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shawa
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 Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 2:05 am Post subject: The man who could topple John Murtha |
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This is amazing, considering his rocky start!
| Quote: | The man who could topple John Murtha
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2008
A jaw-dropping political miracle may be on the horizon. No, I’m not talking about the second coming of the Obamessiah. I’m talking about the long-deserved comeuppance of troop-smearing, pork-feasting, scandal-tainted Democratic Rep. Jack Murtha of Pennsylvania.
The 18-term congressman’s challenger, staunch conservative Republican newcomer William Russell, raised nearly $670,000 in the second fundraising quarter. Earmark king Murtha scraped together a measly $119,000. Russell’s underdog campaign bested Murtha without the perks of incumbency, national name recognition, big PAC donations or mainstream media support.
Even more amazing: The 45-year-old Russell, a Desert Storm veteran, former Army lieutenant colonel and Army reservist who survived the Sept. 11 terrorist attack on the Pentagon, was not even publicly campaigning during the quarter. He is on active duty with the Army until after Aug. 1 and is barred from actively campaigning until then.
If all that didn’t make this enough of an inspiring David and Goliath story: In February, a Pennsylvania judge ruled that Russell had failed to collect enough signatures to make the primary ballot. But Russell refused to give up on his goal of permanently redeploying Murtha from his entrenched seat of power in Washington. The GOP neophyte persevered on a shoestring budget and won more than 4,000 write-in votes in the spring to earn a spot on the general election ballot. According to Russell’s campaign manager and veteran GOP activist Peg Luksik, the bulk of contributions from about 16,000 donors in the second quarter were less than $50.
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Harvuskong
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| Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2008 3:57 am Post subject: |
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Really good news indeed!!  |
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Deuce
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| Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2008 5:35 pm Post subject: |
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| Fantastic job by some dedicated Pennsylvanians and veterans no doubt...Certainly his district deserves better representation than it currently suffers! |
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kate
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| Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 7:25 am Post subject: |
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he's keeping his name out there, and not even campaigning...yet 
DEFEND OUR MARINES
Dark Horse Challenging Congressman Murtha Turns Out to be a Thoroughbred
by Nathaniel R. Helms | July 28, 2008
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Two years after Congressman John Murtha ambushed brother Marines for reportedly slaughtering cowering Iraqi civilians at Haditha, Iraq he is embroiled in another battle--this one for his political life.
His unlikely opponent in Pennsylvania's 12th District is an Army Reserve lieutenant colonel named William T. Russell, 47, a Desert Storm and Iraq war veteran who is barred by the Hatch Act from stumping until August 1 when his active duty stint ends. A Cinderella candidate running against the tide of Democratic hopefuls elsewhere, Russell is garnering national attention for his improbable early success.
Speaking for Russell until he is free to speak for himself is Peg Luksik, a three-time candidate for Pennsylvania governor. She still has enough energy after raising six kids to run a hard-charging campaign
Currently, Russell is out-pacing the Earl of Earmarks five-to-one in campaign contributions. Last quarter, Luksik’s efforts helped him generate more than $679,000 in donations, considerably more than the $119,000 and change Murtha raised.
“He’ll out earn us in the end,” Luksik concedes. “But Bill started with nothing. He didn’t do this to be a career politician. Now the campaign is generating donations all by itself. We have had more than 17,000 donors; three-quarters gave $50 or less.”
“Americans don’t like it when Murtha is shooting our Marines in the back while they are getting shot at in the front,” Luksik said.
A Republican in a heavily Democratic state, Russell gets his support from grassroots independents, angry vets, and minority Republicans who want the Keystone State’s version of Mr. Pork to quietly go away. The mix of traditional party politicians and neophyte campaigners has employed a variety of means to blast Murtha with powerful effect.
Not only is Murtha facing very public condemnation for his vitriolic attacks on Marines, his stance on the Iraq war, and his questionable ethics, the aging Congressman is reportedly squirming under a whisper campaign spread by relentless bloggers and e-mail campaigners that question his mental competency, his allegedly corrupt political practices, and his propensity for dining at the trough of Pentagon power brokers buying his good will.
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A Haditha Marine father joins "Murtha Must Go"
Darryl Sharratt is the father of former LCpl Justin Sharratt, a Marine Murtha accused of “cold blooded murder” at Haditha. Sharratt lives in Canonsburg, a small town in Murtha’s district. Last year his son was exonerated and publicly lauded for his remarkable courage by Gen James N. Mattis, the Marine general who originally brought murder charges against him.
Sharratt belongs to “Murtha Must Go”, a group that claims the 18-term Congressman sold out his country, his brother Marines, and the Constitution when he accused Marines from the 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines of murdering innocent old men, women and children in an orgy of retaliatory murder. It is harsh commentary in a state that prides itself on a history of unflinching military service that goes back before the Revolutionary War.
The group runs a slick website where viewers can follow Murtha’s sordid political career from the infamous ABSCAM video that reportedly shows Murtha taking bribe money from FBI undercover agents to his unprecedented condemnation of American Marines to further his political agenda.
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| Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 12:38 pm Post subject: |
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This would be enough to get my vote...
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Talk about challenging the conventional wisdom! I can already hear the caterwauling of a generation of Dr. Spock-worshipping nincompoops whose parents were repulsed by a notion of actual consequence for bad behavior...or performance. This lunacy now pervades our grade school institutions and has transformed it's focus from "education" to psychological sheep-herding purged of any vestige of the concept of discipline for unacceptable conduct or any consequence for underperformance.
A "spanking" is what Murtha sorely needs. Let's hope LtCol. Russell can deliver.
SPANK MURTHA ! ! |
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TEWSPilot
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| Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 2:17 am Post subject: |
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Murtha: "No god****ed way" will a Virginia carpetbagger represent my district...spoken like the West Virginia carpetbagger that he is (no disrespect to the fine folks in West Virginia)...must have forgotten about the carpetbagger from Arkansas (no disrespect to the fine folks in Arkansas) Hillary Clinton now representing the state of New York in the U.S. Senate....does he think he OWNS that district just because he bought most of it using taxpayers' money? [watch the video of this dispicable slanderer...must have learned his speaking habits at Trinity United in Chicago under the tutelage of Rev Jeremiah Wright & Fr. Pfleger]
LTC Bill Russell for the 12th Congressional District of Pennsylvania
If you live in the 12th Congressional District of Pennsylvania, please consider supporting LTC Bill Russell for Congress.
If you don't live in his district, please consider offering support financially and by contacting your friends and relatives in Pennsylvania.
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TEWSPilot
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...as Alan Colmes would say, "...beeeeeuuuuuuuuuuutiful"...
 
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