The Green Party's green
Submitted by larry on August 1, 2006 - 6:04pm.
2006 Elections | Bob Casey | Green Party | Santorum
TPM Muckraker has the dirt:
As reported today by the AP and the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Green Party managed to get their candidate Carl Romanelli on the ballot with a costly petition drive, which was mostly funded by contributors who had also given to Rick Santorum's campaign. The party raised $66,000 for the effort, all of which they spent on a private company to collect signatures. TPMmuckraker was able to establish that at least $55,000 of that came from conservatives.
Virginia Davis, Santorum's spokeswoman, told the Inquirer that their office had encouraged the contributions. Why? Because a challenge from the left is seen as a liability for the Dem candidate, Bob Casey.
Man, that's just really dirty by Santorum and the Republican party, but that is no surprise. I would have hoped the Green Party would have some principals to not allow it to be a pawn for the Republicans. Santorum is desperate. I doubt it will be enough.
What would you do for a Klondike Bar?
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Wes Clark Teaches Barnstorming 101 in Texas
n/t they will take the money - are they subversive or anarchists??? Take your pick
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Wes Clark Teaches Barnstorming 101 in Texas
anticipate this and have a strategy for it ??? does anyone know?
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Wes Clark Teaches Barnstorming 101 in Texas
write to him and tell him to get his rear in gear it is GOP Santorum dirty GOP politics 24/7
verifies this as being true! This is outright hypocrisy and is sheer desperation on the part of Santorum to try and hold on to power:
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/8/1/100128.shtml
Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2006 9:58 a.m. EDT
GOP Aids Santorum's Green Rival in Pa.
Thanks to the generosity of GOP donors, a Green Party candidate is expected to make it onto the ballot in Pennsylvania's Senate race and siphon votes from Democratic front-runner Bob Casey in his bid to unseat Republican Sen. Rick Santorum.
While Santorum said Monday that he would welcome another candidate on the ballot, Casey's campaign accused Republicans of "trying to steal the election."
Green Party candidate Carl Romanelli, making his first bid for statewide elective office, acknowledged Monday that Republican contributors probably supplied most of the $100,000 that he said he spent gathering signatures to qualify for the Nov. 7 ballot.
Romanelli said he expects to turn in far more than the required 67,070 signatures by Tuesday's deadline.
"I have friends in all political parties. It's just that my Republican friends are more confident about standing with me than my Democratic friends. And as a group, my Republican friends are a little better off," he said in a telephone interview.
Romanelli, of Wilkes-Barre, supports abortion rights, while both Santorum and Casey oppose them. Political observers say Romanelli's candidacy would likely draw votes from Casey, the state treasurer, who has held a double-digit lead over Santorum for months.
Records on file with the Federal Election Commission show the Luzerne County Green Party received $66,000 in June from 20 contributors who gave between $1,000 and $5,000 apiece.
The Luzerne County Green Party in turn reported paying $66,000 in June to a Florida company called JSM Inc. for work that Romanelli described as an integral part of his signature-gathering campaign.
An analysis showed that at least $29,000 came from donors who also have given to Santorum's campaign, and nearly all the donors had given to Republican candidates in recent elections.
Santorum said he hopes Romanelli makes it onto the ballot.
"This is politics," the second-term senator told reporters Monday while campaigning in suburban Pittsburgh. "It's no surprise when you're an incumbent, it helps to have more people on the ballot."
A Casey campaign spokesman accused Santorum of "earmarking" GOP contributions for an ostensible opponent.
"He's been the biggest supporter of the Green Party candidacy," said the spokesman, Larry Smar.
Virginia Davis, Santorum's campaign spokeswoman, declined to answer questions about whether he solicited the contributions.
© 2006 Associated Press.