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Flap’s Links and Comments for May 22nd on 10:19
These are my links for May 22nd from 10:19 to 16:24:
- President 2012 Video: Sarah Palin Buys a House in Scottsdale, Arizona? | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – President 2012 Video: Sarah Palin Buys a House in Scottsdale, Arizona? #tcot #catcot
- President 2012: Tim Pawlenty Has Serial Child Molester Pardon Problems | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – President 2012: Tim Pawlenty Has Serial Child Molester Pardon Problems #tcot #catcot
- President 2012 Video: Tim Pawlenty’s A Time for Truth – Preview of Tomorrow’s Announcement in Iowa | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – President 2012 Video: Tim Pawlenty’s A Time for Truth – Preview of Tomorrow’s Announcement in Iowa #tcot #catcot
- President 2012: Daniels is Out – So Who is Left? | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – President 2012: Daniels is Out – So Who is Left? #tcot #catcot
- Will California Become Another Michigan? | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – Will California Become Another Michigan? #tcot #catcot
- Flap’s Links and Comments for May 22nd on 02:26 | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – Flap’s Links and Comments for May 22nd on 02:26 #tcot #catcot
- Flap’s Links and Comments for May 21st on 22:38 | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – Flap’s Links and Comments for May 21st on 22:38 #tcot #catcot
- @Flap Twitter Updates for 2011-05-22 | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – @Flap Twitter Updates for 2011-05-22 #tcot #catcot
- President 2012: Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels Will NOT Run for President | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – President 2012: Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels Will NOT Run for President | Flap's Blog – FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog
- Flap’s Links and Comments for May 21st on 22:36 | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – Flap’s Links and Comments for May 21st on 22:36 | Flap's Blog – FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog
- Mitch Daniels won’t run in 2012 – Maggie Haberman and Jennifer Epstein – POLITICO.com – Mitch Daniels won't run in 2012 – Maggie Haberman and Jennifer Epstein – POLITICO.com
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Updated – President 2012: Tim Pawlenty Has Serial Child Molester Pardon Problems
Looks like it is back to Romney folks.
Jeremy Giefer served time in jail in 1994 for having sex with a 14-year-old girl. But you wouldn’t know it to look at the record of the man now charged with sexually molesting his daughter more than 250 times over the last eight years.
That’s because two years ago, Gov. Tim Pawlenty, Attorney General Lori Swanson, and then-Chief Justice Eric Magnuson unanimously voted to wipe Giefer’s record clean, granting him a pardon extraordinary.
Read it all…..
Next candidate.
Pawlenty’s pardon problem involves Jeremy Geifer, who had been convicted in a statutory rape case involving a 14-year-old girl he later married. Geifer had been described by everyone in his life as a model of reform, which eventually led to a 2008 pardon by a three-person board led by Pawlenty.
But late last year, Geifer was accused of sexually assaulting another underage girl more than 250 times. Pawlenty moved swiftly, asking for a probe into whether Geifer lied on his pardon application and pushing to close down a day care run by his wife.
While finishing his term as Minnesota’s governor last year, Pawlenty said he never would have made that decision had such information been known at the time. And he pointed out that Geifer had finished his prison stint well before the pardon was granted – a mitigating factor that could lessen any of his rivals’ blows.
Yet there is also the case of Dru Sjodin, a college student who was murdered in 2003, early in Pawlenty’s administration, by a repeat sex offender who had only recently been released from prison. That case became national cable TV fodder, as the tragic search for the pretty blonde gripped viewers.
A Pawlenty aide referred to the governor’s book, “Courage to Stand,” in which he wrote that people played politics with the case and often had the facts wrong, and that Pawlenty was “horrified” by the man’s release.
The governor later proposed stiffer sentences for sex offenders, including doubling their jail time.
I can see Mitt Romney’s direct mail and television spots now against T-Paw, if he ever becomes an electoral threat.
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President 2012 Video: Sarah Palin Buys a House in Scottsdale, Arizona?
Well, Mitt Romney purchased a home in La Jolla, California. Maybe the Palin’s enjoy the sunshine and mild winters once in a while?
Sarah could base a 2012 Presidential campaign there but a better play would be to rehabilitate her political base in Arizona rather than Alaska where she is probably toast for any future run for office.
Since Mitch Daniels has withdrawn and only Romney will be raising any serious campaign money, Palin can now sit back and wait until the end of summer to make a decision as to whether she runs against Romney and then Obama.
My bet is that she does not, but looks at some Arizona future political opportunities.
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President 2012: Tim Pawlenty Has Serial Child Molester Pardon Problems
Looks like it is back to Romney folks.
Jeremy Giefer served time in jail in 1994 for having sex with a 14-year-old girl. But you wouldn’t know it to look at the record of the man now charged with sexually molesting his daughter more than 250 times over the last eight years.
That’s because two years ago, Gov. Tim Pawlenty, Attorney General Lori Swanson, and then-Chief Justice Eric Magnuson unanimously voted to wipe Giefer’s record clean, granting him a pardon extraordinary.
Read it all…..
Next candidate.
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President 2012 Video: Tim Pawlenty’s A Time for Truth – Preview of Tomorrow’s Announcement in Iowa
Not a bad video really as former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty attempts to become the anti-Romney candidate for the GOP nomination. What the GOP will have to reckon with, is lose with Romney or with T-Paw?
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Will California Become Another Michigan?
Dan Walters: Will California become another Michigan?
Has California’s recession-wracked economy finally bottomed out and begun to recover, albeit slowly?
Or has California become another Michigan, doomed to a semi-permanent state of economic malaise?
Gov. Jerry Brown adopts the former version in his revised state budget. He calls it a “modest drawn-out recovery” and cites “positive economic signs” such as a fractionally declining unemployment rate, growth in manufacturing and rising exports from the state.
But the budget also notes such negative factors as “weak housing markets (and) depressed construction activity,” and Japan’s devastating earthquake. And it says that recovery will be painfully slow, with non-farm employment not reaching pre-recession levels until 2016, nearly a decade after the recession began.
Yes. A Michigan without any manufacturing, since it has left for other countries or states, is my best guess.
Which young couple wishes to wait for housing costs to come down to a manageable levels while social welfare costs, including public education and prisons skyrocket because of illegal immigration?
California may see some slight economic improvement but unless structural budget changes occur and the attitude towards business becomes friendly, California = Michigan.
The population exodus of educated, productive citizens will only accelerate.
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President 2012: Daniels is Out – So Who is Left?
Jennifer Rubin who never liked Mitch Daniels calls him names, but the GOP base has to ponder – who is left?
Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels’s pre-campaign effort was odd from the get-go. He antagonized key blocs of the Republican Party, evidenced a tin ear and seemed to take no counsel from anyone. Now he’s out, citing family concerns. Donald Trump never intended to run, and his exit was no surprise. But to Daniels’s supporters this “tease” may leave a bad taste in their mouths (as Daniels conceded in his letter to supporters). In any event, his departure confirms that he is, bluntly speaking, an odd duck.
Meanwhile, former Utah governor and ambassador to China Jon Huntsman — who served in the Obama administration, previously backed cap-and-trade, is viewed warily by social conservatives and has no perceptible grass-roots support — has made his candidacy even less credible…
Maybe it will be the Bob Dole, boring boys, campaign after all – with Mitt Romney and Tim Pawlenty.
Wow, with that duo Obama will really cruise to a victory.
But, on the bright side, the GOP donors will redirect their money to U.S. Senate races where they might actually be able to elect someone.
The only candidates that can enter this race now and make it half-way competitive will be New Jersey Governor Chris Christie or former Florida Governor Jeb Bush. If not, the race for 2012 will be a snorer.
But, wait…..I bet Sarah Palin runs, if no other GOP Establishment type ponies up to the bar.
So, maybe the race wont be boring – just hopeless lost.
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Flap’s Links and Comments for May 22nd on 02:26
These are my links for May 22nd from 02:26 to 02:26:
- President 2012: Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels Will NOT Run for President | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – President 2012: Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels Will NOT Run for President | Flap's Blog – FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog
- Flap’s Links and Comments for May 21st on 22:36 | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – Flap’s Links and Comments for May 21st on 22:36 | Flap's Blog – FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog
- Mitch Daniels won’t run in 2012 – Maggie Haberman and Jennifer Epstein – POLITICO.com – Mitch Daniels won't run in 2012 – Maggie Haberman and Jennifer Epstein – POLITICO.com
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@Flap Twitter Updates for 2011-05-22
- Flap’s Links and Comments for May 21st on 09:47 http://bit.ly/mO2SQi #tcot #catcot #
- Flap’s Links and Comments for May 21st on 01:29 | Flap's Blog – FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog http://bit.ly/kaNOef #
- @Flap Twitter Updates for 2011-05-21 | Flap's Blog – FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog http://bit.ly/mzMeK1 #
- Flap’s Links and Comments for May 20th on 17:01 | Flap's Blog – FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog http://bit.ly/kPbjv4 #
- Flap’s Links and Comments for May 21st on 01:29 http://bit.ly/iZL1fk #tcot #catcot #
- @Flap Twitter Updates for 2011-05-21 | Flap's Blog – FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog http://bit.ly/jSrJOR #
- Flap’s Links and Comments for May 20th on 17:01 | Flap's Blog – FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog http://bit.ly/jWxAYh #
- CA-36: The Long Knives and Satan Are Already Out for Craig Huey | Flap's Blog – FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog http://bit.ly/m6dmdx #
- Off soon to Santa Monica and the Los Angeles Running Club – today 6 easy miles post half marathon – temps in high 50's then Ronnie's w/ gang #
- @Flap Twitter Updates for 2011-05-21 http://bit.ly/kdxRxR #tcot #catcot #
- Flap’s Links and Comments for May 20th on 17:01 http://bit.ly/jNvmwc #tcot #catcot #
- CA-36: Final Election Tally Released for Special Congressional Race – Janice Hahn Vs. Craig Huey in the July 12 … http://bit.ly/ig4qSe #
- CA-36: The Long Knives and Satan Are Already Out for Craig Huey | Flap's Blog – FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog http://bit.ly/jTLUbQ #
- Building up to a possible campaign, Mitch Daniels is in stitches – latimes.com http://lat.ms/jvbPHg #
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Flap’s Links and Comments for May 21st on 22:38
These are my links for May 21st from 22:38 to 23:02:
- President 2012: Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels Will NOT Run for President | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – President 2012: Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels Will NOT Run for President #tcot #catcot
- Mitch Daniels won’t run in 2012 – Maggie Haberman and Jennifer Epstein – POLITICO.com – Mitch Daniels won't run in 2012
- Flap’s Links and Comments for May 21st on 22:36 | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – Flap’s Links and Comments for May 21st on 22:36 #tcot #catcot