Posted on 05/19/2002 7:09:04 PM PDT by PetroniDE
Remember Jim Jeffords? He is the Senator from Vermont whose departure from the Republican party transferred control of the Senate to Tom Daschle and the Democrats. He claims to be an independent, yet today he was in Houston, Texas at a $5000.00 a plate fundraiser for Ron Kirk, Democrat candidate for U.S. Senator from Texas.
Why would an independent attend a Democrat fundraiser two thousand miles from home? Because Jim Jeffords is A LIBERAL DEMOCRAT. Members of the H.A.T. FR Chapter and two other groups made sure that he received a "Conservative Texas Welcome".
Approximately twenty members of the H.A.T. FR Chapter, The Young Republicans, and The Hispanic Republicans gathered at the fundraiser location.
Signs focused on the following themes. This is a partial list.
$5000.00 for a fundraiser while at the same time trying to ban soft money?
The Jeffords switch and its undermining of the Bush Presidency.
Jeffords - Liberal democrat in independent's clothing.
Most of the fundraiser attendees are trial lawyers.
News personnel from AP, Houston Chronicle, Austin American-Statesman, a small paper from Galveston and local television stations (channels 11/13/26) took footage of the Freep. AntiVenom, Dix, and PetroniDE gave statements, as did several members of the other groups represented. AntiVenom passed Freeper business cards to representatives of the other groups.
Funniest moment was when a couple of children came by selling lemonade (capitalism at its grass roots). We tried to instruct to sell the lemonade at $5000.00 a cup, but they wouldn't do it.
Anyone notice the papers quoted more lines from that FReeper
guy than they did from Jeffers? Just an observation.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.