Posted on 10/28/2011 9:03:52 AM PDT by marty60
He is the man with the mustache who takes a rebellious drag on a cigarette in the Herman Cain Internet ad gone viral.
"We've run a campaign like nobody's ever seen," he says before taking a puff. "But then America's never seen a candidate like Herman Cain."
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.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/10/28/cains-cigarette-puffing-aide-has-checkered-past/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+foxnews%2Fpolitics+%28Internal+-+Politics+-+Text%29&utm_content=My+Yahoo#ixzz1c5nPhl8q
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For democrats that immediately qualifies him as Presidential material and 40+ years of re-election as Senator. Oh wait, he'd have to drown a woman as well for that plus show up drunk in Congress.
I was twice arrested for drunk driving too.
I haven’t drank in years but it doesn’t change the fact.
Most of the commentary about the “smoking” ad is from the most PC people. I don’t like smoking, but I like even less curtailing the freedom to smoke (a legal practice and a big money maker for the Government!
Apparently, Cain is beginning to frighten the establishment candidates on both the Democratic and Republican side, and a smear like this represents just the beginning of such in-depth investigation and castigation.
Ask Sarah Palin.
Romney's paid people to do it in every campaign he has ever been in. Your posting history shows, oddly enough, a history of posting completely negative, fraudulent smear jobs about Cain. You have yet to post a single factually accurate host post about any candidate.
Standard Romneybot SOP.
So spare us the bluster Romneybot, your posting history betrays you.
This is the best you can come up with? Really? We now know more about this cigarette smoking man than we know about the current sitting President of the United States. Pretty ‘effin sad as far as I’m concerned.
Oh, the things that the left get worked up about after sticking us with Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, et al.
What past? All we know about him is that he went to Harvard, worked as a community organizer and was elected Senator which to date only the Senator part has shown any evidence of existing even though he was Senator for about 2 seconds.. No evidence that he went to Harvard, worked as a community organizer or that he is even from this country has surfaced other than a bizarre looking birth certificate. Where’s his school records? Where are photos of this guy from 10 - 20 years ago? Not even a freakin resume from him.
OMG I LOVE the Koch Brothers!!!
They have given jobs to so many people in this bad economy, they should get a medal each. And support all the conservative groups. Look here
David and Charles have funded conservative and libertarian policy and advocacy groups in the United States.[7] Since the 1980s the Koch foundations have given more than $100 million to such organizations, among these think tanks like the Heritage Foundation and the Cato Institute, as well as more recently Americans for Prosperity.[8] Americans for Prosperity and FreedomWorks are Koch-linked organizations that have been linked to the Tea Party movement.[9][10]
From Wiki.
Telling FReepers that Cain is associated with the Kochs is like putting a huge Superman cape on him.
I’m voting for him for SURE!!!
I love how so many supposedly SMART! people, (that means today’s media liberals) have MISSED that this is supposed to be a play on the SMOKING MAN from Citizen Kane?
I picked up on it the first time through...
I doubt he was dressed in a black Panther uniform and carrying a truncheon at a polling place like Obama’s voter suppressionists.
Voter suppression allowed & encouraged by Obama’s Justice Department.
Haven’t made up my mind about Cain yet.
Gingrich has me thinking. I had written him off, but lately he has hit some things that I really like, and there is no doubt in my mind that he is the most qualified.Should we disallow his qualifications because he had trouble with his zipper? I dunno.
The picture with Hillary was a stupid move on his part, but I suppose I could look the other way on that.
By the way Hillary is looking like ten miles of bad road lately. Huma going back to her husband has left Hillary unsatisfied, ungratified and disdainful of even combing her hair.
Non-property owners being allowed to vote was pushed because renters paid the owners who paid taxes...which is true.
I really chaps me when people who live in gov't housing get to vote on issues that will raise revenue from private property owners. What's to prevent them from voting in bond elections for things that cost other people money...it costs them nothing!
[ Koch brother (lIBERTARIAN -LEANING)operatives, Brock and Cain. ]
It isn’t Libertarian any more it is “Neo-Liberal” maybe you didn’t get the Daily OWS update in your soros funded newpaper.
[ For democrats that immediately qualifies him as Presidential material and 40+ years of re-election as Senator. Oh wait, he’d have to drown a woman as well for that plus show up drunk in Congress. ]
Well you know some drunks are more equal than others....
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