Posted on 03/20/2011 2:50:18 PM PDT by Moseley
The mystery of Christine O'Donnell's rent and campaign expenses has now been solved -- but not by any quality work by the news media, of course.
One of the scams run by the liberal news media and the Left was the claim that Christine O'Donnell used campaign money to pay her rent. Of course there has been no evidence of this and O'Donnell denies it.
The accusation is that O'Donnell's U.S. Senate campaign paid "half the rent" on the condominium townhouse that Christine lived in in Wilmington, Delaware.
So imagine my surprise, when I visited my friend Christine after the election at the famous townhouse condo. Er, condos -- there are two of them!
The campaign headquarters is in one townhouse in one location, which is Christine's LEGAL residence -- but not her actual, physical residence. To avoid the vicious attacks of the Left, and to stay safe as a single woman, she uses the campaign headquarters as her legal residence -- and Christine personally pays the campaign for the trouble.
But the place where she lives is somewhere else.
We should have expected the Delaware news media and national news media to be completely incompetent in mis-reporting this information.
The reason the O'Donnell campaign paid "half" the rent is because 1 of 2 different townhouses (in different locations) is 100% dedicated to office space and the other townhouse is living space. There were and are TWO (2) completely different townhouses.
But both condos were contracted through the same realtor in one single contract. So "half" the rent means ONE (1) of the TWO (2) completely different townhouses.
Christine O'Donnell's campaign paid for the townhouse used 100% completely and separately for NOTHING but office space.
The townhouse (condo) used for living space was the half NOT paid for by the campaign.
The liberal news media, Left-wing activists, and "sore loser" moderate Republicans tried to suggest that Christine O'Donnell was living in one part of a single apartment and the other part of the same apartment was used for office space.
All true conservatives know that the news media lies. A person who reads or listen to the mainstream media and believes what they say about a conservative leader or candidate does not have any genuine experience in conservative politics.
How many times have I attended a rally or press conference in person, then returned home to flip on the news -- and what is reported bears no resemblance to what I personally witnessed a few hours before?
So the news media attacked Christine O'Donnell. When experienced conservatives heard those stories, they immediately understood the hogwash. Conservatives know that this is the same old song the Left and their fellow travelers in the media have been singing for decades, since portraying Barry Goldwater was a war-mongering lunatic.
Of course, the Delaware Republican Party helped spread these lies. Kristin Murray worked for the Delaware Republican Party under Tom Ross, then spent 1 1/2 weeks as Christine O'Donnell's campaign manager in 2008. Christine fired Kristin Murray for not showing up to do any work. (Apparently Kristin Murray had some personal relationship crises that seemed more important at the time and distracted her from being consistent about work.)
Christine then talked to Tom Ross about the problem. So Tom Ross actually knew that Kristin Murray was not actually Christine O'Donnell's campaign manager for more than 1 1/2 weeks. Tom Ross actually knew that Kristin Murray was not a reliable source of any information about Christine O"Donnell or O'Donnell's 2008 campaign.
Yet in March 2010, Tom Ross and Kristin Murray knowingly lied to the Delaware News Journal, to national Republicans, and to Delaware and national media. Knowing it to be a lie, Delaware Republican Chair Tom Ross actively spread the slanderous lie that Christine O'Donnell was paying her personal (living space) rent with campaign funds. Tom Ross knew that to be false at the time, and knows now that he lied about Christine O'Donnell.
This is why a Delaware activist has created a website:
To quote Marion Barry - “The bitch set me up!”
Doesn’t matter, mission accomplished.
This info should have been made known.
She failed.
Medved was one of the worst, he was blatantly anti-O’donnel, and after her defeat he hammered anyone that tried to defend her. He actually called her the worst candidate ever.
This is a distinction without a difference anyway. If a candidate does not have a full-time job (which O’Donnell hasn’t for years), he is permitted to pay himself a salary from campaign funds commensurate with what he considers he would have made were he not a full-time candidate. So whether O’Donnell paid for one condo directly from campaign funds and for another condo indirectly via a campaign salary drawn from campaign funds is pretty immaterial. O’Donnell is a perennial candidate who ran in 2006, 2008 and 2010 - she lives off of political donations.
I'll bet Medved also has the gall to tell alcoholics that they need to stop drinking.
Very nice, but perhaps five months late? It doesn’t argue well for her competence if she couldn’t get this out before the election.
Well at least a few months as the article is dated Jan. 08, 2011, not Mar. 20, 2011 and entitled: "Mystery of Christine O’Donnell’s Rent — SOLVED"
Mystery of Christine O’Donnell’s Rent — SOLVED
The mystery of Christine O’Donnell’s rent and campaign expenses has now been solved — but not by any quality work by the news media, of course. One of the scams run by the liberal news media and the Left was the claim that Christine O’Donnell used campaign money to pay her rent. Of course there [...]
I am pretty sure that a “good friend” keeps his mouth shut publicly. Besides that, Medved is no conservative, neither is he a friend to them. JMO.
No Medved the worst was your boy Juan McLame.
Sorry, wideasleep, Christine O’Donnell has never taken 1 penny of campaign funds for her own personal use or living. The truth is that prior to about September 30, 2010, her campaigns never had much money to speak of.
Christine O’Donnell has had many jobs during the time period you say. She ran her own business as well. She worked even fairly menial jobs here and there to fill in while running for office.
She sold her house for $135,000 while owing $90,000 something on it — pocketing equity of about $44,000+ to live on.
So simply telling lies about people is not acceptable.
By the way, exactly how would O’Donnell have failed anyway?
Should you, NoLibZone, have to PROVE that your personal residence is not paid for by Columbian drug cartel’s money?
Evidence that NoLibZone’s house is paid for by a Columbian drug cartel: NONE, ZERO, NADA
However, nevertheless, NoLibZone has “failed” to prove to us that his residence is not funded by Columbian drug cartel.
Why should a single woman *EVER* have to reveal or disclose where she personally lives, or else be afraid to run for office?
Isn’t it our political system that has failed?
Dozens if not hundreds of people, including journalists, have been in and out of the campaign headquarters townhouse. There is no question or doubt about it.
In September, CNN broadcast a look inside the townhouse campaign headquarters.
Yup. Too late now.
Ah, well. No harm, no foul, huh?
How can you call a man a conservative, that calls Joe Lieberman a conservative? He supports the idea and the reality of a large centralized govt, he is not a conservative. Individual instances of support for pro-life, or lower taxes does not mean that his ideal is a govt no bigger than the Constitution and the 10th amendment specifies. That is what a conservative needs to believe in to be a conservative. Without the restriction on the Fed, we end up fighting battles over every single issue, instead of relying on the backstop of safety the Constitution should provide.
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