Cross post from GD: Teabagger running against Betty Sutton in Ohio 13th Democratic Primary

[liberal N proud]

I just returned from a Democratic Candidates Forum conducted by our local Democratic Club.

Candidates were invited for all local, county wide and state wide offices.

Betty Sutton was unable to attend but sent a surrogate. She is being challenged in the primary by a DINO, this guy spoke and every thing he said screamed Tea Bagger.

He was for keeping the bu$h tax cuts and reducing tax money sent to the federal government. He spoke of repealing the health care legislation (Yes I did say it was a forum for Democratic Candidates).

He has two endorsing groups:
Buckeye Firearms Association
The Liberty Committee

Here is his web site if you care to look: http://wooden4congress.com/

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8145442

[Ikonoklast]

1. What a tool. He's about as much a Democrat as Dick Cheney is.

The Liberty Committee is happy to announce its endorsement of Justin Wooden for Congress (Ohio--13th District) in the Democrat primary against Betty Sutton. Justin is consistently pro-life and articulates a very passionate and well reasoned position for limited, de-centralized government. He is committed to an economy based on the individual's private property rights and entrepeneurial spirit--not government hand-outs. For more information about The Liberty Committee, a federally registered, non-partisan political action committee, please visit xxxxxxxxxxx.com.

Thank dog he has the same chance as Cheney does in getting elected for anything, much less unseating Betty Sutton.

[Sara Bradi]

2. he admits he is a Tea Partier on his website

http://wooden4congress.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=98:what-are-the-tea-parties&catid=35:issues&Itemid=53

What are the Tea Parties?

Much has happened over the last year since Rick Santelli, a CNBC Wall Street correspondent issued a call for a Tea Party to voice dissent with the government’s handling of the economic crisis and sub prime melt down.

How much of what has been said has been hype and how much has been truth?

First in the issue of transparency I must admit that I was a member of the tea party/912 movements and do still believe in the foundational principles that they were built on. Contrary to media accounts and “selective video and picture shots” these groups are pretty diverse. Also they are very peaceful. According to widely varying accounts there were anywhere from 700,000 to 2 million people at the march on Washington D.C. on 9/12/2009. There was not one arrest. All the litter from the event was picked up and placed around the trash cans. The D.C. police had never seen anything like it in their whole history. These groups are very respectful and orderly. The attempt by media to blame anything bad that happens on them has blown up in their face every time. Such as the man who committed suicide and framed it as a murder committed by tea partiers?...

He also cannot articulate very well, his huge paragraph or Tea Parties is unreadable and it ought to begin with, "Firstly, in the spirit of transparency..."

It is shameful that we have people running for congress that cannot write grammatically correct sentences.

[ladym55]

3. I'm more worried about Ganley in November

He has all the name recognition from his automotive group. He has $7 million OF HIS OWN MONEY in his war chest ... Apparently he's taking the money he made from Cash for Clunkers to take out the person who made it possible.

Betty Sutton is going to need lots of help and support this fall.

[Kolesar]

4. Whenever I think of car dealers, I think of that guy from the movie Fargo

who screwed his customer out of a few hundred dollars on the day the car was delivered.

[Sara Bradi]

5. you received some misinformation too

dear m...I think you have been misinformed on Ganley.

We have to separate the wheat from the chaff, the facts from the hype & rhetoric.

No doubt Ganley has that kind of money, but the question is whether he has actually transferred $7 mil to his campaign account. It is my understanding, that once transferred, you cannot reverse the transfer of your personal funds from your campaign account.

I don't see Tom Ganley making a $7 mil wager with his personal money unless he has the nomination and a 110% sure shot at beating Sutton. Right now, neither is certain.

As far as cash for clunkers goes, the real winners in that were consumers and auto manufacturing in Ohio & Michigan, and Toyota.

Dealers made a ton of sales, but not big profits.

Auto dealers were having a terrible year, Cash-4-Clunkers made it a tolerable year.

I am so proud of Betty for sponsoring that bill.

[ladym55]

6. The info I posted came from a Sutton staffer

I guess I didn't think to question it. I was at a meeting of local Dems this past week attended by two of Sutton's people. What I posted was what they told us. A little campaign hyperbole to get everyone active in the campaign perhaps???

[Sara Bradi]

7. in fairness to the staffers

Ganley's dealerships did benefit to some degree from Sutton's effort, several dealership employees did not lose their jobs because of cash for clunkers.

But it would be a stretch to say he made huge profits from it.