Think Progress: Katherine Harris Plays Dumb

[PhilipShore]

Think Progress
Katherine Harris Plays Dumb
February 25, 2006

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/02/25/katherine-harris-plays-dumb/

Defense contractor Mitchell J. Wade pled guilty yesterday to election law fraud, among other charges for making illegal campaign contributions, including $32,000 in illegal contribution to Rep. Katherine Harris (R-FL).

Katherine Harris claims she had no idea there was anything amiss when she received the contributions. In a statement she said the incident “demonstrates the perils of a process in which candidates are sometimes asked to determine the intent of a contributor.”

Her story isn’t very credible, for three reasons –

1. The illegal donations arrived on the same day. Had various employees of MZM independently decided to donate money to Harris there wouldn’t have been any problem. The donations were illegal because they were coordinated by Mitchell Wade, who reimbursed his employees. Seven MZM employees sent 28K in donation on the same day, March 23, 2004. (Mitchell’s wife, Christiane sent 4K a week later.) It’s theoretically possible that all seven employees just happened to independently send maximum contributions to the same candidate on the same day, but it doesn’t take a genius to realize they were coordinated.

[Kerrytravelers]

1. Plays dumb? Is there anything else she can be?

:)

[Dudley_DUright]

2. certainly not a stretch for her by any means!

;-)

[napi21]

3. Yep, said that same thing when I read the OP headline!

PLAYS dumb???? What's with the word plays?

[dmkinsey]

8. Uhh, I don't think she's SMART enough

to play dumb!

[Lochloosa]

4. Sexy?

Nawwww that's not it....

[FreedomAngel82]

6. LOL Good one

[formercia]

5. What did she do for MZM?

if someone can show cause and effect......

[TahitiNut]

7. Ros-Lehtinen must've played Dumber ... typecasting.

:shrug:

[Gman]

9. Any reasonable campaign treasurer

would say, "Uh oh. What's up here?"