Gerry Connolly Jumps the Shark
By Alan Moore | Thursday, October 7th, 2010 | PoliticsI thought back in June when Connolly launched a highly unsuccessful campaign against Keith Fimian on the 17th Amendment that he would have learned his lesson on such stupid political games. Unfortunately that was only the tip of the iceberg on this types of shenanigans. As the Fimian campaign astutely put it, you know its bad when even Ben over at Not Larry Sabato calls it “One of the Stupidest Political Ads I have ever seen.”
Seriously? So in June they attempt to paint Fimian as an extremist by flat out lying about what he said regarding the 17th Amendment. Now they are trying to make a major campaign issue out of a joke? If you’re a Democrat and/or a Connolly supporter you have to feel ashamed about this. This is beyond stupid, there needs to be a new word for stupid to describe this. Is Connolly so afraid that the people of the 11th district will kick him out of Congress because of his shameful record, that he’s resorting to basing his entire campaign on a joke? And how do Connolly donors feel about their money being used this way? This is the key to victory?
Internal polling must be looking pretty sad these days for Connolly…
Tim Edson from the Fimian campaign responded, “Congressman Connolly has opened his campaign for Congress with pure, flat-out deceit, proving that he lacks the basic character to be truthful with Northern Virginia, or to be trusted to serve us in Congress.”
Well said…
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11 Responses to "Gerry Connolly Jumps the Shark"
I hit them pretty hard on Twitter on this. I said, with all seriousness, any Congress that comes up with a balanced budget that begins the long road to paying down our debt DESERVES a $250k bonus. If they pass a balanced budget amendment, I’d gladly bump that up to $350k in a blink of an eye.
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The Connolly campaign is pathetic to pull a stunt like this. This nonsense of moving away from substantive, issues-oriented debate to pulling quotes out of context in order to play “gotcha” shows the desperation of a worthless candidate.
Besides, I agree with IWMPB – if a Congressman can balance the budget – better yet, create a surplus – have your bonus!
[...] Create Your Own Gerry Connolly Ad Contest D.J. Spiker | October 7, 2010 | Comments (0) After the pathetically bad ad recently aired by Gerry Connolly… [...]
Ignore the Fimian part – Connolly claims that he’s said no to tax increases. That’s BS. He voted for Obamacare which included a slew of tax increases, and he’s never voted at all on extending the Bush tax cuts.
I can’t believe he has the gall to call himself fiscally disciplined.
Connolly may have voted against Congressional pay raises, but he certainly voted himself, not one, but two raises as a member of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors. What this video underscores is that Gerald knows absolutely nothing about managing anything. Part of Fimian’s plan to improve the efficiency of federal employees is an incentive plan–apparently Gerald doesn’t understand that at all.
These ads are worse than stupid, they are fraudulent because they are based on distorted or false information. Mr. Connolly is a duplicitous sack of …….you fill in the blank. What despicable behavior. His fliers also pretend to scare women by saying his opponent’s agenda is abortion…. nothing could be further from the truth! Women in VA11th should be shaming him and exposing his blatant LIES.
Gerry Connolly is not fit to lead our noble Virginians. We need a person of integrity. We need Keith Fimian! I can see November from my house!!!
No deceit from Connolly.
The WaPo has updated its post on Connolly’s new ad showing Fimian calling for a $250,000 bonus for himself and Congress.
The updated version blows holes in Fimian’s claim that the comments were a “quip.”
It seems the WaPo was granted access to view a fuller version of the video clip, leading them to question whether Fimian’s statement was a quip or a policy statement.
Read for yourself:
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/virginiapolitics/2010/10/fimian_bonuses.html
[...] Fimian wants to talk about cutting spending and reducing our taxes and Gerry Connolly wants to focus on a joke. And while we’re at it, lets pick apart the defense of the Connolly strategy that I’m [...]
[...] First we had the outlandish attacks on Keith Fimian regarding the 17th amendment then about a joke he told. Next we see Connolly losing the fundraising battle BADLY. So bad in fact he’s resorted to [...]
The times – they are a changing.
I have lived in the 11th District for over two decades. It is a true delight to see the ever arrogant Gerry Connolly finally on his way out.
The 11th District has, like the rest of the nation, awoken and said “what have we done” and are getting ready to undo this mistake before it gets any worse.
The choice is simple – more of the same nightmare with Gerry (and have no doubt he promises more of the same) or a re-awkening of the American dream and a new begining with Keith Fimian.
11th district it is just a nightmare. It is time to wake up – time to end it. You can do it, but only if you vote on November 2nd.
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