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Why Does Frank Guinta Want $100K of RGA Money?

by: Dean Barker

Fri Aug 26, 2011 at 19:11:30 PM EDT
( - promoted by William Tucker)

This knocked me over (please go here for the backstory):
Guinta mentioned that he had contacted several national groups for money and that he had been hoping "to get up to $100,000 from the Republican Governors Association," the source said.

But Guinta told the group that "before any money was discussed, he was told by the RGA that they must put their resources where "they are going to be useful and not wasted and they think that the party is so badly run, that Jack Kimball has so little ability to get the message out that they just can't see putting money in that direction," according to the source.

Does anyone honestly believe federal officeholder Frank Guinta is calling around various groups out of the goodness of his heart to help the state party?

Likely, Frank Guinta, like all incumbents, is doing one thing with his dialing-for-dollars time - helping himself.

So that begs the question: What does a member of our federal delegation want with a group that helps gubernatorial candidates?

Oh, did I mention that, unlike with federal candidates such as Guinta, you can contribute unlimited amounts of money to groups like the RGA? Who then can give whatever they want to the state party?

In other news, in the 2010 race Frank Guinta loaned himself $355,000 that didn't appear to be his to loan.  To date he has refused to produce a simple bank statement proving it's his, despite bipartisan complaints filed with the Federal Election Commission.

(find me > 140 on birch paper; on Twitter < 140)
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Why Does Frank Guinta Want $100K of RGA Money? | 5 comments
maybe... (0.00 / 0)
Maybe he will be running for Governor.  That sounds good to me because Lynch would crush Guinta like a grape, assuming Guinta makes it out of the primary.  The big downside is, however, the fact that Guinta would be a horrendously bad Governor if for some reason he actually won.  
Clueless exaggeration. (0.00 / 0)
One of the defining characteristics of the clueless seems to be a gross exaggeration of their own capabilities.

That said, let me hijack this comment by suggesting everyone read

http://www.dailykos.com/story/...

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I just can't wait for Sept 1. (0.00 / 0)
There are so many BS-ers involved that there is no telling what's really going on.

Whatever happens on the first, they are all going to put their spin on it.

It's a circular firing squad and it couldn't happen to a more deserving group of people.

If it was a loan, is there evidence that it's been paid back? n/t (0.00 / 0)

The conservative personality, fixated on other people, (0.00 / 0)
is quick to identify guilt by association.  However, what's perhaps less easily recognized is that guilt by association is partnered with a "positive" alternative, success by association.  That is, conservatives perceive themselves to share in the success of their associates or the people they associate with.
That, I suspect, is what prevents conservatives from identifying with the President -- their superficial optics keep them from associating with him.  It doesn't matter what he does.  Obama can do no right because doing is not significant.  Literally, you can't see it.
Conservatives have a prejudice against doing (action) which cannot be overcome.
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