Your Democratic Party Folks....Sick & Pathetic As They Are
LibsDontGetIt
By Jon Ward
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
July 25, 2006
Josh Rales, a Democratic candidate for Maryland's U.S. Senate seat, paid a
drug-treatment center in Baltimore to drive its recovering addicts to last
week's debate in College Park, where they held signs supporting his
campaign.
About 20 patients from the I Can't, We Can (ICWC) drug-treatment and
counseling center in northwest Baltimore attended the debate, said Adrian
Harpool, president of the 21st Century Group, a Baltimore public-relations
firm hired by the Rales campaign to recruit volunteers.
"It's not something that happens on a regular basis," Mr. Harpool said,
adding that the recovering addicts were unpaid volunteers who were to help
post signs but ended up holding the placards. "It was a real error in
judgment on my part."
The ICWC patients told The Washington Times that they pay about $350 a
month to undergo treatment at the center and that some have criminal
records, including felony convictions.
Using recovering addicts as campaign supporters does not appear to be
illegal, said a spokeswoman for the Federal Election Commission (FEC). Kelly
Huff said campaigns can use their money for "pretty much any lawful purpose
as long as it relates to the campaign."
Still, Derek Walker, executive director for the Maryland Democratic
Party, said the Rales campaign's volunteer-recruiting method was unusual.
"I have not heard of it being done," Mr. Walker said. "Certainly, you
get supporters to events in any way you can."
Mr. Rales, a Bethesda real estate investor and political newcomer, has
spent $2 million this month on TV ads and could spend up to $5 million of
his own money running for the Senate.
After last week's debate at the University of Maryland, Mr. Rales said
he was "not familiar" with the treatment center but that he had no problem
with recovering drug addicts holding the signs.
"If I can help people who have some drug issues ... participate in the
democratic process, I think that's great," he said.
Rales campaign manager Robin Rorapaugh later said via e-mail that the
recovering addicts "were recruited by one of the campaign's contractors
without the knowledge of the campaign."
ICWC founder Israel Cason, a former heroin addict who said he became
drug-free in the mid-1990s, said Mr. Harpool paid the center only to rent
its two vans.
"They used our transportation service," he said. "We rent vans. They rented
the vans from us."
Before the debate, the ICWC volunteers wore white-and-blue "Rales for
Senate" T-shirts and held up signs outside the university's student union
building.
Mr. Harpool would not say how much he paid to rent the vans.
"It was a contribution from my company to his organization. It wasn't
anything extraordinary. I'm just uncomfortable talking about dollar
figures," Mr. Harpool said.
The FEC's Miss Huff said the Rales deal appears legal "as long as they
paid the proper value for the use of the vans."
Mr. Rales' opponents for the Democratic nomination include Rep. Benjamin
L. Cardin, a 10-term congressman; former NAACP President Kweisi Mfume, a
former congressman; A. Robert Kaufman, a Baltimore socialist; Thomas
McCaskill, a research physicist from Fort Washington; and Allan Lichtman, a
history professor at American University.
The six men, who participated in last week's debate, are vying to
replace Sen. Paul S. Sarbanes, a Democrat who is retiring.
The primary is Sept. 12.
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The battle between Saladin and Richard marked the high point of the
Crusades, the first major clash between Islam and Western Christendom, which
lasted more than three centuries. And though they are only faint in the
Western consciousness, in the Muslim world the Crusades still loom large in
cultural memory. When Osama bin Laden declared his own jihad in 1998, he
accused America of "[spearheading] the crusade against the Islamic nation."
And in a tape released to his followers last year, he promised that the
world would "see again Saladin carrying his sword, the blood of unbelievers
dripping from it."
bully
Sad! More examples of the 'culture of corruption' that the democrats
have made for themselves.......
Have you seen as well...
Dem power broker Tom Lakin named in sex abuse suit
"A suit filed secretly last month in Madison County Circuit Court that
was unsealed this afternoon alleges that prominent trial lawyer and
Democratic powerbroker Tom Lakin, 66, sexually molested minors at his
home in East Alton last summer. The suit also alleges that Lakin gave
cocaine to a girl and later to two adults to encourage them to have sex
with a boy while he watched."
Mitchell Holman
news:Ggpxg.15629$ly.1...@bignews6.bellsouth.net:
> Rales uses addicts at rally
> By Jon Ward
> THE WASHINGTON TIMES
> July 25, 2006
>
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> Josh Rales, a Democratic candidate for Maryland's U.S. Senate seat, paid
> a drug-treatment center in Baltimore to drive its recovering addicts to
> last week's debate in College Park, where they held signs supporting his
> campaign.
The party of recovering drug addicts Rush Limbaugh
and Noele Bush is complaining about recovering drug addicts?
Oh, the irony...........
bully
But at least they know how to vote ;)
lubow
>> The party of recovering drug addicts Rush Limbaugh
>> and Noele Bush is complaining about recovering drug addicts?
>>
>> Oh, the irony...........
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> But at least they know how to vote ;)
Nah. With the Diebold machines, you do not need to know how to vote.
Diebold fixed the machines so they can vote for you. That is unless you
live near Antioch College, in which you will never get the chance to vote.
--
Lubow
jimpgh2002
If that's the case, don't even bother going to the
polls...it's a waste of time.
Of course you have no proof for your baseless claim. It's the
old "we lost, so it must be fixed" trick.
*us*
>... addicts ...
Your idols/masters are convicted drug abusers.
You can't establish that either Bush or Cheney
have sobered up at all.
mattog...@aol.com
Actually, we don't really care.
*us*
>Diebold fixed the machines so they can vote for you ...
You're right.
The bushkultie, however, can't learn enough about
computers to understand security vulnerabilities.
All the bushkultie knows is that he hates Americans
and wants them abused, not represented, by those
usurping public offices via vote fraud.
Jim Alder
entire article, distilled it down to ONE word, then related it to
his abject hatred of this administration:
>>... addicts ...
>
> Your idols/masters are convicted drug abusers.
>
> You can't establish that either Bush or Cheney
> have sobered up at all.
A 40 year old DUI is as good as seeing him with the delirium
tremens when you're a hatemongering liberal, ain't it?
--
From: F...@SkepticTank.ORG (Fredric L. Rice)
Subject: Pray for DeLay "suicide" 9/28/05
"Wouldn't it KICK ASS! if he were found face down
in his corn flakes in the morning, a victim of
another bizarre Republican "suicide?""
"Sweet baby Jesus, I'd throw a fucking party in
the nearest park and put up signs giving thanks
to Jesus."
Kevin Cunningham
"LibsDontGetIt" <TheyRstil...@aol.com> wrote in message
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> Rales uses addicts at rally
> By Jon Ward
> THE WASHINGTON TIMES
> July 25, 2006
>
*us*
>...putting the 'jerk' in "kneejerk ....
You are the one who supports killing innocents rather
than investigating crimes and bringing perps to trial.
>...liberal,"
Your idols Stalin and Hitler hated liberals as you do.
You're no conservative, though.
>... abject hatred ...
Is that what makes you seek the rapes, tortures, maimings,
sickenings, and killings of thousands of innocent children?
Or do you do all that in cold blood?
> ... hatemongering ...
It's all you have, you despicable waste of space.
On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 09:46:39 -0400, "DontGetIt" <IMstill...@aol.com> wrote:
>... addicts ...
Your idols/masters are convicted drug abusers.
You can't establish that either Bush or Cheney
have sobered up at all.
Cheney won't even sober up to go hunting.
lubow
Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year." The results
and the statistical analysis confirm that Mr. O'Dell held to his commitment.
By the way, it is my understanding that the citizens of Oberlin, OH are
STILL waiting in line for the machines to arrive so they can vote for
president.
COLUMBUS - The head of a company vying to sell voting machines in Ohio told
Republicans in a recent fund-raising letter that he is "committed to helping
Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year."
The Aug. 14 letter from Walden O'Dell, chief executive of Diebold Inc. - who
has become active in the re-election effort of President Bush - prompted
Democrats this week to question the propriety of allowing O'Dell's company
to calculate votes in the 2004 presidential election.
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Lubow
*us*
The vote fraud and disenfranchisement was particularly rife in Ohio.
*us*
The bushkultie believes Rev Moon is the second coming.