It's a good thing that the Rats had a confused campaign staff. One less Kennedy in the political arena. Thank you, Alan Fleischmann, for a job well done.
Posted on 11/30/2002 8:49:15 PM PST by kristinn
The votes were not yet tallied on election night when Gov. Parris N. Glendening pronounced his lieutenant governor's bid to succeed him "one of the worst-run campaigns in the country," a remark Democrats across Maryland agreed was in particularly bad taste.
But in the three weeks since Kathleen Kennedy Townsend lost the governor's race, few dispute that he was right. And the man they most often blame for the humiliating loss to Republican Robert L. Ehrlich Jr., for losing control of state government and costing hundreds of Democratic state workers their jobs is the man who ran her campaign: Alan Fleischmann.
"Alan Fleischmann couldn't lead a troop of Boy Scouts out of a telephone booth with a seeing-eye dog. Please print that. That's the reason she lost," said Jim Farmer, a lawyer and conservationist who raised money for Townsend in Southern Maryland.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Kennedy lost because Maryland has been trending Republican in recent years. The Democratic machine in Baltimore City stole the 1994 election from Ellen Sauerbrey, and it finally caught up with them.
When you need 18 dead people to vote for your candidate, you need some live help.
Of course they can't get a straight answer. The Rats are a party of competing interests and when that is the case, only one side can have it their way. In this case, the lawyers provide much more money than do doctors, so it's the lawyers who will ultimately prevail and prevent the passage of tort reform. Kind of like blacks and NEA and school vouchers. Guess who gives more money. Guess who prevails. But unlike the doctors, who shifted their support, Rats can shaft the black community and still get 90 percent of their votes.
Out! Out!
Out with the vermin out mow! Get honest jobs! Get away from your corrupt use of Maryland government as a tool of your evil political party! Go Away!
Call Orkin to fumigate! Call Roto-Rooter to clean up the sewage!
Not to worry. Their job skills are a great fit at Burger King and Pizza Hut.
Then Fleischmann hopped on a plane, flew to Florida and went to the beach.
Brutal - sounds as if Fleischman comes from the Clinton School of Political Loyalty.
But I must say that I was surprised by the somewhat amateurish quality of the writing in this piece. Is this typical of the Washington Post nowadays? Is anyone familiar with Lori Montgomery, the article's author?
The quotation above (the last lines in the article), certainly has impact. But it reads much more like an opinion column than straight reporting.
A good reporter would have given Fleischman's side of the situation. Was he in frequent phone contact while away? How long did he remain in Florida, etc?
It's a good thing that the Rats had a confused campaign staff. One less Kennedy in the political arena. Thank you, Alan Fleischmann, for a job well done.
Lori had her nose up KKT's perverbial you know what for the entire campaign. Blair Lee IV, of the Lee family and long time Democrat would always have unkind things to say about Ms. Montgomery in his weekly column published by The Montgomery County Journal a local rag. It is not surprising that Ms. Montgomery would would find a local Muldoon to blame for the loss. She conveniently ignores that fact that the "National Experts" brought in a hatchet who's name escapes me, to play the race card. It ended up blowing crap all over KKT and all over KKT's campaign. Followed by weeks of discussion as to whether the campaign had or had not fired the hatchet man.
And yes, she is a terible writer but typical of the the Washington Bleep.
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