Columnists for the Orlando Sentinel outlined the perpetual piss-offedness of Gov. Jeb Bush, who this time is pissed at Common Cause for beating him at the Florida constitutional amendment game.
The governor then turned on Common Cause, saying he wasn’t satisfied that the organization had just disclosed top contributors to the $2.6 million Florida ballot campaign it has waged to have redistricting taken out of the hands of the Republican Legislature.
“I appreciate they gave up some of their donors. But what about the rest?” Bush said. “Where’s the outrage?”
Common Cause spokesperson Mary Boyle said, “the only secret squirrels we know about are hiding from Dick Cheney”The list of 44 Common Cause contributors who gave $5,000 or more to the organization over the past year failed to include any big left-leaning donors such as George Soros, the financier who helped back the John Kerry presidential campaign.
Those major Common Cause contributors represented $1.3 million of the Florida campaign’s funding — with the remaining donations out of a pool averaging $50 each, the organization said.
But Bush isn’t satisfied. After earlier accusing Common Cause of raising “secret squirrel” money at “secret squirrel meetings,” he again raised the specter of the organization laundering its Florida contributions.
“What would happen if they gave a big transfer from the secret squirrel corporate headquarters in New York . . . down here for this?” Bush said.
“Common Cause of all people that tout themselves as being for good government and clean elections shouldn’t be participating in this. Where’s the outrage?” he said.
Common Cause spokesperson Mary Boyle called Bush’s allegations “ridiculous” and a “total diversionary tactic.”
“If the governor is still talking about ‘secret squirrels,’ ” she added, “the only secret squirrels we know about are hiding from Dick Cheney.”
Good one, Mary. Heh heh.
Better be careful criticizing the next president – the average American is dumber and more gullible than you think….
The average “floreidan” is… but don’t underestimate the power of the media “echo-chamber, crooked election borads, and vote-flippin’ sofrware.
All they have to do is disenfrachise as large numbers of non-majority voters, “catapult the propaganda” in the MSM, run on wedge issues like gay marriage, and proclaim that they have “engergized their base.”
Essentially, their argument is that they “win” with “highly-engergized” minorities of the electorate. Is BS, but that is how they do it.
Insulting the typical voter ain’t gonna change the crooked game
Anonymous:
Not trying to insult anyone – I’m simply making an empirical observation. People, in general, are ill-informed, misinformed or uninformed. That’s what allows criminals like Bush and Cheney to explit the system. They know that by repeating “Terror, terror, terror, terror….” endlessly, they keep people scared and confused and they vote against their own best interests. Most people are worse off now than when Bush took office. But, they think he has made them “safer”.
What they don’t realize is they have a statistically greater chance of dying from bee stings than from an al-Qaeda attack.
At what point does statistical probability come into play? I want mortal risk removed from my life wherever possible (realistically, which is where republicans and democrats differ, democrats don’t think terrorism can be realistically removed). Even someone profoundly mentally handicapped should recognize that idiotic red-herring.