The Spectacle Blog
I know the main
focus at AmSpecBlog is on federal offices and the races to get to
DC, but it’s always worthwhile to highlight elected officials’
unhinged behavior, regardless of where they serve. So today
I bring you Washington State Democrat Rep. Geoff Simpson, who
did not
like an inquiry made by Evergreen
Freedom Foundation (a conservative/libertarian think tank)
reporter Scott St. Clair, about his ties and campaign contributions
from a particular public employees’ union:
I guess even fewer people than the couple dozen who read the drivel you write would be interested in it after you told them your position is funded by the Wall Street investment firms, Big Tobacco, Pharma, Oil and Insurance interests who rip off the American people every chance they get and use a**holes like you as tools to fool the ignorant into thinking the EFF cares about regular people. You and the corporate masters you prostitute yourself for are only interested in boosting profits by attacking consumer or worker protections….
I have somewhere in the neighborhood of 250 individual contributors. They are all listed. There’s nothing secretive about it. I know this won’t stop you and the right wing scum you work for from trying to connect the dots in a way that smears innocent people who choose to support me or be involved in my life. After all, that’s your job. But please don’t pretend its journalism, or about transparency or has anything to do with freedom. You’re a piece a sh** who is paid to destroy progress for the middle class and anyone who stands up for it so your corporate funders can have cheaper labor and fewer regulations which translate into higher profits. You make me sick.
Apparently this isn’t out of character for Simpson:
My disclosure: St. Clair is a friend who I worked with covering the Massachusetts Senate race in January for Watchdog.org.
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Eric Cartman| 10.27.10 @ 3:12PM
Hold the phone! Wait just one dang minute, here! Are you trying to tell me??? It can't be!!!! A peace loving, progressive, Liberal Ahole is stomping on his wife? In front of his daughter? I thought only us right-wingers were guilty of stuff like this (Well, not me. My wife shoots with me, so I can't get away with it. She's a pretty good shot.) But all you other right wingers are like this, right?
Tsk, tsk. Next thing you'll be telling me is that Wall Street Bankers gave boat loads of money to the Obama campaign or GE backs the Democrats and their Cap and Tax scheme. Like I'll believe THAT!
Big Java| 10.27.10 @ 3:28PM
Ah,Eric, I too have a lovely bride of 24 years who I also go shooting with and can most certainly handle her 9 mm and is just as good shooting my .45. No thought of stomping here.
I guess I am so naive, but the anger exibited on the left still amazes me.
Chris B| 10.27.10 @ 3:31PM
He does have that Alan Grayson "Progressives for Psychosis" look to him, doesn't he?
Chris B| 10.27.10 @ 3:31PM
He does have that Alan Grayson "Progressives for Psychosis" look to him, doesn't he?
Willey| 10.27.10 @ 3:36PM
I thought of that clown Grayson, too. They're both nasty nutbags.
mark| 10.27.10 @ 3:46PM
This sort of Alinsky oriented drivel is being spouted by every Democrat this season. Their record cannot stand on its own merits, so they try to erect a smokescreen concerning the "enemy." I've heard Bill Clinton, a prominent sociopath Democrat, Jimma Carter, another prominent sociopath Democrat, and their enablers in the media saying the same thing. One would think that Republicans would label the Alinsky tactic for what it is, and inform the public when it is happening. David Horowitz has stated that Republicans need to "quit speaking like businessmen," and that is advice they have never taken. By concentrating on the business aspect(self-evident) of government, and not identifying the tactics of the sociopathic Alinsky Democrats, they allow themselves to be played. O'Donnell's campaign made a major blunder in defending against just such attacks, which gives credibility to those attacks. One wonders if they truly do want to win sometimes..........................
kaytb| 10.29.10 @ 8:50PM
"O'Donnell's campaign made a major blunder in defending against just such attacks, which gives credibility to those attacks." Please explain this statement. thank you. (i'm not against what you said, just want the specifics of the blunder).
amy| 10.27.10 @ 8:20PM
Vote for his Republican challenger! Joe Fain!
VoteFain.com
Debbie | 10.27.10 @ 8:47PM
Simpson's challenger is Mark Hargrove. Joe Fain is running against Claudia Kaufman. Mark is the clear choice and will represent the voters not the lobbyists.
Gardner| 10.27.10 @ 9:34PM
Also vote for Joe Fain and Rodrigo Yanez, along with Mark Hargrove. They will represent us instead of the unions.
Erin A| 10.28.10 @ 11:42PM
I voted for Mark Hargrove, the challenger, in this particular race. Simpson is a jerk to his constituents on a regular basis but people generally seem to be unaware of his bad behavior in Olympia (state capitol) and with voters. He does this with those who disagree with him on political/public policy issues all of the time and he lies about being for the middle class--he is for the "welfare class", not the middle class of our legislative district! Go Mark Hargrove!!!