Durka-Durka-Muhammed-Jihad!!
I'm thinking that the person(s) responsible for packing the audience with 'supporters' might be looking through the classified ads this morning.....for a new job:
Busby on defense, says she misspokeI hate to be the poor slob that has to tell Francine about the media storm when she calls to find out the latest polling.
If an election can turn on a sentence, this could be the one: "You don't need papers for voting."
On Thursday night, Francine Busby, the Democratic candidate for the 50th Congressional District, was speaking before a largely Latino crowd in Escondido when she uttered those words. She said yesterday she simply misspoke.
But someone taped it and a recording began circulating yesterday. After she made that statement at the meeting, Busby immediately said: "You don't need to be a registered voter to help (the campaign)."
She said that subsequent statement was to clarify what she meant.
The recording, which was played yesterday on Roger Hedgecock's radio talk show, jolted the campaign.
Busby, a Cardiff school board member, is in a tight race with Republican Brian Bilbray, a congressman-turned-lobbyist, who has based his campaign on a tough anti-illegal-immigration stance. Busby has focused her campaign on ethics reform. The two are vying to replace Randy "Duke" Cunningham, who was jailed after pleading guilty to taking bribes.
Busby said she was invited to the forum at the Jocelyn Senior Center in Escondido by the leader of a local soccer league. Many of the 50 or so people there were Spanish speakers. Toward the end, a man in the audience asked in Spanish: "I want to help, but I don't have papers."
It was translated and Busby replied: "Everybody can help, yeah, absolutely, you can all help. You don't need papers for voting, you don't need to be a registered voter to help."
Bilbray said at worst, Busby was encouraging someone to vote illegally. At best, she was encouraging someone who is illegally in the country to work on her campaign.
"She's soliciting illegal aliens to campaign for her and it's on tape – this isn't exactly what you call the pinnacle of ethical campaign strategy," Bilbray said. "I don't know how she shows her face."
Here is the audio of Busby killing her campaign.
...and the song heard in the Bilbray headquarters on Friday?
"It's beginning to look a lo
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...and the song heard in the Bilbray headquarters on Friday?
"It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas..."
Talk about making a "mistake"....if it weren't so funny, I'd almost feel bad for her...almost.
hehehe.
|| Posted by Gracie, June 3, 2006 11:35 AM ||