So what's new in the insane asylum formerly known as Katherine Harris
Campaign Headquarters?
Let's find out!
Last week Harris lost yet another top staffer, political director
Rhyan Metzler, after she blamed him for the bizarre "tree falling on
airplane hangar" incident which she claimed ruined a recent campaign
event. According to the Orlando Sentinel:
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/state/orl-stbriefs22_306aug22,0,1329344.story?coll=orl-news-headlines-state
Only 40 people showed up for the event, and Harris blamed the paltry
turnout in part on a last-minute location change.
She said a tree fell on the hangar that the rally was scheduled to be
in, forcing her campaign to switch to another hangar.
Airport officials, however, said no trees had fallen and that Harris
was in the hangar her campaign had originally booked.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/top10/06/256_harris2.jpg
Meanwhile, the St. Petersburg Times reports:
http://www.sptimes.com/2006/08/26/State/Harris_campaign_await.shtml
After months of hearing members of even her own party second-guess her
run for the U.S. Senate, Katherine Harris said she would pump
$10-million of her own money into her financially strapped campaign.
In an emotional announcement on national TV in March, Harris said she
would use every penny her late father had left her.
Minutes later, while still in the New York studio where she made the
announcement, Harris received a call from her sister. She and their
brother were furious that she had not told them she was going to spend
family money on her campaign, according to her former senior
consultant Ed Rollins, who was with her that night.
Er, what a blunder.
Harris breathlessly told Sean Hannity on Fox News that "I'm going to
commit my legacy from my father, ten million dollars ... this is
everything I have, and this levels, temporarily, the playing field."
The Times continues...
In the days that followed, several former staffers, including Rollins,
said Harris learned she would not directly receive any inheritance
from her father. Instead, his assets, reported to be as much as
$100-million, were left to her mother, Harriet.
Oh well.
According to the Times, Harris has put $3.25 million into her campaign
so far - although she took $100,000 back to renovate her home theater.
Seriously.
And last but not least, the Washington Post reported last week that:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/26/AR2006082600479.html
U.S. Rep. Katherine Harris told a religious journal that separation of
church and state is "a lie" and God and the nation's founding fathers
did not intend the country be "a nation of secular laws."
The Republican candidate for U.S. Senate also said that if Christians
are not elected, politicians will "legislate sin," including abortion
and gay marriage.
(snip)
Separation of church and state is "a lie we have been told," Harris
said in the interview, published Thursday, saying separating religion
and politics is "wrong because God is the one who chooses our rulers."
"If you're not electing Christians, then in essence you are going to
legislate sin," Harris said.
Harris later "clarified" her remarks, telling reporters that "My
comments were specifically directed toward a Christian group."
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/breaking_news/15363945.htm
Which is a reasonable explanation I suppose.
What she's saying is that when she makes offensive remarks in front of
a particular group of supporters, the remarks shouldn't actually be
taken seriously by anybody other than the people to whom she was
speaking at the time.
I believe that's what they call "political pandering."
Harris clarified her clarification by saying that "My rallying cry has
always been people of all faiths should be involved."
See?
Pay no attention to that "legislate sin" stuff.
By EarlG
Democratic Underground
http://www.democraticunderground.com/
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