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To: pompsander who wrote (745592)	7/18/2006 4:21:36 PM
From: haqihana	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

pompsander, She will back out before the election. It is not been announced yet, but she may have ovarian cancer.

To: pompsander who wrote (745592)	7/18/2006 5:06:26 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 769670

Feds query ex-adviser on Harris Jim Stratton Sentinel Staff Writer orlandosentinel.com July 18, 2006 Federal investigators have interviewed U.S. Rep. Katherine Harris' former top political strategist about the congresswoman's dealings with a defense contractor at the center of a widening Capitol Hill corruption probe. Political consultant Ed Rollins confirmed Monday that Justice Department lawyers and FBI agents recently questioned him for two hours in Washington. He said the discussion focused on Harris' dealings with Mitchell Wade, a defense contractor who funneled $32,000 in illegal campaign contributions to Harris and also bribed a former California congressman. Wade, who is cooperating with federal authorities, pleaded guilty to giving the illegal donations to Harris in 2004. He also admitted trying to curry favor with her in 2005 by offering to hold a fundraiser for her U.S. Senate campaign in Florida. Rollins would not discuss his conversation with Justice investigators, saying only: "I assume more [interviews] will be coming, though. They were very serious." Justice Department officials would not comment Monday. Harris' campaign spokeswoman Jennifer Marks said she had no information about Rollins' interview with the Justice Department. Harris was recuperating from surgery Monday and was unavailable for comment. Though Harris' connection to Wade is well-established, word of Rollins' interview is the most public indication that federal authorities may be targeting the Republican congresswoman from Longboat Key. Wade is the former chief executive of MZM Inc., a defense firm that in recent years received hundreds of millions of dollars in federal contracts. In February, Wade pleaded guilty to bribing Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham, R-Calif. He also acknowledged giving Harris $50,000 in campaign contributions in 2004 for her congressional re-election campaign. About $32,000 of that turned out to be illegal because Wade had instructed employees to contribute to Harris and then reimbursed them. Investigators have said Wade did not tell Harris the contributions were illegal. Pricey dinner Last year, Wade took Harris to dinner at one of Washington, D.C.'s most expensive restaurants, where he picked up the tab of about $2,800. House rules forbid members from accepting gifts worth $50 or more and caution them against accepting "favors or benefits in circumstances that might create the appearance of influencing the performance of official duties," according to the House's Committee on Standards of Official Conduct. Harris maintained for months that she had paid her portion of the bill, but in April she acknowledged that was not the case. While at dinner, Wade offered to organize a fundraiser for Harris and sought her help in obtaining $10 million in federal money to develop a counterintelligence facility near Sarasota. A few weeks later, Harris submitted Wade's request to an appropriations subcommittee even though her staff had initially rejected it because the request was late and not well-explained. Harris has defended the request, saying she was simply trying to bring jobs to Florida. She has insisted her support of Wade's proposal was in no way connected to his campaign contributions or his offer to sponsor a fundraiser for her. But her ties to Wade have come under increasing scrutiny. Earlier this year, Rollins said he and other members of Harris' campaign team at the time questioned her about the dinner and her relationship with Wade. He says she gave inconsistent answers that left staff members uneasy. "Her story changed whenever you asked her about it," he said. Rollins said he even suggested Harris speak with an attorney because he worried Wade's offer to sponsor a fundraiser and Harris' offer to submit his appropriations request could be interpreted as a "quid pro quo." Rollins is among a long list of advisers who have left Harris' campaign in the past few months. The government-watchdog group Common Cause used virtually the same language when it filed a complaint in May asking the Justice Department to investigate Harris' dealings with Wade. Campaign upheaval A Justice Department investigation likely would be the biggest setback yet to Harris' struggling Senate campaign, which has suffered constant turmoil and turnover amid growing questions about her connections with Wade. She is facing three challengers in the GOP primary to determine who will take on Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson in the fall. But she has won very little support from party leaders in her bid. Jim Stratton can be reached at 407-420-5379 or jstratton@orlandosentinel.com. Copyright © 2006, Orlando Sentinel \| Get home delivery - up to 50% off

To: pompsander who wrote (745592)	7/18/2006 8:55:17 PM
From: PROLIFE	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

They're reprehensible By Mychal Massie Well spoke Mark Twain when he said: "Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself." The truth be told not only are they idiots, but many of them are the worst examples of humanity – and none is a better portrait of same than Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., but I am getting ahead of myself. I justly brand these carrion the worst kind of human beings because of their relentless attacks against our military men and women. Theirs is not simply over-the-top foolish comments, they are personal, ad-hominem attacks directed at men and women who do not deserve them – but serve under a commander in chief Boxer and those like her loathe. Our military men and women have families, friends and children who are proud of their relatives, friends and parents who serve. Boxer and those like writer Terry J. Allen, who can be best described as the hanky that catches the spittle from Boxer's lips, have no sense of propriety when it comes to making a simple fact fit a theory – the proportions of which even Michael Stone's work pales in comparison to. For Boxer and Allen to label our military as being in a drugged stupor is unforgivable. Do some military personnel use various medications to sustain them during times of unimaginable stress? Yes, they do. Does that make the entire Armed Forces the equivalent of yesteryear's rock bands – and many of today's elected officials? No, it doesn't. How do these wild-eyed accusations and incriminations make the children of military personnel feel? What does the child think after attending a school where teachers sing praises to Michael Moore and attack the war effort, and then witnessing their recently returned parents taking medication for a legitimate ailment? Boxer would be far better served lamenting the large number of congressmen who take prescription pills often enough to suffer "rebound." The dirty little secret that no one talks about is the number of prescription drug abusers and alcoholics that sit in positions of confidence and run our country while in a stupor – and it is certainly no secret pursuant to the addicts and abusers in the media. Yet Boxer and Allen, rather than report the truth of their own, attack our military in a draconian attempt to embarrass the president. Then there is the recycled rube that the military has been infiltrated by neo-Nazis and white supremacists. This bit of damnable heterodoxy from the vacant mind of David Holthouse claims, "Ten years after a scandal over neo-Nazis in the Armed Forces, extremists are once again worming their way into recruit-starved military." (Pentagon Reduced to Recruiting Neo-Nazis; David Holthouse; July 9; Intelligence Report.) First of all, the military isn't recruit-starved. I recently spent a day with military personnel who were able to share exact numbers with me: Our military is not suffering from a shortage of recruits. While there are exceptions to every rule – what isn't an exception is the number of Klansmen, racists and segregationists in government as recent as 40 years ago. What isn't an aberration is the number of black children that the progeny of Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger murder every day. Why is that not decried? Also, let us not forget that the racist supremacist most recently responsible for killing his fellow military men was a black Muslim who threw a grenade into the tent where they slept. If these disgusting pissoirs want to attack the president, they should have enough intestinal fortitude to do it openly and without using our military as pawns. To make a "fact" fit their fiction is a disgrace to our military and their families. November is coming, and we should not forget the malevolent treachery of Boxer's kind. Not one of them should be spared our wrath. © 2006 WorldNetDaily.com