This wasn’t any old Joe.
It was Joe Scarborough, host of the prime-time MSNBC show Scarborough Country and a former Pensacola Republican congressman who was courted last summer by national Republicans to run against Harris. But before he could announce he wouldn’t, Harris called major donors and suggested Scarborough would have to answer questions about the strange death of a former staff member in 2001, according to two former high-level Harris staff members, a GOP donor and Scarborough.
”This [story] encapsulates everything wrong with her as a candidate,” Dornan said”That was the first clue that something wasn’t right with Katherine Harris,” Scarborough told The Miami Herald in a recent interview, noting that a medical examiner found his staff member’s death was natural and not the result of foul play.
…Since then, Harris has been dogged by her connections to an indicted defense contractor and by heavy staff turnover from last fall through Thursday, when five top aides announced their departure a day after her spokesman quit. Her campaign had issued a news release Wednesday suggesting only spokesman Chris Ingram was leaving.
In explaining his decision to leave, campaign manager Glenn Hodas echoed predecessors Jamie Miller and Jim Dornan. Miller had said the campaign wasn’t good for Harris’ health. Dornan said Harris had been erratic, temperamental and sometimes unfair — and tried to blame him for the ”Joe’s dead intern” story when a furious Scarborough called, demanding to know what happened.
”This [story] encapsulates everything wrong with her as a candidate,” Dornan said. ‘She reacted without thinking. She made stuff up. She called people she had no business calling. And when confronted with the insanity of her — I use this term lightly — `strategy,’ she denied it and tried to blame someone else.”
Christ, they’re all crazy, get the hell away from them, as they just might explode with self aggrandizement . . . and make sure that every vote is counted!
Why isn’t the media exposing Katherine Harris’ drinking problem and her extramarital affair with Jeb Bush? Oh yeah, I forgot. The media only publicizes the personal shortcomings of Democrats. Silly me…
The irony here is that there probably is a bit of fire in the smoke of the story of Joe’s dead intern. But, I find it comic that it would be the very question to bring down a Republican candidate.
That threatening to tell the “truth” might be the undoing of Harris is a rare joke that is not wasted on most of us.
Now, if she would only tell the truth about her actions in 2000 and the events leading up to that nightmare in FL.