Politics, If You Can Call It That

Congress Speaks at Tenth-Grade Level; Florida Totally Average; Connie Mack Simplest Speaker in Congress

By Rich Abdill Fri., May 25 2012 at 12:09 PM
Categories: Politics, If You Can Call It That
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Sunlight Foundation
Cuttin' budgets, cuttin' syllables. (Click for larger.)
There has been a lot of blogspace spent on the Sunlight Foundation's latest study, which found that the speech patterns of members of Congress have gotten markedly simpler over the past 15 years or so.

"Is Congress getting dumber, or just more plainspoken?" its headline asks, and the whole country at once responded "DUMBER."
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Dave Weldon Announces Run for Senate; Vote for Him Because Obama Stinks or Something

By Rich Abdill Mon., May 21 2012 at 9:04 AM
Categories: Politics, If You Can Call It That
All across Florida... people are running. For Senate.

The latest entry into the hunt for Sen. Bill Nelson's seat is former Florida Rep. Dave Weldon, who served seven terms in the House before retiring in 2008 to spend more time with his family. Apparently he got tired of them.
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George LeMieux Camp Says Maybe Connie Mack's Water Bill Is So Low Because He Drinks Tiger Blood

By Rich Abdill Wed., May 16 2012 at 9:00 AM
Categories: Politics, If You Can Call It That
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While it's not clear if a Republican can beat Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson in November, the fight for the Republican nomination has no shortage of interesting rhetorical maneuverings.

The most recent spat between George LeMieux and Rep. Connie Mack started over a web ad the LeMieux campaign released that suggested Mack doesn't really live in Florida. 

Though Mack pointed out LeMieux didn't have any evidence of that and PolitiFact called the claim "mostly false," the accusation got a smidgen of footing Monday night when Orlando Sentinel reporters looked into Mack's Fort Myers water records -- and found that Mack wasn't really using very much.
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Connie Mack's Penny Plan: Where's the "Update"?

By Rich Abdill Mon., May 14 2012 at 9:03 AM
Categories: Politics, If You Can Call It That
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Birthday wishes are in order! Best start baking the cakes now -- it's cool, you can just get the money out of the federal treasury.

Last week, we wrote about Rep. Connie Mack's illegal mailers that he sent to 90,000 Floridians. The postcards said they were a "legislative update" to the "Mack Penny Plan," the Florida Republican's prescription for cutting government spending. They were illegal because congressmen are only allowed to use federal money to pay for mail sent within their districts. Mack's were sent all over the state.

The Tampa Bay Times got hold of some of them -- it talks about sponsorships of the bill, about how it sets a spending cap, about how "it's time to cut up the government's credit card."

One thing that this "legislative update" leaves out? On Friday, it was exactly one year since anything legislative actually happened with the Penny Plan.
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George LeMieux Is Loving That Connie Mack Messed Up "Campaign" Mailers So Badly

By Rich Abdill Thu., May 10 2012 at 2:10 PM
Categories: Politics, If You Can Call It That
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There isn't any evidence to prove that Rep. Connie Mack intentionally used $18,000 in taxpayer money to send political postcards all over the state, but there isn't anything about the situation that makes Mack look good.

If you haven't heard about it already, all the recent hullabaloo is over 90,000 mailers that Mack sent out earlier this week using federal funds. It's technically kosher if he keeps the mailings within his district. The Tampa Bay Times found out he didn't.
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Connie Mack's Dad Chastises Reporters for Pointing Out His Son Is Way, Way Behind

By Rich Abdill Thu., Apr. 19 2012 at 12:07 PM
Categories: Politics, If You Can Call It That
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The Mack daddy, if you will.
Republican Rep. Connie Mack IV's Senate campaign has hit a bump in the road -- a bump shaped like an electorate that doesn't want to vote for him. He's come up short in poll after poll, and papers in Florida and elsewhere have pointed it out. Well, one person is not having it -- Mack's dad.

Former Florida Sen. Connie Mack III sent out a letter to supporters yesterday snidely chastising the Miami Herald's Marc Caputo and the Tampa Bay Times' Adam Smith for liberal bias, "unprofessional behavior," and acting like "paid staffers of the Democrat Party." All because his son is losing in the polls to the guy who waltzed into the Senate when Mack III retired.

"How partisan," Mack III said. "Connie's campaign is, in fact, going great."
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Debbie Wasserman Schultz Gets New Hairdo; Internet Goes Nuts

By Lisa Rab Mon., Apr. 16 2012 at 11:53 AM
Categories: Broward Politics, Politics, If You Can Call It That
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The new hair, on the right.
Normally, the Pulp would never consider a politician's hairstyle news, but U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Weston) is a special case. For some reason, the internet hates her hair. Her tightly spiraled, dyed-blond curls have been called "angry perm" and "nappy," and Rush Limbaugh once accused her of using mayonnaise on her tresses. Last week, when we published a blog about Wasserman Schultz canceling a speech at a local Muslim group's fundraiser, some commenters cared more about her hair than her decision not to appear at the event.

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Connie Mack Says Bill Nelson Voted for Getting Monkeys High on Coke (VIDEO)

By Rich Abdill Fri., Apr. 13 2012 at 12:54 PM
Categories: Getting High, On the Boob Tube, Politics, If You Can Call It That
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The American Taxpayer, by Vincent Van Gogh.
We're a little more than six months away from Election Day, and you know what that means -- it's time to brace yourself for attack-ad season.

Florida Republican Rep. Cornelius "Connie Mack" McGillicuddy sent one out on the airwaves yesterday that didn't have very much content in its 30 seconds, but what it did have was pretty interesting: Sen. Bill Nelson, his Democratic opponent in the Senate election, voted to pay for monkeys getting high on cocaine.

It is true? Well, while Nelson didn't literally vote for the monkey cocaine thing, his vote did lead to monkeys getting high. (The animal, not the band.)
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Why Does Connie Mack Get to Use a Fake Name in Congress?

By Rich Abdill Mon., Apr. 9 2012 at 9:00 AM
Categories: Politics, If You Can Call It That
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Florida Congressman Connie Mack hasn't been using his real name. Not in Federal Election Commission filings, not in his Congressional bio, not in federal financial disclosure documents. Even on forms that ask for "Full Name" or "Name of Candidate (in full)," he writes -- and later signs -- "Connie Mack."

It's a name that's way easier to write down than his actual full name, Cornelius Harvey McGillicuddy IV.
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Joe Kaufman Tells BSO to "Cease All Activities" With Muslims

By Lisa Rab Thu., Apr. 5 2012 at 11:08 AM
Categories: Law & Order, Politics, If You Can Call It That, War on Terror
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Kaufman believes he knows better than the sheriff how to deal with terrorism.
South Florida's favorite anti-Islam nut bag masquerading as a Republican congressional candidate has his knickers in a twist over a recent meeting between Broward sheriff's officials and Muslim leaders.

Joe Kaufman, head of the hate-mongering group Americans Against Hate, is upset because the sheriff's office had the gall to host a meeting two weeks ago between cops and leaders representing South Florida mosques, the local chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), and the American Muslim Association of North America (AMANA).

"I like and respect Sheriff [Al] Lamberti, but I think it is very unwise to allow radicalMore >>

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