More GOPers Shedding The Taint Of Stevens Money
The stampede of Republicans dumping contributions from Ted Stevens picked up speed today:
• Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell's campaign spokesman tells us that McConnell is donating $10,000, the amount McConnell has received this cycle from Stevens' leadership PAC, to the Wayside Christian Mission. Still no response on whether McConnell is endorsing Stevens for reelection.
• The Pioneer Press is reporting that Sen. Norm Coleman of Minnesota is donating the money to support childhood cancer research. Interestingly enough, he'd previously said he wouldn't dump the money, on the grounds that Stevens is innocent until proven guilty. But a Franken radio ad tying him to Stevens might just have changed his mind.
• Mike Johanns, the Republican nominee favored to win the open seat in Nebraska, is also donating the money he's received from Stevens to charity.
Comments (7)
Way to go Franken! Hit him hard and right where it hurts-- the pocket book.
July 30, 2008 5:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
I cannot tell y'all how delighted I am about this whole thing. Happy happy joy joy - it couldn't happen to a nastier lunatic.
July 30, 2008 5:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
They were for Stevens PAC money before they were against it.
July 30, 2008 5:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
Kind of how so many were all about Tom Delay's money machine, until they weren't.
Except for some who stayed with it - like my congressman, Jeb Hensarling, who took $20,000 from Delay and when I wrote and asked him when he was going to give it back, after Delay was indicted, he said NO. Rather like Ted.
I really despise Jeb Hensarling.
July 30, 2008 6:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
I never noticed before but Ted Stevens' got a double scowl...totally Eewkie!
July 30, 2008 9:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
Listen up, there's a another wrinkle here that needs reporting.
Yes, in Oregon, Gordon Smith has given up the $10,000 his campaign received in 2007.
But here's what hasn't been reported anywhere yet -- in 2005 and 2006, Smith accepted two $5000 checks from Stevens to pay down his 1996 campaign debt.
That's debt that was owed to Smith personally. That's right: Smith took $10,000 from Stevens, and personally pocketed it.
And I'm sure it's a coincidence that the second $5000 check was cut just days after Smith cast the deciding vote to drill for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (breaking a 2002 campaign promise.) Lots more at BlueOregon.
July 31, 2008 12:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oh, p.s. My firm built JeffMerkley.com, but I speak only for myself.
July 31, 2008 12:49 PM | Reply | Permalink