I don't normally read this blog and I haven't paid any attention to the campaign in question, but I saw a link to this item and as I said, it made me laugh. So here's a quote
from the post, which quotes a passage from the
Orlando Sentinel. Apparently Katherine Harris, that grotesquely-mascared creature who did all she could to block an accurate recount of the presidential vote in Florida back in 2000, is now running for senate, and it's been a bit of a train wreck. Bad speeches, disastrous public appearances, scandals, and more. Most of her campaign staff has abandoned the sinking ship, and her latest problem is a $3000 lunch she had with a convicted felon lobbyist, then lied about. The punchine:
In her interview Wednesday, Harris acknowledged for the first time that Wade had paid for the dinner at Citronelle, reversing a statement from her congressional spokeswoman earlier this year.
But in the interview, Harris also said her campaign had, at some point, "reimbursed" the restaurant.
When asked how she could have reimbursed a business that was owed no money -- Wade paid the bill that evening -- she abruptly ended the interview and walked off.
Her spokesman called back an hour later and asked a reporter not to publish anything Harris had said Wednesday night about the dinner.
It gets even funnier, if you go read some of the
more recent updates. Harris claims the bill was so high because the guy bought a bunch of expensive wine, which he didn't open and took home with him, and that since all she had was a beverage and appetizers, she'd donated $100 to a charity to make up for taking a meal from a convicted felon during her Senate campaign. Predictably enough, she's got no proof of that donation, nor what she drank or didn't drink during that meal. Better yet, when reporters looked into the charity, they found it was some nuthouse church that claims to have brought people back from the dead, saved babies from being sold to demons, and so on. Ahh, politians; if they didn't exist we'd have to invent them.
Labels: kathleen harris, politics
