Words are flying between local Congressional candidates and their camps.
After learning that liberal activist Sean Penn, a strong supporter of communist dictator Hugo Chavez, is hosting an event for Raul Ruiz (D-Coachella), Marc Troast, Political Director for Congresswoman Mary Bono Mack (R-Palm Springs) released the following statement:
"Raul, you took $5,000 from liberal activist Sean Penn who was in Venezuela on Sunday campaigning for communist dictator Hugo Chavez. Hugo Chavez' anti-Americanism makes him one of the world's most despicable characters. You should immediately return Sean Penn's money and explain to the people of our district your position on Hugo Chavez' communist regime so we all know how far to the left you really are."
Ruiz' Campaign Manager, Kyle Layman, said in repsonse, "This is precisely the kind of guilt-by-association negative politics that Mary Bono Mack has become so adept at. People are tired of career politicians who care more about winning at all costs than actually getting things done."
Both candidates are currently running for election in California's 36th Congressional District.
But I guess she can not run on her votes to privitize Social Security and turn it over to Wall Street, destroy Medicare and make it a voucher system, remove the home mortgage interest deduction on federal tax forms for middle classhomeowners, and her vote to keep the tax breaks for those making over $250,000 but end those for the middle class in 2014. All of this was in the Paul Ryan GOP budget she voted for as well as last week's GOP tax plan that she voted for.
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/7/13/sean_penn_on_haiti_six_months Warning. It’s an hour long video and Penn speaks in full sentences that actually say something. It’s not the kind of thinking you normally find these days. Dr. Ruiz, in case anyone noticed, is a Doctor; an Emergency Room doctor; at Eisenhower Medical Center. Because of that experience he WORKED FOR Penn’s charity in Haiti after the earthquake. Hello? Can you see how Ruiz came to know Penn here? Does anyone seriously think Dr. Ruiz has something to be ashamed of? As for the Mack campaign's so-called “Political Director” who says “…anti-Americanism makes him (Chavez) one of the world's most despicable characters.” It is simply ahistorical nonsense in a world where being anti-American is practically the #1 qualification for Congress. Mack’s campaign is following in the footsteps of Michelle Bachmann, Allen West and Tail Gunner Joe McCarthy. If you want to send a follower to Congress, re-elect Mack. If you want to send a leader, take a close look at Dr. Ruiz.
After fourteen years you would think people would have had this simple case figured out. When people are rewarded for lying to you for fourteen years, their not going to stop. They see no action for fourteen years & accept it? Apparently this is the case. Because looking at her record, regarding "The Facts" You can only come to one conclusion, mary mack has done nothing for the district she has claimed to serve & if her T.V ads tell you otherwise, lets just call it what it is, a lie. Maybe just maybe, thats why people are angry? I always thought people that worked hard, & did a good job were rewarded. For 14 long years the people of this district have been cheated out of what they deserve, a hard working man or woman that really knows how to accomplish things, rather than bluff their way through election after election. i guess its true what they say, Ignorance is bliss! So Im ordering 5 shots of ignorance on the rocks, & then this american will rest his head knowing, he didnt make a living out of lies.