Harris Tosses Out Nelson Slur; Press Skeptical

It doesn’t have to be true, it just has to make headlines: Katherine Harris is again making it up as she goes along. At a public forum given by a Republican women’s club in Florida, she pulled from her ass a reference to U.S. Senator Bill Nelson taking bribes.

No Katherine. That was you.

Republican Rep. Katherine Harris accused the man she is trying to unseat in her quest for the U.S. Senate of accepting illegal campaign contributions, as she did last year…

But after a question from a member of the audience about illegal contributions made to her campaign by a defense contractor in 2004, Harris said that she had not known the $32,000 donation was illegal and she has since donated the money to charity.

She then upped the political ante by suggesting Nelson had made a similar mistake.

“That actually happened in the past, and it happened to Bill Nelson,” Harris said. “The difference is that when I did find out, I donated that money to charity. . . He received some $80,000 the same way and he never did reimburse. So there is a little bit of difference, and I’m happy to draw attention to that.”

She never identified the money to which she was referring.

Harris gets more and more delusional with each passing day. I can see her shrieking maniacally as she paces in her hotel room before speeches, wringing her hands and wiping the odd fleck of foam from her lips.

It was only last week that she claimed Democrat fellow House members from Florida fervently wished she would beat Nelson. All seven denied it.

The Orlando Sentinel, which published the latest story, seemed equally unconvinced. The subhead for the article was: “In Kissimmee [Fla.], the U.S. Senate candidate says her chief opponent erred but offers no specifics.”

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3 thoughts on “Harris Tosses Out Nelson Slur; Press Skeptical”

  1. Harris made a surprise visit to Miami yesterday — an unusual move given that she’s concentrating on “grass roots” campaigning, which means she doesn’t visit any place bigger than Pahokee. She played it safe here, though, visiting a bunch of like-minded Repug Cubans at the Versailes cafeteria. I think Harris did get it just slightly wrong when she said she had the full backing of the state’s Democratic reps — they all want her to be the Republican opponent to Bill Nelson so he can give her the drubbing that will, once and for all, end a pathetic political career.

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