Posted on 10/22/2009 9:01:11 AM PDT by raccoonradio
Scandal-magnet Republican Jack E. Robinson is making a last-minute bid for the U.S. Senate, filing 10,900 signatures with the Duxbury town clerk just before the Tuesday deadline, according to a source close to the campaign.
Robinson, who coughed up $100,000 to collect the signatures, will challenge Wrentham state Sen. Scott Brown in the Dec. 8 GOP primary.
The winner will move on to the special election in January.
“He’s been trying to stay under the radar,” said the campaign source who asked to remain anonymous because Robinson hasn’t officially announced he is running.
The state’s Republican party shunned Robinson after a series of controversies, including failure to pay $70,000 taxes and penalties on his 49-foot yacht, Excalibur.
He also claimed to be related to baseball hall of famer Jackie Robinson, but the player’s widow had never heard of him.
Howie Carr list ping. He ran several times for office. I think one time he was doing a radio interview for WBUR
via cellphone and his car got into a fender bender.
I also think he claimed that he was an extra in the filming of “Jaws”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_E._Robinson
>>Jack E. Robinson III is a Republican politician from Massachusetts. He ran for the United States Senate in 2000 against Ted Kennedy (Democratic) and Carla Howell (Libertarian), losing to Kennedy. He ran for Secretary of the Commonwealth in 2002 losing to William F. Galvin, and for US House of Representatives in Massachusetts’s 9th district in 2006, losing to Stephen Lynch.
>>During his 2000 Senate run, Robinson’s own website published “The Robinson Report”, a report that explains every incident in his life that he thought might be fodder for attacks. The report included an ex-girlfriend’s restraining order against him (which was dropped), a drunken driving charge (also dropped after he passed a breathalyzer test), and an arrest for failing to pay a speeding ticket.
The report led to Robinson being disowned by Massachusetts Republican Governor Paul Cellucci as well as the State Republican Party.
Mass GOP is in dire straights.
Jack E. Robinson, innocent of things that Ted Kennedy was guilty of. I met Jack at a Republican pow wow. Good guy, pretty smart. But he almost burned my eyeborws off. Some people just shouldn’t drink coffee. SAorry Jack, but I signed on to be a Ward captain for Scott Brown.
>>PUT yourself in the shoes of Jack E. Robinson III.
Faster than you can say your own name, your fledgling campaign for Edward M. Kennedy’s United States Senate seat has been clobbered by embarrassing accusations that you are sure came from the senator’s camp: a rush of stories about your driving record, your legal history and, most mortifying of all, your love life.
>>At the news conference to announce your candidacy, you find yourself forced to declare: ‘’I am not a womanizer. I am not a groper.’’ Imagine how tempting it would be to fight back by dragging up the scandals that roiled your opponent’s past. Indeed, in an interview at the elegant home office that is so far his campaign’s only place of operations aside from its Web site, www.robinson2000.com, Mr. Robinson suggested, ‘’Perhaps, the senator should issue ‘The Kennedy Report’ to tell us exactly what happened at Chappaquiddick.’’
Notably absent from this list is knocking up a staffer then driving her off the end of a bridge to drown while he swam away and spent the next several hours in consultation with advisors on how best to spin the incident.
Didn't Massachusetts once have a senator who did all that and was lionized by the media for his outstanding public service?
I guess, from the picture,
that this isn’t Jim and John’s brother?
Put a D next to his party affiliation and have him change a couple of views and he’d win in a landslide. Or better yet have him change his last name to Kennedy. (As it is, a Libertarian who was born with the name Joe L. Kennedy will be on the ballot...I wonder how many votes HE will get.)
To those on the Howie list: wonder if he will try to pitch his candidacy on Howie’s show. HC is no doubt for his own
state Senator’s bid, Scott Brown...
Oh...God...no!
Wasn't he on Howie's show when he ran against Kennedy? Actually, he didn't sound bad . . . as far as I can remember. Wish he'd run as a Dem, though.
I was thinking of taking a Dem ballot (I'm "unenrolled") and writing in, but I haven't decided whether to write in Lynch (because he's pretty pro-life and to slap the unions), Scott Brown (just for fun) or Howie Carr (since, in all justice, it's really his seat -- Mitt promised! LOL!).
I’m willing to bet that he won’t have enough qualified signatures once they are confirmed....
I'm purt shore that that was WHDH, and he was talking to Howie at the time. I heard it live. I never listen to 'BUR 'cept for Car Talk. Howie was on 'HDH before all the call sign scrambling, when the radio station and TV station got sold to different entities. The radio station changed call signs to avoid confusion. ('HDH was 850, which is now WEEI, which used to be 590 and had an all news format, then WEEI 590 went all business and who knows what they're doing now. WEEI 850, of course, is sports talk and they took over the Red Sox from sister station WRKO.)
You may be right; I may not have been tuned in (or it may have happened when I was at work and 850 doesn’t come in too well). I thought I read about it being on WBUR via a paper but could be mistaken. Indeed, I remember Howie on WHDH and Howie has an audio clip of his interview with the Chappaquiddick diver (which I put up on YouTube) and it starts with Jim Cutler saying it was on “NewsTalk850 WHDH”
IIRC. (Cutler’s voice is well known even if his name isn’t;
“ESPN...sportsflash!...And now The Big Show With the Big O”.
Cutler is heard on WEEI and many other stations across the country as well as ESPN Radio.)
Of course Howie started on WRKO w/ Jerry Williams around 1988 or so and for a time there was some kind of deal where
Howie did a three hour show and the last hour was together with a lib from England, Victoria Jones. Howie got fired and came back on WHDH 850, against Howie. WHDH of course
we rememember for many years of Red Sox baseball, Bob and
Ray, Jess Cain, etc. And I remember the deal where
WEEI 590 moved to 850 (there were promos on 590 about the new freq.). When WHDH signed off for the last time under those calls, a disgruntled engineer played a toilet flush sound effect. WHDH had Rush 12-3 and then Howie, and they
were brought over to WRKO.
http://bostonradio.org/stations/1902 WRKO
>>As Atlantic Ventures merged its way into American Radio Systems, WRKO and sister station WBMX moved again in early 1994, into custom-built facilities on the top floor of 116 Huntington Ave., behind the Prudential Tower. In 1994, WRKO added several programs from its now-defunct sister station WHDH 850, including Howie Carr and Rush Limbaugh.
http://bostonradio.org/stations/1912 WEEI (was WHDH)
>>Air talent included Pat Whitley and Marjorie Clapprood in the morning and Eddie Andelman in the afternoon, until his departure for WEEI (590) in 1991, when WHDH began airing the Rush Limbaugh show. Channel 7 meanwhile changed its call letters to WHDH-TV. 1992 saw yet another sale, as WHDH became part of Boston’s first AM duopoly, with American Radio Systems (WRKO and WBMX) buying the station for $3 million. ARS made a few changes, moving Clapprood and Whitley to WRKO, and launching a new all-news block in morning drive on WHDH. It proved to be the last format change for WHDH. In mid-1994, ARS announced its purchase of the programming and call letters of Back Bay Broadcasting’s WEEI 590. The change came in late August; Friday, August 26 was the last weekday for WHDH, and on the last live program, talk host Howie Carr took to the sidewalk outside 7 Bulfinch Place to auction off the contents of the WHDH studios for charity. At midnight, August 28, the last WHDH programming came to an end, and an anonymous board operator sent the station to the history books with a recorded toilet flush. The next morning, WEEI’s sports programming made its debut on 850
Memory is a funny thing. I know for a fact that I’ve never listened to WBUR during weekday drive time. I know I heard the Jackie Robinson crash and I recall it was in real time, since I wasn’t prepared for it, it came as something of a jolt. It could, conceivably have been on Jerry Williams show.
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