Former Florida Congressional Candidate Spills The Beans On The DCCC
I didn't know Carol McLean when she was a congressional candidate in Mark Foley's old district, FL-16, but I just did a search of her name here at DWT and came up with one mention of a race that the DCCC ruthlessly cleared the field for their candidate, a Rahm Emanuel-recruited Republican sex predator, Tim Mahoney, who spent his entire one term in office voting with the GOP and then got caught in a sex scandal and was defeated in what turned out to be an otherwise major Democratic year. Carol, from the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party, wrote eloquently about her experience as a Democratic candidate the DCCC deep-sixed in favor of the Republican predator.
She talked about how the DCCC had recruited Mahoney, still a wealthy-- and lame-brained, corrupt and stinking from shady business practices-- Republican to run for Foley's seat (at a time when Emanuel, who never reported it to the police, knew Foley was sexually preying on underage congressional pages).
I too had gotten a call from DC, as did David Lutrin, about the election. However, it wasn't to ask me to run-- it was to ask me to drop out. When I inquired why, they told me that they already had a good candidate (Mahoney) who had $2 million to put into his campaign. They asked me how much I had. Well, if I counted the $5 McDonalds coupon in my wallet, it came to exact $13. I was going to raise my funds by grassroots. They scoffed that off, and told me they would not back me. Fine! However, as a person who has been a member of the Democratic Party longer than Mahoney's seven weeks, I was still going to run-- with or without them. I added that I was unaware that the elections were limited to only rich candidates. Congress is already filled with rich, good old boys ... And they've gotten us to where we are today. Perhaps its time to vote in the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker... and the teacher.read the rest at http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2010/01/former-florida-congressional-candidate.html
I turned to David Lutrin who was beaming at this point, and said, you people know that Mr. Lutrin and I are both teachers. You know how we earn our money, and you know how much we make. I don't know what Internet finance is, but I know that mainstream America doesn't have millions, and that these rich good old boys are so far detached from mainstream America that they have no idea how we live... The rich good old boys passed CAFTA to outsource our jobs to Central and South America. They have us import our food from Mexico, why won't they let us import our medicines from Canada? …Because the rich good old boys run the pharmaceutical companies.
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