I Challenge Randi Rhodes To Call Scott McLellans Mother

[rsmith6621]

I challenge Randi to call Scott McLellans MUM about Scottys Lying or stop saying she will.....Randi If you are reading this I double Dog Dare You......


Frankly I think a call would be a HOOT!!!

[Dr.Phool]

1. Would you please wash your son's mouth out with soap?

The lying little moon-faced bastard.

And get a bar for the Quaker Oats Guy to use on her son(s) too!

[Sammy Pepys]

2. Ah, leave his poor mom out of it.

What's harrassing her going to accomplish?

[jsamuel]

3. bad taste... trust me, it would backfire

don't go after someone's family

[0007]

9. Hmmmm



[Uben]

4. Did you know?

Scott McClellan's mom is Carol Keeton Strayhorn, Comptroller for the state of Texas,and a candidate for Texas governor, independent party? She is running as a republican but in the independant party to avoid some technicalities.
To her credit, she does not like Rick Perry at all!

[stillcool]

5. I lost my link...but that's quite the family...

Newsweek
Dec. 29/Jan. 5 issue - FDA Commissioner Mark McClellan oversees almost a quarter of the U.S. economy. Tapped for the job in the fall of 2002, McClellan handles such complex issues as cloned foods and regulating pharmacogenomics using DNA tests to tailor drugs to individual patients. He'll also handle two of the hottest issues of 2004: a proposal to approve over-the-counter sales of the "morning after" contraceptive pill, and the drive to import cheap prescription drugs from Canada.

A doctor and economist, McClellan, 40, has politics in his blood. His mother, Carole Keeton Strayhorn, is a former mayor of Austin, Texas, and is currently the state comptroller. His brother Scott is the White House press secretary. McClellan served on President Bush's Council of Economic Advisers and in the Clinton Treasury Department. That experience could make him a contender for secretary of Health and Human Services when Tommy Thompson departs. If George W. Bush sticks around for a second term, chances are good he'll want at least one McClellan nearby.

[Uben]

8. Here's a link to a story

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http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/3561159.html

AUSTIN - Comptroller Carole Keeton Strayhorn, in either a bold stroke or a huge long shot, stepped away from the Republican primary Monday to challenge Gov. Rick Perry as an independent candidate.

No independent candidate has won the Governor's Mansion in the 147 years since it was taken by Sam Houston, a hero of the Texas war for independence and two-time president of the Republic of Texas.

Strayhorn's announcement created the possibility that Perry will face a re-election challenge from the Democratic and Libertarian nominees, as well as two independents: Strayhorn and satirist Kinky Friedman.

She declared as an independent on the last day to file for the Republican or Democratic primaries, for the Libertarian nomination, or as an independent.

Strayhorn, 66, switched from the Democratic to Republican Party 20 years ago. She was elected a railroad commissioner in 1996 and comptroller in 1998 and 2002.

Her decision to run as an independent was a clear sign that she did not think she could beat Perry in a GOP primary dominated by social conservatives, said Southern Methodist University political scientist Cal Jillson.

"Her handlers must have convinced her she couldn't win ... and are trying to play on her popularity with independents and Democrats," he said.

Strayhorn said she based her decision on the belief that Perry has divided Texas with partisan politics that made it impossible to get the Legislature to cut property taxes or pass school finance reform.

"I am a Republican, but I know we must set partisan politics aside and do what's right for Texas," Strayhorn said. "The sad fact is that this governor has so politically fractured our state — so made it one against the other — that the only way to bring Texas back together is to have independent leadership."

[drm604]

6. That changes things.

I was going to agree with the people who were saying that this would be in bad taste and that we should leave his mother alone. But if she really is a public figure and a political canididate, then Randi should invite her on to defend her son. But I doubt that she'd accept the invitation.

[AValdoux]

7. Funny thing about Strayhorn

Normally if your sons were so well connected you would use it in your campaign. The other son is in charge of the new medicare drug program, Scotty's brother. Her ads make mention of her being "One Feisty Gramma" but no mention of her sons. Its pretty bad you have to hide your connections to the Bush Administration while running for office in Texas.


AValdoux