Campaign says Harris won't turn to her $10 mil inheritance after all...

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

Campaign says Harris won't turn to inheritance
The Senate candidate has said for more than a week that she will use the money from her late father.

Jim Stratton | Sentinel Staff Writer
Posted March 25, 2006

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/orl-harrismoney2506mar25,0,6705253.story

In an effort to jump-start her sputtering Senate campaign, Rep. Katherine Harris went on national television invoking the memory of her late father and saying the money he left her will form the financial foundation of her challenge to Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson.

Now the Harris campaign says that's not the case. Campaign spokeswoman Morgan Dobbs said Thursday that Harris will sell her existing assets rather than rely on money from her father, a bank executive who died in January.

"It is my understanding from her statements that she does not plan to use inherited money on the campaign -- rather, money from liquidating her personal assets, which she says total $10 million," Dobbs wrote in an e-mail to the Orlando Sentinel.

"I think I am being pretty clear." However, Dobbs' explanation is at odds with the message Harris has been delivering for more than a week.

[Roland99]

1. What personal assets does she have that's worth $10 million?

Those silicon blobs on her chest ain't worth that much, surely.


Maybe it's her take from helping out in 2000.

[spindrifter]

3. She inherited a lot of money from her father

in January. She also has a house worth $7 or $800,000. Much of the value is appreciation since she bought it.

[Roland99]

4. The article says she's not using the inheritance but, rather, personal $$$

[spindrifter]

5. Maybe she's selling the house.

[Roland99]

6. Where's the other $9.2 million coming from then?

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

8. It's money from her father. From the Hannity interview (same link):

"I'm going to take his legacy that he gave to me, everything I have, and I'm going to put it in this race," she told Sean Hannity. "I'm going to commit my legacy from my father -- $10 million."

A moment later, Hannity asked, "This is money from your father?"

"Yes," replied Harris.

[Roland99]

10. But this statement in the article contradicts that

"It is my understanding from her statements that she does not plan to use inherited money on the campaign -- rather, money from liquidating her personal assets, which she says total $10 million," Dobbs wrote in an e-mail to the Orlando Sentinel.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

7. Yeah, but she's been talking about "daddy's money" non-stop...

...this has been her way of showing her heroism, her self-belief, her whatever. And it's not true.

[GRLMGC]

2. Aww

too bad :(

[meti57b]

9. Arnold didn't use his own money for his campaign, either.

(How can you tell when a republican is lying?)

[madaboutharry]

11. Can someone explain to me what she meant

when she started talking about "the widow's mite." Was this a wink to the christian right? I don't know what this means.

[Ino]

12. She thinks she's her father's widow!

n/t