Meet a Teabag candidate - Christine O'Donnell of DE - what a joke

[LynneSin]

I just love how someone runs as a 'fiscal conservative' and still manages to rack up all those campaign debt, back taxes and defaulted student loans. She's Delaware's own 'Mini-Me Sarah Palin'. At least she's not in my neighborhood anymore

http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20100320/NEWS02/3200342/O-Donnell-faces-debt-tax-issues

Delaware politics: O'Donnell faces campaign debt, back-tax issues
Senate candidate blames others, errors
BY GINGER GIBSON • THE NEWS JOURNAL • MARCH 20, 2010

When U.S. Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell first launched a bid for Congress challenging longtime incumbent Joe Biden, she capitalized on grass-roots support by preaching fiscal and social conservatism.

She gained the endorsement of the state Republican party and appeared on cable networks like Fox News and CNN and as a guest on "Politically Incorrect" with Bill Maher. More recently, she has marketed herself as a member of the tea party, a populist movement expected to influence the 2010 mid-term elections.

But while she was courting voters, she amassed thousands of dollars in campaign debt, was confronted by the IRS about unpaid income taxes and sold her Wilmington home to a campaign staffer to avoid a sheriff's sale ordered to settle mortgage claims, a News Journal investigation shows.

O'Donnell, who entered national politics as an anti-pornography crusader, attributed her financial predicament to misunderstandings and errors.

"I think the fact that I have struggled financially is what makes me so sympathetic," O'Donnell said.

She called the IRS lien "puzzling" and chalked up the mortgage mess to a technical error by the bank.

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She shares her new residence, a three-bedroom, two-bath town home in Greenville Place, with David Hust, a campaign staffer who is originally from Houston, Texas. Hust promotes himself on his Web site as a Christian rock music singer.

Greenville Place lists the prices of a town house rental between $1,645 and $2,020 a month, depending on the number of bedrooms and square feet.

<b>O'Donnell said she pays half of her rent with campaign donations because she also uses the town home as her Senate campaign headquarters.</b>

"I'm splitting it, legally splitting it and paying part of it," she said. "This is our technical headquarters.

[madinmaryland]

1. Heh. We got those types in MD, also.

I traded emails last summer with a woman who had been my daughter's scrap booking camp teacher. She in the first email said that she was a self made person who had had to work for everything she got. Then she sent me an email saying that her family goes back to the early 1700's in Maryland and has had people in MD Government (yes I confirmed it) for the last 200 years and went on to explain all of her family connections.

:crazy:

The hypocrisy of these fools is nearly enough to make your head explode!

[LynneSin]

3. They have camps for scrapbooking

:crazy:

[madinmaryland]

4. It was a half a day for a week during the summer.

Gotta have something for the kids to do. (and it was cheap!!!)

[Initech]

2. Faith + 1?