Casey: Too pure for Savage money
Melissa Meinzer reports in this week's Pittsburgh City Paper that Bob Casey has turned down a donation from Savage Love's Dan Savage.Larry Smar, spokesperson for the Casey campaign, says that controversial and vulgar content in the column and on Savage's anti-Santorum Web site, www.spreadingsantorum.com, led to the decision to return the contribution.
Casey's $10 million behind Santorum in fundraising. He'll take money from more than 200 of the same corporate PACs as Santorum does, but not from Dan Savage? The man continues to amaze.
Savage's response was to send the money to Philadelphians Against Santorum. He says, "I’m going to have to swallow hard and support Bob Casey whether he wants me to or not." Then he ends with this gem:But if I wanna keep sending money to mainstream politicians it looks like I’m going to have to form a political action committee (PAC) to fudge the source of the funds. Bob Casey may not take check from me, but maybe he’ll take one from my Fudge PAC.
posted by Karen @ 8/02/2006 11:14:00 AM
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Oh it gets better -- Casey has taken money from a guy so dirty that even Hillary and Andy Cumo returned his money. John Burgess is a disbarred New York lawyer with a criminal record for attempted larceny and patronizing a 16-year-old prostitute, currently under investigation fro fraud and other nasty stuff. His criminal record has been well known and Cumo returned the money two years ago -- but it was good enough for Bob.
Casey has also accepted money from Jack Abramoff's partners -- yep, THAT Jack Abramoff. No problen there.
BUT, a GAY guy who writes a (legal) SEX advice column --- ewwwwwww, Bob gave it back. Nice to see a Democrat commited to a big tent and feee speech, eh?
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