Katherine Harris to stump with president after all, in Orlando on 9/21

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Harris to stump with president after all

By Larry Lipman
Palm Beach Post Washington Bureau

Wednesday, September 20, 2006

WASHINGTON — On Tuesday morning, it looked like U.S. Rep. Katherine Harris was going to miss Thursday's rally in Orlando with President Bush and Republican gubernatorial nominee Charlie Crist.

Harris' schedule showed her participating in votes in Washington on Thursday for a series of House votes on immigration bills and then attending a River City Republican Club function in Atlantic Beach, near Jacksonville, around the same time as the evening rally.

That prompted reporters at the Florida Cabinet meeting in Tallahassee to ask Crist and Gov. Jeb Bush about why Harris wasn't going to be there.

"We all need to choose where we can be the most efficient," Crist said.

Gov. Bush said: "I think she should attend. She's the party nominee for the United States Senate."

Both denied there had been any effort by Republican leaders to keep Harris away from the event.

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And later in this article, it states that Harris has now been "invited" to the */Crist money shakedown in Orlando tomorrow.

Well, now.



This is what we were told on September 18, merely two days ago:

GOP leaves Harris to fend for herself

In fact, her victory in the Senate primary wasn't mentioned by the RNC or the National Republican Senatorial Committee.

Though that may seem like an oversight, there are few accidents in politics.

"When someone is left out, it's almost always done intentionally," said Todd Harris, a GOP consultant who was part of Jeb Bush's 2002 re-election campaign. "If nobody's standing next to you, they're saying they don't want to be associated with you."

For months, Republican leaders have treated Harris like the relative no one wants to talk about.

First, they tried to find someone to run against her. Then, Gov. Jeb Bush said he didn't think the Longboat Key congresswoman could defeat Nelson. This month, after Harris beat three unknowns in the primary, she was not invited to the Republican "Unity Tour," a statewide victory lap that featured virtually every prominent GOP candidate in Florida.

After the Unity Tour, she smiled through a barrage of awkward questions saying she took no offense at being left off the guest list. She wasn't worried, she said, because she had her own trip planned, one featuring the state's most powerful Republican.

"We'll have our own Unity Tour," Harris said while campaigning in Orlando. "We will be traveling with the governor."

That was news to the state party and Bush.

GOP officials said there was no such agreement, and the governor's chief political spokeswoman said she didn't know what Harris was talking about.

"They're not going anywhere near her," said University of Virginia political analyst Larry Sabato. "She's radioactive."

Former Harris campaign manager Jim Dornan said Harris has become a liability for the GOP. Virtually no one thinks she can win, he said, and many worry she may hurt the Republican ticket by bringing out Democrats eager to vote against her. For that reason, he said, GOP leaders are trying to marginalize her.

"My understanding is they're not going to give her a dime," said Dornan, a veteran Republican consultant based in Washington.

Looks like our little lady is on the warpath, lol. Those 2 brothers better watch it.

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. I love that she has come back to haunt them

[Sequoia]

2. Ha, ha, me too!

Poor Twiddle Dee and Twiddle Dum....looks like Alice upped the anti on this one! Poetic justic to be sure...how unmanly to be upstaged by a woman. Heh, heh, heh.

[K8-EEE]

3. Oooh Let's Get Lots Of Bush/Harris Pix

Creepy, stupid lunatics unite!! Make every GOP candidate voice their support for all these wackos.

[waiting for hope]

4. Do you think that when it

finally sinks into her small pea size brain that she's considered a loser by BushCo that she may spill the beans about the 2000 election? Or, is that brain so small and shriveled, so much so that a turn around on conscious couldn't even possibly occur?

[Sal Minella]

5. She'll be found suicided in her bathtub before she realizes her conscience

has begun to turn.....

[flordehinojos]

6. "harris to stump with president after all"

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