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Top Cain aide has checkered past
Associated Press ^ | Oct 28, 7:15 AM EDT | RYAN J. FOLEY and SHANNON McCAFFREY

Posted on 10/28/2011 8:47:45 PM PDT by newzjunkey

... Meet Mark Block, Cain's unorthodox campaign manager. Perhaps no one is more responsible for the Georgia businessman's meteoric rise in the presidential polls than Block, a Republican strategist and tea party leader who's left a trail of questionable campaign work behind him.

Block has been accused of voter suppression and was banned from running Wisconsin political campaigns for three years to settle accusations he coordinated a judge's re-election campaign with a special interest group.

Records show Block has faced foreclosure on his home, a tax warrant by the Internal Revenue Service and a lawsuit for an unpaid bill. He also acknowledges he was arrested twice for drunken driving. ...

In an interview with The Associated Press at Cain's campaign headquarters south of Atlanta, Block acknowledged ruffling some feathers because he - and the Cain campaign - don't "fit the mold."...

(Excerpt) Read more at hosted.ap.org ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Iowa; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: billayres; cain; hermancain; markblock
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To: newzjunkey
checkered past

oh, my.

2 posted on 10/28/2011 8:49:40 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (...then they came for the guitars, and we kicked their sorry faggot asses into the dust)
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To: newzjunkey

I remember all the research done on Obama and his people

... oh wait! that never happened!


3 posted on 10/28/2011 8:49:47 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Cain 2012!)
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To: newzjunkey

We can expect reports on the bathroom habits of Herman Cain’s staff and supporters while we hear crickets when it comes to any factual reporting on Zero’s Imperial Regime.


4 posted on 10/28/2011 8:50:38 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Rick Perry has more red flags than a May Day Parade)
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To: newzjunkey

Yes, of course, we all know that the entire staffs of all the other candidates of ALL parties are squeaky clean, except for Mr. Cain’s staff.


5 posted on 10/28/2011 8:50:52 PM PDT by Westbrook
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The whole piece, with many responses from Block, is worth reading. Block doesn't drink anymore.

First reply had typo "my" for "many"

6 posted on 10/28/2011 8:51:12 PM PDT by newzjunkey (Republicans will find a way to reelected Obama.)
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To: newzjunkey

If these idiots are making these ludicrous ACCUSATIONS against Cain’s aides, just wait til honest journalists cite TRUTHS about The Messiah’s aides!

In a contest of accusations vs. facts, facts will win out every time.


7 posted on 10/28/2011 8:51:38 PM PDT by Rembrandt (.. AND the donkey you rode in on.)
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To: the invisib1e hand

One standard for those on the plantation and another for the ones that have left.

AP FEARS Herman Cain. He is the Leftist worst nightmare.


8 posted on 10/28/2011 8:53:16 PM PDT by Sprite518
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To: fieldmarshaldj
The MSM are still unconcerned with Obama's friends who have records as MAD BOMBERS and ARSONISTS.

So this guy had a threatened foreclosure? Almost have to say that since Obama came to town who hasn't?!

9 posted on 10/28/2011 8:53:32 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: newzjunkey

“Your” responses from Block? You’re Block or you interviewed him for the article?

Checkered past yes, but it looks like part of his controversy was invited by stepping on toes and being effective rather than actually doing something wrong. It’s very fortunate he didn’t cause any tragic accidents while soused (drunk drivers endanger not just their own selves) and wise that he does not drink now.

Somebody’s bound to ask Cain if he intends to make Block secretary of state or sumfin. I hope Cain is not that Block headed (pardon the pun). Like Karl Rove might have made a great campaign manager for George W. Bush, but he really didn’t have a place as an advisor to the governing Bush.


10 posted on 10/28/2011 8:55:04 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (ya don't tug on supermans cape/ya don't spit into the wind...and ya don't speak well of Mitt to Jim!)
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To: muawiyah

Yeah, it doesn’t say what came of that. Sold short and the bank accepted it? Became a landlord? With the bank I have my mortgage at, foreclosures take about a year before one gets kicked out, so there is some time to play with.


11 posted on 10/28/2011 8:56:42 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (ya don't tug on supermans cape/ya don't spit into the wind...and ya don't speak well of Mitt to Jim!)
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To: the invisib1e hand

Does he have a racist pastor too?


12 posted on 10/28/2011 8:57:03 PM PDT by fkabuckeyesrule
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To: Westbrook
This is about his chief of staff so it's pretty important.

We do know about consultants and so forth with some other campaigns. There's the infamy of Ed Rollins on Bachmann's campaign, for example.

13 posted on 10/28/2011 8:57:03 PM PDT by newzjunkey (Republicans will find a way to reelected Obama.)
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To: the invisib1e hand

And this compares to Chicago politics?


14 posted on 10/28/2011 8:57:49 PM PDT by Terry Mross (Where is the OPPOSITION party? I'll only vote for a SECOND party.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
“Your” responses from Block? You’re Block or you interviewed him for the article?

No, that's why I had the comment deleted immediately by Admin Mod. It was an unfortunate typo as I explained in 6.

15 posted on 10/28/2011 9:01:14 PM PDT by newzjunkey (Republicans will find a way to reelected Obama.)
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To: newzjunkey

Gotcha. It crossed on the Internet.


16 posted on 10/28/2011 9:01:58 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (ya don't tug on supermans cape/ya don't spit into the wind...and ya don't speak well of Mitt to Jim!)
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To: the invisib1e hand

Did they mention Bill Ayers in this piece?


17 posted on 10/28/2011 9:02:08 PM PDT by Rudder (The Main Stream Media is Our Enemy---get used to it.)
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To: newzjunkey

Has Cain already committed to making Block chief of staff in the White House if he should win the presidency? That would be a foolish move. But Cain keeping Block as head of his campaign might just be crazy like a fox.


18 posted on 10/28/2011 9:03:53 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (ya don't tug on supermans cape/ya don't spit into the wind...and ya don't speak well of Mitt to Jim!)
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To: the invisib1e hand

Let the “Cain Train” attacks begin. Of course being friends with a proven domestic terrorist, or a “church leader” that damns America is quite OK. GTH AP


19 posted on 10/28/2011 9:13:54 PM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west)?)
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To: eyedigress

And even for this guy they say he has a checkered past, not a checkered present. This is great. Cain is living like a believer in the God of second chances.


20 posted on 10/28/2011 9:16:31 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (ya don't tug on supermans cape/ya don't spit into the wind...and ya don't speak well of Mitt to Jim!)
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