Posted on 05/25/2010 3:37:32 AM PDT by Scanian
The already divisive Republican effort to unseat freshman Rep. Mike McMahon took a bizarre turn last week, when a GOP committee on Staten Island nominated none other than Vito Fossella — the congressman who was run out of town after a drunk-driving arrest and subsequent revelations that he had a secret family in Virginia — to represent the party in the fall election.
The executive committee of the Staten Island GOP nominated former Rep. Fossella — the family-values politician who values families so much that he has two of them — to reclaim the seat he left after news of his double life exploded in the wake of a 2008 drunk-driving arrest.
For now, Fossella — who served a five-day sentence after his conviction on drunk driving charges — was still mum as to whether he would enter the race. There are already two declared candidates, Staten Islander Michael Grimm and Brooklynite Michael Allegretti, who are vying to challenge the Democrat McMahon.
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Is this from The Onion?
What kind of insane crap is this!?
God help us.
It’s probably his cronies on the board, not the GOP
And the media thinks that letting the Tea Party pick candidates like Rand Paul is the downfall of the party. Geez - a known idiot with legal and social problems vs. people with ideas, what can go wrong?
It’s back to selecting the first 350 names from some non-Democrat city phone book. That’s our solution.
Fossella 2010: I Got Nowhere Else To Go.
This has to be some kind of a joke.
If this is true then it says everything about the GOP.
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