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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: fieldmarshaldj

This is a great article. Mark Block sounds like a serious conservative activist who has really angered the Left. Good for him and for Herman Cain!


21 posted on 10/28/2011 9:17:02 PM PDT by iowamark (Rick Perry says I'm heartless.)
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To: the invisib1e hand

Rezko, Jarrett, Daley, Rhambo, Sunstein, Holdren?


22 posted on 10/28/2011 9:19:49 PM PDT by wac3rd (Somewhere in Hell, Ted Kennedy snickers....)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Herman Cain is blowing up their strategy.


23 posted on 10/28/2011 9:21:18 PM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west)?)
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To: the invisib1e hand

Well, if all that’s true, then he should be made Sec. of Treasury like BO’s tax dodging friend.
Let’s see, how many of BO’s folks had tax issues? Didn’t stop them from having key positions in this administration!

Let’s throw in someone comparable to the GE CEO and make him in charge of a special committee......and on and on.


24 posted on 10/28/2011 9:27:08 PM PDT by IceAge
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To: the invisib1e hand

Wow....and was he making bombs in the basements?????

Are Liberals really concerned about Block?????when the thing in the white house was doing hard drugs and homosexual sex at bath houses.....geeeeshhhhhh current white house residents are amoral and atheists/Marxists—Satan can’t do worse than that.

At least, it was just a cigarette Block was smoking. Such vices would be such an improvement.


25 posted on 10/28/2011 9:31:23 PM PDT by savagesusie
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To: newzjunkey

” - - - was banned from running Wisconsin political campaigns for three years - - - “

Isn’t Wisconsin politics controlled by Unions? Block could be just the guy to oversee the National Labor Relations Board - - - .

BTW, warriors with a few scars are better at winning than “perfect” wet-behind-the-ears suits.


26 posted on 10/28/2011 9:37:01 PM PDT by Graewoulf ( obama"care" violates the 1890 Sherman Anti-Trust Law, AND is illegal by the U.S. Constitution.)
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To: the invisib1e hand
What Republican has not been accused of those things? In fact Headline:

Democrat Senator X testifies to Senate subcommittee
"Republican Crimes"
Republicans have "cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed homeless encampments in fashion reminiscent of Ghengis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the poor areas of cities. . . ."

27 posted on 10/28/2011 9:40:02 PM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: savagesusie

I do not recommend cigarette smoking to anybody, because it’s so easy for it to become a habit and the notorious ill health effects then inevitably follow.

But Block scarcely looks like an advertisement for chain smoking.

My mom smoked herself to death. Dad had unusual self control; he’d smoke one cigarette at a card party every week, and nothing at any other time. And that was in a state and at a time when cigarettes were not hugely expensive like they are today. I’ve never smoked even though my parents never forbade it and in fact suggested that if I wanted to smoke I should borrow one of their cigarettes rather than accept something from a kid on the street.


28 posted on 10/28/2011 9:40:55 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

Wow, he sounds like another Rezko!

Pray for America


29 posted on 10/28/2011 9:41:30 PM PDT by bray (Hope and Change is Dead and Gone)
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To: TexasFreeper2009
Your post was sooo good, I'm re-posting it!

I remember all the research done on Obama and his people

... oh wait! that never happened!

30 posted on 10/28/2011 9:47:03 PM PDT by NordP (Common Sense ConservaTEAves - Love of Country, Less Govt, Stop Spending, No Govt Run Health Care!!!)
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To: the invisib1e hand

Typical MSM smear campaign. Hope it backfires big.


31 posted on 10/28/2011 9:48:13 PM PDT by ozzymandus
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To: fieldmarshaldj

I read all the comments and if I type fast, I think I can be first to type, BFD.


32 posted on 10/28/2011 10:23:00 PM PDT by onyx (PLEASE SUPPORT FREE REPUBLIC BY DONATING NOW! Sarah's New Ping List - tell me if you want on it.)
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To: the invisib1e hand

Checkered like Rev. Wright? Checkered like Bill Ayers? Or checkered like Tim Geithner?


33 posted on 10/28/2011 10:23:52 PM PDT by 5thGenTexan
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To: the invisib1e hand
Did he say something like “Americans chickens are coming home to Roost” or did he pose standing on an American flag?
No that would be Obamas friends and Reverend
34 posted on 10/28/2011 10:44:31 PM PDT by funfan
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To: the invisib1e hand
Did he say something like “Americans chickens are coming home to Roost” or did he pose standing on an American flag?
No that would be Obamas friends and Reverend
35 posted on 10/28/2011 10:46:40 PM PDT by funfan
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To: the invisib1e hand

Was he one of those Black Panther D!—Heads in Philly?


36 posted on 10/28/2011 11:09:03 PM PDT by gigster (Cogito, Ergo, Ronaldus Magnus Conservatus)
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To: gigster

Has he ever been in a limo with Larry Sinclair?


37 posted on 10/28/2011 11:54:56 PM PDT by TigersEye (Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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To: iowamark

And good for America... this next election we will have the RIGHT Cain to vote for.


38 posted on 10/29/2011 12:03:52 AM PDT by antceecee (Bless us Father.. have mercy on us and protect us from evil.)
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To: IceAge

And how about a Supreme Court Justice who has a conflict of interest?


39 posted on 10/29/2011 1:53:04 AM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: WilliamofCarmichael

That Demonrat senator’s testimony brings a tear to the eye and reminds me of how proud I am to be a Republican. Of course, I would never shoot dogs for fun but otherwise, the Demonrat seems to understand our inner Republican values.


40 posted on 10/29/2011 2:21:43 AM PDT by BlackElk (Dean of Discipline, Tomas de Torquemada Gentlemen's Club: Burn 'em Bright!!!)
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