Cheney at Fund-Raiser, but Not With the Candidate (Tom Kean, Jr)

[brooklynite]

NEWARK, March 20 — In the biggest campaign fund-raiser yet on behalf of State Senator Thomas H. Kean Jr., Vice President Dick Cheney traveled to New Jersey on Monday and praised Mr. Kean as someone with "the experience, the values and the vision to be a superb United States senator."

But there was one problem: Mr. Kean was a no-show.

Actually, Mr. Kean did show up at the event, which was held at the offices of the IDT Corporation in downtown Newark. But he did not make it until 6:15, roughly 15 minutes after Mr. Cheney's motorcade had left.

So what should have been a routine political story about a successful fund-raiser, netting close to $400,000, became one in which Mr. Kean was asked repeatedly whether he had deliberately avoided being photographed with the vice president, who is deeply unpopular in New Jersey.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/21/nyregion/21kean.html?pagewanted=all

[Inland]

1. What a shit. He'll take the money, but won't be associated in a photo?

What kind of scum is this Keane guy? Does he tell his staff that "I don't want to know where this money came from?" Or does he wink and talk about how it came from "that guy I don't hardly know none?"

[opihimoimoi]

2. Some kinda charactor this Pub has....is it typical??

[zbdent]

3. What's comical is that he

probably ran late and couldn't get through the roadblock that usually happens when the president or VP comes to town . . .

"Honestly, I'm THE Senator Tom Kean!!!"

[Divernan]

4. State senator snubs VP? That was deliberate strategy.

Those of you who have worked with state legislators know they would leave their mother's deathbed and miss their daughter's wedding for a photo op with their party's president or VP at a ribbon cutting. That goes triple for a candidate; & quadruple for a situation where the pres/VP are appearing at the candidate's fundraiser ! ! ! Cheney must have agreed to it. Cheney may be deeply unpopular with the rank and file voters of New Jersey. But those wealthy elite at the fundraiser were big time Bush/Cheney supporter$$$.

So wink and a nod, Kean was unavoidably detained. Time for some photo shopping of Cheney handing Kean an oversized check for $$$400,000.

[GalleryGod]

10. NOT running as "Tom Kean, Jr." anymore...just Tom Kean.

Looking for that cynical "confusion vote" ?

[lisa58]

5. Tom Kean's father, Tom Kean, would kill his son if he

campaigned with Cheney. The Kean family is very popular in New Jersey but the Bush Administration isn't. The young Kean is not his dad and won't win this election, but he'll still be a State Senator when it's over and will need to maintain his family's popularity in order to stay in the game.

[GalleryGod]

9. Yeah, Pop left us a huge deficit in 1989 upon leaving (sound familiar)

Could never understand Tom Kean's popularity..Byrne left him a surplus;he did his Supply Side thing...left us a huge deficit! Ah, a Golden oldie! Familiar ring!

[liberal N proud]

6. That is sad - truly sad

It is funny as hell also
:rofl:

[dogfacedboy]

7. Don't know much about Kean.

Is he a radical righty, or an old style moderate repub? We have such animals here in IL.

[GalleryGod]

8. He's a "Sneaky Compassionate Conservative' just like his Dad.

He's J.A.F.W. is what I'd short hand him:
Just Another F*ckin' W

Rich guy's son who is trying to leap from State Legislature to the US Senate. Wouldn't be where he is without same exact name as his Dad (sound familiar?) former Popular Governor, Tom Kean.