Martinez Files to Run for Florida Senate Seat

[CatWoman]

Hey Katherine Harris -- :nopity:


TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Mel Martinez (search) began his run for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate on Monday, saying he is not banking on his presidential connections to win the primary.

Washington-based attorney Ken Connor, a longtime friend of Martinez's, filed papers with the secretary of the Senate and had a copy delivered to the Federal Election Commission (search). It allows Martinez to begin raising money for the campaign to succeed retiring Democratic Sen. Bob Graham (search).

Martinez said he would immediately begin calling supporters to raise money.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,107404,00.html

[mojo2004]

1. Well Martinez is more....

of a pro-life conservative zealot than Harris, and might have a better chance of winning.

[CatWoman]

2. The point is

Harris really wants that seat, but was told to "back off" by the Bush Syndicate.

[Yupster]

3. Bush is real big on

pushing minority candidates to the ballot. He did it in Texas too. Always very conservative though.

[CatWoman]

4. I think Bush would push a Martian to the ballot

as long as he/she/it is a right winger.

[colonel odis]

5. how's that gonna make katherine feel

after she stole that election for w. the bushes let you do their dirty work, dangle a senate seat, then cast you aside like the constitution.

[CatWoman]

6. poetic justice

if you ask me.

welcome to DU, colonel!!

:hi:

[tom_paine]

7. Marshall Petain for Vichy Gouvernor?

Totalitarians like the Busheviks just love traitors and betrayers.

Not much has change since Grandpa Prescott Bush was laundering Hitler's money...

[Judi Lynn]

8. Martinez is a political pawn, a bone to throw the Cuban "exiles"

I'm sure they are all interchangeable to the Republicans, who wouldn't dream of losing their votes as a huge block in South Florida, or their cooperation in controlling politics there, or their campaign contributions.

Our own government, through various channels, at the behest of Cuban "exile" Congress people and their right-wing slaves in Congress, like Tom Delay, shifts money to Cuban "exile" interests in South Florida, by the truckloads.

On Mel, from the Guardian:

(snip) The current administration also maintains a hard line on the continuing Cuban embargo despite the urgings of many in Mr Bush's own party to end it. The president's adviser, Karl Rove, "has urged him to fully accommodate hardliners in return for electoral victories for both his brother and himself", Bardach's book says.

For their help, many hardline Cuban-Americans have received plum jobs in the current administration: Mel Martinez, the Orlando Republican who arranged for the shipwrecked Cuban boy, Elian Gonzalez, to visit Disney World, was made housing secretary, while Otto Reich was awarded a one year recess appointment for the western hemisphere in the state department. (snip)

The Bush dynasty and the Cuban criminals
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,851913,00.html