Campaign (Now) Says (Katherine) Harris Won't Turn To Inheritance.

Orlando Sentinel - harris Campaign ^ | Jim Stratton

[MindBender26]

In an effort to jump-start her sputtering Senate campaign, Rep. Katherine Harris went on national television invoking the memory of her late father and saying the money he left her will form the financial foundation of her challenge to Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson.

Now the Harris campaign says that's not the case.

Campaign spokeswoman Morgan Dobbs said Thursday that Harris will sell her existing assets rather than rely on money from her father, a bank executive who died in January.

The Republican from Longboat Key appeared on national television saying she would use the money left to her by her father to infuse her campaign with a badly needed shot of financing.

The announcement was the centerpiece of her appearance on Fox News, where Harris reaffirmed her commitment to the race.

"I'm going to take his legacy that he gave to me, everything I have, and I'm going to put it in this race," she told Sean Hannity. "I'm going to commit my legacy from my father -- $10 million."

A moment later, Hannity asked, "This is money from your father?"

"Yes," replied Harris.

[Pukin Dog]

Oh shut up.

HER SPOKESPERSON IS QUOTED!

This is not some 'unnamed source', or anything like that. I want Harris to win this thing, but I am getting sick of the way her campaign goes out of its way to be stupid.

It is NOT putting her on the defensive if HER SPOKESPERSON is quoted giving this information. Don't count me among the naysayer, I am just disgusted with the way her campaign is going. She said she would use her father's money, so that is what I expect her to do.

What about that do you not understand?

[Brilliant]

Thank goodness. I was beginning to think she wasn't as smart as she looks.

[Polybius]

What's the deal with K. Harris. I'm up north and I even sent her a contribution but she seems to be a pariah of some sort with the GOP.

Here's my take on it and I have felt this way since November, 2004.

What, exactly, has Katherine Harris done to deserve a Senate seat? .......Besides looking hot in a tight T-shirt?

If she had been in some high position in Jeb Bush's administration other than Florida Attorney General, would the average voter even know her from your aunt's pet poodle?

No, they wouldn't.

Katherine Harris is famous simply because she happened to be the Florida Attorney General during the 2004 Presidential election and all she did was simply follow Florida law as was her sworn duty.

Any one of us would have done the same thing. You read what the law says. You follow the law. End of story.

Lionizing Katherine Harris as a Republican heroine as if she had done something spectacular simply plays into the Big Lie of the Democrats that claims that Katherine Harris stole the 2004 election for George W. Bush.

[Bubbatuck]

slight correction - she wasn't A.G. She's not a lawyer. She was Secretary of State.

[I got the rope]

She was the State Secretary....a statewide office that she ran for and won. She has never lost an election.

[I got the rope]

Correct...she is not a lawyer and she is a Christian.

[California Patriot]

I'm agnostic on the question of whether Katherine Harris should be our candidate, though I lean against the idea.

However, I must say, there are times (as in 2000) when simply doing the right thing matters a great deal. Some "Republicans" probably would not have.

A good rule of thumb is: When the Rats hate you, you've done something right. Something important.

[I got the rope]

Read it again. She didn't contradict herself. She not using her fathers money (present tense) she using the money he gave her (past tense).

This liberal rag your reading has made it look like she is contradicting herself. They took bits and pieces of an interview and made a mountain out of mole hill and now sheeple (like you) are pissing all over themselves trying to find a new candidate.

[Bubbatuck]

That doesn't make sense. First, her father HAS no money now, as he's dead.

She made two claims: 1) She was going to use the $10 million inheritance from her father to finance her campaign, and 2) that the $10 million was ALL her money.

Now it turns out she has ANOTHER source of $10 million - her own assets. So she is NOT going to use her inheritance, and she is NOT "putting it all on the line".

There's no ambiguity about what she said on Hannity - he repeatedly asked her if she was going to use her inheritance, and if that was all she had, and she repeatedly answered yes.

I've given her the benefit of the doubt at every turn, but this just looks unbelievably amateurish, at best, and deliberately dishonest, at worst. Calling herself a Christian doesn't mitigate it at all.

[Pukin Dog]

I think you have a problem.

The article says that she will INSTEAD OF USING MONEY FROM HER FATHER, that she will sell off her existing assets. Now, I don't know what your problem is, but I can read as well as anyone.

Don't spin, it is not necessary.

The article makes it clear that she is not going to do what she stated she would do during her Hannity interview. Spinning it to blame the media in this case only makes you look silly.

[Pukin Dog]

Now just hold up a second here, I think you are way out of line, dammit.

Looking hot in a tight T-shirt is nothing to sneeze at.

Any honest Republican would admit that we want the SEAT, and in this case Harris or anyone else will suffice if it helps with the majority. Anyone suggesting that Harris is uniquely qualified for the seat is lying.

A better argument is that Nelson doesn't deserve the seat.

[Al Simmons]

It was a stupid thing to say, and would have been an even stupider thing to do. (She is not one of the 'super-rich' and wasting her family's inheritance on a long-shot Senate race smacks too much of ego over good sense)...sheesh!!! I love the lady, but it sounds like she might not the right candidate...worse, sounds like the GOP may have blown a chance to pick up this seat...

[Pukin Dog]

Yeah, I think it might be time for her to go. She should save her money, and maybe support another candidate. She has a seat in Congress, and maybe later she can distinguish herself to move up to the Senate. She just isn't ready. I don't blame her, it sucks having to run every two years, but that is what she signed up for.

Maybe it aint too late for Jeb to have a change of heart?

[Polybius]

Now just hold up a second here, I think you are way out of line, dammit. Looking hot in a tight T-shirt is nothing to sneeze at.

Well, the way I phrased it, you will note that I classified that as "deserving a Senate seat"...........And, with $20 million to boot, I think I'm in love or, at the very least, definitely in lust. ;-)

Any honest Republican would admit that we want the SEAT, and in this case Harris or anyone else will suffice if it helps with the majority. Anyone suggesting that Harris is uniquely qualified for the seat is lying. A better argument is that Nelson doesn't deserve the seat.

Although I grew up in Florida, the Navy washed me up on Puget Sound where I now live so I am out of the Florida politics loop.

My perspective is that of an outsider and it just doesn't smell right when the winning side carries a smiling Judge around the Courthouse on their shoulders after she rules in their favor.

It may have be unfair but, once Katherine Harris played such a crucial role in the 2004 Presidential election, she needed to put her political ambitions aside for the next four years and be, like Caesar's wife, totally above suspicion.

[Pukin Dog]

Yeah, I agree. Its much too soon for Harris.

However, the Senate could use a hard-bodied woman for a change. She should do 2-3 more terms in the House, and then see if she can make a run with more experience.

[Bubbatuck]

I agree, that would be best.

I understand Jeb has very decisively stated he will NOT run for the Senate. So, given that, is there anybody else who could beat Nelson?

[Rembrandt]

I live in Sarasota, FL. In my local paper and from what I read on FR, the media has unleashed a very serious hate campaign on Katherine Harris. They use the same words they use on GWB (lack of Dim creativity, I guess) and obviously have some great fear that she could win in Florida.

Whatever, I'm sending her some $.

[ClaireSolt]

Nobody could represent this group of nattering nabobs.

[Rembrandt]

"They have the full court press on KH right now and what surprises me is that FReepers are believing it."

On this thread, you're not hearing Freepers, you're hearing Dim disruptors. IMHO, Katherine CAN win and it scares the Beelzebub out of the Dims.

[evad]

Lionizing Katherine Harris as a Republican heroine as if she had done something spectacular simply plays into the Big Lie of the Democrats that claims that Katherine Harris stole the 2004 election for George W. Bush.

So basically she's not all that qualified and there are better candidates. You may be right.

I thought she held up pretty well under some of the most vindictive character assaults I've witnessed, even for RATs. As far as what has she done to deserve to be senator, in my opinion that question could be posed to all our honorable senators and probably 90% would fail the test.