The race goes national -- Presidential hopefuls are quick to lend support and help to Bill McBride

St. Petersburg Times ^ | Sep 19, 2002 | Adam C. Smith and Wes Allison

[PhiKapMom]

Note all the major democRAT players coming into Florida to campaign. McBride was the real candidate all along if you look at the campaign contributions flooding his campaign from DNC and even other States like South Dakota.

Janet Reno was no more than red herring in this whole campaign and then on election day was used to try and blame Bush for the fiasco in South Florida!

Bush/Brogan is going to need support of everyone to bring out the truth about the two tax and spend lawyers Mcbride/Rossin who are running against them.

[PhiKapMom]

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[PhiKapMom]

Do you have a ping list for all the Florida Freepers for the Bush/Brogan campaign?

Would like to put together a bump list that would include Freepers from other States as well who want to help get Jeb re-elected. There is a good chance to pick up some volunteers from some other States that might want to spend a weekend in Florida helping out Bush/Brogan. Freepers from all over can email anyone they know in Florida to support Bush/Brogan.

This is an extremely important campaign as you are well aware of and we need to get out the word to everyone that each of us can support Bush/Brogan like his campaign says right here from our computers!

Thanks!

[johnny7]

... a potential 2004 presidential candidate.

Not on my watch. Heinz/Kerry has to win in Nov.

I'm no Libertarian but I'll vote for Cloud.

JFK wants us all to ride bikes to work and sample all 57 varieties.

[PhiKapMom]

I cannot see Kerry being nominated. If I were in MA, I would vote for anyone but Kerry!

I can just see him campaigning here in flyover country -- not going to happen!

[johnny7]

Little known secret... MA can reject the state income tax and throw out Heinz/Kerry in Nov.

I tend to stay overnight in fly-over country... Hardin Montana is a favorite... Billings is a good landing. ;^D

[SpinyNorman]

I hope you are right, Mom. I live in MA, and the Dems control most everything, and are going for the Governorship now. Dem control of the corner office and the legislature will meke this state a wasteland.

You have to remember what kind of state his is. We send the likes of Kennedys and Barney Frank (not to forget Gary Studds a while back) to Washington. The Clintons took their vacations in Martha's Vineyard among many supporters. I imagine most of the Kennedy lovers will vote for Kerry. Not me though! I won't even buy Heinz ketchup! Kerry is a real weasel, well coiffed and sucking up to Imus all the time.

[Delbert]

I hate politics....or perhaps just politicians. Too much focus on making the other party look bad, instead of working for the people that voted them into office.

[PhiKapMom]

I spent nine months in Groton, MA, back in the mid 80's. I couldn't believe any State's politics could be so different!

Just know that Kerry will not play out here in Middle America or the South -- everyone out here associates MA with the word "Liberal" and that doesn't fly for any candidate!

Sure hope that Romney pulls it off!

[Coop]

Okay, here's one of those polls Wait4Truth told me about.

[floriduh voter]

Greetings friends on FV's FL/USA Ping List. We've grown and are many now. Jeb Bush has an army of people here at FR who are more than moderately interested in his re-election as Governor of the great State of Florida.

WE ARE DEDICATED to his campaign because in addition to him being the only qualified person for the job, all the 2004 dem prez candidates are on the way to Florida to help McBride. It's all about the ELECTORAL COLLEGE and restoring Florida into dem hands.

I would like to add my ping list to phikapmom's new, supersized ping list to help Governor Bush get re-elected. Please let me know by freepmail by this coming MONDAY if you don't want to join the bigger effort ping list for Governor Bush. I will ping phikapmom my list MONDAY evening omitting you if you so indicated.

This will be the ultimate way at FR to help the Bush/Brogan campaign without being part of the official campaign.

I phoned Bay News 9 Time Warner channel this morning because they've been cheerleading for McBride and downplaying Governor Bush. I asked them to be more "fair and balanced" or I'd boycott their station. She repeated fair and balanced back to me so at least I believe she wrote down my complaint. Call your local media in Florida if they seem over-eager for McBride and start trashing Governor Bush. Request fair and balanced coverage from them. The end. Fregards, FV regards, FV

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

McBride's for all things far left, and the party knows where he stands. He and his wife have been deeply involved in Dem. party politics for years. There is very little difference between McBride and Reno when it comes to idealogy and party loyalty....then again, what Big Dem doesn't think like all the rest of them.

Could someone explain how an ex-Marine could work to undermine both God and the American family, claim to be a church-going man who cares about the children and yet be a "staunch" abortion and homosexual 'marriage' rights and public school advocate? Anyone who thinks McBride's military experience made him pro-gun rights...think Oliver Stone, Tom Daschle, Jimmy Carter.

But when it comes to core ideology, no one in the field outflanks him on the left. That, of course, could be a ruinous niche nationally, but not statewide.

He's unabashedly supportive of public schools and teachers and activist on behalf of the environment and minority inclusion. He sees the value in unions and the good in affirmative action. He believes gays and lesbians should enjoy the same legal rights and benefits as married couples. He is, as he has said, a "proud and unapologetic Democrat."

 

" To suggest that any private school is better than a public school is disgraceful."

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Alex Sink Supports..., opensecrets.org
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[cksharks]

I just received a recorded message from Jeb requesting that I pickup my absentee ballot and vote early.It also said that this was going to be a close election. Cedar Key Levy County

[floriduh voter]

Yeah, we have to get out the Republican vote. Swing voters are important but not that important. I heard the first debate is next week. We've all got to check our local listings and c-span.

Watch McBride lose the first debate. I can speak better than him and I'm "floriduh" voter. lol

[floriduh voter]

Are not students who attend private and public schools Floridians? What makes public school students more important than private school students?

The truth be told in the democrat's true hidden agenda, the students aren't important at all. They are just a sound bite which is a real farce.

The teacher's union wants to own the State of Florida so they can get raises and so they can spoon feed McBride their AGENDA. He spends more time with the FEA Director than with his very own wife! Learning about educashun takes time and McBride's got his very own "private tutor". That's not his wife - it's the FEA Director! Pass it on.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

The class size initiative is truly irresponsible. McBride's support for it proves that he's pushing a political agenda, not a plan to help the children.

Here's what the Florida Tax Watch has to say, an organization McBride's own wife belonged to:

The First Constitutional Amendment Estimating Conference Puts an Official Price Tag on Class Size Initiative:
Reducing class size to the prescribed limits would be a challenging undertaking. Without a significant overhaul of state spending patterns, the class size proposal would likely require some new or increased taxes. A 1-penny increase to the state's 6-cent sales tax would raise $2.9 billion (based on FY 2004 estimated collections.).

To further illustrate the scope of the estimated required investment, the gross receipts tax on utilities, which funds public school construction, raises less than $800 million annually. Moreover, it would take a tripling of the state corporate income tax to raise the additional revenue called for in the estimates. In fact, four major tax sources combined (gross receipts, corporate income, beverage, and tobacco taxes) are expected to bring in $2.97 billion in FY 2004, so it would take a doubling of all those to raise the revenue. Lastly, a state personal income tax (currently prohibited by the state Constitution) of 1 per cent of Floridians' federal taxable income would raise approximately $2.4 billion.

McBride's answer...a .50 per pack tax increase on cigarettes. New schools, same old agenda and NEA education plan.

[katherineisgreat]

There is absolutely no way that McBride is just 5 points behind Jeb. Internal polling- they juiced it up and slipped it into this rag to make us nervous! AH!

[katherineisgreat]

And if we're talking national support here, Jeb has the silver bullet! :)

[Fearless Flyers]

From watching Mc Bride speak I would say that he has a problem testing the Irish. Does anyone know if he is an alcoholic?

The fact that he was Chairman of the United Way in Florida should raise some eyebrows. I understand his legal offices were lavishly furnished while the office workers were understaffed, meagerly supplied in equipment and grossly underpaid. That is the way of the United Way, maybe that is what he offered the Law Firm how to pinch pennies meant for the serves while inflating the partners egos and wallets.

Unfortunately saving money is not what he has in mind for the State of Florida. He intends to shrink class size in public schools to 14 students, though he has not explained how he would pay for it.

Has anyone started a thread for talking points against Mc Bride?

[floriduh voter]

As far as I know, there's not been a talking points against McBribe thread per se but we've been talking about him since January 2002. We have volumes of research material that takes forever to freepmail.

We haven't posted it because we don't want to tip off McBribe. You know, loose lips sink ships.

If you want to take the first step, I'll bump your thread. I worked at his law office and never saw him. I think his wife got him the job. He's too shy and awkward to be a practicing attorney and the way he flays his hands around, it's kind of goofy.

Richard Swann who is T. MacAuliffe's father-in-law is McBribe's money man. Swann is a shady businessman and a big dem in central Fla. MacAuliffe owns lots of real estate around Orlando. There's also tons of stuff that we corroborated too regarding the McBride's law firm. That's just the tip of the iceberg.

I suggest you visit the Holland & Knight web site and also visit on line Martindale Hubbell directory. Holland & Knight have an entire page there. You can see what their areas of practice were. IT'S INTERESTING TO NOTE THAT H & K has an Illinois office. This tells me that McBribe knows Bill Daley. (he's in this Florida election somewhere but is working behind the scenes IMO).

Finally, the biography of BM has lots of holes in it. The guy's a fundraiser with a rich wife. But, at the moment, he spends more time with the FEA teacher union director lady than with his wife Alex Sink who caws like a bird. How'd she get rich at Bank of America? She's in NOW and didn't take his name.

I never saw him when I worked at his office and I worked there a lot in 1994, 1995 and 1996. Where was he? That office was on several floors but I worked on the same floor he was on. I say he was just a figurehead and he mainly swallowed up smaller law firms and THEY WERE IN THE TOBACCO LAWSUITS I BELIEVE and also specialize in white collar crime. See for yourself at their web site.

Visit Tampa Bay Business Journal and register to go through their archives. There's ties to Arthur Andersen, etc. The Tampa Bay Business Journal is a goldmine re: Holland & Knight law firm and McBride. If the archives don't show much, then they've been deleted to protect McBribe. HE WANTS TO TAX AND SPEND US SO WE'LL WANT TO LEAVE THE BEAUTIFUL STATE THAT WE LIVE IN. HE'S AS DANGEROUS AS ALGOR WAS and just as transparent.

I don't know about a drinking problem but he acts very goofy and his wife speaks for him alot. Why does he hide while the wife says, Bill isn't ready to come down? He always says "Jeb's nervous. Jeb's afraid of me." What kind of individual talks like that? Not a politician. He has no sound bites or non-scripted language skills and he sounds like a child instead. That's all I can say without helping DU lurkers. I can't freepmail you what I have because of time constraints. I would if I could. Fregards, FV