McBride’s Story About Vicious Remarks Challenged by Veteran Washington Post Reporter

Bush-Brogan '02 ^ | 10/17/02 | Press Release Bush-Brogan

[windchime]

"......contrary to McBride’s claim that he was unaware, McBride was in fact read each of the remarks....."

Seems McBride/McAuliffe has another characteristic in common with Clinton............lying.

[KQQL]

Latest FL numbers:

DATE BUSH V McBRIDE SURVEY MARGIN OF ERROR
Oct.. 13/14--47% v 47 Garin Hart Yang(D) 4.1%
Oct.. 09/11--48% v 45% Zogby International 4.5%
Oct.. 08/10--50% v 47% SurveyUSA 4%
Oct.. 02/05--47% v 42% Insider Advantage 4.5%
Sept. 24/26--50% v 44% SPT/Miami Herald 3.5%
Sept. 26/26--49% v 48% SurveyUSA 4.10%
Sept. 22/24--49% v 43% Mason Dixon 4%
Sept. 17/18--49% v 39% Zogby International 4.5%
Sept. 13/15--48% v 43% Hamilton & Beattie 4%

[KQQL]

Status of Governor races as of today:
Leaning/Likely RAT take over from GOP/IND: PA,NM,WI,MI,ME,IL,RI,KS,TN.

Toss Up: Fl*,AZ*,MA*,AK,SC,MD (FL,AZ and MA are currently held by the GOP)

Leaning/Likely GOP take over from RATS: NH,HI,Al.
**MN will likely stay IND.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

A Washington Post reporter calls a Democrat a liar? Hope he doesn't lose his job.

[windchime]

His honesty probably does put his job at risk. It's a rare commodity in the media.

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FYI

[KSCITYBOY]

Democrats lie - It's kind of like their secret handshake. Scum! I know there are some good people who are democrats but it seems their party has sold their souls to Satan. I guess the only good democrat these days would be an uninformed one. The few I know don't follow current events and often don't watch the news because it is too disturbing.

[vollmond]

I don't think this is a story. If I were a candidate, I wouldn't respond to some random reporter asking for a reaction to a statement made by a third party, based on that reporter quoting the statement. Especially an out-of-town reporter from an national newspaper. That's just asking for trouble. In fact, I would do just as McBride did - deflect the question by saying either I wasn't aware of the statement, or it was the first I had heard of it.

[Dixie Mom]

A Washington Post reporter calls a Democrat a liar? Hope he doesn't lose his job.

The entire article is here. I'm amazed it appeared in the WP. Here are a few other tidbits:

. . . . He and his wife, a retired bank executive, used to file joint tax returns. Shortly before announcing his bid for governor, they switched to separate returns. As a result, McBride could claim the smallest net worth of any major candidate -- when for all practical purposes he is by far the richest.

McBride lives in a spacious house on 30 lakeside acres outside Tampa, in an area in which a comparable home recently listed for just under $1 million. But in a 1999 speech, McBride said, "I live in a poor area of my state. The only time many of my neighbors see a lawyer is when the lawyer is representing the mobile home park owner evicting them." . . . .

The aw-shucks aura is essential to McBride's canny strategy, which is to make the election all about Bush and never, ever, to let the focus swing around to him. . . .

McBride attacks Jeb Bush for cutting taxes too aggressively. He blames Bush for Florida's budget deficit. He reminds voters that Bush campaigned on promises to improve education and fix the state's troubled foster care system -- and insists that if Bush hasn't delivered results yet, there is no point giving him more time.

But when the subject shifts to his own plans, McBride remains stubbornly fuzzy. "There's no need for me to change what I've been doing," he tells reporters pressing him for position papers.

Take his second-most prominent issue, prescription drug coverage. McBride speaks so warmly about the travails of retirees struggling with rising drug costs that it's easy to miss his bottom line -- it's not a state problem. Though he ridicules Bush's proposal to provide $160 a month to help needy seniors pay for drugs, it is more concrete than McBride's plan, which is to lobby Congress to solve the problem.

On environmental issues, such as offshore oil drilling and Everglades restoration, McBride's positions appear to be the same as Bush's, though it is hard to tell because he often demurs when pressed on specifics.

There is nothing but danger in taking stands, campaign spokesman Alan Stonecipher suggests. Bush would simply use them to "attack Bill."

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"I know there are some good people who are democrats but it seems their party has sold their souls to Satan."

I know some democrats that in all other aspects are good people. It is mind-boggling to try to understand how they've bought the dem party line, especially in the last 10 years.

[windchime]

Carl Cameron, Fox News, just mentioned this story within a story on the closeness of the Florida gubernatorial election and its importance in the 2004 elections. The comments and McBride/McAuliffe's non-reaction were portrayed negatively by Cameron, but no mention was made of the Washington Post reporter's calling McBride/McAuliffe on it.

[JulieRNR21]

The comments and McBride/McAuliffe's non-reaction were portrayed negatively by Cameron, but no mention was made of the Washington Post reporter's calling McBride/McAuliffe on it.

So we'll email this article to FNC and give them the latest! Let's hope Cameron keeps on it.

[floriduh voter]

The only problem was that McBride was with the guy when the guy made the comments and enough other people knew this that the genie's out of the bottle.

Not to worry. We've got the final debate on Tuesday evening and McBride CANNOT dodge or weave with Tim Russert.

NN, do we know what stations the final debate will be on and are we going to get the party started? Pls advise. FV

[floriduh voter]

As long as Jeb has the freepers helping him, he's got an advantage. We can't discount that. The McBride camp thinks things are under control while he's out of the state. RAOFLMAO!

I love politics. Go, Jeb, go!

[ladyinred]

” Curry went on to say of the Bush family, “These people are on a neo-Nazi, right-wing mission against the American people.”

Is this Curry guy a freeper? I read those same kind of remarks here all of the time. As for McBride, what does one expect from a member of the Liars party?

[Lightnin]

These recent polls are BULLSHIT!

Bush will will win by 6-7 points.

[KQQL]

P,S All polls are not BS...

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

You don't think that this is a story? This is what the Fla. press thinks is a frontpage headliner: Gannett sneaks a reporter into a private meeting where Jeb Bush comments on the "class-size" bill (if you don't know about this REAL scandal, con and McBride-press-DNC-teacher's union fraud please do a Freep search), saying he has a "dubious" plan to keep the bill from being enforced (thus saving every Floridian from a tax bill half the size of the existing budget for a bill that doesn't help the children), and the press ran with this "dubious" line for weeks...without telling the voters the truth about the "class-size" amendment.

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  http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/770284/posts?page=1

According to today's Washington Post, McBride recently appeared on the radio program of former Miami-Dade NAACP chair Rev. Victor Curry. On the air, just before McBride's interview began, Curry verbally assaulted the Governor and his family, at one point saying that the Bush family and the bin Laden family were business "partners - seeking to profit from war."

"Curry could be heard on monitors around the small building saying that he would support 'a dog' rather than Jeb Bush. As for President Bush, he "should be impeached" for treason," the Post reported. Curry went on to say of the Bush family, "These people are on a neo-Nazi, right-wing mission against the American people." He concluded calling the Bush administration a "Godless, wicked regime."

And what was Bill McBride's response to all of this? Instead of condemning the remarks, McBride instead praised Curry. According to the Post, "Minutes later, McBride's gentle drawl came over the radio, assuring Curry that, as governor, "One of the people I'm going to listen to is you."

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Sorry, any fair Fla. journalist would be all over both McBride and "Rev." Curry for this....FRONT PAGE.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

FYI. So far, the Florida press is ignoring the Washington Post expose and the Bush/Brogan press release. Please let them know that the cover-up is "dubious."

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E-mail links to Fla. papers:

http://209.26.39.197/CS/customerserv.php?news_contacts=news_contacts.inc (fort myers news-press, e-mail links)

 editor.letters@heraldtribune.com (sarasota herald tribune)
letters@naplesnews.com (naples news)
dklement@bradentonherald.com (bradenton herald)

kguy@sun-sentinel.com (sun-sentinel, ft. lauderdale)

tuletters@timesunion.com (florida times-union, jacksonville)

insight@orlandosentinel.com (orlando sentinel)
letters@pbpost.com (palm beach post)

letters@sptimes.com (st. pete times)
tribletters@tampatrib.com (tampa tribune)

tdedit@talden.com (tallahassee democrat)

bcotterel@taldem.com (good guy at the t.d.)

HeraldEd@herald.com(miami herald)

http://www.opedletters.com/cfm/state.cfm?StateAbbrev=FL (multiple florida press e-mail links)

http://www.rpof.org/rcs/rpof/pub_rpof/web_rpof/fld_otherpages/pg_lte_20011127/index.jsp(FlaGOP multi-link, press)

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[Goldwater Girl]

Anyone who doubts what Ragtime is saying- just switch the characters in the story- and ask yourself, if JEB was going to be interviewed- and MCBRIDE was subjected to this kind of diatribe- whether the state press would be giving Jeb a pass for refusing to repuditate it.
NOT!!!!