Posted on 01/20/2015 7:10:52 AM PST by HomerBohn
Senator Mary Landrieu comes from a political dynasty in Louisiana — her father was mayor of New Orleans, and her brother is the current mayor. But as she heads into Saturday’s runoff election as a clear underdog, she is tarnishing her political inheritance by fighting ugly. She is resorting to lies and distortion to accuse her GOP opponent of backing the impeachment of President Obama and endorsing a documentary that, as she describes it, says slavery was better for blacks than welfare.
“Landrieu has flailed, veering from one issue to another,” concluded a Washington Post article this Thursday. When it hasn’t been haphazard, her campaign has been, at best, factually challenged.
Take the following radio ad airing on African-American stations, approved by Landrieu and paid for by the Democratic State Committee of Louisiana:
I’m Mary Landrieu, candidate for Senate, and I approve this message.
Man: News flash — Bobby Jindal endorses Bill Cassidy 100 percent. That troubles me. Jindal, our absentee governor, and Doc Cassidy, a medical doctor, oppose affordable health care for working families. These millionaire Republicans are against equal pay for women and have opposed the Violence against Women Act. And can you believe, Doc Cassidy has endorsed a documentary that claims slavery was better for black folks than welfare.
Woman: Oh, no, he didn’t!
Man: Yeah, well he sure did, my friends. But worse than that, Cassidy and Jindal are trying to impeach our president. Back in the day, there was a TV cowboy named Hopalong Cassidy. I don’t know if they’re related, but why don’t you just hop along, Doctor Cassidy, to wherever your No, 1 supporter, Bobby Jindal, is headed this week, and let Senator Landrieu continue doing a great job for the people of Louisiana?
Cassidy/Jindal — bad for Louisiana, disastrous for black families.
Paid for by the Democratic State Central Committee of Louisiana.
A Landrieu campaign aide told BuzzFeed.com that the slavery analogy was based on Cassidy’s appearance in the 2010 film A New America. Cassidy didn’t address slavery, but African-American syndicated columnist Star Parker did. A former single mother who spent years on welfare, Parker appears in the film and attacks the “government poverty plantation.” “With slavery, people generally want out,” she said. “But with welfare, folks are comfortable.”
Tough words, but hardly an endorsement of slavery. Parker is appalled at how Landrieu “dug into the gutter” to try to save her Senate seat. “I did not say slavery was better. I did say that the same political party that enslaved blacks 150 years ago is now full of overseers who ensure that no discussion of freedom from welfare is conducted in African-American communities.”
As for impeachment, another radio ad approved by Landrieu claims that Governor Jindal and Cassidy have “disrespected” President Obama. “If Cassidy wins, they will impeach him.” Neither man has embraced impeachment, but facts are immaterial to Landrieu. Her evidence for Cassidy’s “disrespect” of Obama is that “he refers to him by his last name, constantly.” Instead, he should always refer to him as President Obama.
The desperation of Landrieu’s campaign doesn’t stop there. Donald Cravins Sr., the mayor of Opelousas and the father of Landrieu’s chief-of-staff, was caught on videotape last month addressing a crowd just before the first round of voting in the Senate race: “If you early-voted, go vote again tomorrow. One more time’s not going to hurt.” Just in case anyone doubted that Cravins was serious, he told the crowd they had an insurance policy: The local prosecutor would look the other way: “Tomorrow we’re going to elect Earl Taylor as the D.A., so he won’t prosecute you if you vote twice,” he assured the crowd. When criticized for these remarks, Cravins says he was “joking.”
It’s ironic that the issue of voter fraud should enter Louisiana’s Senate race in 2014, given that in Landrieu’s first election in 1996 it also played a role. She won that year by 5,788 votes over Republican Woody Jenkins. Journalist Quin Hillyer noted that she was helped by “boatloads of gambling money turning out liberal voters to support a referendum for a land-based casino.”
Morris Reed remembers the 1996 casino cash well. A former judge, the African-American Reed was one of two Democrats on the same ballot running for district attorney in New Orleans. Reed, who crusaded against corruption, lost to the longtime incumbent, a white man who was nonetheless backed by the local black political machines. Reed claimed that gambling interests financed the use of dozens of vans to pick up New Orleans voters, pay them, and then haul them from one voting precinct to another to vote. Then New Orleans mysteriously became the only one of 64 parishes to violate state law in that election by opening all of its voting machines without any candidate present as a witness. Reed told me in 1996 that there was no doubt Landrieu’s victory was questionable given the dozens of irregularities, some of which led a New Orleans assistant city attorney to resign in protest.
Senator Landrieu began her Senate career under a cloud in 1997 — she was seated only provisionally owing to the controversies swirling around the New Orleans vote. Now, nearly two decades later, it appears she will be leaving office under a different cloud — an ugly, dark campaign that invents facts, stirs up racial animus, and distorts reality. If she loses, it will be a shame that she couldn’t have exited stage left with more grace and less vitriol.
Communists like her should be tried for sedition.
“an ugly, dark campaign that invents facts, stirs up racial animus, and distorts reality.”
Well hell, that’s the democratic party in a nutshell isn’t it?
Evil people do ugly acts.
Now that the Republican congressional majority has made it clear they are going to completely ignore what they were sent to do, will that affect the turnout here?
I would still vote against Miss Piggy, but truthfully, only to piss off the libs. There’s no hope that one more Pubbie seat in the Senate will change one single thing. Traitors, the lot.
Let’s not forget the $300MILLION Obamacare Louisiana Purchase.
Old news, but it does remind me a burning question I had. Aside from the purported money and expense at supporting her, why did the Democratic establishment abandon her? Which happened during the main election, not the run-off.
Did she veer off the reservation or just thought more of herself then the party could offer.
Hell hath no fury like a democrat parasite booted out of office.
Democrats become incensed when they lose elections.
It violates their belief that they are entitled to lead the country because they mean well and their opponents are evil.
That’s a tough pill to swallow. We are just glad she doesn’t represent our state anymore.
Referring to obama by his last name is actually a sign of deep respect.
Compared to what WE call him her on FR! hahaha
(An incomplete list:)
Obozo
Obola
Obummer
POtuS
pRes—ent
pResident
and my personl favorite:
The Lyin’ King
Landrieu...
I utterly hate these people that feel that their public office is an “INHERITANCE”!
are you not of the body, then?
It was the will of Landrieu...
Wait a sec.......
Some observers note that the Democrat-controlled Senate passed Obamacare "after a series of unsavory transactions that purchased the aye votes of several shrewdly extortionate Democrats"....with a huge pile of money still unaccounted for.
The most unsavory was then-Sen Landrieu's $4.3 billion "Louisisana Purchase."
THE PAPER TRAIL IS HUGE Sen Landrieu (recently lost her reelection bid) sold her aye vote in what Forbes Magazine dubbed "The 'Louisiana Purchase" that included a massive $4.3 Billion to Landrieu
FORBES REPORTED the Democrats’ nailed Landrieu’s support for Obamacare w/ a greenback bribe. Landrieu, critics believe, pledged her vote in exchange for some $200 million more additional federal funds for Louisiana. Except that, due to a (cough) "drafting error," the law ended up giving Louisiana $4.3 billion: more than twenty times the assigned amount.
MORE HERE http://www.forbes.com/fdc/welcome_mjx.shtml
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BACKSTORY In the fall of 2009, Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) was trying to get the necessary 60 Dimocrat votes to pass the Affordable Care Act. He needed every Dim on board, which gave waffling senators a great deal of leverage. In Landrieu's case, she connivingly saw that selling her aye vote could get her maybe $200 million federal dollars. Obama complied. Reid chalked up another vote for Obamacare----not the measly $200 million but $4.3 billon was attached to the Obamacare bill earmarked for Landrieu.
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How $4.3 billion to Landrieu was calculatedly attached to the Obamacare bill, and how Obama and Reid failed to catcH and fix it, is yet another indictment of the Obamacare atrocity.
The $4.3 billion handoff to Landrieu should be investigated as an indication of how EVERY Democrat came to vote for Obamacare....and how tax dollars were laundered to get lock-stepping Democrats' votes.
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Another excellent reason for doing away with the extravagant retirement plan that Senators & Congressmen enjoy. Most of us don’t get a deal like that(or any deal at all),adding to the fact that the average person does far less damage than these people do during term of office. For some,the damage doesn’t end when they leave office,e.g: Mr. Carter.
are you not attending festival then?
No but I’ll listen on the radio.
Obumagabe has become my favorite of the moment.
<><> Lock-stepping Landrieu---saluting smartly---cast the deciding vote for Obamacare and parroted Obama's “keep your plan” pledge.
<><> Landrieu voted with Obama 99% of the time---and the prez never even dropped by to campaign for her (/snix).
<><> Landrieu voted to subsidize O/Care by decimating Medicare Advantage for seniors.
<><> Landrieu and Obama calculatedly kept the gruesome details to themselves while egging on loyal lock-stepping Democrats to vote for O/Care.
<><> Landrieu and Obama tlied to Americans in a way so specific, it showed they knew exactly what to spin and how......via the infamous "If you like your health-care plan, you can keep your health-care plan, period."
<><> After she voted for Obamacare, Landrieu carried on making believe she'd actually read the ACA bill, duping voters into thinking she understood its implications.
<><> Landrieu even feigned "surprised" at townhalls---when grassroots voters complained about O/Care.
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Now most Americans are very forgiving----they will forgive pols of most anything---EXCEPT when a pol does not understand the impact of a campaign statement.
Landrieu's desperate and deplorable tactics---vilifying and slandering her own voters---saying that she, a high and mighty liberal, was forced to act conservative b/c voters did not appreciate woman pols enough---proved to be her undoing.
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