy producing to be bothered with these scoundrels. More and more democracy is looking bad. The mood now is to posture oneself to steal from the public treasury. we could very well go the way of Chile.
Yep, the tactic worked just the way Hagan wanted. She got the sympathy, won the election, and couldn’t have proven any damages in a lawsuit.
1. The rise of liberalism in NC / Obama coat-tails.
2. She pulled an "Edwards" on us. Like "Senator Gone" she was never here, hard to reach, out of touch, too busy, etc...
jw
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