post something negative about these "Decency" Senators

[Eric J in MN]

Here are the Senators cosponsoring the "Decency Enforcement Act of 2004."

Please post as many factual, negative things about them as you can.


Sen Allen, George - 2/10/2004

Sen Chambliss, Saxby - 3/3/2004 disputed election

Sen Dole, Elizabeth H. - 3/1/2004

Sen Ensign, John E. - 2/24/2004

Sen Enzi, Michael B. - 3/1/2004

Sen Fitzgerald, Peter - 2/11/2004

Sen Graham, Lindsey O. - 2/9/2004

Sen Hagel, Chuck - 2/24/2004 disputed election

Sen Inhofe, Jim - 2/11/2004

Sen Kyl, Jon - 2/24/2004

Sen Lott, Trent - 2/11/2004 praised Strom Thurmond's 1948 segregationist campaign

Sen Miller, Zell - 2/24/2004

Sen Murkowski, Lisa - 2/25/2004

Sen Roberts, Pat - 2/24/2004

Sen Santorum, Rick - 2/10/2004

Sen Sessions, Jeff - 2/24/2004

Sen Stevens, Ted - 2/11/2004

[yardwork]

1. Elizabeth Dole used "push-polls" in her campaign

to become senator from North Carolina. I personally received one of those phone calls, in which the "interviewer," who claimed to be conducting a poll, asked me a lot of "what if" questions that were statements of made-up evil-doing by Democratic state legislators.

Example: If you heard that the Democrats in the NC legislature stole your retirement money to build themselves a fancy new office building, would you be (1) more inclined to vote for Elizabeth Dole, a Republican who is running for senator, (2) less inclined, or (3) neither more nor less inclined.

This is very similar to the approach used by * in the South Carolina primary in 2000, which was used to spread lies about John McCain.

A lot of people think that push-polls should be illegal. At the very lest, they are immoral, imo.

[Eric J in MN]

2. good, did the other Senators do anything negative? (nt)

nt

[Eric J in MN]

3. kick

kick

[Bog Frog]

4. Rick Santorum is an ignorant and prurient asshole

does that count?

Sorry, I don't have any verifiable dirt. Just my bone-deep knowledge that Santorum hasn't a damn clue about real life.

[SharonAnn]

16. Santorum's wife sued for Medical Malpractice and won for

something like $350k - $450K. It was for a chiropractic procedure that she said caused some lasting pain.

However, her husband, Rick Santorum, is anxious to get the $250,000 limit passed for "pain and suffering" so that no one else can ever again get that much money from a botched medical treatment.

Here it is:


"Sen. Santorum's wife wins lawsuit
Saturday, December 11, 1999

By Jack Torry, Post-Gazette National Bureau

WASHINGTON -- A Virginia jury last night awarded the wife of Sen. Rick Santorum $350,000 in damages after she charged in a lawsuit that a Virginia chiropracter's negligence caused her permanent back pain.

Deliberating more then six hours after a four-day trial in which Santorum, R-Pa., testified, the Fairfax County Circuit Court jury unanimously ruled for Karen Santorum. She had sought $500,000 against Dr. David Dolberg of Virginia, because of pain from his 1996 treatment of her.

"Mrs. Santorum has been vindicated," said her Pittsburgh attorney Heather Heidelbaugh. "She was injured permanently through the actions of a chiropractor who acted negligently."

Heidelbaugh, with the Pittsburgh law firm of Burns, White & Hickton, said Mrs. Santorum has "permanent back pain" and "permanent numbness" in one leg.

Throughout the trial, Santorum aides declined to provide details. Yesterday, they issued a brief statement from the senator saying: "The court proceedings are a personal family matter. I will not be offering any further public comments, other than that I am not a party to the suit. But I am fully supportive of my wife."

But Roll Call, a newspaper that covers Capitol Hill, reported that Santorum testified Monday that his wife might not be able to actively campaign for his involved in my campaigns," he testified.

Democrats aim next year to strongly challenge Santorum, first elected in the 1994 GOP landslide. Rep. Ron Klink, D-Murrysville; former Rep. Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky, D-Montgomery County; state Sen. Allyson Schwartz,
D-Philadelphia, and former state Labor Secretary Tom Foley are among Democrats expected to compete in a party primary next year.

The Santorums maintain a Penn Hills, Pa., residence but have a home in Herndon, Va., a Washington suburb.
"

[Eric J in MN]

18. thanks, that is the type of stuff I'm looking for (nt)

nt

[Mandate My Ass]

5. Santorum? Isn't that Latin for asshole?

Credit goes to Bob Kerrey but it just can't be repeated enough.

[kiahzero]

25. It actually means...

The frothy mixture of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the byproduct of anal sex.

[PA Democrat]

6. Rick Santorum's wife's "job"

WASHINGTON, Sept. 10 (UPI) -- During his past two campaigns, rising Republican star Sen. Rick Santorum paid $10 million to a Pittsburgh advertising firm to help him win office. In the years between the campaigns, the company paid the senator's wife, Karen Santorum - now a full-time mother home-schooling six kids - to work as a consultant, according to campaign finance records and financial disclosure forms.
In a telephone interview, John Brabender said he paid Karen Santorum around $4,000 a month, mostly for "client development."

"She helped us try to get accounts and often acted as our Washington representative," Brabender said. "She was both a stay-at-home mom and a professional at the same time."

Brabender could not name a client Karen Santorum specifically signed, but said that her job was instead to herd clients Brabender's way. He said she also counseled some clients' wives on becoming productive parts of their husbands' campaigns, including the wife of Illinois Republican state Rep. Al Salvi in his unsuccessful bid to unseat Democratic Sen. Richard Durbin in 1996. Salvi, now a private attorney in Illinois, did not return a call seeking comment.


http://quickstart.clari.net/qs_se/webnews/wed/ce/Uus-santorum.RDvb_DSA.html

[Eric J in MN]

13. thanks, that's the type of stuff I'm looking for (nt)

nt

[0007]

7. Ron Coleman is one of the biggest nitwit senators Minnesota

has ever had. There are so many negative issues with Coleman where would one start?

How do the folks in a transitionally Democratic state feel about have another monkey man on the senate floor.

[Eric J in MN]

14. His name is Norm Coleman (nt)

nt

[Triple H]

21. lol

[0007]

23. Your right. Sorry

[Scairp]

8. Chambliss is a slime

He attacked Max Cleland, a triple amputee from the Vietnam conflict, for not being patriotic and also compared him to bin Laden and Saddam. And it won him the election.

[rumguy]

9. All are cowards, but several I have a personal hatred towards

Whatever the case, they are all pushing a bizarro religious agenda on us...leading us down the path to a Christian/corporate tyranny.

Where's Brownback?

[Eric J in MN]

15. Sen Sam Brownback (KS) is the sponsor. I should have listed him, too. nt

nt

[dj_bonzai]

10. They all have one thing in common

Its all about getting the support of the people. They have to act like they live in a decent way, when we all know that once they're not being watched, they're out doing all those things that they say are "indecent". It makes me sick. Shouldn't it be that in the country with the most "freedom" in the world, you should be able to say or do whatever you want on air. I mean if you look at normal European t.v, radio, etc, it would be considered horribly "indecent" here. But its normal there, and theres nothing "indecent" about it. It just seems to me that this government is moving closer to Soviet Russia then it is to actual freedom.

[TXDemGal]

11. This isn't really negative

but Lindsey Graham is rumored to be gay and living with a male "roommate."

[rumguy]

12. Lindsay Graham is wierd - he seems like one of those

repressed fundy types that is actually a total rake...

[PA Democrat]

17. Another example of Santorum's hypocrisy- tort reform

As a United States Senator, Rick Santorum has repeatedly supported limits on consumers' rights to seek compensation in the courts. In 1994, Santorum sponsored the Comprehensive Family Health Access and Savings Act that would have capped non-economic damages at $250,000. In a 1995 floor speech supporting damages caps, Santorum said, "We have a much too costly legal system. It is one that makes us uncompetitive and inefficient, and one that is not fair to society as a whole. While we may have people, individuals, who hit the jackpot and win the lottery in some cases, that is not exactly what our legal system should be designed to do."

But the same rhetoric does not seem to apply to Senator Santorum. In December 1999 Santorum supported his wife’s medical malpractice lawsuit against her chiropractor for $500,000. At trial, the Senator testified that his wife should be compensated for the pain and suffering caused by a botched spine adjustment, claiming that she had to "treat her back gingerly" and could no longer accompany him on the campaign trail. After the verdict, Santorum refused to answer phone calls asking what impact the case had on his views of "tort reform." According to his spokesman Robert Traynham, "Senator Santorum is of the belief that the verdict decided upon by the jury during last week’s court case of his wife is strictly a private matter. The legislative positions that Senator Santorum has taken on tort reform and health care have been consistent with the case involving Mrs. Santorum." In January 2000, a judge set aside the $350,000 verdict, deeming it excessive, and offered a reduced award of $175,000 or a new trial on damages only.

http://civilliberty.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tompaine.com%2Ffeature2.cfm%2FID%2F4286

[Eric J in MN]

19. thanks (nt)

nt

[rumguy]

20. my god that is too funny

Hypocrites!

[PA Democrat]

22. Santorum is the king of hypocrites

He voted against increasing Pell Grants, but he himself used Pell Grants to finance his own college education.

He criticized Harris Wofford, his opponent in the 1994 Senate race for not living in PA, and now Santorum does not live in PA.

Santorum's a real piece of work, and a vain SOB to boot. A friend had lunch with him in the Senate dining room and reported that Santorum kept looking at himself in a mirror, preening.

He has also bragged that his 6 home schooled children are SO much better behaved than the kids who attend public schools.

I have to go vomit now.:puke:

[Eric J in MN]

24. kick

kick

[rumguy]

26. When does it come before the Senate?

Any idea how our Senators are expected to vote on it? Kerry?