Facebook: Florida House Rep. Rick Kriseman calls Jewish U.S. Senate candidate Adam Hasner's Hitler email reference "mindless"

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From the Facebook page of Rick Kriseman, Florida House of Representatives, District 53 (July 7, 2011):

"My fmr. colleague Adam Hasner, a candidate for U.S. Senate, compared our current gov't to Hitler’s Reich in an email to his supporters. Aside from being a ridiculous, offensive comparison, I’m pretty sure Adam, who is Jewish, wouldn’t even be running for office if our gov't was anything like Nazi Germany. This mindless hyperbole is better suited for Fox News or talk radio, not a senate race. It’s just disgusting."

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Miller security guards handcuff editor (Anchorage Daily News)

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By RICHARD MAUER
rmauer@adn.com

October 18th

The editor of the Alaska Dispatch website was arrested by U.S. Senate candidate Joe Miller's private security guards Sunday as the editor attempted to interview Miller at the end of a public event in an Anchorage school.

Tony Hopfinger was handcuffed by the guards and detained in a hallway at Central Middle School until Anchorage police came and told the guards to release Hopfinger.

Hopfinger has not been charged but the owner of the Drop Zone, the private security firm that's been providing Miller's security, accused Hopfinger of trespassing at the public event, a town hall sponsored by the Miller campaign. The owner, William Fulton, also said Hopfinger assaulted a man by shoving him.

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Linda McMahon Employs Wrestler As Door-Knocker (SportsGrid.com)

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October 2nd, 2010

Linda McMahon, Republican candidate for US Senate in Connecticut and CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment, has employed her son-in-law and former WWE champ Triple H (real name: Paul Levesque) to knock on doors/scare the hell out of voters.

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VIDEO: Christine O'Donnell VS. Al Franken In 1997: Sex, Condoms And Hypocrisy (TalkingPointsMemo.com)

Image via WikipediaBy Rachel Slajda
September 19, 2010

During one of her many appearances on Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher in the '90s, Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell (R-DE) sparred with now-Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) over sex, condoms and hypocrisy.

The first topic: A provision in then-President Bill Clinton's welfare reform bill that would fund sex ed, but only if the curriculum taught that extra-marital sex "will have harmful physical and psychological effects."

O'Donnell, who in May 1997 was the director of pro-abstinence SALT, argues that abstinence-only education was the only way to protect kids from HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases, because "condoms don't work. Condoms fail."

Franken responds, "I think hypocrisy will have harmful psychological and physical effects. Don't you?"

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A top economic adviser to Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) quit his position after he was caught attempting to bring marijuana into his Senate office building.

The aide, Marcus Stanley, was stopped by Capitol Hill Police at an entrance to the Hart Senate building on Tuesday when officers found him with "a green, leafy substance which tested positive for marijuana,'' a spokeswoman told The Wall Street Journal.

Stanley faces a misdemeanor charge of marijuana possession. Boxer Spokesman Zachary Coile said Stanley submitted his resignation "because his actions yesterday were wrong and unacceptable."

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Greene indicted on porn charge (Politico)

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South Carolina Democratic Senate nominee Alvin Greene was indicted Friday on felony charges of showing pornography to a college student.

Greene, an unemployed 32-year-old military veteran, had refused to discuss the charges, which surfaced after he was the surprise winner of the state’s June Democratic primary over better-known Charleston City Councilman Vic Rawl.

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Published: August 10, 2010

 

Here’s a story that's burning up media tubes in D.C.

 

On Monday, GQ published a report about Republican Rand Paul, who is running for Kentucky's open U.S. Senate seat. In it, GQ claims that, in 1983, Paul – then a student at Baylor University – and a classmate once kidnapped a woman and tried to force her to take bong hits.

According to this woman, who requested anonymity because of her current job as a clinical psychologist, "He and Randy came to my house, they knocked on my door, and then they blindfolded me, tied me up, and put me in their car. They took me to their apartment and tried to force me to take bong hits. They'd been smoking pot." After the woman refused to smoke with them, Paul and his friend put her back in their car and drove to the countryside outside of Waco, where they stopped near a creek. "They told me their god was 'Aqua Buddha' and that I needed to bow down and worship him," the woman recalls. "They blindfolded me and made me bow down to 'Aqua Buddha' in the creek. I had to say, 'I worship you Aqua Buddha, I worship you.' At Baylor, there were people actively going around trying to save you and we had to go to chapel, so worshiping idols was a big no-no."
 

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