Via… Not Larry Sabato, who cannot be happy about the fact that his fully-justified anger at seeing a 14 term Democratic Congressman use campaign finance money to buy himself a nice, new car is now showing up as yet another reason why to vote for Rick Boucher’s opponent Morgan Griffith, who is not using special-interest money to buy himself shiny new automobiles. I know this because I just called to check; and the sound of their laughter at the very thought…
Moe Lane
PS: For extra giggles, Boucher sabotaged his own administration’s fiscal policies by buying a Ford. What, Government Motors wasn’t good enough for the Democrat? Didn’t the government buy that company for our own good?
PPS: Morgan is also campaigning on the idea of cutting Congress’s pay by 10%.
Crossposted to Moe Lane.
Jeff Emanuel
Oh Lord! Won't You Buy Me a Mercedes Benz....
Repair_Man_Jack (Diary) Thursday, September 16th at 1:18PM EDT (link)Mr. Obama is pretending that an economic “recovery” is underway when he knows damn well that the banking system is just blowing smoke up the shredded *** of what’s left of that economy – James Howard Kunstler
Jerry Costello did the SAME THING!
teridavisnewman (Diary) Sunday, September 19th at 1:18PM EDT (link)My opponent, Jerry Costello, did the same thing. On his campaign disclosures there’s a check to a car dealership for almost 24 thousand dollars to the local Chrysler dealership for a nice new car. Of course this doesn’t seem to make the news, but it should!
Teri Davis Newman
Consultant
2010 Republican Nominee for Congress
12th Congressional District of Illinois
www.terinewman.com
Boucher buys himself a nice retirement car
Darin_H (Diary) Thursday, September 16th at 1:30PM EDT (link)Hope it was worth it, Ricky.
A visionary coward says that anger can be power, as long as there’s a victim on TV – Flat Top, Goo Goo Dolls
No monthly car payment for Rick Boucher (D, VA-09)
wolfster38 (Diary) Thursday, September 16th at 3:37PM EDT (link)I wonder how many people that gave money to his campaign have a car payment. And he didn’t even buy the ObamaVolt. (Ya know, the car for the people not the Government)!
Now he can drive off into the sunset because he just drove over a cliff.
“A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.”
The Declaration of Independence
Come on . . .
joecollins (Diary) Thursday, September 16th at 4:05PM EDT (link)Come on, folks. One cannot expect one of our Elected Elites to drive around in a beat up truck. Oh wait. Scott Brown did that.
Somebody should check previous years' reports
Adjoran (Diary) Thursday, September 16th at 7:36PM EDT (link)Boucher may have been making a practice of this.
If not, it sorta says he sees the handwriting on the wall and intends to cash out all he can.
Hey, remember those grand old days when retiring congresscritters could keep their leftover campaign funds for personal use? Heh.
But Joey got a train set
gunsrus Friday, September 17th at 6:49AM EDT (link)and he used Uncle Sams money to buy it
and it came from France
and AIG had to be bailed out to keep the loan
and waaaaaa you guys are so UNFAIR
Time for Virginia voters to impose term limit on Boucher
jnowlin Friday, September 17th at 7:34AM EDT (link)Boucher had already lost about 25% of his support with his Cap and Trade yes vote. I suspect this car scandal will finish him off.
The 2010 Election Theme Song
“Another one bites the dust”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvZsKJ6dWqI
I'm from Virginia
calgacus (Diary) Friday, September 17th at 8:18AM EDT (link)albeit from Fairfax, but I know people from that area and I can almost personally guarantee that Boucher was a dead man walking when he voted for Cap and Trade.
I live in VA-09 . . .
draric Sunday, September 26th at 8:45PM EDT (link)and I am not so sure Rick Boucher will lose. The area is conservative leaning, but Boucher has bought them off for 28 years with pork barrel spending. It’ll be hard to unseat him, and the only poll I’ve seen showed him leading in July. Griffith needs all the help we can give him.
(I’m posting this late because of some weird error about not being a member long enough to post.)
Democrats spend campaign funds for personal expenses?
southernpatriots (Diary) Friday, September 17th at 7:47AM EDT (link)So, the news media (NBC clone cable networks that no one watches) spend all day investigating the $2, and other small amounts that Christine spent on food, rent or other expenses and yet they will NOT investigate all day on Rick spending campaign funds on a new vehicle. Nothing But Communists and their satellites have no audience because…….?
I care less about the background and nothing about the pedigree of a candidate but rather how they will vote. Will they join with other Conservatives to quickly begin to radically reverse the government takeover and government controls which Obama and his cronies (Pelosi, Reed, and company) have put into effect. Reverse, void, eliminate Obamacare, protect our borders, arrest and deport illegals, if the investigations have revealed no wrong doing, stop and cease any investigation of Arpaio, win the war in Afghanistan and/or eliminate the Taliban and begin all these things quickly. Stop any nominees to the SCOTUS that ascribe to European or world law or hold the U.S. Constitution in distain, same for other federal judgeships. Vote conservative, quite compromising to elect RINOs to get along and be bi-partisan (which is just agreeing with Progressives and Demonrats), vote conservative (go Dr. Paul Broun!), vote conservative, vote conservative!
You beat me to it -nt
bk (Diary) Friday, September 17th at 8:30AM EDT (link)Arrest and Deport Illegals
edintexas Friday, September 17th at 11:03AM EDT (link)It bears repeating, and repeating again, that the taxpayer’s money does not need to be spent on arrest and deportation. The claim that this is necessary is usually a red herring put forth by open borders advocates trying to convince people it would be too difficult, and cost too much, to move the illegals back home.
What is needed is a strong system of electronic verification of a prospective employee’s right to work in the country. As it is, we now have a voluntary E-Verify system, It isn’t perfect (it wouldn’t catch someone using another’s name and matching Social Security Account Number), and the penalties for employing an illegal aren’t much. If we had a mandatory system to require employers to check on employees at hiring, and stiff penalties for failure to do so, there would be a significant movement of illegals out of the country, People don’t stay when they can’t work.
immigration is getting to be like with the death penalty
bk (Diary) Friday, September 17th at 12:33PM EDT (link)The left sets up the system to tie death penalty cases up in the courts for years if not decades, then argues we should drop the death penalty because it’s cheaper to give them a life sentence.
They want to make anti-immigration efforts the same sort of self-fulfilling prophecy, where it’s cheaper for you to give up fighting.
Means Test the Political Class
charlie520 Friday, September 17th at 9:38AM EDT (link)All current and past members of Congress (and maybe other government roles) should be means tested for income and personal wealth before receiving any public benefit, just like the rest of us,
I’m sure that most, but by no means all, would be kicked away from the public trough.
Give the guy a break
indyjohn Friday, September 17th at 9:56AM EDT (link)I’m certain that he will only use this new automobile for political purposes: driving to campaign events, getting carryout going to and from events, going to liquor stores before and after events, driving his female campaign workers home (wink, wink). And I’ll bet he puts a big ‘Rick Boucher for Congress’ bumper sticker on it, so technically the vehicle provides him with mobile advertising. All personal uses with be off-limits. We know this to be true because he is a Democrat, and Democrats never engage in unethical behavior. Right?
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
Edmund Burke