SAVE POLITICS1 … PLUS GILMORE FILES, OBAMA PONDERS.
December 20th, 2006
THURSDAY NEWS UPDATE.GILMORE FILES, WHILE OBAMA PONDERS.
Former Virginia Governor and former Republican National Chairman Jim Gilmore unexpectedly returned to the political stage last month, telling reporters he was considering either running for President in 2008 or running again for Governor in 2009. On Wednesday, after making visits to Iowa and New Hampshire to gauge his prospects, Gilmore filed federal paperwork to establish a Presidential exploratory committee. "There is not a committed conservative in the field who can put together a national campaign. I am and I can. I have people on the ground right now in Iowa and in South Carolina," said Gilmore to the AP. In his comments, Gilmore took shots at the Bush Administration and Republican Congressional leaders for fiscal irresponsibility in recent years. "I am not someone who has to evolve as a conservative. I don't have to evolve my position," he said, in a thinly veiled shot at Governor Mitt Romney (R-MA) ... US Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) is spending the holidays on vacation with his family in Hawaii. He expects to announce his decision on a 2008 White House run shortly after the holiday season.
Posted by Ron Gunzburger - 12.21.06 | Permalink | COMMENTS (4)
FREE SPEECH ZONE (AKA: "SAVE FERRIS RON!").
I'm going to be rather candid here. As I'm writing this, I'm just angry. Really, really angry and seething ... with the seething anger directed at a recent write-in candidate for New York Governor. He's suing in federal court (Southern District of New York) George Pataki, Rudy Giuliani, Michael Bloomberg, the State Board of Elections, the City Board of Elections, Yahoo, Ask.com and me with a variety of bizarre claims. Yup, that's right, I'm apparently in not-so-bad company as part of his delusional conspiracy that somehow kept him from being elected last month. I'm confident I'll prevail (especially as his claim against me is such a patently laughable lie he's trying to perpetrate on the court) and maybe even get Rule 11 sanctions imposed against him for filing a complaint he knew to be false when he filed it ... but still I'm really pissed that he's suing me for $5 million. He's also suing Rudy, Bloomberg, and others for $10 million apiece. The whole thing has got me so pissed off that, at least for now, I really am considering pulling the plug entirely on Politics1 if the price of running it is having to defend myself in lawsuits against jackasses like him. But -- just so this lying clown can share my misery -- feel free to email him and tell him what you think about his ridiculous lawsuit that threatens to kill Politics1.
Posted by Ron Gunzburger - 12.21.06 | Permalink | COMMENTS (7)
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