Fred Tuttle Dies...wasted an election

AP ^ | 10/04/03 | Krista Larson, AP

[JimVT]

A nice old guy who got sucked into the political arena by a would-be Hollywood hot shot and a permanent politician (Leahy) who never had the balls to say this was a travesty of the electoral process.

God keep Fred...screw the other two!!!!!!!!

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[martin_fierro]

Whew!

For a second there I thought Teutul had bought it. <|:)~

[Chad Fairbanks]

YOu nailed it...

[joesbucks]

And obviouisly republicans fell for his "skit" hook line and sinker by about 58% in the primary.

[HostileTerritory]

Do you know anything about Jack McMullen's campaign? He was Fred's biggest advantage in the primary. It's a shame the Republicans couldn't find a real candidate from their own state to run against Leahy that year. McMullen could not have had a less appealing resume.

Your profile page indicates that you live about a thousand miles away from New England, so let me draw an analogy. Imagine that a successful businessman from Atlanta moves up to the Smokies and a year later decides to run for Senate, talking about his prowess in the boardroom and how he can make North Carolina his next big "project" and will spend millions of his own money to do it. You tell me--how well would that be received?

[GraniteStateConservative]

I voted for him in '98 when I was a Vermonter.

[Pilsner]

Fred Tuttle, a retired dairy farmer who became a Vermont icon and a 1998 U.S. Senate candidate

I Fred Tuttle was a Benny Hill character, but on reflection that may have been Fred Scuttle.

[JimVT]

Your profile page indicates that you live about a thousand miles away from New England

And so you're from MA which is several light years from the real NE.

Jack McMullen has the balls and the money to run again against the permanent politician/liar Leahy and deserves al the support we can give him

[Lib-Lickers 2]

Orange County Choppers,, you know da scene,, that Apache chopper was da bomb,,,,,,,,,

[HostileTerritory]

"And so you're from MA which is several light years from the real NE."

Right, and so was Jack McMullen. You couldn't have made my point any better. I know better than to think that I could move to Maine or Vermont and expect people to anoint me their leader.

[JimVT]

I know better than to think that I could move to Maine or Vermont and expect people to anoint me their leader.

Moving to MA worked ok for this guy!

[Lancey Howard]

He then endorsed his Democratic opponent, Sen. Patrick Leahy.

Good riddance.

[Lancey Howard]

Tuttle wasn't a politican, he knew jack about politics, he was just a front man for an easy re-election for Pat Leahy.

Maybe McMullen is, too.

[HostileTerritory]

I would exhume his corpse and drive it down 89/93 myself if we could run it in place of Jack E. Robinson every %$#& election.

[July 4th]

I thought he had the best of Vermont values

Like what? Screwing over a political party? Ahem...Jim...I'm looking in your direction.

[July 4th]

(BTW, not you, JimVT, the other Jim from VT.)

[JimVT]

Right!

Fred Tuttle was, no doubt, a very nice man....I never met him....but he was DUPED by that would-be H'wood Clymer O'Brien and if Leahy had any cojones at all he would have disavowed Tuttle as someone who was tampering with the electoral process.