Cheney to hold St. Louis fundraiser for Talent

[sabra]

http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/breaking_news/12526088.htm

Cheney to hold St. Louis fundraiser for Talent

WASHINGTON - Vice President Dick Cheney will host a major fundraiser for Sen. Jim Talent in September, as the Missouri Republican gears up for a challenge from Democratic State Auditor Claire McCaskill.

Talent spokesman Rich Chrismer confirmed Wednesday that Cheney would host the event in St. Louis on Sept. 19, less than three weeks after McCaskill launched her bid to unseat the first term senator.

Chrismer declined to state how much the event would raise. Talent already holds a sizable advantage over McCaskill with about $3.4 million in his war chest. That includes more than $1 million from a June event that President Bush attended in St. Louis.

"We expect the event with the vice president to be very successful," Chrismer said.

[MaineDem]

1. Poor timing on this announcement, no? (nt)

[movonne]

19. What a fucking bastard...he should be fund raising for New Orleans,

Mississippi deaster...what is wrong with these people...they don't even make a pretense at caring..

[Kikosexy2]

2. Can't be ...

too bothered with the disasters in NO, AL & Miss. Greedy fuck--may he choke on rubber chicken and broccoli.

[sinkingfeeling]

3. Thought Cheney was dead.

[smirkymonkey]

11. If only.....

[ramapo]

13. Me too!

He has been invisible all week. You'd think the Vice President of the United States would have some involvement in the biggest disaster to hit the country in modern times.

[jsamuel]

15. no, he just had a stroke and no one knows about it... just do a weekend at

bernie's thing, but not quite dead...

[Justitia]

4. McCaskill is an Emily's List candidate.

McCaskill to challenge Talent in Missouri Senate race

Missouri Auditor Claire McCaskill is stepping up to the plate to challenge right-wing GOP Sen. Jim Talent in 2006.

Talent defeated EMILY’s List candidate Jean Carnahan in the 2002 election that determined who would serve the remainder of the seat won by Carnahan’s late husband, Mel Carnahan, in 2000.

The enormously popular McCaskill ran a strong race for governor in 2004, defeating Democratic incumbent Bob Holden in the primary and narrowly losing to Republican Matt Blunt in the general. Blunt, the son of Cong. Roy Blunt, is earning extremely low approval ratings from voters in this swing state.

McCaskill made an official announcement Tuesday, Aug. 30.

Best of luck to her!

[hatrack]

5. Good thing there aren't any national emergencies in progress!

Thank God - that whole "hurricane" thing had me worried that the political fund-raising machinery might slow down momentarily! :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

[Hobarticus]

6. Wow...taaaaaacky...

The Prince of Darkness emerges from his tomb to troll for dollars while people are dying. Nice.

[Freedom_from_Chains]

7. Great, this country is dealing with the worst natural disaster

in it's history and these guys aren't about to miss their fundraisers. Suggestion to the WH; why don't you guys start trying to do the job you were hired for.

[AlCzervik]

Shameless, they should donate what ever they get to the hurricane victims

[FormerRepublican]

8. He should be holding a fundraiser for Katrina disaster victims...

oh wait - it's Cheney. :puke: :puke:

[Judi Lynn]

9. Talent might be worrying Bush'll hold him back!

He couldn't have thrown himself on the _Bush powerwagon hard enough when he ran the first time, but now he may have reservations, according to the last two paragraphs:

Talent is likely to keep his fundraising on pace with help from heavy hitters such as Bush and Cheney. But Jones said a major question Talent faces is how much he wants Bush to campaign for him around the state given the president's low approval ratings.

"Once we get closer to the election itself, if president Bush continues to have popularity problems, Talent will have to decide exactly how close or distant he wants to tie his campaign to the administration," Jones said.

[TheCowsCameHome]

20. Good. Whatever it takes to take him and all the other Repukes down

Go, Dick, Go!

[Parche]

21. talent

Talent looks like a nerd

[[e-mail]]

10. someone

go protest there

[Dr Fate]

12. Is he going to get up there and grunt or what?

To hell with that stroked-out Frankenstien's monster.

[natrat]

14. i thought he was dead, oh well

[mbperrin]

16. Vampires don't die, silly!

You knew that!

[SoCalDem]

17. Ah, the Penguin resurfaces.. but not for flood relief

for a "Talent" show to raise even MORE Great Big Gobs of Greedy GOPer cash..:puke:


They are not even pretending to be human anymore...





"It's a COOKBOOK!!"

[deadparrot]

18. Do they think a Ticky Dick appearance would *help* Talent?

Seems like he's consistently had lower favorability ratings than **, and you know where ** is right now.

[Megahurtz]

22. Your War is a Fraud!!!

you OIL DRINKING-ASSHOLE!!!:argh: