The blogosphere has fastened onto the tale of North Carolina Congressman Patrick McHenry. See the CBS News piece here, the TPM squib here, and -- most important of all -- this Blogactive investigation.Would I be out of line if I mentioned that I had a large part of this story last October?
This story has it all: Republican hypocrisy on gay issues (McHenry first came to my notice when he tried to blame the Foley scandal on Nancy Pelosi!) and a revealing look at the voter registration fraud controversy. Karl Rove wants us to think that only Dems would fill out a registration form improperly -- but so far, the only evidence of such a thing actually occurring points to the four Village People hanging out at the McHenry pad. And to Ann Coulter.
Really, you gotta see the BlogActive piece on this.
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As a lone progressive in Lincoln county, I have often written to our representative McHenry only to receive standard talking point reponses, even when they required an almost psychpathic denial of the facts.
People are starting to wake up. My little town isn't exactly the "Paris of the piedmont", but, "fool me once..."
Brian Bilbray the Republican replacement for Rep./crook Cunningham had serious questions about his voter registration done in California just before his election.
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San Diego Republican Congressman Brian Bilbray, now in the midst of a California elections campaign, is trapped in a spinning political and legal controversy over whether his prime residence is in California or Virginia.
The issue became a nagging question for Bilbray, 55, a surfer, most of whose roots are in California, as a result of a sworn statement he made in a Fairfax County, Virginia, 2005 deed of trust. It made 8930 Linton Lane, Alexandria, Virginia, his "prime residence."
After losing a California Congressional election to Susan Davis in 2000, Bilbray soon moved to Washington, DC, to become a lobbyist. He represented tribal issues, a border-sewage treatment project and an anti-illegal immigration group, the Associated Press reports.
Land records show he retains that Alexandria residence, while also using and listing family residences in Imperial Beach and Carlsbad, California, where the Bilbrays report they began living when he once again successfully ran for congress in a special election earlier this year. A call Tuesday to the Alexandria, Virginia, Real Estate Division confirmed he still owns the property there.
http://www.truthout.org/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/65/23403
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