Republican media consultant switches parties

[quaoar]

After learning that working for Republicans can be hazardous to your financial well-being:

http://www.hillnews.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/UndertheDome/010406.html

Leland Gregory, a political consultant and former “Saturday Night Live” writer who is suing former Rep. Mac Collins, says his dispute with the Georgia Republican contributed to his becoming a Democrat.

Gregory is suing Collins for $15,000 he says he’s owed for media consulting on Collins’s unsuccessful 2004 campaign for Senate.

In an e-mail over the break, Gregory said he made the “difficult decision” to change political parties “in part because of my dealings with the likes of Mr. Collins.”

Collins is seeking to return to Congress by challenging Rep. Jim Marshall (D) in Georgia’s 3rd District.

[efhmc]

1. Who wants someone to whom money matters more than personal

character or principles? Sounds like he left the party that fit him to a tee.

[uberblonde]

2. As the nuns used to say...

Lie down with dogs, rise up with fleas.

[gratuitous]

3. Filed under the heading of . . .

"So"? Not a slam on our esteemed quaoar, but on Leland Gregory, whose most deeply held, personal principles are changeable in a moment when you stiff him on the bill. Gregory knew exactly what sort of man he was dealing with when he worked for Collins. It was only when Collins didn't come across with the moolah that Gregory suddenly found his political compass and discovered he was really a Democrat.

[quaoar]

4. I was wondering

how someone who once worked on SNL could possibly be a Republican -- other than Dennis Miller.

[asjr]

5. It is true then, a tiger can change its stripes. Or can

we track this down to sort of a "death bed conversion."

[kentuck]

6. That's a real principled reason to switch parties..

:shrug: Hey! He owed me money!