Why Is Patrick Hynes Trying to Defeat Kelly Ayotte?

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The link to the Virginia SoS site makes you jump through a couple of hoops, so here is a copy of the directors listing:

CISM1001 OFFICERS/DIRECTORS AND PRINCIPAL OFFICE 10:52:18 CORPORATE ID:   CURRENT AR# 209-40-0019 DATE 05/12/09 CORP NAME:   STREET: 107 SOUTH WEST STREET PMB 551 CITY: ALEXANDRIA STATE: VA ZIP: 22314 S C DIR REQUIRED: Y E A OFFICERS/DIRECTORS DISPLAY FOR AR# 209-40-0019 L T NAME TITLE SIGN  O STEPHEN A DEMAURA PRESIDENT  B ART HACKNEY D  D TABITHA CONNOR DIRECTOR  D PATRICK HYNES DIRECTOR  D NICHOLAS TERZULLI DIRECTOR    



"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."  Franklin D. Roosevelt    

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by: Kathy Sullivan 2 @ Thu Mar 18, 2010 at 14:54:41 PM UTC

Funny You Mention Pawlenty (0.00 / 0)

From VetVoice:
Pawlenty Redirected Money for Vets/Mil Families to Political Appointee

When Minnesota motorists paid out $30 apiece for "Support Our Troops" license plates, it's a good bet they had no idea they were supporting Lee Buckley, a political appointee of Gov. Tim Pawlenty.

Last year $30,000 from the license-plate fund was used to pay a portion of Buckley's salary. Buckley worked in Pawlenty's office as a $92,000 a year special adviser on faith and community services.
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By state law, money from the plates is split between the Department of Military Affairs for family members of deployed service members and the Department of Veterans Affairs for grants for homeless and needy veterans.

"For money that was supposed to go to fund things for veterans going to fund people in the governor's office, it's outrageous," said Murphy, DFL-Red Wing, a Marine veteran. "The governor runs around telling everyone he's cutting all these budgets, and then he back-door fills in his own department. I'm just disgusted with this."

"Ill writers are usually the sharpest censors." - John Dryden

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by: Jack Mitchell @ Thu Mar 18, 2010 at 16:47:48 PM UTC

Ovide speaks from both sides (4.00 / 2)

Ovide Lamontagne issued a statement telling AJS to stay out of the race, blasting the party bosses and Washington insiders who are interfering with the race.

During the past few months, I have consistently called out party bosses and Washington elites for involving themselves in our primary, and for trying to usurp the paramount role of New Hampshire voters in selecting their next U.S. Senator.  The same logic applies to out-of-state groups who try to influence with neither accountability nor disclosure, in an effort to tilt the local playing field.

But he also attacked Kelly Ayotte for her role in JUA.

Someone asked me if Ovide's rapid piling on meant that perhaps it was Ovide's friends who are bankrolling AJS here, and not Binnie's. I guess it is possible, but that would mean Ovide's campaign would be so cynical so as to be involved with AJS while attacking AJS. Since Hynes still has a featured piece up on Faux!hampshire going after Ovide, I am guessing that Ovide just decided to jump on the story.  But there are so many tangled webs within the NH GOP, anything is possible.  

The good news for Kelly Ayotte is that this kerfluffle has kept the focus off the endorsement of our former attorney general by former NHGOP chair Jayne Marcucci. The irony of Jayne not endorsing Ovide after she had him represent the Republican Party in the phone jamming litigation! Poor Jayne - the endorsement of Binnie by Bruyce Keough was called a big pick up, and received 7 or 8 paragraphs in the Status, while Jayne's endorsement was in the category of "oh, yeah, Jayne endorsed Ayotte."  Keough's endorsement also got a mention at Pindell, but Jayne's did not. I am saddened that being a former state party chair is of so little value!!  



"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."  Franklin D. Roosevelt    

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by: Kathy Sullivan 2 @ Thu Mar 18, 2010 at 19:39:55 PM UTC

To answer the question in your title, I think it's called (0.00 / 0)

"knee capping."  It's what outfits like Club for Growth and the AJS do.  It's the competition-as-contest strategy.  When the opposition goes down, the favorites go up.

I suppose you could also call it the see-saw model of politics.  On the other hand, the likes of Jon Lerner, Gary Aldrich and Bob Perry (in Texas) make a living, regardless of the results.  And mischief.  In South Carolina they're supposedly grooming Nikki Haley for Governor.  

Nimrata Nikki Randhawa Haley (born January 20, 1972) is an American elected official from South Carolina currently serving in the South Carolina House of Representatives where she represents Lexington County.[3]  She is the first Indian American Republican state legislator in the United States.[4]  Haley is currently running for the Republican nomination in the South Carolina gubernatorial election, 2010 and has been endorsed by former Governor and GOP Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney.

Maybe that's all the diversity Republicans can handle.  

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by: hannah @ Thu Mar 18, 2010 at 20:46:36 PM UTC