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Wentworth Golf Club (0.00 / 0)

From what I hear, Binnie's campaign will end when members of his Wentworth Golf Club are asked what they think of him.  

No'm Sayn?

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by: BurtCohen @ Fri Nov 06, 2009 at 08:07:46 AM CST

I think I've heard some of the same rumors... (0.00 / 0)

...  it would also be interesting to ask folks who have been tossed out of the golf club for disagreeing with Mr. Binney.

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by: Michael Marsh @ Fri Nov 06, 2009 at 10:16:09 AM CST

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Tres Bensonesque n/t (0.00 / 0)

Not in the shot

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by: JonnyBBad @ Fri Nov 06, 2009 at 10:58:46 AM CST

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Has he not grown the membership from 100 to 400, as (0.00 / 0)

he's claimed?

One of his supporters has suggested that Binnie's shy and that's why hardly anyone knows about the wonderful thing he's done in supporting a private school for the underprivileged in New York.  That probably also accounts for why there seems to be no puffery available about the ecologically sensitive management of the golf course he's enlarged on the edge of the Atlantic.  
No doubt, Binnie's support for the rescue of Wentworth by the Sea is admirable.  But, from the looks of it, the community seems to have contributed quite a bit to the relocation of roads and utilities.
Public/private partnerships which transform public assets into private wealth wouldn't be half as bad, if we didn't get snowed by how much private enterprise has achieved without any help.

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by: hannah @ Sun Nov 08, 2009 at 06:52:51 AM CST

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"to be speculated" (0.00 / 0)

Is that the same as "imagined" as a figment of the imagination?  Or is it simply a clue that we are dealing with people who consider being looked at as tantamount to being.

If enough people imagine Binnie as Senator then, presto chango, there he is.  It's magic.

"viable candidate" is a phrase that ought to be retired, unless, instead of just letting them vote, we're going to put dead people on the ballot and hope they come alive.

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by: hannah @ Fri Nov 06, 2009 at 08:09:42 AM CST

Hey! (0.00 / 0)

"viable candidate" is a phrase that ought to be retired, unless, instead of just letting them vote, we're going to put dead people on the ballot and hope they come alive.

Leave John Kerry out of this.

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by: Tim C. @ Fri Nov 06, 2009 at 23:55:03 PM CST

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he is a slippery character... (4.00 / 1)

It is hard to figure out who he is or what his story is.

It is hard to get a handle on him--- he says he is a businessman who has created jobs, but he seems to have been semi-retired for the past 13 years after selling a plastics company to Tyco.  He runs an auto-racing team which has been successful but races in a class where there is little prize money and few sponsorship opportunities.  He owns a golf course in New Castle which has been plagued with problems.  And now, even though he is not a politician, he is running for the Senate.

There is very little info about him aside from what he himself puts out.  Some of the info doesn't make much sense.  For example, he says his company Carlisle Capital Corporation is one of the major employers on the Seacoast, yet it occupies a small suite up the street from the Portsmouth post office and it has no website and one of the standard directory sites claims it has less than 10 employees.  He makes a big point of saying he is the son of an immigrant father while not mentioning the fact that he himself was born in Scotland.  (Well, maybe he means that his father was an immigrant to Scotland from somewhere else who later emigrated from there to the USA?  Maybe...)  He makes a big point of saying he started a plastics company in 1989 (which is to his credit) which merged with Tyco a few years later (not to his credit.)

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by: TimothyHorrigan @ Sat Nov 07, 2009 at 01:23:39 AM CST

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Also---I was called away by my house guest's early arrival at the (0.00 / 0)

breakfast table, before I could finish some thoughts on the "-able" or "-ability" words.

Republicans would have us believe, for example, that the Government Accountability Office is the same as the General Accounting Office.  Though, they must know better; else why did they change the name?  
The point we need to make is that accountability has about the same relationship to giving an account of one's expenses or achievements, as marriageability has to actually being married.
There's many a marriageable fellow who can attest to that.  On the other hand, it also seems evident that there's many a married Republican who's yearning to return to his former state.

The whole thing may just be evidence of the Republican preference for the potential over the fact.  Being speculated may be satisfying enough for Bonnie Binnie.

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by: hannah @ Fri Nov 06, 2009 at 08:43:19 AM CST

I did some work on it (4.00 / 2)

I took a few minutes to revise the page a little, just to make it more factual.  The previous version was created and written entirely by an entity who calls himself/ herself/ itself/ themselves "Csmnewh"- who has/have never worked on any other wikiarticles.

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by: TimothyHorrigan @ Fri Nov 06, 2009 at 15:11:31 PM CST

I hit the jackpot (0.00 / 0)

A little internet sleuthing has brought to light that Binnie's company Carlisle Plastics early on shut down at least one factory in Santa Ana, California and moved operations to Mexico.  Coincidentally, just after the employees there tried to start a union.

Then if you Google the name of the new plant in Mexico - Plásticos BajaCal - it's all over the freaking internet because of all sorts of shady things that Carlisle did to try to prevent the workers there from forming an independent union.  (Which they were successful in doing, unfortunately.  When there was a public vote all the workers voted for the company's union.)  There was even an investigation by the U.S. House of Representatives.  (Hearing attended by Bill Zeliff.)

All the details are now in the Wikipedia article.  All the sources I used are available online and are linked to in the citation refs.  Please keep an eye on the article with me just in case that stuff disappears.

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by: Vis Unita Fortior @ Sat Nov 07, 2009 at 03:46:40 AM CST

Admittedly, I am prejudiced against eleemosynary endeavors employed (0.00 / 0)

by the wealthy to evade tax obligations and the principle of equality incorporated in our Constitution.  So, William and Nina's sponsorship of the George Jackson Academy a private school in New York for economically deprived boys is revealing, as is Ms. Binnie's service as a Trustee of the Berwick Academy.  In my mind it raises the question whether the aspiring Senator is a proponent of school vouchers and, in addition to his private country club, has a preference for private (sex segregated) schools.

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by: hannah @ Sun Nov 08, 2009 at 06:43:12 AM CST