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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Richard S who wrote (497392)	11/23/2003 4:15:36 PM
From: jim-thompson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

I only recently started reading about her and then saw her on some TV interview. I was surprised. I thought she was your typical ignorant woman in politics who got lucky. I was impressed by her responses and refused to let the interviewer lead her into a path of self-destruction. I guess anytime I think of a female politician i think of that dumb $%$%$ that is from Houston who was riding two blocks in a limo to work...... Wouldn't hurt for her to lose a little weight though.....

To: Richard S who wrote (497392)	11/23/2003 4:37:14 PM
From: Ish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

<<Carol did not, however, win re-election because she did not perform her job well enough and because of supposed "scandal". >> I am also from Illinois and remember her second run. She was down 300k votes with 325k votes to be counted and wouldn't concede. The real scandal was her first run when she was elected. Or rather two scandals. She loaded up her office with her friends before quitting to run for the Senate. The other was getting her mother into a nursing home, taxpayer paying the ticket, and then she sold her mother's timber ground in the South and pocketed the money. I remember the Illinois Attorney General saying what she had done was illegal but to charge her, and it was a pure 100% easy case to convict, would be unfair during her campaign. Didn't get charged after either. That woman is made of Teflon.

To: Richard S who wrote (497392)	11/23/2003 4:57:56 PM
From: Glenn Petersen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Ish is right, the airing of the Braun scandals actually preceded her election. She went up against two white males (including the incumbent Al "the pal" Dixon), who split the white vote, in the Democratic primary and won with about 36% of the overall vote. The Republicans did not think that they could beat Dixon and slated a sacrificial lamb, Rich Williamson. Williamson financed a good chunk of his own campaign. Braun was a horrible Senator and was doomed the second time around, regardless of her scandals. As for Ryan, there was only a whiff of scandal prior to his election. The whiff was enough for me to pass on making any selection for governor that year. Hopefully, Ryan goes to jail.