Will the NJ GOP Attack Chairman Martinez for Amnesty and Social Security for Illegal Aliens?

I just called the NJGOP (0.00 / 0)

Of course, all the big guns were gone for the day, but the phone biatch didn't think they'd be launching any attacks on Mel Martinez soon.

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by: M. Sullivan @ Tue Nov 14, 2006 at 16:27:12 PM CST

Which just illustrates, quite starkly... (0.00 / 0)

Why Juney lost. Because even urban voters know the smell and output of a running manure spreader when they get close enough to one.


The nom de plume has a long and distinguished history.

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by: Tandalayo Scheisskopf @ Tue Nov 14, 2006 at 16:27:32 PM CST

Oh, I think (0.00 / 0)

we'll see McCain attacked for it during the primaries.


I have to think of a witty signature about Frank LoBiondo

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by: Hopeful @ Tue Nov 14, 2006 at 18:31:15 PM CST

Abramoff raised 250k for Mel Martinez. (0.00 / 0)

Check out my 3 paragraph primer on Polywell Fusion.

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by: FogerRox @ Tue Nov 14, 2006 at 18:34:33 PM CST

Found it (4.00 / 1)

http://www.tpmmuckra...

Ney Admits to Lobbying Florida Senator
By Paul Kiel - September 15, 2006, 4:40 PM

It hasn't gotten much attention, but Bob Ney's guilty plea released today contained dirt on at least one other politician.

In the document, Ney fessed up to lobbying Sen. Mel Martinez (R-FL), then a Bush cabinet official, on behalf of an Abramoff client. The official's department later acted favorably toward Abramoff's client, according to news accounts.

Ney admitted to arranging a January, 2003 meeting with Mel Martinez, then Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, to " the interests of Abramoff's Native American Indian Tribal clients."

(snip)

And he got plenty. According to The Miami Herald, Abramoff's client The Saginaw Chippewa, for whom Abramoff was working hard to win HUD money, was awarded about $4 million from 2002 to 2004.

Martinez was richly rewarded. Just two months after he left HUD in order to make a run for the Senate in early 2004, his campaign netted $250,000 from a fundraiser co-chaired by Abramoff.

Check out my 3 paragraph primer on Polywell Fusion.

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by: FogerRox @ Tue Nov 14, 2006 at 18:36:14 PM CST

[ Parent ]

Mel Martinez (0.00 / 0)

What a guy.  He's the one who envisioned the Repugs scoring political points by forcing their will on the Schiavo family.  If that's any indication of his political instincts, I WANT to see him as Chairman.

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by: Rufus T Firefly @ Tue Nov 14, 2006 at 18:41:23 PM CST

via TPM (0.00 / 0)

Washington Times article on Martinez:

http://tinyurl.com/y...

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by: SmartyJones @ Wed Nov 15, 2006 at 08:40:32 AM CST