Plunderbund:
Tea Party leaders say the Ohio GOP is “declaring war” on the movement with mailers claiming all of its endorsed candidates embrace Tea Party values.....
....While O’Brien can boast support of some local Tea Parties, (Chris) Littleton said, “Husted has no business doing it. Period. It’s laughable. It’s a joke that he would consider himself a Tea Party person when he has for the past 10 years been part of the destruction of Ohio’s economy.”
Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
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* The John Kasich campaign is soliciting volunteers to make phone calls from their own homes to get people out for the primary. I think this is strange for several reasons:
(1) Normally, on political campaigns, calls are made from a phone bank office where the calls are supervised and recorded.
(2) This is a very, very, very cheap way to get something done. Once again we see the notoriously cheap Kasich is at it again. He doesn't have to pay anyone to get something accomplished. It may also be a signal that the Kasich campaign is experiencing financial difficulties. (Kasich should invest some of his own millions into his campaign.)
Remember the financial reform we were all hoping for after the Bush bailouts? Looks like Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell is being won over by the Wall Streeters and is backing down under their pressure and campaign contributions.
Huffington Post:
Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) entered a political memo written by GOP strategist Frank Luntz into the official Congressional Record on Wednesday, arguing that it belonged there because Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and other Republicans were repeating it verbatim in their effort to block Wall Street reform.
On Tuesday, McConnell came out against the Democratic reform plan, arguing that it would enshrine the system where some banks are too big to fail. The plan, which passed through Dodd's Banking Committee on a party-line vote, uses a tax on banks to create a $50 billion fund to wind down and liquidate major failing financial institutions.
McConnell, under attack for meeting with some two dozen top Wall Street executives before coming out against banking reform, shielded himself behind Kentucky community banks on Tuesday....
Nice job, Mitch! Keep supporting those greedy Wall Streeters and bankers because it seems to be paying off in your campaign contributions. According to OpenSecrets, McConnell has received
over $1,147,000 from the Security and Investment Industry (from 2005 to the present).
Why do Republicans always favor banks, financial and security firms over the rights of human beings?