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Barney Frank’s SO[*] heckles Sean Bielat.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  October 17th, 2010 at 10:07 AM  | 

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Via DaTechGuy and Fleming and Hayes comes forty-five seconds of amusement.  For those without video access, the video below shows Sean Bielat (Barney Frank‘s challenger in MA-04) being (badly) heckled by an onlooker.

Turns out that said heckler was Frank’s SO[*] James Ready, who you might remember from the pot bust thing, or perhaps the yelling at ophthalmologists thing.   Sean Bielat, of course, you know from the suddenly giving Barney Frank a real race for a change thing.

Now, I don’t mind that the Frank campaign is sending out people to heckle Bielat.  Part of the game.  I also don’t give a tinker’s dam that Barney Frank’s SO is a guy, either.  But what I do find funny is that if you were to take out the names and redo this story in terms of Candidate A has to send Significant Other out to heckle Candidate B because there’s nobody else to do it and asked a bystander which candidate was the challenger, he or she would probably say Candidate A.

This is how long-term incumbents lose, you know: they assume that they’re never going to need to keep a proper campaign staff, so when they turn out to need one they have to hastily improvise, often to unintentionally hilarious results.

Moe Lane (crosspost)

[* SO = 'Significant Other.'  My apologies for the acronym. - ML]

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  • johnt

    Or maybe it’s a suppressed attraction, after all, look at Barney.

  • alaskaescapeartist

    Barney needs to start taking his man along on his jet-setting excursions to prevent these sorts of encounters.

    As they say, behind every successful Barney, there’s a equally successful man-heckler.

    Sucks to be a liberal… whoops, did I say that?

  • AceInTX

    I’m cringing because I know I’m going to feel stupid when I get the answer…heh

  • alaskaescapeartist

    nt

  • morstar150

    So I don’t have to claim ignorance. ooops!

  • alaskaescapeartist

    … inspires a reflexive cringe in most of us anyways.

    My Barney fantasy is to turn on some news channel, see him doing a talking/lisping head segment…. then the graphic appears “Barney Frank – Former Congressman”

  • audax

    Ace, since this is a family friendly site, the second “B” stands for “Boy”

  • IJB
  • earlgrey
  • http://moelane.com/ Moe Lane

    Sorry.

  • NeoKong

    An illustration of what we have which is some old lethargic pudgy creep or we could go with the young and energetic fresh face who is not corrupt and arrogant.
    It’s a no brainer.

  • AceInTX

    but being that we’re talking about a Democrat from MA it couldn’t be that

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  • mypalfish

    This is the kind of race I would make a donation in if it was winnable.

  • zachv

    http://elections.nytimes.com/2010/house/massachusetts/4

    FiveThirtyEight Forecast – Projected Vote
    Frank 58.7%
    Bielat 39.0%
    Margin of Error: ? 8.9%

  • l7squared

    8.9 % ????

    :) )

    Why the heck even bother?

    8.9% sheesh.

  • dio55

    Forget that Nytimes bs, this slim and declining lead is the reason barney frank and his “significant pothead” are losing it down there in mass. About that nytimes link zachv its a terrible and misleading link it shows bielat with a money disadvantage to Sean when in fact he outraised frank 3 to 1 in the last quater and his coffers are growing . its scott brown the sequel because brown carried frank’s constituancy by 7 points. As for barney counting on the gay vote , have you seen a picture of these two side by side . just sayin

  • IJB

    …But he didn’t outraise Frank for the entire Q3 – see here.

    Still, based on the above link, Bielat should have more than enough money to get his message out…

  • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

    That’s not a scientific poll. That’s just the Nate Silver/NYT projection.

    Take it as you would any other NYT publication.

  • jomo2009

    call him Barney’s B***h and leave it at that.

  • itsjoanne

    Sean Bielat defeating Barney. :)

  • AceInTX

    I’m not a statistician….but it seems to me this is close…even if you take away 4 from Frank and give it to Bielat…that means Bielat is within stiking distance….doesn’t it?

  • powertothepeople

    and I hope you are right. I would love to see Frank’s concession speech.

    But my call for the upset of the night is O’Donnell. I think polls will have her being whooped right up until results start coming in and it will turn out to be a tight one. But O’Donnell wins 52 to 48.

  • AceInTX

  • america1st

    .

  • america1st

    . . . when the smoke clears on November 3rd, the grounds will be littered with the carcasses of lame duck dims. For once we are not sitting on our duffs, while the combination of a dedicated citizenry working with blogs, talk radio and cable news (principally Fox) are putting the truth in front of an electorate so rocked by events in their own lives they are willing to consider information from sources other than the Kool-Aid scammers of the legacy media.

    As a target for involuntary retirement, barney is near the top of my shopping list . . . his defeat would be a wonderful Christmas present for all of America.

  • jenniferjmilleresq

    Forget that dumb NYT poll/projection whatever it is. In fact, I don’t think any of the pollsters has a good model for this election year’s likely voter and expected turnout. They have no precedent for what will happen Nov. 2nd. Bring it on!!

  • 6eorge Jetson

    Anyway, Barney Frank’s ___ is rarely going to be a good thing.

    Is it true that his dog ran away?

  • dio55

    almost all republicans and right leaning indies are likely voters I would think less than 50% of dems and left leaning indies are likely voters.. this election is going to be a rout

  • truemainer

    Ready was busted for growing ‘copious’ pot plants in his backyard in Ogunquit. Barney was there, but didn’t know what pot looked like. Barney and Ready spent Christmas in Virgin Islands courtesy of Maine Rep. Chellie Pingree who arranged for them to fly down on her hedge fund billionaire boyfriends private jet. No conflict there, eh, Reps.

  • gunsrus

    at least in this case

  • davesinsanantonio

    The rest of us are only entitled to shut up and pay our taxes.

  • blooch

    “In a big way, honey!”, as Jack Tors might say.

  • bay0wulf

    “SO” I know that it’s not Socially Acceptable Hypocrisy (Politically Correct or, PC to some) to say this but if you say “S.O.” quickly and add the word “Buddy” to it … it really is self explanatory in a male context anyway.

    Barney Frank is just one more absolute disgrace that somehow found a place in our government. He’s been directly involved in politics since 1980 (30 yrs) and is currently “Representing the Fourth Congressional District of Massachusetts. He is also Chairman of the Financial Services Committee”.

    1. One of his “SO” ran a prostitute ring out of his house/apartment.
    2. One of his previous SO (for 10 years) was a High Level Exec for Fannie Mae.

    There’s more if you look. How would this play out if some congressman’s Girlfriend pulled stuff like that? This guy plainly does not display much in terms Basic Good Sense.

    And … He’s … “Chairman of the Financial Services Committee” How did THAT happen?

    From 2008; “… Frank was and remains a stalwart defender of Fannie Mae, which is now under FBI investigation along with its sister organization Freddie Mac, American International Group Inc. (NYSE:AIG) and Lehman Brothers (NYSE:LEH) ? all recently participants in government bailouts. But Frank has derailed efforts to regulate the institution, as well as denying it posed any financial risk.”

  • capeconservative

    video stating JUST BEFORE the economy collapsed, that Fannie and Freddie were in fine health!

    Donate whatever you can to Sean – we did and he’s not in our district – we MUST give both the HOUSE & SENATE a THOROUGH cleaning on November 2!!!!

    This man does not deserve to serve the public in Congress, much less CHAIR a committee!

    TERM LIMITS after Congress has been emptied of all the corrupt career politicians!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Elect new people who will give a term or two to their country and then go back home…with NO pensions and NO lifetime health benefits. PUBLIC SERVICE is what they are supposedly elected for – not a gravy train at the expense of the American taxpayers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • IJB

    (IOW, it’s basically meaningless.)

  • msctex

    They were praying Bielat would say something overtly or even remotely objectionable, so they could wave the flag of oppression.

    The Wepwesentative is not only worried about weetirement. He is well aware he is up to his neck in a criminal conspiracy with regard to Fannie and Freddy, and that the paperwork which will compel his testimony has probably already been written. Frank is fighting for his freedom, not just his job, and the period between November 2 and his possible removal may provide some unparalleled political theatre.

    There is a potential for every sort of ugliness here and throughout the Democratic Party; any act of human desperation imaginable is not beyond the pale. These are death throes, and it is that bad.

  • l7squared

    and stumbled across this story.

    >>>The telephone poll was conducted last Thursday through Sunday by Fleming & Associates of Cumberland, R.I. The survey had a margin of sampling error of plus or minus approximately 5 percentage points. It?s the only independent poll done so far in a race that?s getting national attention.

    The results come the same day Frank disclosed that his campaign war chest shrank from $1.1 million to $649,560 in the first two weeks of October as he spent heavily on advertising to counter Bielat. The Republican had $364,664 on hand as of Sept. 30 and hadn?t reported new numbers as of midday Thursday.<<<

    http://www.wpri.com/dpp/news/politics/congress/wpri-poll-says-barney-frank-in-tight-race

    There is more at the link.
    Think I’ll break out my checkbook. I’m grinning ear to ear.