Sure it does. But it all depends on what your definition of “connection” is. If you automatically imply wrongdoing without proof just because a company donated to an official’s campaign after it was awarded a state contract, that’s slander. If I were awarded a million dollar contract from the state board of commissioners, I might donate $10,000 dollars afterwards to the campaign of my favorite state politician, an innocent gesture. Without getting the state contract, I may not have the gumption or the financial resources to give.
Bob Delaporte, spokesmen for the state Republican Party said,”it looks like he got a refund. If the donations were inappropriate at one time, what makes them suddenly appropriate?”
Mr. Delaporte should explain to us when is it the appropriate time to receive donations from your constituents, before or after they pick up a state grant. If Doyle is guilty of anything it is being overly cautious, which is a good virtue to have in today’s boldly corrupt political environment.
The AP (Associated Press) along with the Gazette wrote a story about the dirty tactics and negative ads that are being used in Wisconsin politics and in doing so slimed the democratic incumbents, yet again. They wrote:
”They’re also building an almost unconscious sense among voters that their challengers are corrupt” he said.The word ”challengers” implied that the incumbents are wrongfully accusing their challengers of corruption, which they are not. It is the other way around, and in politics it’s one of the dirtiest tricks used, known as a red herring. Green accuses Doyle of refusing to cooperate by not answering questions about fabricated corruption issues. The Gazette, Messenger and the AP are swiftboating the democratic incumbents, and these false accusations insult the intelligence of Wisconsin voters.
When I visited Greens website and clicked his plan for Wisconsin, the first words of the first paragraph are, “When Jim Doyle was running…” then we have,” Four years later, Doyle's budget….” and “"Governor Doyle is….” followed by “Doyle opposes spending…. “ and again, “…the way Jim Doyle balanced our state budget…”. Blah, blah, blah. I know what Gov. Doyle has done. Tell us Mr. Green: What are you going to do for Wisconsin? What is your plan?
Green sounds like he’s got a plan………. To create new taxes, sell-out public interests and cut schools.
Go to their websites.
Green has a fixation on Doyle.
See for yourself who is mudslinging whom.
Greens website
Governors website
Green has developed a close relationship with the White House, working with the president and his team to advance the Bush agenda – from the president's Faith-Based Initiative to counterterrorism policy – on Capitol Hill. For the last six years, Green has also served on the House Republican Leadership team as a majority whip, operating together with the House speaker and others to keep the Republican conference united during difficult floor fights with Democrats.
Regarding the possibility that Sen. Lieberman may lose his party support, Rep. Rahm Emanuel (Ill.), chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, said he is not worried about the fallout from the Senate primary on House races, arguing that the message from Connecticut is that anyone supporting Bush's war policies is in deep trouble. "What's playing out here is that being a rubberstamp for George Bush is politically dangerous to life-threatening," he said.
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I don't know about anyone else but the fact that Green "has developed a close relationship with the White House" is reason enough not to vote for him. It's fairly clear what is going on. The Republicans are nervous about losing everything and going back to what they do best, bashing their competition. It's all they know to do because it's worked in the past.
It is a nightmare unemployment rate at 4.6% below the "glory" years of when Clinton was in office and the economy was the best it has ever been. President Bush has overcome the biggest terror attack in this countries history, the worst hurricane season in this nations history, fighting the war on terrorism in two different countries. Facing a recession in 2000. Pulling the country out of the recession in a matter of months. Taxcuts that helped us get out of the recession. The stock market is above 11,000 comfortably. His administration has created millions of new jobs in the face of disaster. The terror attacks could have destroyed us economically. Let alonone the Katrina effect that could have very well have crippled the economy. It didn't. Thanks to a strong economy and strong leadership. If a democrat was in office you people would be taughnting how great this economy is and how great the wars are going. But, no your hatred towards this administration is unreal. Your hatred blinds you from the truth. The democrats have been using the same talking points for 40 years. Time to change your talking points.
Providing another attack didn't come soon after 9-11, our economy had nowhere to go but up, and in spite of the Bush taxcut agenda, the bleeding of tax dollars into Iraq, the record deficits and the attempt to destroy Social Security, it almost didn't make it. It still isn't out of the woods.
Jobs? Here's your compassiate conservatism:
Take one $26 dollar an hour union job with profit sharing and full health benefits, eliminate it and create two $9 an hour jobs with personal investment accounts and a share-pay HMO. What to do with the leftover $8 and hour? That’s easy. At least three dollars would go into your stock market in hopes of turning it into five and one dollar would cover the CEO’s initial company stock purchase and compensation package. Another dollar would pay for public relations and lobbiests in Washington to bribe Congress into reforming OSHA, change labor and pollution laws and freeze the $5.15 minimum wage. Why freeze the minumum? The best way to make workers happy and feel good about their nine dollar an hour job is to constantly remind them that others are paid much less. The CEO’s first order of business is to post the minimum wage on large placards in the lunchroom and HR office. Two dollars would cover the cost for outsourcing high-liability tasks to China and Mexico and create new customer service centers in India. With one dollar left, fifty cents would pay for the extra accountants, lawyers and consultants needed to protect itself from bankruptcy, worker injury and sexual harassment lawsuits. The last fifty cents could be split several ways. But for the sake of simplicity, one quarter is divided to tax deductible charities such as food pantries and local churches, bonuses and other perks for non-management employees and waste. Finally, the last quarter is given to the RNC to keep this ball rolling. I may have missed something but so what, you probably don't get it, anyways. We have low unemployment because of the “double” jobs created and a work force on the edge with little leverage. What about the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy? Where did that money go? Hey, someone’s got to buy those second and third vacation homes and expensive cars.
The stock market is a sham, an investment vehicle with gaming rules.
Terrorism?
After Afhganistan, Bush cut and ran from terrorism and the globe in his quest for oil. His war in Iraq is a true "stragedy", and has made our country a beacon of death and hatred in the world.
I really don't hate Bush, I think he would make a great fishing partner or supervisor at a Wal-Mart, but running this country? I believe he is the worst president ever.
Talking points? The Republicans changed their talking points away from the interests of the people at least 26 years ago. I'll never give up my talking points as long as our country is hi-jacked by the misleaders we have today, no matter how old it gets.
Yeah I'm sure glad we went into Iraq for the oil I hated paying $1.95 for gas before the war. Sure glad we are paying $3.00 a gallon for gasoline now.
After he ran out of reasons why he invaded Iraq, oil is the only thing left. Nobody said it was ever going to get any cheaper.
It's good you accepted the current explanation for the price of gasoline because it will make it easy for you later to accept $4.00+ when they drill in ANWAR. The Bush Corporate Command at the White House never, never, never ever talk about cheaper gasoline being a goal, its always about finding more supply by boosting it (forced conservation)through artificially high prices, alternate sources or otherwise. Besides the hidden costs of the mess in Iraq is more than just mere billion$, that would be cheap if not for the loss of over 2,500 precious Americans and many thousands more scarred for life, here and in Iraq.
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