With both Ney and former Republican Majority Leader, Tom DeLay (R-TX) now facing indictments, that means there is only one remaining congress member who went on Jack Abramoff's golf junkets to St. Andrews, Scotland who has yet to be served [5] with criminal charges: Rep. Tom Feeney (R-FL)Does anyone have any idea how Curtis is doing, polling-wise? I must confess that I felt a little concerned about his candidacy -- after all, his presence on the ballot will mean that the race focuses on his vote fraud claims, and not on Feeney's record. But Curtis is the candidate, and I hope to god he wins. Perhaps the New case will turn up something of note in Feeney's past.
Feeney is currently facing a challenge for his seat by Clint Curtis [6], the man who has sworn in affidavit [7], video-taped congressional testimony [8] and polygraph test [9] that Feeney asked him to create vote-rigging software when they both worked at the same computer firm in Florida in 2000 (where Feeney was general counsel and registered lobbyist, even while he was also serving as Speaker of the Florida House).
Friday, September 15, 2006
Ney
The best write-up on Congreessman Bob Ney's guilty plea in the Abramoff scandal comes ot us by way of Brad Friedman, who draws from this NYT story. Brad spotlights a side of the scandal nobody else wants to talk about:
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The Princeton revelations about the Diebold machines came at just the right time to validate Clint Curtis's claims from two years ago that he could write software modules that would propagate from one machine to another (from tabulators to terminals in his case), flip votes, and then erase themselves.
Sorry Joseph I can't find any recent poll information - too soon I guess.
Here's a lead up to why Feeney was campaigning against Curtis BEFORE the primary:
"As for Feeney/Curtis, Feeney is pretty much heavily favored. Feeney also was lucky that Michaud disappeared off the face of the earth, so Feeney could take on the guy with no money who claims that Feeney rigs elections."
The above from:
http://www.swingstateproject.com/2006/09/florida_primari.php
Then there is a cute spar between the two: “Congressional Race gets Crazy Fast” here at Orlando Sentinal:
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/state/orl-feeney08x06sep08,0,7948469.story?coll=orl-news-headlines-state
Then THIS is this where the Curtis is Crazy crap started:
http://www.orlandoweekly.com/columns/story.asp?id=10959
"At least Tom Feeney loves us. So much, in fact, that he’s about to turn an article we ran on him into campaign literature, which enables Orlando Weekly to fulfill its mission of keeping far-right Republicans in power. Our plan for world domination is almost complete! Bwah-hah-hah!
"See, we published a story [“Is this man crazy?”, Aug. 10] in which we detailed the allegations of U.S. Representative Feeney’s congressional opponent, Clint Curtis. Curtis has accused Feeney of all sorts of dastardly deeds, including rigging elections, and even raised the prospect that Feeney had someone murdered. Of course, we also noted that Curtis’ story is full of holes and straight-up implausibilities.
Thus, when Feeney’s office called and demanded a phone conversation, we were sure a libel suit was forthcoming. But we were wrong.
Turns out Feeney is such big fan of the paper that he wants to use our article in his campaign mailings! We obliged — provided he didn’t alter the piece to make it look like, well, we like him — if for no other reason than that the sight of Curtis’ floating head on a billboard would amuse us to no end. Besides, it’s not like there’s a chance in hell that Feeney’s gonna lose, so we figured we might as well suck up to the powers-that-be when offered a chance."
Wtc7wtf - right - the timing is very very good.
Miss P.
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