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Cain's Cigarette-Puffing Aide Has Checkered Past
Fox News ^ | Published October 28, 2011 | AP via FOX

Posted on 10/28/2011 9:03:52 AM PDT by marty60

He is the man with the mustache who takes a rebellious drag on a cigarette in the Herman Cain Internet ad gone viral.

"We've run a campaign like nobody's ever seen," he says before taking a puff. "But then America's never seen a candidate like Herman Cain."

Meet Mark Block, Cain's unorthodox campaign manager. Perhaps no one is more responsible for the Georgia businessman's meteoric rise in the presidential polls than Block, a Republican strategist and tea party leader who's left a trail of questionable campaign work behind him.

Block has been accused of voter suppression and was banned from running Wisconsin political campaigns for three years to settle accusations he coordinated a judge's re-election campaign with a special interest group.

Records show Block has faced foreclosure on his home, a tax warrant by the Internal Revenue Service and a lawsuit for an unpaid bill. He also acknowledges he was arrested twice for drunken driving.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/10/28/cains-cigarette-puffing-aide-has-checkered-past/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+foxnews%2Fpolitics+%28Internal+-+Politics+-+Text%29&utm_content=My+Yahoo#ixzz1c5nPhl8q

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
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To: marty60

Here are some straws to grasp. Pitiful.


41 posted on 10/28/2011 9:33:31 AM PDT by manic4organic (We won. Get over it.)
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To: no dems

UNFORTUNATELY they are only station providing a somewhat alternative viewpoint. If Cain is nominated, they will back him. They hate Obama.


42 posted on 10/28/2011 9:33:39 AM PDT by ZULU (ANYBODY BUT ROMNEY)
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To: marty60

Big deal! Imagine what we could come up with if we subjected all campaign people of candidates to that kind of scrutiny. If there is a problem now, Cain will deal with it. That’s what separates him from the crowd.


43 posted on 10/28/2011 9:36:07 AM PDT by pallis
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To: kcvl
So you're saying it's not Politically Correct to be for a civics test?

OK. I actually like things that are not Politically Correct.

I'm more interested in what's Actually Correct.

A DEMOCRACY wants everyone to vote regardless of their interest/motivation or prejudices. Democracies become populisms, which become tyrannies.

A REPUBLIC wants informed and engaged people to vote.

A civics test for new voters is entirely consistent with a REPUBLIC.

44 posted on 10/28/2011 9:37:23 AM PDT by Christian Engineer Mass (25ish Cambridge MA grad student. Many conservative Christians my age out there? __ Click my name)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

If you ever deign to read his first autobiography (yes, the narcissist has written TWO autobiographies), it gives some insight into his background, and it is shady.

The little that we know about Barack Hussein Obama is very troubling. His associations, his belief system - he belongs in academia, NOT the freakin’ White House.


45 posted on 10/28/2011 9:38:51 AM PDT by Retired Greyhound (.)
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To: marty60; All

“your all back”

An illiterate Romney supporter. How wonderful.


46 posted on 10/28/2011 9:39:54 AM PDT by Christian Engineer Mass (25ish Cambridge MA grad student. Many conservative Christians my age out there? __ Click my name)
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To: marty60

What’s your name over at DU?


47 posted on 10/28/2011 9:43:01 AM PDT by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: marty60

To me it looks like a guy made a mistake and could not work in his chosen profession for three years. During this time he had financial problems (understandable when you lose work) and his personal life went into a little bit of a tailspin. At some point he turned things around and now is leading the campaign of the hottest candidate out there. Meanwhile, disgruntled ex-employees and former opponents occasionally lob unsubstantiated accusations his way. Is that about right?


48 posted on 10/28/2011 9:45:07 AM PDT by mcjordansc
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To: max americana
Checkered past, Controversial? Where is the substance? Innuendo not facts
50 posted on 10/28/2011 9:47:14 AM PDT by stocksthatgoup (Common sense although common knowledge is seldom common practice.)
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To: cripplecreek
The desperation continues.

The more garbage the Perry grovelers post the more obvious it becomes that they are desperate.

Laughable at best. At worst it's a thinly-veiled attempt to help Mitt Romney by attacking the only man who stands between him and the Republican nomination.

51 posted on 10/28/2011 9:47:22 AM PDT by South40 (Heartless since 1957)
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To: marty60

Sure looks like your opus to me.


52 posted on 10/28/2011 9:47:27 AM PDT by cripplecreek (A vote for Amnesty is a vote for a permanent Democrat majority. ..Choose well.)
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To: kcvl
"GINGRICH: [Immigrants] need to pass a test of American history. And candidly, it wouldn’t be bad to have a test like that for young Americans before they start voting."

Newt is an intellegent man.

53 posted on 10/28/2011 9:47:55 AM PDT by Spunky (Sarah Palin on Polls "Poles are for Strippers and Cross Country Skiers")
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To: max americana

Checkered past, Contriversial? Where is the substance? Innuendo not facts


54 posted on 10/28/2011 9:48:55 AM PDT by stocksthatgoup (Common sense although common knowledge is seldom common practice.)
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To: marty60

IBTZ!!!


55 posted on 10/28/2011 9:49:58 AM PDT by perfect_rovian_storm (Perry's idea of border control: Use both hands to welcome the illegals right in)
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To: marty60; MNJohnnie

“Go F yourself. “

Hmmmmm.....that’s not going to go over well....


56 posted on 10/28/2011 9:50:47 AM PDT by Bigh4u2 (Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
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To: marty60; MNJohnnie; Jim Robinson
Go F yourself. You support unethical and down right scum political wannabes.
sadly, I never thought Freerepublic would be supporting such people.

Maybe you should talk with the proprietorship if you don't like the way FR is run.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2788507/posts?page=240#240

57 posted on 10/28/2011 9:51:26 AM PDT by South40 (Heartless since 1957)
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To: marty60
He also acknowledges he was arrested twice for drunken driving.

Let's see, Herman Cain has been in the (R) presidential race for a month or so and the SRM finds this nugget. BUT, they had a couple of years to investigate 0 bummer. They never found anyone admitting they had attended school with him or saw his college records. Just keep covering for barry there SRM.

58 posted on 10/28/2011 9:52:48 AM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (Dear God, thanks for the rain, but please let it rain more in Texas. Amen.)
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To: marty60

HEY REPUBIC LEADERSHIP DRONES... WE SEE YOUR PROGRESSIVE ATTACKS AND WE KNOW romney IS YOUR PROGRESSIVE MAN TO KEEP BUSINESS AS USUAL... SO ALL OF YOU REPUBIC LEADERSHIP ELITE CAN GO **** YOURSELVES. NOT THIS TIME!

LLS


59 posted on 10/28/2011 9:57:22 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer ("Americans are hungry to feel once again a sense of mission and greatness." Ronaldo Magnus)
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To: marty60
HA!...HA!...Surfin' FR, pimping for Romney Obama!

60 posted on 10/28/2011 10:07:04 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass (I can take tomorrow, spend it all today. Who can take your income, tax it all away. Obama Man can. :)
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