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.

[JulieRNR21]

The hate campaign against Katherine Harris by the local Sarasota paper (which is owned by the NYTimes) and all the liberal rags in Florida is exceeded only by their hate campaign against President Bush!

These papers know something many nattering nabobs on FR don't realize......She scares them big time because they realized she can unseat the Wooden Nickel!

If Mel Martinez managed to squeak by Castor to win a Senate seat......so can Harris.

All she needs is one more vote than Nelson....and the FL grassroots GOP have shown their ability to clobber the Dems in their 'get out the vote' efforts!

We work harder than they do and we talk to our neighbors who listen to us rather than some paid college kid from NY.

[NautiNurse]

Did you say Wooden Nickel?

[MindBender26]

>We need serious discussion about this senate seat.

Agree completely. Nelson will NOT be easy to beat. He hasn't done anything publicly stupid. He hasn't gotten his girlfriend pregnant and divorced his blind wife to marry her, as my Republican congressman has. Nelson's wife Grace is beautiful and sweet and works the Florida women 24/7... and rampant liberalism isn't enough to get a sitting Senator defeated this year.

How good a campaigner is Nelson? I was in a synagogue at a Bas Mitzvah with him once. He was saying the prayers with the rest of the congregation... in Hebrew!

Who could run against Nelson with a chance to beat him?

Jeb could have but he is VERY tired.... and then there is Columba.

Charlie Crist and Bill McCollum have races.

Toni Jennings could have been either Senator or Governor but didn't get a war chest started nearly early enough.

Glenda Hood is gone.

Tom Feeney; way too early.

Andy Crenshaw; too early.

Joe Scarborough; has another great job.

Foley; personal problems.

KH; Dems have taken a blood oath to defeat her. For them it's 2000 vindicated. ... and she is helping them.

I worry that we will not win FL this year.

Got any suggestions?

[JulieRNR21]

I was hoping you would be able to respond & supply that visual.....our mutual ESP must be turned on and functional......LOL

[MindBender26]

>On this thread, you're not hearing Freepers, you're hearing Dim disruptors.

Wake up. Smell the coffee.

These are longtime FReepers. When a Florida lawyer tried to get Florida military absentee ballots disqualified in 2000, WE were the ones at the courthouse making incredible noise because all R troops from DC were already committed in Miami and Tally!

Finally, we are reporting the words spoken by KH and her campaign chiefs. We wish they weren't making the mistakes they are.... but they are!

Don't shoot the messengers

[MindBender26]

>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.

Exactly. Go for it in 2012 when she has had a chance to make some serious noise in the House and 2000 is an old memory.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

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.

The GOP establishment is back-stabbing her, and the MSM is writing non-stop hit pieces about her. Meanwhile, myopic anti-Harris FReepers have been frothing at the mouth screaming that she can't win. The only thing that's missing is Chris Lehane calling her Cruella de Ville again.

This woman simply deserves our support. She did her job honorably in the 2000 election. She ran for and won a Congressional race. I don't care if she won by a little bit - she won, damnnit, and that's all that matters. The time is ripe for her to run for the Senate against a liberal incumbent and conservatives all across the country needs to open those checkbooks.

[capt. norm]

Alan Bense might be a good prospect (speaker of the Florida House) but he's short on name recognition. He has a great rags-to-riches story behind him. Time is fast running out.

[NautiNurse]

KH; Dems have taken a blood oath to defeat her. For them it's 2000 vindicated. ... and she is helping them.

You are doing a thorough job of defending Nelson and minimizing Harris every single day, every chance you get. With FRiends like you, the rest of the Dems can relax. You are doing all of their work for them.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

It's sickening, isn't it? I mean it's one thing to dislike Harris but don't trash the woman because of what you read in MSM hit pieces.

[Bubbatuck]

Sorry, it may be a hit piece, but it's not an unfair one. She VERY clearly stated she would be spending her $10 million inheritance, and that it was all she had.

Now she's backtracking, only a few days later. If any Dem did this, we'd (rightly) be all over him or her for being dishonest, sleazy, overly-ambitious and venal.

This isn't the media's fault - Harris has brought this on herself.

[MindBender26]

You say that by quoting her and her campaign staff we are supporting Nelson...

Have you taken a moment to realize how foolish that comment is?

[Hank Rearden]

She said it, so she should DO it. If she backtracks at all, she cannot be trusted with her word.

A Republican backtracking and screwing over supporters? That'd be a first. < /sarc >

[MindBender26]

>This woman simply deserves our support. She did her job honorably in the 2000 election. She ran for and won a Congressional race. I don't care if she won by a little bit - she won, damnnit, and that's all that matters. The time is ripe for her to run for the Senate against a liberal incumbent and conservatives all across the country needs to open those checkbooks.

I'm sorry, but the House if full of honorable Republicans. Realpolitics is about nominating someone who can win. To win she needs the support of a vast majority of the middle of the roaders who voted for Nelson last time. These campaign missteps are not going to get her those voters.

Wish it wasn't so.

But it is.... and every decision maker in RPOF knows it.

[MindBender26]

How about Robin Higgins?

Female, Asst Dir US Veterans Affairs, Dir Florida Veterans Affairs under Guv Bush, Retired USMC Lt. Colonel, widow of Lt. Colonel Rich Higgins, murdered by Islamic terrorists.

Damn good public speaker. Squeaky clean when every other pol in DC is seen as soiled.

Thunk about it?

[Tunehead54]

Ideas are welcome....please.

---

1) Stop illegal immigration

2) De-fund PBS/NEA/Dept. of Education

3) Start zero-based budgeting for every program

4) Sunset every program that fails to demonstrate its efficacy

More later ...

;-)

[Proudcongal]

What difference does it make, it's all HER money. I'm sure the only reason she reported it is she wants to be honest and be on the record as disclosing everything. If it were a dem, it would be completely ignored by the MSM. Katherine Harris is a United States Congresswoman. In the end, anybody is better and certainly K.H., than the garbage on the left in the form of Bill Nelson and the destruction the dems want to do to America.

[NautiNurse]

Have you taken a moment to realize how foolish that comment is?

Your plethora of comments here cooing about Bill Nelson and his wife aren't attributed to anyone but yourself. No quotation marks in that post. Therefore, they are either your own ideas, or you have taken another's words and adopted them as your own. Those are the two choices, FRiend.

How foolish is that?

[MindBender26]

>Nelson will NOT be easy to beat. He hasn't done anything publicly stupid. He hasn't gotten his girlfriend pregnant and divorced his blind wife to marry her, as my Republican congressman has. Nelson's wife Grace is beautiful and sweet and works the Florida women 24/7... and rampant liberalism isn't enough to get a sitting Senator defeated this year. How good a campaigner is Nelson? I was in a synagogue at a Bas Mitzvah with him once. He was saying the prayers with the rest of the congregation... in Hebrew!

Help me and the rest of the world understand. Which of the above comments do you disagree with?

I'm not saying I like Nelson's politics in any way shape or form. I'm simply saying he will be very tough to beat, especially for a candidate who is making all the wrong moves in her current campaign.

or perhaps you are telling us that you agree with Ms. Harris' campaign's tactic of having her say on national television that she is going to use her father's inheritance to win this election... then having her campaign manager announce a week later that she will not use that money.

Was this smart? Did this attract the middle of the road undecided voters? Do you agree with this tactic?

Do we owe KH the nomination, or if there was a better candidate, with a better change of election, should they be nominated?

[MindBender26]

PS, Want a better candidate?

Google "Robin Higgins" Retired Marine Corps Lt. Colonel, Floridian, Former Florida Dir Vets Affairs, Former Asst US Dir of Veterans Affairs under Prez W.

Husband (USMC Lt. Colonel) murdered by Islamic terrorists while serving as a UN "peace keeper" They broke every bone in his body, then hanged him and videotaped it.

She is a great public speaker and a published author. Think she just might capture the R and C vote? Maybe the soccer moms worried about security, the Jewish vote that hates Islamic terrorists?

Robin Higgins can beat Mr. Slick Nelson 55-45. She is real while Grace Nelson a nice beautiful lady... is just a nice beautiful lady. KH is a shark. She is our shark. I love her, but she comes across as a shark.

Scissors cut paper but,
Rock breaks scissors.

Nice beats Shark,
but Real beats Nice.

I love KH, give her max $ every time, but she can't win this race.