Over the past week, the
Sarasota Herald-Tribune has been delivering great coverage of the apparent closeness of Rep. Katherine Harris (R-FL13) with Mitchell Wade, and her acceptance of a $25,000 campaign contribution in exchange for her requesting $10 million from the government for MZM.
The Princess, in typical fashion, managed to first screw things up for MZM, by submitting her funding proposal past deadline, then not presenting it with a clear idea of what MZM was seeking. They never did get their funding, thanks to Harris's incompetence. Now it seems she is bringing this innate ability to her campaign.
The campaign is starting to look like it is in endstage!
From an
article in this morning's Herald-Tribune:
Harris campaign 'circling the wagons,' consultant says
Already trying to avoid the media, Longboat Key Republican Katherine Harris is now canceling campaign stops in Southwest Florida as questions swirl about her ties to a Washington, D.C., defense contractor at the center of an ongoing national bribery scandal.
Harris, who is running for the U.S. Senate, abruptly canceled a stop in Charlotte County on Saturday, and four other events planned for Lee and Collier counties were removed from her campaign Web site.
It's another sign that Harris' struggling campaign is now in full crisis mode. Political consultants say that shying away from the public right now is also a bad strategy.
"She can't hide and expect this to go away," said David Johnson, a Republican political consultant. "It looks like her campaign is circling the wagons."
Read the whole thing. She is in full denial mode over the negative impact this story is having on her campaign, insisting to her supporters that all is well! Meantime, her fundraising is suffering greatly, and this particular one-day story doesn't go away.
Katherine Harris: still Pure. Comedy. Gold.
UPDATE: Added direct linkage to the story I quoted from above. Sorry about leaving that out.
Also, check out this wonderful smackdown goodness from Tom Lyons, a Herald-Tribune columnist, published March 1st:
Rep. Harris misled us; now we know why