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Home Front: Politix
Richard Blabenthal's words are haunting him again.
2010-08-23
Already forced to apologize for saying he had served "in" Vietnam in the Marine Reserve rather than stateside, the state attorney general's campaign for U.S. Senate is now being challenged to explain his assertion that he had "never taken PAC money" and has "rejected all special interest money."
Did he get Combat Pay for running the Toys for Tots.
Seared, seared into his memory, it was, going up-river to deliver purple dinosaurs to the tykes ...
Federal records show that he has accepted $480,000 in pathetic a$$hole cash political action committee money since he made that claim in January. Moreover, his Republican opponent, former World Wrestling Entertainment CEO Linda McMahon, points to nearly $17,000 Blumenthal received as a state legislative candidate in the 1980s -- a figure Blumenthal's campaign does not dispute.
It is rather hard to wave away cold, hard numbers ...
Blumenthal's campaign insists he did not lie -- as McMahon says -- when he said in an interview on MSNBC the day after he announced he was running for the seat of retiring Sen. Chris Dodd that he had never taken PAC money. His campaign says he was referring only to his 20 years as attorney general.
Never in 20 years. Except for Tuesdays and Saturdays ...
Posted by:GolfBravoUSMC

#4  It was a dark and stormy December night at the Washington Navy Yard. The wind was strong, nearly masking the burble of the PBR's engines, Mick Jagger playing on a sailor's radio, and the low-voices curses of the crew as they struggled to bring the tiger-striped-camouflaged bags marked 'Mattel' aboard the heaving boat.

Chief Jones, a burly African-American, looked at the bags and spit around his cigar into the dark water. He surveyed me sourly, clearly not enthused at having a prime example of a Marine Corps reservist on his boat...

- excerpt from Richard Blumenthal's memoir, "Heart of Politics"
Posted by: Pappy   2010-08-23 22:26  

#3  "the mosquitoes were unbelievable. As big as....big mosquitos. Left quite a welt"
Posted by: Frank G   2010-08-23 21:45  

#2  going up-river to deliver purple dinosaurs to the tykes ...

The casualty rate in the Potomac Riverine Squadron was unbelievable.
Posted by: Pappy   2010-08-23 21:34  

#1  Had he been an enlisted man and welder in the Indiana National Guard he would REALLY be feeling the heat!
Posted by: Besoeker   2010-08-23 18:49  

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