Official Christine O'Donnell

[thoughtone]

This is one arrogant bitch!

source: cbs

Watchdog: Christine O'Donnell "Clearly a Criminal"


Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, or CREW, today filed a pair of complaints concerning Delaware Republican Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell's use of more than $20,000 in campaign funds for personal expenses.

"Christine O'Donnell is clearly a criminal, and like any crook she should be prosecuted," CREW Executive Director Melanie Sloan said in a release. "Ms. O'Donnell has spent years embezzling money from her campaign to cover her personal expenses. Republicans and Democrats don't agree on much these days, but both sides should agree on one point: thieves belong in jail not the United States Senate."

CREW is requesting that the U.S. Attorney's office in Delaware open a criminal investigation and asking the Federal Election Commission to audit O'Donnell's campaign expenses.

The group said its allegations are tied to former O'Donnell aide David Keegan's affidavit stating O'Donnell, who has run for Senate three times, paid her rent for two months out of campaign funds in 2009 and also used campaign funds for meals and gas. In addition to misappropriation of campaign funds, CREW argues that O'Donnell is guilty of lying about the expenditures and committed tax evasion by not reporting the money as income.

Representatives for O'Donnell, whose financial disclosure form said her earned income between March 2009 and June 2010 was just $5,800, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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At the Values Voter Summit Friday, O'Donnell said it was worth running for office despite the fact that people "smear our background and distort our record" and "lie about us, harass our families, name call and try to intimidate us."

O'Donnell has faced a variety of criticisms over her personal finances, some of which she responded to on her website. (The alleged campaign finance violations are not among the issues addressed.)

On CBS' "The Early Show" last week, she said, "of course in this economy I've fallen on hard times. But I worked hard. I sacrificed. I made the decision that I needed to make things right."

CREW's Sloan said on CNN in advance of the release of the complaint that it's decision to target O'Donnell was not grounded in partisan politics, noting that her organization had called for Democratic Rep. Charles Rangel to resign over ethics violations. (She also discussed the complaint on CBS News, at left.)

"We're about right and wrong and not about black or white, Republican or Democrat," she said. "And it is flat-out wrong for a candidate for the U.S. Senate to be stealing her campaign funds and be using them for personal use."

In an Election Day robocall on behalf of O'Donnell primary opponent Rep. Mike Castle, O'Donnell's 2008 Senate campaign manager Kristin Murray said, "As O'Donnell's manager, I found out that she was living on campaign donations -- using them for rent and personal expenses, while leaving her workers unpaid and piling up thousands in debt."


"She wasn't concerned about conservative causes. O'Donnell just wanted to make a buck," Murray added.

 

[Megazell]

ANOTHER College Denies Christine O'Donnell Attended Despite Her Claim

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/29/christine-odonnell-claremont_n_743130.html

Another university is bringing Christine O'Donnell's self-professed education history into question Wednesday, as Claremont Graduate University, a school that the Delaware Senate candidate claims she attended, has told Talking Points Memo that they have no record of her being there.

"Claremont Graduate University has no student or education record for an individual named Christine O'Donnell," Rod Leveque, a spokesman for Claremont told TPM Tuesday, despite O'Donnell's inclusion of the school on her LinkedIn education history.

A similar response had been given earlier to blogger and radio producer Gary Scott, who thought to inquire based on the news that O'Donnell had not even officially received her undergraduate degree from Farleigh Dickinson University until earlier this month.

TPM did a little digging and found that her campaign site might give a more accurate depiction of her involvement with a conservative think tank called the Claremont Institute, which has no relationship to the Claremont Graduate University that she has filed under the education section of her LinkedIn profile.

A search of the website finds that O'Donnell did receive a Lincoln Fellowship from the Institute in 2002, though her inclusion of the word "graduate" seems to raise a few questions, as it goes unmentioned on the award's description.

On Tuesday, Greg Sargent of the Washington Post reported that O'Donnell had also filed "University of Oxford" on the education section of her LinkedIn profile, when the true nature of her tenure there appears to be as a student of a Phoenix Institute course that had simply rented out space at the school.

These two new discrepancies also come in the wake of an earlier controversy surrounding O'Donnell's relationship with a former employer, the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, and her taking of courses at Princeton University. O'Donnell ended up suing ISI for $150,000, claiming lost "earning power" due to the fact that they had not given her ample time to complete coursework at the university. At the time she had only audited one undergraduate class.

UPDATE:

The O'Donnell campaign follows up with Sargent about the Oxford dispute, denying that the Senate candidate had anything to do with the information posted on the LinkedIn profile bearing her name. Here's how they responded:

"There have been reports that I have released false information on a LinkedIn profile under my name. This is categorically untrue. I never established a LinkedIn profile, or authorized anyone to do so on my behalf. I have always been clear about my educational background. I completed undergraduate work at Fairleigh Dickenson University. After my undergraduate work, I completed a summer program run by the Phoenix Institute, at the Institute's Oxford University location. The Institute runs programs around the world at various universities, and participants study issues of human dignity. I also completed a Lincoln Fellowship at the Claremont Institute in Claremont, CA. We would encourage LinkedIn to remove this profile."
Sargent expresses skepticism, saying that his prior reporting should have provided sufficient opportunity for the O'Donnell campaign to make this new claim before he published the original story:

As the person who first reported yesterday on the Oxford claim on O'Donnell's LinkedIn profile, let me be clear: I asked O'Donnell's spokesperson, Diane Banister, for comment on the profile's Oxford claim last Friday. Banister never once claimed the profile wasn't put up by O'Donnell. Indeed, in response to my inquiry, Banister justified the claim on the LinkedIn profile by pointing to O'Donnell's stint at Phoenix University.

Nor did O'Donnell's spox dispute that the LinkedIn profile was hers when I again emailed her on Monday to let her know I was close to publishing. And, needless to say, O'Donnell hadn't taken any steps before today to get the profile taken down, though it's possible she didn't know about it.

Megazell's Comment - I wonder if LinkedIn will allow access to their records to get the IP, date and time of that profile's creation?

 

[QueEx]

Re: ANOTHER College Denies Christine O'Donnell Attended Despite Her Claim

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Christine O'Donnell uses TV ad to tell Americans:
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Republican candidate Christine O'Donnell tries to reassure
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By Ed Pilkington
in New York guardian.co.uk
Tuesday 5 October 2010


What do you do if you've won a sensational victory in a Republican primary, unseating the establishment favourite, but the media just won't let go of past indiscretions such as your youthful dabbling in witchcraft and belief that masturbation is a form of adultery?

Well, if you're Christine O'Donnell, you turn to an advertising guru called Fred Davis, a veteran of many past Republican races, and you get him to make you a 30-second TV advert. The new slot has O'Donnell speaking to camera with a large, homely smile on her face.

"I'm not a witch," she says, which as an opening line to a political advert is pretty grabby. "I'm nothing you've heard. I'm you."

A tinkling piano plays in the background and the lighting is soft and welcoming. It has the feel of one of those washing-up liquid ads from the 1970s.

It ends with a repeat of the line that looks set to become O'Donnell's mantra as she fights Democratic candidate Chris Coons for a Delaware senate seat on 2 November: "I'm you." All very cuddly for Davis, whose last big political ad was for John McCain in the 2008 presidential race. It labelled Barack Obama the "biggest celebrity in the world" over footage of Paris Hilton and Britney Spears.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/oct/05/christine-odonnell-witch-tv-ad

 

[thoughtone]

That ought to get her a couple of votes!

 

[QueEx]

Re: ANOTHER College Denies Christine O'Donnell Attended Despite Her Claim

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<font size="5"><center>Christine O’Donnell running because of 'God'</font size></center>

p o l i t i c o
By ANDY BARR
October 25, 2010


Delaware Republican Christine O’Donnell says “God is the reason” she’s running for the Senate.

“If I didn’t believe that there were a cause greater than myself worth fighting for, if I didn’t believe that it takes a complete dying of self to make things right in this election cycle, I would not be running,” O’Donnell said in an interview with the Christian Broadcast Network released Monday.

“God is the reason that I’m running,” she said.

O’Donnell says she believes prayer “plays a direct role in the campaign,” claiming a bump in the polls the day some of her supporters “had a prayer meeting for me.”

“I always ask, ‘Please pray for the campaign,’ ” she said. “ ‘Please pray specifically that the eyes of the voters be opened.’ ”

Throughout her campaign, O’Donnell said, she has prayed that God will allow her to win and serve as his voice in Congress.

“God, you gave me this desire,” she said. “You gave me this desire of my heart to serve the people of Delaware to go in there and be your voice in Congress.”


http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1010/44114.html

 

[Shurnuff]

Bill of rights song .The Schooling for Christine O'Donnell





Bill of rights song (good version)



Bill of Rights Rap!

 

[actinanass]

Isn't she suppose to lose in a landslide? Yet, she gets her own thread?

Scared are we?

 

[QueEx]

Isn't she suppose to lose in a landslide? Yet, she gets her own thread?

Scared are we?

Yep. Scared that the ignorant might find a way to propel the ignorant to victory in spite of their, ignorance. Which side are you on ???

QueEx

 

[QueEx]

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O'Donnell faces federal investigation</font size></center>

Christine O'Donnell's campaign said the FEC complaint is politically motivated. | AP Photo



P o l ii t ii c o
By DAVID CATANESE
December 29, 2010


A top Delaware Republican confirms to POLITICO that former Republican Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell is under federal investigation for misusing campaign funds.

The Associated Press first reported Wednesday that O’Donnell was the target of a federal criminal probe, quoting an anonymous source.


A spokeswoman with the U.S. Attorney’s office in Delaware did not immediately return a call for comment, but a top Republican in Delaware said he was aware of the investigation, which likely centers around a <SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff00">complaint</span> which was <SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff00">sparked by a Washington-based watchdog group</span> and <SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff00">supported by top GOP officials in the state</span>.

“I was told by the state party chair that the complaint he filed was alive and under investigation after the election,” said the GOP source.

The Washington-based watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission alleging O’Donnell used campaign contributions to pay her own personal expenses. Several of O’Donnell’s former campaign workers have charged that the tea party favorite used donations to pay expenses, including rent for her home, which the candidate argued had doubled as a campaign headquarters.

After she upended Rep. Mike Castle in the GOP primary in September, several former aides portrayed O’Donnell as an irresponsible manager of her campaign’s money.

David Keegan, who served as O’Donnell’s chief financial officer during her 2008 bid, said he warned all campaign vendors to not take any orders from her unless they received cash up front.

Former O’Donnell campaign manager Kristin Murray recorded a robocall for the state Republican Party on the eve of the GOP primary saying that O’Donnell used donations for “rent and personal expenses, leaving her workers unpaid and piling up thousands in debt.”

O’Donnell’s campaign has denied any wrongdoing and a spokesperson told ABC News he had not heard of any investigation until the AP story.


<font size="4">O'Donnell Blames Soros</font size>

"The anonymous source seems politically-motivated and may well be tied to the ultra-liberal, George Soros-financed, former Sen. Biden staffer-run CREW [Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington] complaint," said O’Donnell spokesman Matt Moran.

Moran did not return an e-mail and phone call from POLITICO.



http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1210/46895.html

 

[thoughtone]

Does a republican ever take responsibility for there own actions?

source: Huffington Post

Christine O'Donnell: 'Thug' Tactics Responsible For Campaign Finance Accusations


WASHINGTON — Failed U.S. Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell said Thursday that accusations she misspent campaign funds are politically motivated and stoked by disgruntled former campaign workers.

The Delaware Republican appeared on several network morning shows to defend herself a day after The Associated Press reported federal authorities have launched a criminal probe to determine whether she broke the law by using campaign money to pay personal expenses.

"There's been no impermissible use of campaign funds whatsoever," O'Donnell told ABC's "Good Morning America."

O'Donnell, the tea party favorite who scored a surprise primary victory before losing in the general election, suggested the accusations are driven by political establishments on the right and left, including Joe Biden. He represented Delaware in the Senate for decades before he became vice president.

"You have to look at this whole thug-politic tactic for what it is," she said Thursday.

O'Donnell said she found it suspicious that she, her campaign staff and her lawyer have not been informed of a federal investigation.

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A person familiar with the investigation confirmed it to The AP, speaking on condition of anonymity to protect the identity of a client who has been questioned as part of the probe. The case, which has been assigned to two federal prosecutors and two FBI agents in Delaware, has not been brought before a grand jury.

O'Donnell, who set a state record by raising more than $7.3 million in a tea party-fueled campaign this year, has been dogged by questions about her personal and campaign finances.

At least two former campaign workers have alleged that she routinely used political contributions to pay personal expenses including her rent as she ran for the Senate. She has run three consecutive times, starting in 2006.

O'Donnell has acknowledged paying part of her rent with campaign money, arguing that her house doubled as a campaign headquarters.

On Thursday, she told NBC's "Today Show" that people making the spending allegations include a fired former staff member and a former volunteer, both of whom she described as disgruntled. She says many other workers who spent longer with her campaigns have defended her.

Her contention that the accusations were politically motivated echoed a written statement she released the day before, which singled out Biden.

"Given that the king of the Delaware political establishment just so happens to be the vice president of the most liberal presidential administration in U.S. history, it is no surprise that misuse and abuse of the FBI would not be off the table," she said.

The vice president's office declined to comment.

O'Donnell's campaign also has criticized the nonpartisan watchdog group, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, which filed a complaint about O'Donnell's campaign spending this fall and asked Delaware's federal prosecutor to investigate.

O'Donnell says the group is part of a liberal effort to kill her career, noting that the organization is run by Washington attorney Melanie Sloan, who worked under Biden as a lawyer for the Senate Judiciary Committee in the early 1990s.

Sloan dismissed the criticism Thursday, emphasizing that the allegations originated with conservatives who worked for O'Donnell.

"I don't see how anybody can say that those people are part of the liberal machine," Sloan said. "What CREW did was look at what they were saying and say, 'Wait a minute, that's against the law.'"

The U.S. Attorney's office in Delaware has confirmed it is reviewing CREW's complaint. But officials in the office and the FBI declined to say whether a criminal investigation was under way.

Federal law prohibits candidates from spending campaign money for personal benefit. FEC rules state that this prohibition applies to the use of campaign money for a candidate's mortgage or rent "even if part of the residence is being used by the campaign," although O'Donnell's campaign has maintained that it was told otherwise by someone at the agency.

O'Donnell drew national attention in September when she upset U.S. Rep. Mike Castle for the GOP Senate nomination. She was handily defeated in November by Democrat Chris Coons following a campaign that focused largely on past controversial statements, including that she'd "dabbled into witchcraft" when she was young.

One former O'Donnell staffer, Kristin Murray, recorded an automated phone call for the Delaware Republican Party just before the primary, accusing O'Donnell of "living on campaign donations – using them for rent and personal expenses, while leaving her workers unpaid and piling up thousands in debt."

O'Donnell told NBC that Murray was fired from her 2008 campaign after less than two weeks because of incompetence.

Another former aide, David Keegan, said he became concerned about O'Donnell's 2008 campaign finances as she fell behind on bills and had no apparent source of income besides political contributions. He submitted an affidavit to CREW alleging that she used campaign money to cover meals, gas, a bowling outing and rent.

In a message sent last week to AP, Keegan said he had not been questioned as part of a criminal investigation, and that he considers himself only a "catalyst" in a case in which several people must be questioned to scrutinize O'Donnell's accounting practices and alleged misuse of campaign funds.

O'Donnell has run through numerous treasurers over her three campaigns, many of whom left abruptly after brief stints. At one point O'Donnell was acting as her own treasurer, and her current treasurer is former campaign manager Matt Moran.

O'Donnell, who announced just after Election Day that she had signed a book deal, hasn't held a full-time job in years and has struggled to explain how she makes a living.