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DEL.ICIO.USHoneycutt’s mail firm under fire
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The Washington, D.C.-based direct mail firm that raised $1.1 million for Republican Deborah Honeycutt’s 2006 congressional bid spent very little of it on her campaign, according to a newspaper report.
The Boston Globe reported in its Sunday editions that the company, BMW Direct, raised millions of dollars from conservative donors across the country for political candidates, including Honeycutt. But most of the money, according to the Globe, BMW Direct kept or spent on vendors and affiliated companies.
In one case, BMW Direct raised $700,000 for a Republican congressional candidate in Massachusetts. The candidate, Charles Morse, who never appeared at forums or other events and never paid for political advertising or phone banks, only saw $30,000 of that money, the Globe reported.
Honeycutt refused to comment on the article.
— Ben Smith
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By not surprised....
June 30, 2008 10:59 PM | Link to this
these perennial candidates are just really naive. Being used like this is pretty embarrassing, you’d think, except I suppose if you’re willing to run again after being beaten so badly in 2006, AND you endorsed Mike Huckabee, you have a pretty low threshold for being made a fool of in the first place!
By GodHatesTrash
June 30, 2008 11:02 PM | Link to this
Good idea - fleece people who are stupid enough to give money to the GOP. Like taking candy from a baby.
Trash gives money to trash.
By GodHatesRepublicans
June 30, 2008 11:58 PM | Link to this
Republicans are so easily duped. They are truly the stupidest people in the human race. All you have to do to get a Republican to whip out his checkbook and send you money is to send him a flyer in the mail telling him that Godless liberals are trying to:
a. Legalize gay marriage b. Raise your taxes c. Outlaw the Bible
They’re retards of the highest order, and they will send you a check faster than you can chuckle at their stupidity.
More power to the BMW group - they found them a dumb sucker, and a mongoloid one at that. They’ll have a nice Christmas this year, while most Republitards will wonder where the money went.
By gttim
July 1, 2008 9:07 AM | Link to this
And Republicans believe that they are the adults and are financially conservative. More like a bunch of idiots!
By SpaceyG
July 1, 2008 10:14 AM | Link to this
Political blogger broke this story in Peach Pundit and on Georgia Politics Unfiltered back in October 2007. Sure hope Galloway gets back soon. He’d know stuff like this. And know to credit the sources too. Rank amateurs at the AJC? Pity.
By Kyle B
July 1, 2008 2:43 PM | Link to this
SpaceyG,
They did credit their sources. Just read the first line of the second paragraph and you will see the information came from a story the Boston Globe had ran this past weekend.
Also a smart idea to read something carefully before you criticize it
By Karl
July 1, 2008 5:03 PM | Link to this
Political blogger broke this story in Peach Pundit and on Georgia Politics Unfiltered back in October 2007.
Another blogger noticed something was fishy with Honeycutt too, but in August 2006.
By Tony
July 1, 2008 10:09 PM | Link to this
There is also a race element to the Deborah Honeycutt story. It is not a new story line.
Black Republicans play like right wingers and the money comes a flowing.
The bad part about this is that they are just prostituting themselves for a buck.
Not all black cnservative/repulicans but most are more than willing to accept the benefits that come with a little denunciation of their own race.
There are many African Americans that have real conservative views that would never vote for a republican.
The good news is that there are many conservatives that are willing to ignore race and support a person of color as long as they hold the same views.
This is good.
The big problem is that the republican party will and has used race to advance their agenda.
Just watch this next presidential election.
By mid October, if McCain is behind by more than 4%, watch the sheets come off.
By Clear Thinker
July 1, 2008 10:30 PM | Link to this
Tony,
To quote Lincoln: “You can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.”
www.hermancain.com
By Clear Thinker
July 1, 2008 10:55 PM | Link to this
In this short blog already, Republicans have been termed the following by the radical Left: naïve, fool, stupid, easily duped, stupidest, retards, dumb sucker, mongoloid, Republitards, idiots, and closet KKKers.
This is why Republicans—in spite of often having weak candidates—have held the presidency 20 of the last 28 years.
Voters realize that as lacking as Republicans are at times, Democrats offer nothing but name calling and insults.
Voters realize that this is the Democrat plan for the United States:
No plan for victory in Iraq. No plan to defeat Islamic terrorism. No plan to revitalize the economy. No plan to offer choice and competition in the public schools. No improvement in the moral climate. No interest in free trade (big interest in sparing the dying unions). More regulations on businesses. Higher payroll taxes. Higher death taxes. Higher social security taxes. Higher taxes on capital gains. Higher taxes on dividends. $1 per gallon carbon/global warming tax on gasoline. Government takeover of health care (15% of GDP). Disdain for pharmaceutical companies who produce lifesaving drugs. Disdain for all corporations. Disdain for small businesses, family businesses and entrepreneurs. No coherent energy policy (“filler up with wind, please”). Refusal to drill for oil. Refusal to permit new refineries. Refusal to license nuclear plants. Refusal to allow shale oil production. Refusal to fix social security through privatization. Nationalization of private industry—starting with the oil companies.
With this kind of “plan” and “change” for America, no wonder most Americans don’t trust the presidency to the Hard Left Democrats.
You may like Michael Moore, George Soros, and Maxine Waters—leaders of the Democrat party.
But I can’t relate to these people, don’t like them, and don’t trust Barack Obama. Should he be elected, Jimmy Carter’s place as the worst president in U.S. history will no longer be secure.
By LN
July 2, 2008 1:47 AM | Link to this
Clear Thinker,
Clearly, you aren’t THAT clear of a thinker. GWB is well on his way to being the WORST president in history….HANDS DOWN! At least Jimmy Carter has actually made a contribution to society, post-oval office. Having lead us to the abyss, we can only HOPE that Georgie boy will soon return to his ranch to live off of his ill-gotten gains of oil and war profits…and leave the rest of us alone. Everything he’s touched has been a colossal failure. Upon his retirement, the world will breathe a collective sigh of relief.
As for Honeycutt, it’s pretty reprehensible that a candidate running on a platform of the moral high ground would use their Christian faith to solicit funds. She sent a letter to my grandmother - a lifelong Democrat in Pennsylvania - trying to appeal to her “Christian values”. Fortunately Gram was wise enough to see through it, but I’m sure there are many unsuspecting older people who may have fallen for the scheme. How despicable. But then again, that’s par for the course for Republicans these days.
By John Jay
July 2, 2008 2:20 PM | Link to this
As Keith Olbermann pointed out in “Countdown”, this is taken straight out of the 60s movie “The Producers”.
By Tyrone
July 14, 2008 8:04 PM | Link to this
Creative Loafing picks this up today:
[http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/13/david-scotts-foe-just-a-gop-tool/]
By Early Voter
October 23, 2008 6:21 PM | Link to this
Just think, she got caught trying to use this money to illegally fund a fake Democrat group. Don’t run from your party!
By Early Voter
October 23, 2008 6:35 PM | Link to this
Check out what Keith Olberman said about her. It is minute 1:10 on the video clip:
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYSWWaMWbp4)