Bush raises $700K for GOP in Connecticut ("Clearly people believe he has been a good president")

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Mid Day Open Thread
By: Nicole Belle on Saturday, April 26th, 2008 at 12:30 PM - PDT



Connecticut Post:

Only 20 percent of Connecticut voters like the job President George Bush is doing, but that didn’t stop his fellow Republicans from supporting the embattled leader Friday and opening their wallets to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign cash.

He received a warm welcome at Bradley International Airport from Gov. M. Jodi Rell as he arrived with U.S. Rep. Chris Shays, the state’s lone Republican congressman. The president later attended a political reception in Kent for the state GOP and state Sen. David Cappiello, a Danbury Republican running for the 5th District congressional seat.

About 425 people turned out for the event at former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger’s home. Tickets cost $1,000 apiece; $10,000 for a picture with Bush. State GOP Chairman Christopher S. Healy said at least $700,000 was raised — about 60 percent will go to Cappiello’s campaign.

“Clearly people believe he has been a good president and will be shown to have been a good president,” said Healy, adding that state Republicans are energized, despite Bush’s poll numbers. “The truth is, this economy in America grew and we had a record number of jobs, we had strong exports, we had no terrorist attack post-9-11. George Bush did not take a lot of credit for that and maybe he should have.”

*sigh* The fact that anyone can say this with a straight face at this point is so sad.

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/04/26/open-thread-790/

[rfranklin]

1. For the Aryans from Darien he's been great....

Taxes cut to the bone, trade policies that fatten their 401s, less pesky regulation... what's to compain about?

[frogcycle]

2. people are donating to the pug party

and this clown says that means they think the jackass has been a good president?

what is this State GOP Chairman, some kind of brain-dead idiot?

oh, wait...

[Horse with no Name]

3. How much came from Lieberman? n/t

[knitter4democracy]

4. He used to raise millions.

They should compare it to the last fundraiser there or to one from the last election.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

5. The Marquis de Sade wrote about orgies among the elite where they ate fresh excrement

I don't remember whether it was in his novel Justine or in Juliette or another (I read them long ago for a college class). De Sade depicted decadent orgies among the upper classes in the late 18th century and I distintly recall at least one account where a rich man asked a woman to lay an "egg" for him to eat after a sumptuous banquet.

Of course eating fresh excrement isn't even remotely as disgusting as worshipping George Bush and asking to have a picture taken with him, but it does show that there are bizarre and decadent tastes out there.

[nancyr]

6. He's been very good to his mega rich cronies.

The rest of us don't matter.

[Snarkoleptic]

7. He's very popular in Greenwich.

[VP505]

8. Sure the truth is

"we had a record number of jobs, we had strong exports", unfortunately it was the jobs being exported.

[varelse]

9. Considering his "base" are the "haves, and the have-mores"

$700K is pathetic. Surely, no matter what the GOP officials say publically, they must be aware of that fact.

[NYC Liberal]

10. He raised $700,000.......from *425 people*

LOL, he sure is popular! :rofl:

[hoosier_lefty]

11. "we had no terrorist attack post-9-11..."

by that same thinking...

Reagan never sold weapons to terrorists... after Iran,a few countries
in South America and Iraq.

Nixon never tapped a telephone... after the Watergate hotel"

see Republicans are good people :sarcasm:

[JerseygirlCT]

12. I'm sure Chris Murphy knows that he holds one of the two

hot seats in the state. These have been fought over for a very long time now. He and Joe Courtney are going to need help to stay in place.

Meanwhile, let's clean up our record, CT, and get rid of that pesky GOP Congressman!

[Breeze54]

13. Does that $10K donation break CT's campaign donation law?

State Bans on Soft Money

The Center for Public Integrity

http://www.public-i.org/Content.aspx?src=search&context=article&id=652

Among the 50 states, only Connecticut has a campaign finance law that prevents the national parties from flooding its elections with transfers of unregulated, soft money donations. Like the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act, which will take effect after the November 2002 elections, Connecticut's law bans all corporate and union contributions and limits the amount individuals and political actions committees (PACs) can give. Connecticut's law explicitly bans soft money transfers to state parties under the guise of "party building activities" from the "nonfederal accounts" (that is, the accounts that fall outside the regulatory authority of the Federal Election Commission) maintained by the half-dozen party committees of the national Democratic and Republican parties.

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Under Connecticut law, individuals are limited to annual contributions of $5,000 to the state party committees and $1,000 to local party committees.

:shrug:

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

14. $1,000 a ticket, $10,000 for a pic with Shrub! He sold pics of himself flying on AF1 on 9/11 at a

GOP fundraiser right after 9/11.

[bushmeister0]

15. Wow, Chris Shays, how desperate is he? He is one of the "moderates," right?

[Supersedeas]

16. says much about this state -- my tourism dollars will not travel there anytime soon

[Occulus]

17. No terrorist attacks?

[yardwork]

19. I was thinking the same thing. Anthrax down the memory hole.

And where is Osama bin Laden, anyway?

[spanone]

18. 10,000 for a picture with bu$h*.....well fuck me

[Flying Dream Blues]

22. gotta pic? Sorry, couldn't resist. Gotta laugh or cry these days. :)

[jmowreader]

20. I see they bussed in every Republican in Connecticut

It's good to see all your friends in the same place every once in a while...

Let me see here: he raised seven hundred bills for this Cappiello, whoever he is. It cost this crowd $425,000 just to walk through the door, leaving $275,000 to be raised through pictures with Dipshit. Divide $275,000 by $10,000 and you can see that only 28 people cared to be close enough to Caligula to get their pictures made with him. IOW, less than seven percent of the Republican population of the state of Connecticut wanted to have a Kodak Moment with America's Worst President.

And of those 28 people, they tell me fourteen of them are currently making dartboards...

[Flying Dream Blues]

21. Anytime a politician starts with, "The truth is...", my BS meter is fully engaged. nt

[bdamomma]

23. .......

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