Charleston CHEF Dupree CHALLENGES DeMint in Write-In Candidacy

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CHEF DUPREE:


".... In a telephone interview, she said she was furious that the senator had opposed receiving earmarked money to dredge the Charleston harbor. "I don't want to give Jim DeMint a walk -- I want him to work for this,"


.......Dupree said she is a registered Democrat but that she has voted for Republicans

"I have one goal in this campaign: TO COOK Jim DeMint's GOOSE," she said in announcing her candidacy.



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http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2010/09/charleston-chef-dupree-challen.html

[SpiralHawk]

1. Is she related to Cousin Dupree?

Good luck, Chef !

Cook the Republicon Goose, serve with DeMinted sauce, and give America a feast of forward progress.

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6. I don't know if SHE is related.

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from her website:

Nathalie Dupree is the author of ten cookbooks, eight of which are hard backs, selling over half a million copies, and host of three hundred television shows, which have aired on PBS, The Learning Channel and The Food Network for over fifteen years.

Nathalie, as she is known to her fans, has won innumerable awards for her work, including two James Beard Awards. She is most famous for her approachability and understanding of Southern cooking, having started the New Southern Cooking movement now found in many restaurants throughout the South.

She has been Chef of three restaurants, one in Majorca, Spain, one in Social Circle, Georgia, and one in Richmond, Virginia. She was the Director of Rich’s Cooking School, a full participation cooking school in Atlanta, and stopped counting at 10,000 students. Numerous students of hers now own restaurants, catering or other food businesses, and have written their own cookbooks.

Married to author Jack Bass, she lives in Charleston, South Carolina.


<http://www.nathalie.com/bio.htm>

[aquart]

2. Is anyone else running against him?

[tosh]

4. Ummm.....Alvin Greene.

[aquart]

17. Oh.

Cook got a shot?

[tosh]

3. That is NATHALIE Dupree...

out comes my checkbook.

[SpiralHawk]

7. La Cuenta, por favor.

[dgibby]

5. She's very popular here in the Low Country,

but I don't know how well known she is statewide. I'm glad she's running. Now I can vote for the Dem. instead of leaving the catagory blank.

[JaneQPublic]

12. I have one of her cookbooks!

I used to love her cooking show on PBS way back when.

She's seems like a down-to-earth sort with her head screwed on straight.

[bluestateguy]

8. Is Alvin Greene even campaiging?

nt

[jsamuel]

9. i hope not

he is a crackpot

one of his ideas on how to improve the economy is to create and sell action figures in his likeness

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16. LOL. Sounds like a Michael Keaton idea # 178 from the 82' flick ' Night Shift

[StandingInLeftField]

10. If she's serious, she has my vote.

I think she has the name recognition to possibly pull it off, especially if Independent/undecided women get behind her. We have several other independent/green candidates who would be well-qualified, but lack the recognition. I saw her briefly on tv yesterday, but didn't hear the story. Now I know.

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11. TRENDING: Famed chef heats up SC Senate race

SERIOUS SHE IS! Time for a ' money bomb '.


"...Washington (CNN) – Just when you thought the race for the South Carolina U.S. Senate seat could not get more unusual, there's a new twist.
Famed South Carolina chef and cookbook author Nathalie Dupree has entered the race as a write-in candidate. She tells CNN she was motivated to launch the long-shot campaign after reading an article last week about GOP incumbent Sen. Jim DeMint's refusal to sign off on a congressional earmark of $400,000 to study dredging for the port of Charleston.
The study was designed to help allow the port to accommodate larger boats - thereby helping the state's economy.
"I just got angry," Dupree says. "Jim DeMint would not sign off on it."
DeMint is a fiscal conservative who has staunchly opposed congressional earmarks.
"Funding for the Port of Charleston is being held hostage to a corrupt, political earmark system that rewards those who play along and tries to punish those who dare to speak for change," DeMint campaign manager Ian Headley told CNN in a written statement.
"Senator DeMint will continue to fight to change this broken system that is short-changing our Port, bankrupting our country and mortgaging the future of South Carolinians."
Dupree is also upset that DeMint has been active this campaign season traveling the country rallying support for other candidates. DeMint's political action committee has donated several million to conservative candidates, many of whom challenged establishment choices in Senate contests this year.
DeMint "would rather change the U.S. Senate than help South Carolinians," Dupree says. "I just think there needs to be a voice at least to make Jim DeMint come home ... instead of (trying to be) a big man to create a new party that is gong to create steam from a kettle."
"One of the ways Senator DeMint fights for South Carolina taxpayers is by helping elect principled leaders to the Senate who will stand up to the big spenders in both political parties," replied Matt Hoskins, a spokesman for the Senate Conservatives Fund.


<http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/10/01/famed-chef-nathalie-dupree-heats-up-sc-senate-race/>

[StandingInLeftField]

13. Woooo Boy!

Any link to her campaign yet?

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14. I have not seen one yet.

Maybe we should help her SPEND MORE than between $60,000 - $100,000 over the next month against Demint.



"..One thing is for certain: she will have to remain in control of her schedule in these weeks before the election. According to her website, she has already committed to two three-day cooking engagements, one of which falls on election day.

Dupree has not said she would cancel her appearances to campaign.

"I'm going to make it clear that Jim DeMint doesn't care for the people of South Carolina as much as he does for his own ego," she told the New York Times



Incidentally, the last candidate to mount a successful write-in campaign for Senate was Thurmond in 1954.



Dupree told the New York Times she is in the process of assembling a political team and expects to spend between $60,000 and $100,000 on her campaign over the next month.

<http://www.live5news.com/Global/story.asp?S=13245969>

[StandingInLeftField]

15. Thanks, I'll keep an eye peeled for one.