Month: October 2010

FL Sen: Here’s a Question for Marco Rubio – Why Does Lobbyist Amber Stoner’s Name Appear At Least 10 Times on Your Credit Card Statements?

Jon Ponder
Screenshot from a photo-sharing website with the account name amberstoner, from Political Carnival
Screenshot from a photo-sharing website with the account name amberstoner, from Political Carnival

There will be a debate among the candidates in the Florida U.S. Senate race tomorrow night, Oct. 6, and our friends and colleagues over at the Political Carnival have submitted a question for the frontrunner, the GOP-tea bagger candidate, Marco Rubio:

Just what is going on here between you and health-care lobbyist Amber Stoner?

First of all, for non-Floridians just now tuning in, Marco Rubio is the former state House speaker about whom Sarah Palin said this spring, “I love Marco Rubio. Marco keep up the good work. Call me.” Since then, he’s driven his chief rival, Gov. Charlie Crist, out of the Republican Party — Crist is now challenging him as an independent. In every recent poll, Rubio leads Crist and Democrat Kendrick Meek by double digits.

Despite his sunny smile and boyish demeanor, however, Rubio is allegedly just another corrupt conservative. According to CREW, the nonpartisan ethics watchdog group that recently filed a complaint alleging that Delaware GOP tea bagger candidate Christine O’Donnell embezzled campaign donations, Rubio is under investigation by federal authorities:

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Verbatim

Buck Banks

The American people have to feel that the president senses the suffering they’re going through and wants to be a part of the solution …. He uses these idiot boards to read speeches on television and I think he loses the connection.

— Former Vice President Walter Mondale, in an interview with CNN, noting that President Obama is having a problem connecting with the American people because he relies on teleprompters too much.

Verbatim: Schwarzenegger Praises Tony Curtis’ Endowment in Eulogy

Jon Ponder

He had a picture of himself at age 80 standing at the swimming pool, naked. Who has the guts to have a naked photo taken at age 80? Normally, men have a fig leaf to cover their private parts, but Tony’s private parts were so big he had two dogs covering them!

– California’s Republican governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, speaking at the funeral services in Las Vegas for actor Tony Curtis, who died recently at the age of 85.

Verbatim

Buck Banks

The Republicans have lost their standard, they’ve lost their principle. Really that’s why the machine in the Republican Party is fighting against me …. They have never really gone along with lower taxes and less government regulation.

Nevada U.S. Senate candidate Sharron Angle (R), at a private meeting with Tea Party rival Scott Ashjian in which she blasts the Republican party as “corrupt.”