Just met with Jan Schneider. She thinks Goss will run aganst Nelson

[graywarrior]

in Florida. He has a week left to apply and Katherine Harris is so fucked.

[Grateful for Hope]

1. I sure hope this isn't true n/t

[graywarrior]

2. Me, too. But she thinks that is why he resigned so quickly.

[Grateful for Hope]

4. Does seem suspicious.

But, he was fired (he did not quit), correct? Hopefully, this fact would have an impact on his chances of winning?

I know...this is yet another fairytale wish.

[Name removed]

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[graywarrior]

6. I like that suggestion.

I dealt with most of them (cept for Goss) recently. Only Jeb responded to a request from my agency. The rest didn't even alknowledge with a "NO". Bastards.

[saltpoint]

8. Crist gives me the creeps. I don't like Gallagher politically either, but

he at least appears to be halfway human.

Crist is one of the alien plants they talk about in the tabloids in the checkout counter at Publix. I just know he is.

And there's some real hungry crocodile in SE part of the Everglades who would really appreciate having a Republican for dinner.

[graywarrior]

18. He's very Christian, or so I've been told

Not the good kind.

[diamondsndust]

12. isnt it against the law to poison gators??????

hehehehe...

Actually somewhere outside Florida City would be better, somewhere out on the Aerojet Canal

[Jane Austin]

5. His disastrous tenure at the CIA sure won't help him earn any votes,

will it?

[graywarrior]

7. Jan seems to think he will get support in FL. He is from Florida

and this IS Florida, after all.

[ellenfl]

9. is that a crack?

kind of a broad brush, isn't that? we got screwed by state republicans and scotus. remember that, please.

ellen fl

[AlamoDemoc]

13. You make a good point...

besides, I doubt Florida would want fired CIA bogyman as their senator

[peacetalksforall]

10. That would mean he's not involved in the poker-prostitute group. I think

that if he's involved in something to do with Florida, why couldn't it be the Abramoff - casino-cruise death that is still hanging out there with some links that people are questioning. Just a suggestion. He was in the House - did he ever run for Senator?

[Saturday]

11. Maybe Goss is the 3rd guy (unnamed) .....

in the hooker scandal and that's why he resigned so quickly.

[tsuki]

14. OMG. Say it ain't so. nt

[Dudley_DUright]

15. No way

Both Jeb and W have been pushing FL house speaker Allan Bense.

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2006/04/27/in_florida_bush_urges_bense_to_run_for_senate.html

[seafan]

19. I agree with you, Dudley. Jeb & Co. are pushing for Bense.

Bense has said he's waiting for this session of the Legislature to end... (which it did yesterday, unless Jeb insists on a special session to force more votes for his failed vouchers/class size amendments)....before Bense *makes up his mind* about running against Harris. Up until very recently, Bense has not been interested in running for Senate.

I bet it's pure hell being under Jeb's thumb, huh, Speaker Bense? Another expendable, dessicated body, to be thrown to the side after serving a purpose for the BFEE. These guys never learn.

[tinfoilinfor2005]

16. No, or junior would have given him glowing reviews

and a ten gun salute send off. On the other hand, junior's seal of approval is pretty much poison these days, so who knows?

[graywarrior]

17. I'm just going on what Jan said.

[ShortnFiery]

22. I think someone should befriend Katherine Harris ...

And if the Republicans truly screw her over, it's only appropriate that she tell us *all that happened* during the 2000 Elections. They are treating that poor woman unfairly and we should let her know, we're here to listen if she would like to talk about it. :smoke: :evilgrin:

[Orangepeel]

20. I don't believe it.

If he were resigning to run for Senate, somebody would have made a big deal about it. They would have had him ride into Florida on a white horse. He wouldn't have slunk out on a Friday, bush wouldn't have given him such a lukewarm goodbye, and the republican party certainly woulnd't be telling reporters that Negroponte fired him.

If he really did get fired because he clashed with Negroponte and not because he's implicated in hookergate, he might run, just because what else is he going to do? But he won't get much more support than Harris and will still get beaten like a drum (possibly even in the primary).

[phillysuse]

21. Goss will be replacing Harris in Florida

This is my second post today on this same subject.

My friend Michael, who is previously a Republican but not a Bush supporter and lives in Florida
told me today that the plan is

Katherine Harris withdraws from the Senate race and runs for her House seat and

Porter Goss runs for the Senate against Nelson.

The Republican money men are being lined up as I write this.

[ShortnFiery]

23. I sure hope Dean's DNC is becoming a little more wiley behind the scenes

How depressing can you get? Wait! Don't answer that. ;)

[graywarrior]

24. From what I'm hearing, that sounds like what will happen

Lot's of infighting between dem candidates in Florida. It's getting dirty.

[democrat in Tallahassee]

25. well then, bring on hooker-gate. this guy ain't clean and I don't

think anyone closely tied with GW BUsh is gonna get much support here. Just my opinion.

[cosmicdot]

26. he fits the GOP mold

Every day is 'Anything Can Happen Day' in Bu$hWorld.
They go on as if nothing is wrong.
So, nothing would surprise me.

His resignation being in the news, I decided to check out his last filed Personal Finance disclosure as congressman at opensecrets.org. Anytime the pdf file has @25 pages, imo = $$$LOADED$$$.

http://www.opensecrets.org/pfds/pfd2003/N00002960_2003.pdf
stock/investment listings (Assets and Unearned Income) start on page 4, and end on page page 12 ... the next 9 pages lists buys/sells of stocks ...

does he own corporate america or what?
or is that the other way around?

did he invest every penny he made in real estate and the newspaper biz? Where did his seed money come from? Was he honest in his business dealings?



I do wish the Democratic Party would become the anti-corporate-owned party ... but, portfolios on that side of the aisle along with all the corporate campaign funding doesn't help create the desired contrast.

Porter "we don't torture" Goss is on the Board of Governors of the swank National Republican Club of Capitol Hill aka the Capitol Hill Club (5-level "clubhouse" including a "stately Presidential Dining Room" offering "splendid cuisine prepared by our renowned chefs")

[graywarrior]

27. Well, there's only one week left to file so we'll know soon enough.

[peace frog]

28. So what if Goss does run against Nelson

Florida is as Rethuglican-weary as the rest of the country. Goss would not be a shoo-in, not by a long shot so ya'll take heart.

[graywarrior]

29. It will just change the dynamics around a little

Katherine is a joke si it will add to the flavor.

[Orangepeel]

30. Nelson might have to run an ad or something

I don't believe Goss will run. As another poster pointed out, the White House is still pushing Bense (who very well might run).

Nelson will beat all three of them, although he'll actually have to work (and be vigilant about fraud) against Bense. He'd win in a diebold proof walk against Goss and could spend the next six months vacationing in Europe and still beat Harris.