Handy Guide to the corruption, insanity and issues of Delaware Tea Party darling Christine O'Donnell

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Handy Guide to the corruption, insanity and issues of Delaware Tea Party darling Christine O'Donnell

Edited on Wed Sep-15-10 10:59 PM by zulchzulu

So just who is Christine O'Donnell? This is basically a primer on her at this time. More insane clips, quips and mea culpa entertainment will come out of her wackazoid cakehole as the Delaware Senate race continues up to November.

If you have the stomach, you can watch her victory speech against Mike Castle:
http://videoshare.politico.com/singletitlevideo_chromeless.php?bcpid=309045726001&bctid=609659367001

Then there's the strange obsession with masturbation:

Delaware’s Republican Senate candidate who told us not to masturbate on MTV’s “Sex in the 90s.” And now Rachel Maddow has dug up the clip. Christine was the president and founder of The S.A.L.T. (The Savior’s Alliance for Lifting the Truth) which taught kids about the many dangers of masturbation. First and foremost ... it’s selfish! Gasp! Secondly, it’s considered adultery because it involves lust.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzHcqcXo_NA&feature=player_embedded

There's the innuendo of accusing someone of being gay without any proof:

A conservative firm until recently employed by the Delaware primary campaign of conservative Christine O'Donnell against Rep. Mike Castle casually leveled an extraordinary — and unsupported — charge of a gay affair against Castle in a video posted to its website today, the ugliest salvo yet in an extremely bitter primary.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_F8WA3iBbs&feature=player_embedded

Then there's the Greatest Hits of Delusion and Lies from this Sarah Palin-backed criminal.

O'Donnell owes the federal government $11,744.59 in taxes and penalties from the 2005 tax year, according to a lien filed by the IRS on March 2, 2010, with the New Castle County Recorder of Deeds.
Her federal campaign committee reported $23,776 in debt, more than the $10,585 cash in her campaign account, according to her most recent filings with the Federal Elections Commission. The FEC has cited her eight times for failure to report her contributions between 2007 and 2009. She owes outstanding payments to staffers, consultants and volunteers, according to a campaign finance filing from January.
Her legal woes date back to 1994, when her alma mater, Fairleigh Dickinson University, in Rutherford, N.J., sued her for $4,823 in unpaid expenses, according to New Jersey and California court documents. The university won a judgment in New Jersey for the entire amount. In 2000, the judgment was transferred to California, where O'Donnell lived at the time, as unpaid, according to court documents.
California reported the debt as satisfied in 2003, but she was never conferred a degree by Fairleigh Dickinson because of non-payment.
O'Donnell began working for ISI in Hockessin on March 12, 2003, and was to be paid an annual salary of $65,000, according to court filings. She purchased a home on Lincoln Street in Wilmington in August of 2003, taking out a mortgage with CitiBank for $98,500, according to New Castle County property records. O'Donnell was fired by ISI on Feb. 26, 2004, after she complained to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that she was the victim of gender discrimination, according to court filings. O'Donnell sued ISI in U.S. District Court in 2005, alleging she was fired in retaliation for complaining to the EEOC. In her suit, O'Donnell sought back pay, future pay and punitive damages.
O'Donnell was also having trouble paying her mortgage, according to the lawsuit filed by the mortgage holder on March 5, 2008. The mortgage company secured a default judgment against O'Donnell for $90,421.31 on May 13, 2008. But a month before the sheriff's auction, O'Donnell sold the house at 518 N. Lincoln Street for $135,000 to Brent Vasher, who was working as legal counsel for her Senate campaign.

http://knowchristineodonnell.com/nj_032010.html

Now for the funny...

In response, conservative stalwart Bill Kristol, who fears O'Donnell is incapable of winning the Senate seat in November, said: "I know Sarah Palin. I respect Sarah Palin. And with all due respect -- Christine O'Donnell is no Sarah Palin."

http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/09/14/primary.elections/index.html

Now back to the ridiculous...

O'Donnell's finances, honesty, and stability have been called into question in light of her false and strange claims. The court complaint raises further questions on all fronts. O'Donnell, who made an annual salary of $65,000 at ISI as director of communications and public affairs, sought up to $6,952,477 million in damages, claiming, among other allegations, that ISI had defamed her and had violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. O'Donnell sought:

--Up to $3,952,447 in "Direct Damages, including back pay" and "lifetime lost income and liftetime damage to reputation."

--Up to $500,000 "for emotional distress, humiliation, emotional pain, embarrassment, depression."

--Up to $3.5 million in punitive damages for "willful, legally-malicious and outrageous conduct" by ISI.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/citing-mental-anguish-christine-odonnell-sought-69-million-gender-discrimination-lawsuit-again

We can thank Karl Rove for some excellent talking points against O'Donnell when he was interviewed on Hannity...

ROVE: Well, look I'm not certain of this because look, there were conservatives on both sides of this race in Delaware. One thing that Christine O'Donnell is now going to have to answer in the general election that she didn't have to answer in the primary is her own checkered background.

You made my case. You made out a list of the things that Mike Castle had done right -- excuse me, done wrong. You didn't make out a list of the things that Christine O'Donnell had done right. I've met her. I got to tell you, I wasn't frankly impressed as her abilities as a candidate.

And again, these serious questions about how does she make her living? Why did she mislead voters about her college education? How come it took nearly two decades to pay her college bills so she could get her college degree? How did she make a living? Why did she sue a well-known and well- thougth of conservative think tank?

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AeJzpjefH4&feature=player_embedded

http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/hannity/transcript/karl-rove-questions-christine-o039donnell039s-039serious-character-problems039

Some issues that show her as a charter member of the American Taliban...

O'Donnell's politics are decidedly conservative. She opposes abortion rights and bilingual ballots. She favors gun rights. She has called evolution "a theory."
Amira, Dan, New York Magazine, "GOP's Delaware Senate Nominee Christine O'Donnell Not a Big Fan of Evolution," September 15, 2010(12)

She has called President Obama "anti-American."
Media Matters for America, "On Fox News' The Live Desk GOP Strategist Called Obama 'Anto-American," January 7, 2008(7)
Media Matters for America, "On Fox News' The Live Desk GOP Strategist Called Obama 'Anto-American," January 7, 2008

Her beliefs won her 2010 endorsements from the Tea Party Express, a powerful conservative populist movement, and from leaders like 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R).

(snip)

O'Donnell is against abortion rights. She has been a spokeswoman for the conservative group Concerned Women for America, which opposes all abortion, even in the case of rape or incest.

http://www.whorunsgov.com/index.php?title=Profiles/Christine_O%27Donnell

And a little about how far she wants to go...

All of this is no surprise - before she entered electoral politics, O'Donnell founded the Savior's Alliance for Lifting the Truth (SALT).

She traversed cable news shows, promoting "chastity" and helping SALT to advocate against gay rights, abortion, pornography, premarital sex and even masturbation.

https://www.truthout.org/tea-party-challengers-march-over-primary-horizon-odonnell-win-delaware-would-endanger-womens-rights6