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CA-Sen: U.S. Chamber of Commerce Runs Ads on Barbara Boxer Bouncing Checks
The television ad which I have seen on NBC, Los Angeles is “on air” at least in Los Angeles County. You can view it here.I’ll embed the video when the Chamber decides to allow it.Well, shocker, Senator Barbara Boxer when she was in the House of Representatives was the 24th most egregious of the miscreants.
The PBS onlineNewshour summarizes the House Banking Scandal, also known as Rubbergate: “In 1992, many House members were suspected of bouncing checks from accounts they held at the so-called “House Bank” — a loose operation that allowed member of Congress to cash their checks but kept shoddy records and often were quite delayed in recording deposits or withdrawals. Although the lawmakers had broken no laws and many did not even know they were bouncing checks, several took advantage of the bank system and many voters viewed the scandal as a blatant abuse of power. Of the 296 sitting representatives and 59 former members who had overdrafted their personal accounts in the preceding 39 months, the House Ethics Committee released a list of the 24 worst abusers.”
Boxer was among the top 24 involved in the House bank scandal. On March 1, 1992 the Sacramento Bee quoted Boxer as admitting she didn’t pay enough attention to her House bank account. More specifically, that meant 143 bad checks totaling $41,417 over a three-year period that she had written on the House bank.
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CA-Sen: Rep. Maxine Waters Refunds Sen. Barbara Boxer Campaign Cash – Trying to Clean Up Her Act Prior to Ethics Trial
California U.S. Senator and California Congresswoman Maxine Waters in July 2010
You remember the FLAP in which Los Angeles area Congresswoman has been caught in an ethically dubious pay to play scheme regarding her daughter’s campaign/slate mailer company.Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), Chair of the Senate Ethics Committee, has paid some $30,000 since 2004 for the endorsement of embattled Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) in the context of a scheme that critics charge is unethical and amounts to Waters using her political station to benefit her family members.According to the Washington Times, Waters “has turned political endorsements into a family business, using federal election laws to charge California candidates and political causes to include their names as her personal picks on a sample ballot, or ‘slate mailer,’ she sends to as many as 200,000 South Central Los Angeles voters.”
The slate mailer business, it turns out, is run by Waters’ daughter, Karen, via her public relations firm. Records show that Karen Waters’ firm has been paid more than $350,000 since 2004, and has billed a further $82,000 since California’s June primary, for its services in this regard.
Now, Citizens for Waters – 555 S Flower St Ste 4510 Los Angeles, California 900712420 has refunded monies ($1,217.35) back to Friends of Barbara Boxer.
Why?
Could it possibly be because of Maxine Water’s upcoming ethics trial in the House?
A congressional panel set the stage Monday for an ethics trial for Rep. Maxine Waters, one of Los Angeles’ most enduring liberal politicians, over her actions involving a bank with ties to her husband that received federal bailout funds.
Without detailing the accusations, the House Ethics Committee released an investigative report that found “substantial reason” to believe that Waters may have violated ethics rules. The case centers on a meeting Waters set up in September 2008, during the financial crisis, between Treasury Department officials and representatives of minority-owned banks.
Or, Cleaning up the ol’ sleaze Maxine?
You’re probably familiar with Rep. Maxine Waters, the California Democrat who’s under investigation by the House Ethics Committee for allegations that she used her position in Congress to ensure the U.S. Treasury Department would help out a bank where her husband was a stockholder and former director.
What you probably didn’t know is that Boxer has been sending large amounts of cash to Waters’s daughter for the past two cycles, and in exchange, Waters has been featuring Boxer prominently on her “slate mailer,” a sample ballot used by many voters in Waters’s South Central district.
In 2004, Boxer paid Rep. Waters’s daughter, Karen Waters, $25,000 to ensure her spot on the mailer; on June 2, Boxer’s campaign sent “Citizens for Waters” $5,000.
Back in December 2004, Melanie Sloan of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington told the Los Angeles Times, “It looks like congresswoman Waters is using her position to financially benefit her family members, and that is at the very least unethical. . . . You shouldn’t be making money off your mother’s endorsements.” Of course, by that point, Boxer and Waters had been reelected and it was too late for California voters to hold either accountable.
Or, afraid that without dotting I’s and crossing T’s will result in EVEN more fall out to Senator Boxer’s pay-off schemes with you and your family (in return for your endorsement and help in the Los Angeles African-American community) prior to the election on November 2nd.
Maxine and Barbara you can run but you can’t hide. By the way, as of today, Rep. Maxine Water’s name continues on Senator Barbara Boxer’s endorsement page – see it here.
Exit question: Will Boxer’s name appear on Waters’ slate mailer in respect to the November general election?
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CA-Sen: John McCain Campaigns for Carly Fiorina and Disses Barbara Boxer
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., wears a Navy hat given to him by a member of the Patriot Guard Rider as he and Republican senate candidate Carly Fiorina prepare for group picture in San Diego, Calif. on Saturday, Oct. 16, 2010
Arizona Republican Senator and 2008 Presidential candidate John McCain came out swinging against California Democrat Senator Barbara Boxer in San Diego today.Former Republican presidential contender John McCain reunited with his onetime advisor Carly Fiorina on the campaign trail Saturday in San Diego, offering a blistering indictment of Barbara Boxer’s record on military issues and calling her the “most bitterly partisan, most anti-defense senator in the United States Senate today” — an assessment he said he’d made while having “the unpleasant experience” of serving with her.
“When you hear her say that she supports the men and women in the military, my friends, she does not,” said McCain, a former Navy pilot who was held as a prisoner of war in Vietnam for five and half years after his plane was shot down in 1967. “Because she has never supported the mission; she has never supported victory whether it be in Iraq, or Afghanistan, or anywhere else in the world. Barbara Boxer wants to wave the white flag of surrender and endanger this nation’s national security. It’s time she went back to San Francisco with [House Speaker] Nancy Pelosi.”
Appearing before an audience of several hundred veterans and supporters at the Veterans Museum in Balboa Park — where McCain, his wife Cindy, and Fiorina formed a tableau of red, white and blue on stage — the Arizona senator praised Fiorina’s business background and sought to reinforce her efforts to portray her rival’s voting record as anti-military.
Boxer has long been a hero of the anti-war movement after getting her start in politics advocating against the Vietnam War. She has called her vote against the Iraq War her proudest moment and vowed to keep the pressure on President Obama to bring troops home from Afghanistan.
Barbara Boxer’s Far Left anti-war record will unfortunately take a back seat to the California economy which is in terrible shape. It is the economy, stupid, and California voters will vote with their pocketbook.
Boxer is in deep trouble with these veterans and the average California voter who is scared about their well-being and that of their family.
Republican Senate Candidate Carly Fiorina greats members of the Patriot Guard Riders before speaking to a crowd of supporters at the Veteran’s Memorial and Museum on Park Boulevard near Balboa Park in San Diego, Calif. on Saturday, Oct. 16, 2010
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Updated: CA-Sen Video: Barbara Boxer in Desperation Plays the Extremist Card
California Democrat U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer’s latest television ad: “Out of Touch”Well, everyone knew this was going to come – Boxer going extremely negative in her political ads. And, using Sarah Palin – yeah, she is a nefarious character, isn’t she?
Why?
Desperation.
Figures released this afternoon show Boxer blowing $11 Million last quarter in campaign cash and then being in a dead heat with Carly Fiorina in the polls.
Also, look at some of the sources of the ad: The Sierra Club and Planned Parenthood – please.
Most of the claims from Boxer are so preposterous that California voters will say – huh? and/or what?
One, in the heat of a reelection campaign, Boxer will say just about anything so long as she can get away with it. And she usually can. Two, she is under extraordinary pressure from Fiorina, by far the strongest Republican candidate she’s ever faced. Three, Boxer is a tough, resourceful, and shrewd campaigner and not too haughty to correct a false statement when necessary to avert trouble.
Often that’s not necessary. Boxer, 69, makes so many dubious, untrue, hypocritical, or outlandish remarks in a single debate that most of them fly by without registering.
Carly Fiorina is NO extremist and Californians know it.
Anyway, here is the statement from the Carly Fiorina Campaign:
Barbara Boxer is clearly getting desperate as she continues to gain no traction in the polls after spending millions on special interest backed, misleading advertising. Not only is this newest ad based on patently false claims that bear little, if any connection to actual facts, but it completely ignores Barbara Boxers 28 years in Washington where she has established herself as one of the most extreme, partisan and ineffective members of the U.S. Senate, while at the same time becoming a multimillionaire, funneling hundred of thousands of dollars to members of her family and taking special stock deals the average Californian would never have access to. Her record is so dismal that even her own hometown newspaper refused to endorse her for a fourth term saying that shes known for little other than delivering partisan shots. Barbara Boxer can try to run from the facts which are that under her watch taxes have gone up, our national debt is at record levels and more than 2.2 million Californians are unemployed, but she cannot hide behind false advertising. We demand that she immediately remove this ad from the airwaves and apologize to Carly, and California voters, for not only this deliberate and blatant distortion of reality, but also for her refusal to have an honest and serious debate about the issues during this crucial time for our nation.
– Marty Wilson, Campaign Manager
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CA-Sen Video: U.S. Chamber of Commerce To Air More Ads Against Barbara Boxer
U.S. Chamber of Commerce television ad: “28 Years”The U.S. Chamber is going back “on air” to inform California voters about Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer.
We hear that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce — which has emerged as a big-time player in the midterm elections — is about to drop at least $1.25 million in negative TV ads next week against Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer next week.
Look for the spots to hit in LA, Fresno, Bakersfield, and Sacramento.
“We can neither confirm nor deny this,” the Chamber’s J.P. Fielder told us. But, he said, “All options are still on the table.” Asked whether the very close race — which Boxer is still slighty leads — is still in play, Fielder said: “Absolutely.”
That’s bad news for Boxer, who has already absorbed $3.2 million in Chamber TV ad pummeling.
I would expect even more independent expenditure money to come into California at the last minute since this race may determine control of the U.S. Senate for the GOP.
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CA-Sen Video: Barbara Boxer in Desperation Plays the Extremist Card
California Democrat U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer’s latest television ad: “Out of Touch”Well, everyone knew this was going to come – Boxer going extremely negative in her political ads. And, using Sarah Palin – yeah, she is a nefarious character, isn’t she?
Why?
Desperation.
Figures released this afternoon show Boxer blowing $11 Million last quarter in campaign cash and then being in a dead heat with Carly Fiorina in the polls.
Also, look at some of the sources of the ad: The Sierra Club and Planned Parenthood – please.
Most of the claims from Boxer are so preposterous that California voters will say – huh? and/or what?
Carly Fiorina is NO extremist and Californians know it.
Anyway, here is the statement from the Carly Fiorina Campaign:
“Barbara Boxer is clearly getting desperate as she continues to gain no traction in the polls after spending millions on special interest backed, misleading advertising. Not only is this newest ad based on patently false claims that bear little, if any connection to actual facts, but it completely ignores Barbara Boxer’s 28 years in Washington where she has established herself as one of the most extreme, partisan and ineffective members of the U.S. Senate, while at the same time becoming a multimillionaire, funneling hundred of thousands of dollars to members of her family and taking special stock deals the average Californian would never have access to. Her record is so dismal that even her own hometown newspaper refused to endorse her for a fourth term saying that she’s known for little other than ‘delivering partisan shots.’ Barbara Boxer can try to run from the facts which are that under her watch taxes have gone up, our national debt is at record levels and more than 2.2 million Californians are unemployed, but she cannot hide behind false advertising. We demand that she immediately remove this ad from the airwaves and apologize to Carly, and California voters, for not only this deliberate and blatant distortion of reality, but also for her refusal to have an honest and serious debate about the issues during this crucial time for our nation.”
– Marty Wilson, Campaign Manager
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Updated: CA-Sen Poll Watch: Barbara Boxer 46% Vs. Carly Fiorina 45%
Republican Nominee Carly Fiorina and California Democrat Senator Barbara Boxer
Looks like Carly Fiorina is starting to surge in this latest Reuters/Ipsos Poll.Democratic candidates are clinging to narrow leads over their Republican rivals in two key California races with less than three weeks to go until November 2 elections, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found on Friday.
Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer’s lead over Republican Carly Fiorina among likely voters in California is only 1 percentage point, 46 percent to 45 percent, down slightly from a 4-point advantage early this month.
The margin of error for likely voters in the latest survey is 4.6 percentage points, making the Democrats’ lead more tenuous.
Looks like my assessment of President Obama’s involvement in this race is correct.
The White House is scared this seat will FLIP.
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CA-Sen Poll Watch: Barbara Boxer 46% Vs. Carly Fiorina 45%
Republican Nominee Carly Fiorina and California Democrat Senator Barbara Boxer
Looks like Carly Fiorina is starting to surge in this latest Reuters/Ipsos Poll.Democratic candidates are clinging to narrow leads over their Republican rivals in two key California races with less than three weeks to go until November 2 elections, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found on Friday.
Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer’s lead over Republican Carly Fiorina among likely voters in California is only 1 percentage point, 46 percent to 45 percent, down slightly from a 4-point advantage early this month.
The margin of error for likely voters in the latest survey is 4.6 percentage points, making the Democrats’ lead more tenuous.
Looks like my assessment of President Obama’s involvement in this race is correct.
The White House is scared this seat will FLIP.
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CA-Sen: President and First Lady Michelle Obama Go All In for Barbara Boxer
President Obama and California Senator Barbara Boxer
All in to say the least, look at the events and they are not cheap either.October 22, 2010 – Friday Luncheon with President Obama at the University of Southern California
October 26, 2010 – Tuesday evening concert with First Lady Michelle Obama and Dr. Jill Biden (The Vice President’s Wife)
October 27, 2010 – Wednesday noon luncheon with First Lady Michelle Obama in Pacific Palisades
I suppose California is so “blue,” Obama remains popular here (unlike other areas of the country) and there is so much Hollywood money floating around. Or, is it that the White House is worried that they will lose control of the Senate if the Boxer seat flips to Carly Fiorina?Carly Fioirna just announced she raised about $9 million this quarter and with recent NRSC funding announcements, it looks like she will remain strong “on air” through the rest of the campaign.
The Obamas are all in for Boxer, milking the California money tree for her and their own re-election campaign in two years.
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Sarah Palin Video: Do You Know the Way to San Jose?
Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin on Jerry Brown and Barbara Boxer yesterday in San Jose, California
Sarah Palin found her way to San Jose yesterday on the campaign stump. But, for whom?
Palin, who resigned as governor 2 1/2 years into her term, delivered a 40-minute speech – complete with a trademark “You betcha!” – and answered a few questions afterward before a less-than-capacity audience of 1,400 at the San Jose Center for the Performing Arts. Her paid appearance was sponsored by the conservative Liberty and FreedomFounda tion.
With husband Todd standing offstage – he’d just driven the family motor home down from Alaska – it was Palin’s first stop in her three-city swing through California over the next few days, a pilgrimage that appears designed both to raise her political profile, in preparation for a possible 2012 presidential run, and enthusiasm for GOP candidates.
Not that she mentioned any Republicans by name Tuesday. Not even Republican Senate nominee Carly Fiorina, endorsed by Palin last spring in California’s GOP primary. Fiorina and GOP gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman (who Palin has not endorsed) were invited to attend Thursday, but declined, said event spokesman J.D. Gordon, because of scheduling conflicts. Neither is expected to join Palin in Sacramento today or Anaheim on Saturday.
The answer is for Palin’s Presidential run in 2012.
Sarah’s money quote from yesterday’s speech: Re: Jerry Brown and Barbara Boxer: “act like they’re permanent residents of a unicorn ranch in fantasyland.”
Yeah, Sarah is running.