NC-13 Tancredo, Dixie, Dracula, Kronos Quartet, Beijing?
Sat Oct 28, 2006 at 07:35:55 AM PDT
As we approach the witching hour it's time for a review of the sordid brew that is Vernon Robinson's devious, scary and, hopefully, quixotic campaign: Interesting take on Vernon Robinson at this
post by Michael Fauntroy at the Huffington Post. Noting how effective Robinson is at raising money with hate he raises the scary thought of how much money Robinson could raise if Republicans actually thought he had a chance at winning. I love MsWings comment that if Miller were everything Robinson says he is
I'd still vote for him before I'd waste a vote on a hate filled loudmouth like Robinson.
Meanwhile Robinson's dirty campaigning tricks have circled the globe via international press in the last few days showing up in London and Australia in stories typical of this
Canadian report. I hope these stories have shown up in Beijing but who knows how the government censors control what Vernon's Chinese donors see. [more below...]
Another scary thought as we approach the witching hour: As noted in the
O No! Robinson declared in a recent forum that his personal favorite to be the next president is Tom Tancredo. This is the same Tom Tancredo that was present during the singing of
"Dixie" with a group of South Carolina
white supremacists in September at an event that is getting a lot of attention from
Colorado MediaMatters. I wonder what role Robinson would have in that administration?
Elsewhere according to a post by DonnaRumsfeld at Cruel.com in one of Robinson's ads:
The music at the beginning of the ad is Philip Glass' score to Dracula, performed by the Kronos Quartet
Copyright violation or liberal endorsement? Poster Jim Sheaves responds at
BlueNC.com
Can you say RIP-OFF??? I just PERSONALLY contacted Kronos Quartet's management by phone, which interestingly, is located in...wait for it...SAN FRANCISCO, and the person I spoke with was APPALLED to learn this little bit of information. Could there be a lawsuit in the works for Vermin?
If anyone else cares to verify this, contact:
Janet Cowperthwaite, Managing Director, Kronos Quartet.
P.O. Box 225340.
San Francisco, CA 94122-5340
ph 415-731-3533
If YouTube pulls this ad it will be the second Robinson ad pulled for copyright violation. The Kronos Quarter recently helped celebrate Media Alliance's 30th anniversary in, yes,
San Francisco. So ironic that the
Media Alliance promotes the antithesis of Robinson's tactics:
media excellence, ethics, diversity and accountability in the interests of peace, justice, and social responsibility
I have written before under the heading of Where in The World are Vernon Robinson's Donors about how much money is coming from outside of NC-13 for a candidate who doesn't even live in the District. The latest location: Beijing
The prize for the furthest traveled to this reunion goes to an octogenarian couple in Beijing, China who retired there from Illinois in 1988 and haven't looked back since. As the husband writes in his website:
China living is easy, a slower-paced living. It's a lot like turning the clock back a number of years.
No kidding! Turning the clock back is what Vernon Robinson wants to do with a number of issues here in NC, on the other side of the globe from Beijing, literally and figuratively.
They have sent money from China to Robinson before, giving them reunion status in Robinson's
fear mongering milking parlor in his run against Democrat
Brad Miller. Why would they want to give money to a Congressional race in NC? Well, clue number 1. is this quote:
I'm currently reading...
Mostly conservative news from the net
That `splains everything Lucy. Robinson spreads his vitriol thickest on the internet to rustle up money from outside NC to run his insipid ads inside NC. I've seen a fireside-chat style video Robinson is running on TV in
District 13 which I haven't seen on the internet. At first I thought I was watching a SNL skit with Tracy Morgan but he managed to make it identifiable as Robinson garbage with tasteless video of the second plane hitting the burning World Trade Center. If memory serves me correctly
Republicans were in charge on that watch.
Meanwhile Robinson's recent sex obsession ad has been pulled from YouTube due to copyright infringement though it is still accessible at Google Video, which is surprising given that Google has just dropped $1.65 billion on YouTube. Go find it and rate it as pornographic and see it drop off the face of the net.
MediaMatters rips into Fox News for repeatedly showcasing offensive Republican ads and candidates with practically no Democratic or progressive responses and dissects Robinson's ad in particular.
Fox News programs in recent weeks have aired false and misleading Republican campaign advertisements attacking Democrats or Democratic congressional candidates and have hosted guests to defend the attacks, smears, and falsehoods put forth in the ads. But in all but one of the segments about the ads, Fox News failed to air a counter-ad by a Democratic candidate or host any progressive or Democrat to respond to the smears in the advertisements; the other aired only part of a Democratic ad and did so without sound.
Meanwhile the absurdity and obscenity has been picked up by British newspapers such as the
Independent
There is a tendency in all US election campaigns to talk about sexual morality rather than weighty matters of state. But this yearseems to mark a new low.
Nowhere has the tone gone lower than in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where a Republican candidate called Vernon Robinson has accused his opponent, incumbent congressman Brad Miller, of wanting to import homosexuals to the United States and spending tax-payer dollars on filthy scientific studies on sex.
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All this opprobrium stemmed from a single vote by Mr Miller on appropriations for the National Institutes of Health. In a campaign mailer, the unabashedly homophobic Mr Robinson even sought to drop hints questioning his adversary's sexuality, referring to him pointedly as "childless". Mr Miller has since pointed out that the reason he is childless is that his wife had a hysterectomy 20 years ago.
Note to editor: Winston-Salem is not in
District 13.
Runner-up in the furthest travelled money to Robinson sweepstakes is a contractor in Hawaii who said aloha to $1,000 that she'll never see again. May be hoping for a piece of that border wall contract but they way things are going with the economy the wall will have to be built by Mexicans so it'll be kind of hard to keep them on one side. Maybe she'll get that Great Wall of Hawaii project to keep those inner tubes from drifting over fron Baja. Does the name Maginot mean anything any more?
Robinson is running a campaign that is failing for Minuteman Randy Graf in Arizona of whom Tom Tancredo, another Robinson donor, has said:
"I don't just want to work with Randy. I want to someday pass the baton to him."
If the people of Arizona and the NRCC have figured out this junk won't fly it's past time for Robinson to pack it in.
Click on the hula girl to send a sweet goodbye to Vernon.
Following up on our other Pacific Rim Where in the World are Vernon Robinson's Donors the recent FEC report shows he managed to scare another donation out of Alaska retiree George Benesch and one from the Santee, California trailer park retiree, fighting us here in District 13 so they don't have to fight them there. We already have a functioning capable Democratic Congressman: Brad Miller we don't need a guy like Robinson serving on Congressional committees who had this to say about his poor attendance record on the Winston-Salem City Council:
"If you had to sit through those committee meetings where they read the agenda to the council members who didn't read the agenda book before the meeting, you'd probably blow your brains out,"
Robinson is so out of touch he
attacked the Episcopal Church of which recent
WRAL debate moderator David Crabtree is a deacon. Vernon Robinson is an unprofessional fundraiser.
Brad Miller is a professional Congressman for NC-13.
Vernon Robinson is apparently hemorrhaging money because, like a pyramid scheme, his fear-factor business model has to spend more to take in more. In pre-election reports he declared $274,932.99 cash on hand while Brad Miller reported $379,831.37 cash on hand.
Of 252 reportable transactions recorded by Robinson only 28 were from North Carolina and less than half of those from within District 13.
Of 210 reportable transactions recorded by Brad Miller 194 were from North Carolina and most of those from within District 13.
Robinson reported disbursements of $40,098.75 to Wynne Sanitation of Butner NC for an item listed as "utilities". Wynne Sanitation, Inc appears online as a trucking and waste company. I guess when you run a campaign like Vernon's there is a lot of crap to be hauled off and disposed of. Whatever it is, it sure looks like an unusual expenditure.
Vernon Robinson has a funny perspective on democracy too. According to Forsyth County, NC, records he has been registered to vote since 1982 in NC-05.
Online records show that he has exercised his right to vote only 4 times since 1999, twice in person and twice absentee. It would appear that he didn't even vote for himself in the 2004 primary.
05/02/2006 Primary Absentee
11/08/2005 Municipal general election In-Person
09/27/2005 Winston-Salem municipal primary In-Person
11/02/2004 General election Absentee
I want to get a shout-out in FEC records so with this post goes $101 to Brad Miller's campaign to bump me over the $200 mark. Vernon Robinson deserves a strong rebuke and the Republicans that support him need a smackdown. I encourage anyone else with NC roots to do likewise and to consider contributions to him other NC candidates, especially Larry Kissell who was just added to the DCCC Red to Blue list:
NC-05 Roger Sharpe
NC-08 Larry Kissell
NC-11 Heath Shuler
NC-13 Brad Miller
gregflynn at BlueNC.com
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