Katherine Harris is exploding

[garybeck]

OK, I changed the headline slightly...

orlando sentinel
4/1/06

Harris' Senate campaign 'imploding'




The last of U.S. Rep. Katherine Harris' key staffers appear ready to abandon her campaign for the U.S. Senate in a wave of resignations expected to start this weekend.

Sources close to the campaign said Friday that the defections would touch virtually every level of her operation.

Harris, who is running against Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson, is likely to lose her chief political strategist, her campaign manager, her spokeswoman, her director of field operations and even a traveling aide who helps hand out stickers at campaign appearances.

It is the latest and most dramatic indication so far that her campaign is on the verge of collapse.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

full article

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/state/orl-harris0106apr01,0,1888059.story?coll=orl-home-headlines

[Kingshakabobo]

1. Say it isn't so. I want to see her get murdelized in Nov. n/t

[garybeck]

6. careful,,,,

they don't exactly count all the votes in public view in Florida. I'd rather have her drop out beforehand.

[Kingshakabobo]

14. I'd rather go against the she-devil we know. n/t

[KaryninMiami]

25. Correct- we need her in until the end when it's too late for a substitute.

Chances are they will rig it anyway if they want to but at least with the odds stacked against her and the polls showing such a huge gap, they might think twice about it. If they put someone else in who might come closer to Nelson then they will be far more likely to flip the votes.

[garybeck]

34. that would be ideal...

maybe she'll stick around a while longer even though all her staff has jumped ship.

[radfringe]

44. IMPLOSION HAS BEGUN

Katherine Harris Campaign Loses Core Staff
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/nationworld/ats-ap_top14apr02,0,6112391.story?coll=sns-newsnation-headlines
By BRENDAN FARRINGTON
Associated Press Writer
Posted April 2 2006, 5:57 AM EDT

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Katherine Harris' U.S. Senate campaign lost what was left of its core team when a top adviser, campaign manager, and communications director resigned this weekend.

Harris, a Republican congresswoman challenging incumbent Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson, said Saturday she would introduce new members of her campaign early in the week.

---snip---
Among those resigning over the weekend were Ed Rollins, a political adviser to President Reagan; campaign manager Jamie Miller; press secretary Morgan Dobbs; and other key staff.

[cspanlovr]

2. It couldn't happen to a nicer person.

[marmar]

3. Karma is a bitch...

It's all coming back on the Wicked Witch of Voter Disenfranchisement. I'm crying big ass crocodile tears! :nopity:

[neoblues]

4. Exploding? Stand Back--you wouldn't want to get any of that on you! nt.

[garybeck]

9. spontaneous human combustion? messy thought. n/t

[Roland99]

35. I think it's just her chest >>>>>>

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/state/orl-harris20060326075526,0,4349457.photo?coll=orl-home-headlines

[skids]

40. I wonder if she has a warranty on those...

...and whether they are paid for in full.

:hide:

[Cooley Hurd]

42. I don't know, but they very likely have serial numbers...

:rofl:

[Bake]

68. Actually, I believe implants DO have serial numbers.

I'm series! They're HUGH!!!!!1!!11!!!

Bake

[John Q. Citizen]

5. I wish she would slow down and implode a little closer to the general

election.

We need Katherine to stay viable until it's too late for a replacement candidate.

[Elidor]

10. Need her for the popcorn factor, too!

She is just endlessly entertaining these days.

[druidity33]

45. isn't it?

Can a candidate still file at this late date? They'd have to gather an awful lot of signatures in an awful short period of time to make it happen... basically the Rethugs would need like.... i don't even know who could pull it off, maybe some Ahnold-type washed up Floridian actor. I'm not going to try and think who could be a viable candidate for them cuz they're probably readin this...

peace out

[Poll_Blind]

7. I just realized it- she looks like the MCP from Tron! UGH!

I knew that bitch was Evil with a side of fries...

PB

[colorado thinker]

8. All I can say is

Thank god. The woman is a brain-washed lunatic. Hope she stays "exploded".:toast:

[garybeck]

15. "brainwashed lunatic" is too kind...

brainwashed implies someone it's someone else's fault

it's all her. she is pure evil.

[The_Casual_Observer]

11. It sounds like she didn't make good on the 10 million and

nobody is getting paid.

[Bushies gotta go]

12. I don't know who...

...the guy behind her is but if looks could kill. I have to assume he's one of her staff and he looks ready to resign.




edited for typo

[benburch]

13. If she explodes...

*I* am NOT gonna clean up the mess.

Somebody else can go wipe up all the bile and bits of silicone and collagen.

[Beetwasher]

16. I Hear Ken Lay Is Looking For Work

n/t

[babylonsister]

17. Please, let her spend her legacy! Please! I mean it, please! nt

[connecticut yankee]

18. Wah Hoo!

what happened to her Daddy's ten million?

[garybeck]

19. she spent it on makeup and

a coffin she sleeps in during the day

[Jack Rabbit]

20. Floridians, what is going on here?

Who is running against Cruella for the GOP nomination?

If the answer to that is nobody, then how does it reflect on the Jebster that the Republican Senate candidate's campaign has collapsed before she is actually nominated?

[garybeck]

all the republicans elected in florida are frauds...

from jeb bush to harris to feeney, none of them actually won their election. the question is not so much who is running, but will Ion Sancho catch up to them in time.

[Jack Rabbit]

26. Even we Californians know they're a bunch of crooks

A Google search reveals to me that Ion Sancho is the Leon County Supervisor of Elections. It sounds like he's a wee bit skeptical of electronic machines and that it has a few people upset.

[garybeck]

27. Ion Sancho...

if you don't know who Ion Sancho is, you must read up on this developing situation. By taking one courageous action and letting an independent computer expert inspect a tiny memory card on a Diebold Voting machine, he is repsonsible for the greatest progress toward saving our democracy. if only there were more election supervisors who gave a crap in this country.

his action is responsible for what is going on in California - McPherson temporarily decertified Diebold... then he sent the memory cards to a team of experts at Berkely who confirmed the problems and found they are actually ILLEGAL. Now there's a lawsuit against McPherson and Senator Debra Bowen is running for Secretary of STate, on the issue, attacking McPherson for illegally re-certifiying Diebold.

here are some important links:

The Harri Hursti Hack and its Importance to our Nation:
http://www.votetrustusa.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=798&Itemid=51

Ion Sancho Needs our Help!
http://www.votetrustusa.org/supportsancho.html

Florida subpoenas voting machine companies
http://www.tampabays10.com/news/news.aspx?storyid=27945


all of this is because of one person: Ion Sancho
He had some help, but if he hadn't allowed Hursti to check out the card, none of this would have happened.

[Jack Rabbit]

28. Muchas gracias, señor

!!

[Trevelyan]

47. God bless Ion Sancho!! Sign petitions for clean elections:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2546384

This thread could use a few nominations! This particular petition goes to the Committee where this bill has been stuck for years, so it's kind of important!

There are over 160 co-sponsors but unless it gets to the floor, none of them or anyone else in the House, can even vote on it.

It's the best bill of this type in Congress at the moment."

http://www.icountcoalition.org/petition.html
http://www.rushholt.com/petition.html

[The_Casual_Observer]

22. Will Jeb jump in instead?

[MadisonProgressive]

21. She's Incredible!

This week, Harris e-mailed supporters saying that the media have "relentlessly and personally attacked" her for months.

She said it was critical that supporters contribute to her campaign so she could unseat Nelson.

Now, however, staffers may be as big a concern as money.

"Right now, I don't think anybody with any credibility would touch her," Johnson said.

"I'm not sure what she can do."

[Olney Blue]

23. Where's Rove when you need him, Katherine?

[garybeck]

24. don't forget., Rove didn't want her in the first place...

early on, Rove supposedly did not want Harris to run. this debacle could be part of Rove's plan.

[Olney Blue]

29. Yes, I know she was dissed by Rove.

Which makes this even more delicious......

[gristy]

30. Start this weekend?

Start? They've been jumping ship all week! LOL

[EST]

31. Wouldn't matter much if she drops out, now.

Nobody will back her and the only money she'll waste will be her own. She really does need to be shot down in flames--good visual message for other faint-hearted bottom feeders.

[garybeck]

32. you have too much confidence in the election system

doesn't matter how many people vote for her. with her money and connections she could rig the election.

[EST]

55. Yah, I know.

With a big enough groundswell - huge, I'm talking about - the advantage of counting the votes may be overcome. With enough light shed on this issue and enough suspicious eyes monitoring the process, two things may happen.
One is that a vast number number of centrist votes can shift to the dem side of the ledger, raising the general awareness to the point that "come from behind 'victories'" will immediately be subject to the glare of an outraged electorate.
And, two, with the house of cards turning into a house of shards around them, the "tools" of the crooked voting managers and enablers may well opt to come forward and fess up to their nefarious misdeeds, preferring to reduce their own exposure by exposing their cohorts.
The indomitable Ms. Harris may well become a valued instrument of her own and her co-conspirators' destruction.

[LunaSea]

33. Yay....

[Imagevision]

36. Harris's political ambitions exceed common logic - she was caught

accepting illegal poitical contributions and when found out she thinks giving it away to charity is going to make things all hunky-dory... Katherine Dear, obviously you need a better younger lover or some damn thing??!!

[TreasonousBastard]

37. So, why is this a good thing? Been threads all day...

on this, but nobody seems to know who's gonna pick up the pieces-- she goes down and they bring in the one they had in mind all along.

[jillan]

38. She also needs to lose those earrings.

[Hissyspit]

39. Why isn't she in prison?

Democracy Thief. Karma is gonna be a bitch, Katherine.

[rman]

41. She's being protected,

all criminals in high places are.
Being in high places is how they protect one another.

[Hissyspit]

61. Yeah, you know what they say. If you're gonna steal, steal big. n/t

[RedTail Wolf]

43. Ever step on a pregnant spider before?

Not that this witch is prego but the analogy holds I think. When a very pregnant spider is stepped on, squished, or squashed etc. Thousands of baby spiders are released to run a muck. Watch out what we wish for.
I want Harris around till voting day. As long as she is the "face" of the Repugnant party I love it! That painted, sprayed, perfectly glued, and pasted on face and hair is a good thing for Dem's every time she is shown in the mass media. I'd much rather see that bucket of industrial strength eye liner run after she looses to our Democratic Brother. If the spider is crushed too early we loose all of that publicity; reminding people of the injustice done by the Head Justices in 2000. So for now "Run Kathy Run" Please spend that 10 million dollars of inheritance, trust fund, kickback or whatever the word is for all that cash is this week, and help us make OUR day more special. Don't squish the spider just yet, imho. Let her web be spun, come to full term and then set a torch to the spider and to each little make-up covered spiderette that emerges. Be patient my fellow Americans

Thanks and Be Blessed, Michael RedTail Wolf

[Kailassa]

53. I was going to tell you a spider could not get pregnant, but ...

I did a little research first and found a picture of one.



The resemblance is extraordinary.

[Trevelyan]

46. Isn't Nelson the Dino of Dinos?

What has he ever done for America?

[wndycty]

48. Do you got someone better for Florida, who can win and . . .

. . .possible give us a Democratic majority in the Senate? Are you from Florida (I'm not) do you want a Senator from Florida who represents the DU or represents Florida?

[Chulanowa]

49. Well when you think about it...

Republicans hate GLBT's. Plaster that picture around and she'll sink like a concrete brick wrapped in lead. Seriously I can just imagine her having some sort of deep strained voice "Hiiiii, my name is Katherine... But you can call me Caaaaandy".

It's scary when I see a critter that makes Ann "Orexia" Coulter look feminine by comparison. :lol:

Spread the word among the Jebbites - "That dude looks like a... dude tryin' to look like a lady!"

[Kailassa]

54. I have to disagree.

The type of female she is impersonating lately ain't no lady.

[unblock]

50. what a pity. i was hoping she'd have enough time to drain her millions.

[ClassWarrior]

51. Think about that... Even the PAID GRUNT is resigning.

"...even a traveling aide who helps hand out stickers at campaign appearances." The corrupt Republicons had to PAY some schlub to do the job I do FREE every two years for good Democrats. And I probably do it better too.

:rofl:

NGU.

[0007]

52. Awe shucks! I wantta see da bitch go down in the big one

[Kailassa]

58. Ughh. I do NOT want to see that bitch go down at all, ever.

Oh, you mean "lose the election"?`

[elehhhhna]

56. She'd be gorgeous if she'd wash her face.

[Kailassa]

59. She should return the finger paints to the local school.

Apparently the 1st person to quit was her stylist.

[snowbear]

65. Wow, you're not very picky are you?

She reminds me of a slightly younger version of Jean Schmidt.

[Atman]

57. Moxie & Spunk get overinflated?

She should stay out of unpressurized aircraft cabins. She could put someone's eye(s) out!

[UrbScotty]

60. Poor thing

:sarcasm:

[Stevepol]

62. Anybody checked to see if Diebold is deserting her? n/t

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

63. 6 more years of Nelson?

Oh, goody!

[snowbear]

64. Who's worse --- Nelson or that old hag? ...NELSON IS BETTER!

And he's going to stomp that old witch in the election!!

[eppur_se_muova]

66. Oh, you meant figuratively...meh. I wanted pix of the real thing. nt

[LittleClarkie]

67. I wonder if she is be sabotaged

The Bush's aren't behind her. So I wonder if Jeb is putting pressure on her staff and potential donors.