You think the nameplate is on the door in the Supreme Court building yet? Just asking.
At the Missouri Attorney General web site:
“Bio will be posted soon.”
Maybe not.
Last night we were on the receiving end of a short robocall poll for the 2018 U.S. Senate race in Missouri. Think about that.
We were asked to choose between [press 1] a republican and [press 2] the Democrat, Claire McCaskill. The republican choices, in the order they were presented, were: Ann Wagner, the retired NASCAR guy [?], Josh Hawley, and Vicky Hartzler.
So, Josh Hawley (r) has been in office, what, just under three weeks? Go figure.
The Tea Party movement is being ripped apart by bitter internal rancor, highlighted by a lawsuit against a former leader, vituperative name-calling, and charges of financial mismanagement and corruption….
…board members for the Tea Party Patriots (TPP) this week filed suit against Amy Kremer, a former TPP leader who fell out with the group over her involvement with a rival Tea Party faction, the Tea Party Express…
….At the root of the dispute is the acrimony between TPP and the Tea Party Express, a newer group formed by a team of GOP consultants. Many TPPers sees TPE as inauthentic, calling it the “Astoturf Express,” and deriding it as a “Republican front organization….”
Hello, this is Amy Kremer, tea party activist and co-founder of American Grassroots Coalition.
Tonight I called you to participate in a live tele-townhall meeting with Congressman Paul Ryan [r] to give you the opportunity to ask questions about the issues that are most important to you.
I’m sorry that I missed you, but we’ll be doing this again. So I hope that we will catch you home at that time.
If you’d like to contact my office directly please visit American grassroots coalition dot org.
Thank you very much. Have a good night.
Paul Ryan? Really? The guy that wants to destroy Medicare? No thanks.
….By a margin of 57 percent to 34 percent, poll respondents say they would be worse off if Ryan’s plan to convert Medicare to a system of subsidized private health coverage were adopted. Fifty-eight percent of independents, a critical voting bloc in recent elections, say they would be worse off.
That’s likely to encourage Democrats to bank their success in next year’s presidential and congressional races on tying Republicans to the Medicare plan, which was passed by the Republican-controlled House on April 15….
Apparently a lot of other people are thinking the same thing.
The Missouri HRCC has stepped in it with their desperate and homophobic robocalls in legislative district races across the state and the story has gone national:
First Posted: 10-28-10 09:42 AM | Updated: 10-28-10 09:42 AM
While the closing weeks of the 2008 presidential campaign were defined in part by a series of nasty robocall attacks on Barack Obama, there has been a noticeable absence of the campaign technique in the 2010 elections.
Among congressional candidates, only a few have used robocalls — a relatively cheap form of blitzing voters with an automated message — to push headline-grabbing messages. The real memorable ones, indeed, have taken place at the local level, often with groups trying to micro-target social conservative voters.
On Wednesday, a group called the House Republican Campaign Committee (presumably an arm of the Missouri Republican Party) released a robocall attacking Courtney Cole, a state representative in Missouri, for having ties to the “hardcore pornography industry, including gay pornography…”
…The ties-to-hard-core-porn charge borders on a self-parody of an attack ad….
Uh, Courtney Cole (D) is a candidate for state representative. If the Huffington Post had bothered to read and linked to our post (and done a little basic research there) they would have figured that out. They didn’t throw us a link. They did use the earlier version of our video, with the single typo. Heh. We did put our name and URL on the end credits.
And, lo and behold, the stenographer posted the story:
Missouri Democrats are up in arms about what they call a series of automated phone calls being made to voters in the 121st state House district just south and east of KC.
The calls target Courtney Cole, the Democratic candidate for state rep. She’s running against incumbent Rep. Denny Hoskins, a Warrensburg Republican.
The script…
Uh, that was our transcription. and like the Huffington Post the Star uses the early version of our video without linking to our post.
The HRCC also did something very similar in the 124th Legislative District with a robocall on the same day attacking representative Luke Scavuzzo (D):
Female voice: This is an urgent alert for all Christian families. Before you vote you should know that state representative Luke Scavuzzo has taken hundreds in campaign donations from a representative of the hard core pornography industry, including gay pornography. By allowing his Democrat campaign to be funded by those who are involved with and support hard core pornography we are disappointed that Luke Scavuzzo apparently no longer shares our Christian family values. On election day stand up for what’s right and decent by voting no on Luke Scavuzzo. Paid for by House Republican Campaign Committee, Inc.
That’s a different voice than the one on the robocall attacking Courtney Cole (D).
Is anyone gonna ask the HRCC’s Executive Director his opinion about the religious values of Democratic candidates across the state of Missouri? Just wondering.
Today the House republican Campaign Committee ran a robocall in the 121st Legislative District attacking Courtney Cole (D) in terms that have never been seen before in this district:
Female voice: This is an urgent alert for all Christian families. Before you vote you should know that state representative candidate Courtney Cole has taken hundreds in campaign donations from a representative of the hard core pornography industry, including gay pornography. By allowing her Democratic campaign to be funded by those who are involved with and support hard core pornography Courtney Cole clearly does not share our Christian family values. On election day stand up for what’s right and decent by voting no on Courtney Cole. Paid for by House Republican Campaign Committee, Inc.
Evidently they don’t care about the Jewish, Hindu, Muslim, Buddhist, or Wiccan (among many others) families in the district. Or maybe the HRCC feels less urgency for those families. Are they saying their favorite candidate feels the same way? Just asking. They know him better than we do.
A baseless accusation with no substance. Check. Exploiting religion. Check. Homophobia. Check. That’s the Missouri republican party for you. And those ain’t exactly family values.
The folks in the HRCC who paid for this robocall were walking with Denny Hoskins (r-noun, verb, CPA) and wearing his campaign t-shirt in last weekend’s homecoming parade in Warrensburg:
Dave Hageman, Missouri Executive Director of Victory Enterprises (left) and
Robert Knodell, Executive Director of the House Republican Campaign Committee (right)
That makes it difficult for Denny Hoskins (r-noun, verb, CPA) to distance himself from the HRCC, don’t you think?
This evening I received an automated survey in the voice of Ken Blackwell (r) (former Ohio Secretary of State and current candidate for chairman of the rnc).
Talk about social conservatism. Heh. The questions which required a “yes” or “no” response were the standard right wingnut boilerplate. God, guns, gays, and less taxes. My favorite was (paraphrased): “Do you believe that marriage should only be between a man and a woman…?” I answered correctly, “No.” The call was paid for by one of those obnoxious meme named PACs. “America something something something, etc.”
Ken Blackwell. Ohio. Secretary of State. 2004. Oh, right:
Posted by Associated Press December 24, 2008 08:19AM
COLUMBUS – Ohioans are still paying for the 2004 presidential election.
The secretary of state’s office says more than $1 million has been spent already to settle seven lingering lawsuits. More than a dozen cases remain in state and federal courts.
Lawsuits have challenged then-Secretary Ken Blackwell’s election directives, such as restricting news media exit polling, and the narrow results that clinched President Bush’s re-election over Democrat John Kerry…
Heh. I hope he becomes chairman of the rnc – he’ll stick to the same old playbook. Consider this my enthusiastic endorsement.
Obama’s making automated phone calls in Missouri decrying the type of nasty robocalls McCain has been using. In the call, a Republican woman announces she used to support John McCain, but switched to Obama after she saw that McCain supported Bush’s policies and used Rovian tactics.
