After all, why wouldn't they? She sends American jobs overseas with regularity. Year after year, Carly Fiorina sent jobs from HP's American facilities to new facilities in low wage countries. Oh, and then she was fired for being one of the worst CEO's in history.
So, now she's running around the state complaining about the high unemployment rate. And even setting up a website calling Boxer the Failed Senator.
Well, Karl Rove did always say attack at your weekness, and guess what, failure is Carly Fiorina's persistent weakness. She failed at HP, and then was shoved out the door, and now she wants to bring all that failure with her to DC. And remove what was left of the middle class in California and the nation.
Remind me again why she is qualified for this job?
Carly Fiorina has lots of issues with President Obama. She's a Mama Grizzly after all, and they are protecting their ... ummm ... "nation" from the dangers of health care for all. You know, the really dangerous stuff.
Dangerous stuff like the possibility of a mosque several blocks down the road from Ground Zero, the site of the World Trade Center. Now, I understand the importance of honoring the tragedy of the events of 9/11, but are we to blame a whole religion for the actions of a few crazy zealots? The twisted and violent death cult that the 9/11 bombers are engaged in is not the religion that is practiced by the millions of American Muslims that are actively engaged in our civic life. Sam Seder goes ahead and makes a complete mockery of the whole "controversy" in the video to the right.
Real credit should be given to President Obama for his statement on the matter:
As a citizen, and as President, I believe that Muslims have the same right to practice their religion as everyone else in this country. And that includes the right to build a place of worship and a community center on private property in Lower Manhattan, in accordance with local laws and ordinances.
Now, it appears, Carly thinks that the President of the United States shouldn't get involved in issues of the (ahem) United States.
Two days after President Obama waded into the controversy over plans to build a mosque near ground zero in New York City, Republican Senate candidate Carly Fiorina said it was an "intensely personal and local issue," adding that she didn't think "it's helpful when the president of the United States weighs in." (LA Times)
Of course, the Mayor of New York City applauded the President's comments, but you know, those aren't the locals that Fiorina likes. The ones that agree with the Big Mama Grizzly herself. Apparently it is ok when Big Grizz Palin chimes in to bring the issue to the nation's attention by attacking it:
"Peace-seeking Muslims, pls understand. Ground Zero mosque is UNNECESSARY provocation; it stabs hearts. Pls reject it in the interest of healing," the former Alaska governor and Republican vice presidential candidate tweeted on Sunday. (ABC)
Note that Palin's comments were made back in July, and she's been keeping it up, especially since the President made his comments last week. So, in summary, the comments of a half-term Alaska governor, completely appropriate. The President of the United States speaking out with the support of the Mayor of New York? "unhelpful."
But, truth be told, this is the former CEO who made the current sexually harassing, employee morale devestating CEO of HP Mark Hurd look like a darn right treat. But, you know, it's not easy to climb to the hop of the heap of worst CEOs. So, what can you expect really. Certainly somebody with this kind of track record is somebody who should be speaking out on what is "helpful" in other jurisdictions.
Field is out with their Senate polling data, and Barbara Boxer maintains a narrow lead over Carly Fiorina, 47-44.The number is an actually an improvement for Boxer over the March 2010 numbers, when Boxer's lead was just a single point. In the end, both of these numbers are within the margin of error. All that is to say that we should be expecting a fight for the Senate race this fall.
Whereas Jerry Brown has failed to capture the hearts of some traditional Democratic demographics, Boxer has built on these constituencies. She leads the 18-39 demographic by a 52-33 tally, and Latinos by 55-32. While turnout will be critical to who wins both elections, Fiorina (and Whitman) need to make serious dents in both areas of support if they are to win their respective elections.
On the flip side, Boxer probably needs to consolidate Democrats a little bit, as it appears that Fiorina has mostly done that on her side of the divide. But, as the favorability numbers, Boxer is a more polarizing figure. Her favorability numbers are under water at 11 (4152). Meanwhile, unlike Whitman who has bought her way into universal recognition, Fiorina is still something of an unknown quantity. She's at +5,(34-29), but the largest group is "no opinion."
The task for the Boxer Team (and allies) is to fill in those blanks. The story doesn't even take any aggrandizing. Fiorina is a failed CEO, who was fired by HP for both poor morale, spying on her employees and journalists, and poor performance. Oh, and she was even named the 19th worst CEO in America. Sadly, she was out-terribled by Lehman's Dick Fuld. Her failed record is not even that much of a mixed bag, she rose to the level of her incompetence, and boy, was she incompetent.
More from Robert: Boxer's numbers aren't as strong as we'd like. Her disapproval rating among likely voters is 48%, with 42% approval. What explains this?
The San Francisco Chronicle article on this poll suggests Boxer is suffering from the public's overall anger at Washington DC:
One of Boxer's more vexing problems, analysts say, is that opposition to her is not just about her. She has become an avatar for broader voter frustrations about the struggling economy, President Obama and the growth of the federal government.
"It's a reflection of the effectiveness of a Republican strategy to characterize Sen. Boxer as everything that's wrong with the government," said Larry Berman, a professor of political science at UC Davis. Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., another longtime Democrat facing a tough re-election challenge, faces a similar predicament, Berman said.
When the economy is struggling, DiCamillo said, "the voters tend to take it out on the incumbents."
This makes sense to me. We have seen the Obama Administration fail to bring change to this country. Their two accomplishments, the stimulus and health care, were watered down to the point where voters don't see them as being effective, although Boxer is rightly going out there and showing that the stimulus did indeed create jobs - and that we need more of it.
But with Democratic Senators like Ben Nelson and Blanche Lincoln doing all they can do to destroy the Democratic majority, and with the White House failing to provide strong leadership to challenge this or to achieve progressive ends, Democratic voters are losing confidence and enthusiasm, and other voters are starting to grow uneasy about incumbents as a whole.
Boxer is therefore suffering that collateral damage, even though she has been one of the best, most progressive Democrats we have. However, she is in a stronger position than these toplines suggest.
Fiorina hasn't gained any support over her March 2010 numbers, and Boxer is down 2 but that is within the margin of error. Independent voters are still with Boxer, 47-39. Boxer, unlike Brown, also retains strong backing from core Democratic constituencies: she leads 52-33 among voters under age 39, and 55-32 among Latinos.
Let's also recall the USC/LA Times poll from last month, which showed that voters want a Senator who will work to implement Obama's agenda. That's Barbara Boxer, who is right to embrace a president who, despite his failures that frustrate voters, remains popular in California.
Finally, we can't forget that Fiorina is so far to the right that she is going to have a difficult time getting elected here. Fiorina pledges to repeal health care reform and won't use government to create jobs. She is running as a Herbert Hoover candidate, planning to do to the US what she did to HP.
Californians don't want that - and Barbara Boxer knows it. The Boxer campaign has a tough fight ahead of it. But it's a fight she knows how to win.
Do you remember the bizarre and somewhat offensive Carly Blimp Commercial? Well, it appears that the Failorina campaign is attempting to push that further with their "grassroots" protesters at the site of various Boxer events. From MediaBistro's FishBowlLA blog:
What does it mean when all six of your protest signs are in the same handwriting with the same slogans in different cities on allegedly different days? It means as a movement you are so on the same page even your penmanship testifies to it. Carly Fiorina's Twitter account is proudly boasting about all these protests around California. "Protesters are gathering in Sacramento asking, 'where are the jobs?!?!'" (FishBowlLA)
Click on over to FishBowlLA for more photos of the same dude holding the same signs. These "grassroots" folks have really got the message consistency down!
Yesterday, Carly Fiorina was in the business of praising Sen. Feinstein. Then only hours later, she got all up into the business of trashing one of her main policy prerogatives, the assault weapons ban. Oh, and she went further, pretty much pretending that she was still in the Republican primary.
Republican Senate candidate Carly Fiorina said Tuesday that she opposes a ban on assault weapons and supports a U.S. Supreme Court decision this week affirming a constitutional right to bear arms.
In a 45-minute question-and-answer session with reporters here, the former Hewlett-Packard CEO also repeated her backing of Arizona's controversial immigration law and said she would support efforts to repeal the federal health care reform measure. But the fundamental issue in the race against three-term Sen. Barbara Boxer, Fiorina contended, will be whom voters trust more on the economy, and she said the contrast between the two could not be more stark. (SJ Merc)
Wow, I certainly hope for her sake that getting a bunch of Latino votes wasn't a part of her electoral strategy, because this repeated outpouring of support for Arizona's law won't win her that support. While Carly might criticize Whitman for appearing on Hannity the day after the primary, at least eMeg has the smarts to quit it with the anti-immigrant talk. Perhaps Carly thinks it will bring in some money from the anti-immigrant crowd, but will it really be enough money to make up for the loss of the votes she's going to get from that part of the interview?
At any rate, back to the assault weapons ban, Carly might want to take a look at who wrote that legislation. And who has been its strongest supporter throughout the last 20 years. Yup, that would be Dianne Feinstein. The very same senator that she was so effusive about yesterday.
Sen. Feinstein isn't always our favorite around here, but she hardly resembles Carly Fiorina. Yet, in comments today, Fiorina tried to snuggle up to Feinstein:
And she also continued a tradition of past Boxer opponents - she talked about how great senior Sen. Dianne Feinstein is and attempted to drive a wedge between the two. By the way, Feinstein is Boxer's campaign chairman.
"I think Dianne Feinstein has accomplished a great deal on behalf of the people of California and I admire and respect her for that,'' Fiorina said. She called Feinstein "a pragmatic voice on issues that matter to the people of California.''
In comparing California's two senators, Fiorina said "if you look at her voting record verses Barbara Boxer's you'll see that they disagree on virtually everything.''
When it was suggested to Fiorina that the two actually voted the same most of the time - Boxer says it's 90 percent - Fiorina backed down a bit.
"Well virtually everything is an overstatement,'' she said. (OC Register)
Well, facts are annoying, aren't they? At any rate, Sen Feinstein put out a statement in full support of Sen. Boxer today after the comments:
Senator Boxer and I have worked together for 18 years, as partners, in Washington -- and there is no daylight between us on the issues that matter most to Californians. We have worked together to create jobs and keep them in California. We have strongly defended a woman's right to choose. We believe that urgent action is necessary to halt climate change and create clean energy jobs, and we support permanently protecting California's coast from offshore oil drilling. In a time of serious terrorist threats to the homeland, we believe it is important to keep guns out of the hands of people whose names are on the terrorist watch list. And we both worked to get more water transfers in the Central Valley so that farmers could plant, hire and harvest this year. Let there be no doubt that I believe California needs Barbara Boxer in the Senate, now more than ever.
Have you ever wondered about those intense sessions with Carly Fiorina and her team right before she goes on TV? Do you think she's brushing up on the issues of the day? Mulling over tax proposals or possible changes to the health care system?
Well, you would be wrong.
Caught on an open mic, we learn that Carly likes to discuss the close relationship between Sean Hannity and Meg Whitman, Cheeseburgers, and, most importantly, Barbara Boxer's hair.
God, what was that hair? Soooo yesterday.
That was her actual quote. "Soooo" yesterday. Check out the clip to the right, and watch five minutes up close and personal with the failed HP CEO.
I was proud to attend the event held for Senator Barbara Boxer at the San Bernardino County Central Committee on Memorial Day. The mood was festive and lively as Senator Boxer laid into her opponents and defended her record on offshore drilling moratorium, the stimulus package (which is seen by the expansion and rework of the 215 FWY), and health care reform legislation. She is really trying to build a grassworks network here in the Inland Empire and I am glad that someone of such import has FINALLY paid attention to the Inland Empire aka the bastard step-child of the Democratic Party. However, we do need a new microphone system for the SBCCC because the one provided kept cutting off and was sometimes caught in an ear screeching feedback loop. Afterwards, Sen. Boxer attended the VA Hospital in Loma Linda to chat with veterans there and pay them the respect and honor they deserve for their service. For full disclosure, I am running for the Central Committee of San Bernardino County and if elected I will raise funds to purchase a new mic system!
While Democrats have freaked out about Jerry Brown's chances against Meg Whitman, there hasn't been such concern about Senator Barbara Boxer's re-election. And while she should prevail in November, who wins the GOP primary in June could make a difference. Perception in politics can become reality - and if Tom Campbell wins the nomination, there will be "news analysis" in papers across the state that Republicans "learned their lesson" by picking a "moderate." Some will remind readers that what "saved" Boxer in 1992 was Campbell losing the GOP primary, so she faced a right-wing conservative in November. Campbell's "maverick" stance on gay marriage, Israel and marijuana (the latter will be on the November ballot) may confuse voters into thinking he is to the left of Boxer. But on the vast majority of issues, Campbell is as conservative as the Party of No in Washington - progressives cannot let the media define the race in terms favorable to him.
Sometimes Sen. Feinstein gets a hard time around these parts, but on the public option, it seems she and Senator Boxer are paddling in the same direction. Both Senators pushed Sen. Reid to include the public option in the bill that will be brought to the Senate floor.
As the Senate prepares to debate a massive health care overhaul, California Democratic Sens. Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein are pushing hard for a public option, which would allow the federal government to compete with private insurers.
The two senators are included in a group of 30 who wrote a letter earlier this month to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada, asking that a public option be included in the Senate bill. (CapAlert)
The public option, with a state opt-out, was in the bill. It is disappointing that the opt-out provision was included, especially considering how easy it is for health insurance companies to leverage campaign contributions in many state legislatures, it seems that this is the way momentum is running for the time being.
Others who pay more attention to this stuff can probably explain this better, but the logic seems to be that even a less than national public option will have some cost benefits as well as pressure for states to eventually sign on to the public option.
Senator Boxer (for whom I proudly work) and supporters across the state are hosting campaign house parties this afternoon. For Caliticians who aren't able to attend one of the parties, you can watch live here as Senator Boxer and L.A. Councilman Bill Rosendahl discuss the Kerry-Boxer climate change bill, the campaign, and answer questions from house parties.
Field continues its data dump with the poll numbers for the Senate race (PDF). While just skating the magical "50% line" Senator Boxer is doing pretty well at this point:
When Boxer is paired against the two GOP U.S. Senate hopefuls, the incumbent holds early
Candidate
Fav
Unfav
No Opinion
Boxer
48
39
13
Fiorina
12
16
72
DeVore
9
9
82
double-digit leads over her two lesser-known opponents in general election match-ups. Against Fiorina, Boxer's lead is 49% to 35%. When she is paired against DeVore her lead is 50% to 33%.
Senator Boxer has a huge advantage in name ID, but it is very heartening to see that despite the constant right-wing attacks against her, she is still a very solid +9 on the favorability scores. So few have heard of Fiorina and DeVore that the numbers aren't hugely significant right now. However, I did find it interesting that more Democrats than Republicans had an opinion of Fiorina.
But in the Republican battle, these numbers must be insanely frustrating for Carly Fiorina. She was supposed to cruise to the nomination, but she is tied (21-20) with Chuck DeVore, a right-wing Assemblyman without a ton of money. You have to wonder, if she doesn't bounce back from her bad month or so that she had, will she really want to get involved in this mess. Carlyfornia Dreamin' was such a clear disaster, will she really want to sink much of her own money into the race, and will people really give her any money if she doesn't sink some of her ill-gotten HP gains into it? It's really something of a vicious feedback loop for Carly now.
Meanwhile, Senator Boxer is losing some of her base enthusiasm. A health care and/or climate change win would do worlds of good for her amongst the Democratic base. Although perhaps some better language on cap and trade wouldn't hurt either.
I'm hearing from sources about a letter to Harry Reid from a collection of liberal Senators, led by Sens. Jay Rockefeller and Sherrod Brown, insisting that Reid publicly commit to putting a public option in any health care bill that reaches the Senate floor. There's a big difference between having a public option in the bill before the fact or trying to get it in by amendment. It's likely that amendments to the bill will require a 60-vote threshold, therefore it would take 60 votes to get a public option into the bill if it's absent, or 60 to get one out of the bill if it's present. Nobody has said that there are those numbers of votes to do either of those actions. So whether the bill comes to the Senate floor with a public option or not is a crucial decision. The four people in that room making that decision are Max Baucus of the Finance Committee, Tom Harkin of the HELP Committee, Harry Reid and someone from the White House. A lot of this will depend on the White House's inclination, and they certainly floated their support over the weekend. But Reid's public statements have been noncommital.
The liberal faction in the Senate, led by Rockefeller and Brown but also for the first time including Sen. Barbara Boxer, want a real commitment. According to sources, Sen. Reid will meet with this faction at 5pm ET. Senator Reid's office confirms that this meeting will be held today. So presumably, some kind of accommodation will be offered, although the liberal Senators in the meeting will seek a definitive commitment, I'm told.
There have been various talks from public option supporters in the Senate about wanting to see it in the final bill, but this is the furthest it has gone, to my knowledge. Some Senators, like Sen. Boxer, are going on the record insisting a public option for the first time. Of course we don't know what form this "public option" will take - the Wall Street Journal reports today that Tom Carper's state-based approach is gaining support among Senate moderates, and Debbie Stabenow in a press conference today confirmed that this is a possibility:
In a press conference this morning with other Democratic senators, Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) -- member of the Senate Finance Committee and a supporter of a robust public option -- says it's a "broad definition."
"The states are one way to go," she said
Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ), who also sits on Finance and supports a public option as enthusiastically as Stabenow does, added, "There are state options that are devised in such a way that only a region of the state is included, in which case that's not really a significant public option."
"If the whole state is included in a public option -- they have that option -- well that's a much more significant standard than some that have been proposed," Menendez told reporters.
I would assume that Reid may offer this as a compromise inclusion in the bill. We'll see if the Brown-Rockefeller faction will take the deal. Certainly they are pushing very hard for a higher standard than that. And with the House of Representatives close in getting majority support for a public option using Medicare +5% rates, perhaps that gives them some leverage too.
Barbara Boxer, whose reputation is just to the right of Bernie Sanders, has gone to bat for factory dairy farms. The landscape of the dairy industry is such that the traditional dairy states like Wisconsin, New York, and Vermont are home to smaller farms (on average) than states like California and Idaho, where the dairy industry has been locating enormous factory farms with tens of thousands of cows in recent years. And right now all farms, big and small alike, are in trouble financially. The price of milk is below the cost of production and farms are therefore LOSING money for every gallon they produce.
Congress is on the verge of passing legislation to give money to help struggling dairy farmers, and Senators from traditional dairy states like New York want the money to favor small farms. That would send the money disproportionately to their states, but I don't have a problem with that at all. The dairy culture in places like Wisconsin and Vermont is tangible when you visit those states. Loss of those farms would result in further moving the dairy industry west and with it would go a part of those states' culture. The same could not be said of the enormous farms out west. Furthermore, enormous farms benefit disproportionately from the low-cost labor of undocumented workers, which rigs the market against smaller, family operations in which dairy farmers attempt to earn a living wage without breaking the law. I'll be writing Barbara Boxer an email, asking her to quit shilling for factory farms. If you live in California, please join me in doing the same (if you live elsewhere, you can call Boxer's Senate office at (202) 224-3553.
As the incomparable Baratunde Thurston has explained in the YouTube video at right (put together just minutes after iCarly's site went live), her site is the "worst political website ever." The Flash image in particular is stunningly absurd, reading:
It's day & night. It's dogs & cats. It's good & bad. It's Carly vs. Boxer. Coming soon? carlyfornia dreamin' !!!
Aside from the totally out of left field "dogs and cats" (I'm guessing iCarly is giving up on the cat lover vote?!), the images used to illustrate each dichotomy are even sillier. "Good" is a cherub. "Bad" is a ninja. A ninja!
Baratunde Thurston's reply isn't the only way that iCarly's FAIL has gone viral. Twitter users have created a #Carlyfornia hashtag that includes some of the following gems:
Of course, there are more fundamental questions about the site. It's not quite clear what the purpose of the amateurish design and flash image is - to paint Boxer as a bad cat? And her Facebook page, with a whopping 20 supporters, makes NO mention of her time as CEO of Hewlett-Packard, a company she ran into the ground while firing 18,000 employees.
Online, as with everything else in her professional life, iCarly fails at whatever she touches. Somewhere, Chuck DeVore is probably laughing.
But, leave it to iCarly to ensure that we simply cannot stop talking about her. Her campaign is fizzling even before it officially launches. Over at righty blog RedState, they have word that Fiorina will not self-fund her campaign one iota.
The takeaway here? Carly Fiorina will not self-fund. Actually, let me give that the all-caps extravaganza it deserves:
Carly Fiorina WILL NOT SELF-FUND.
Given that the NRSC and Senator Cornyn, in public and private, have touted Carly's self-funding potential as the major reason for supporting her - despite her record of political non-participation, despite her emerging Iran scandal, despite her lackluster corporate record, and despite her series of foot-in-mouth moments - this is a big deal. We have Cornyn and the NRSC telling donors and big names, "Screw Chuck DeVore and the conservative grassroots, we want Carly's cash," and we have Carly telling potential hires, "My cash ain't coming."
How inept can the NRSC be? History has yet to record a full answer. And that's not even the whole story.
And given the extraordinary level of effort that the National Republican Senate Committee (NRSC) has put into recruiting Fiorina to run, this is rather embarrassing. She cannot hire a campaign manager because anybody worth a lick realizes that Fiorina has no shot without at least some level of self-funding.
She did hire a fundraiser, Marty Wilson, who was very briefly with Poizner's campaign, and did most of the raising for the Governor's campaigns. However, it appears that he is finding the going quite tough with a candidate that doesn't really have the base with her and isn't prepared to self-fund.
This campaign could, quite possibly, be the most hilarious campaign since oh, hmmm, well, we really do have too many funny campaigns in this state, don't we? Anyway, it's gonna be hilarious!
Senator Boxer is heading into an election next year, and so the campaign is gearing up. On Saturday, September 12, she's inviting folks to hold house parties across the state. Here at Calitics, we are planning to hold something of an online "house party."
So, we'll be streaming the Senator's live webcast and are going to submit a question to the Senator, and we want to get your input on a question. I have some ideas on what I'd like to hear. Beyond health care, there are still questions about Don't Ask, Don't Tell and the ACES climate change bill.
So, let us know in the comments what you would like to see the Senator take on, and we'll decide on a question to ask.
That is not to say that this will be an easy fight for Sen. Boxer, as Fiorina can come at her with wads of self-infused cash. So, she will still need plenty of support. And plus, Fiorina has a ton of experience in planting bugs and tapping phones. So, we'll have to use the super decoder rings to talk about the campaign amongst us Democrats.
UPDATE: The SJ Merc has a story on the race. It's more blather about how Fiorina is going to give a tough race. But for another perspective, check out Josh Treviño's tweets. Treviño, a conservative blogger and strategist, is a huuuuge Chuck DeVore fan, and seems rather pissed that Sen. Cornyn and the NRSC pushed Fiorina into the race. My favorite tweet:
This always bears repeating: Carly Fiorina was the only person fired by the '08 McCain campaign for incompetence. Think about that.9 minutes ago from TweetDeck
Ye ole curmudgeon decided to level his sights on Sen. Barbara Boxer today and discuss her re-election chances. He starts out with this lede:
California's U.S. senators tend to fall into two categories - headline-grabbers and dependable workhorses for the state's interests.
Headline grabbers...hmm that would have to be Sen. Feinstein, who relishes her self-designated role of wise moderate woman, that determines what is or is not a deal.
Somehow, I think that Walters meant it the other way around. He references "quixotic political frays" that have "nothing to do with California". Then of course he never gives any examples, leaving the reader to either scratch their head, or trust the wise man of the column.
Walters then brings up the Rasmussen poll from a few weeks ago, which was unsurprising. Like most years Boxer looks vulnerable, tempting the Republicans to throw the kitchen sink to unseat her.
This year the national Republican hierarchy are excited about Carly Fiorina, who gets 41 to Boxer's 45 in the matchup. Of course she has to get past movement conservative Chuck DeVore in the primary. Fiorina's primary is not a shoe-in. It would not be all that surprising to see DeVore win the wingnut vote that dominates Republican primaries. Fiorina will have to dump a ton of cash into the primary to hold DeVore off.
Walters then does his best to weaken Boxer by providing only half of her favorability numbers.
The latest poll, true to form, found Boxer's overall job approval rating among California voters to be fairly low, with just 21 percent holding a "very favorable" view, down six points from March.
When one normally writes about favorability numbers you add up the very favorable and somewhat favorable results to come up with an overall favorability number. In this case, according to this Rasmussen poll, she has a 21% very favorable and a 36% somewhat favorable, for an overall 57% favorabilty rating, which while not great isn't nearly as bad as Walters tries to make it seem.
If Fiorina wins the primary then Boxer will likely have a tougher race in 2010, certainly compared to 2004. We need to be prepared to defend her with all guns blazing. Fiorina certainly comes with a lot of baggage that would be great fodder for blog posts and attack ads.
There are no huge alarm bells ringing right now, no matter what Walters has written, but we need to be on alert and watch closely as we move into election season. Early cash is better than late cash. Give via ActBlue.
