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Earlier, I wrote about how Steny Hoyer tried to give cover to Mark Udall for skipping the vote on the adjournment resolution in the House. Earlier, I had also argued that the whole #dontGo thing — before it was a thing — was a major strategic victory for the Congressional Republicans.

Well, the hammer is beginning to fall on Udall — and hopefully others.

Today, Freedom’s Watch dropped a web video and a robocall. First the video:

The robocall script is after the jump.

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Hello, I’m calling from Freedom’s Watch with a Mark Udall vacation update.

Last week, Mark Udall promised to vote to keep Congress from going on vacation without passing a bill to lower gas prices.

Two days later, he broke that promise. 

Congress voted to go on vacation without passing an energy bill.

And Mark Udall?

He was too busy hobnobbing it with his campaign fundraisers to even show up for the vote. 

Now Congress is on a five-week vacation, and we’re still paying an arm-and-a-leg for gas.

Call Mark Udall at (303) 650 7820 and tell him we expect him to stay on the job and fight for lower gas prices and energy independence… 

…Just like he promised he would. 

Paid for by Freedom’s Watch.  (202) 379 3742.

Publishes lies. Mosk and editors should resign

Matthew Mosk writes
a front page story in the Washington Post based on demonstrably
false facts. This is a firing offense. Amanda
Carpenter over at Townhall has the story.

Mosk wrote:

The bundle of $2,300 and $4,600 checks that poured into
Sen. John McCain’s presidential campaign on March 12 came
from an unlikely group of California donors: a mechanic from
D&D Auto Repair in Whittier, the manager of Rite Aid Pharmacy
No. 5727, the 30-something owners of the Twilight Hookah Lounge in
Fullerton.

The catch is that 3 out of those 4 people did not donate to
McCain. As Amanda notes:

The donation record for Rite Aid General Manager
Ibrahim Marabeh, who gave to Hillary Clinton and Rudy Giuliani in
2007 and … the donation record for a man and a woman with the
last name Abdalla who both manage a Twilight Lounge. But Twilight
Lounge managers Nadia Abdalla and Hisham Abdalla gave money to
Clinton and Giuliani, too.

This is a front-page story. You would think that (1) Mosk would
check his facts and (2) his editors would recheck facts on a
front-page story.

These guys need to go. These aren’t journalists. These aren’t
even advocates. They are just liars.

UPDATE: The Post says:

The first name of McCain donor Faisal Abdullah was
misspelled in some versions of this story, including in the print
edition of The Washington Post. Also, the article incorrectly
identified a Rite Aide manager and two Twilight Hookah Lounge
owners as being among the donors Sargeant solicited on behalf of
McCain. Those donors – Rite Aid manager Ibrahim Marabeh, and the
lounge owners, Nadia and Shawn Abdalla – wrote checks to Giuliani
and Clinton, not McCain.

Note that this was a front-page story with names and dates and a
picture of John McCain. And all of the operative facts were
completely false. This is inexcusable.

This is a public service announcement.

Did you register to vote recently near Albuquerque? If so, you might have given your Social Security number, indeed all the information necessary to commit identity theft, to a child rapist. In particular, this guy.

You see, New Mexico ACORN hired this guy, along with a bunch of other criminals to register voters. In New Mexico, according to the Bernallilo County Clerk, where this happened, this is the infromation needed:

Name, gender, birth date, social security number, residence address, mailing address (if different from your residence) party affiliation, telephone number (optional), date and signature.  

Would you trust this information with a child rapist or any other kind of felon? No.

Then why does ACORN pay them? What the story on the evening news last night:

Note that one of these guys has actually been convicted on two counts of credit card fraud. Shouldn’t there be some sort of background check for people who are paid to collect this information?

H/T to Election Journal.

What about a convicted identity thief?

This is a public service announcement.

Did
you register to vote recently near Albuquerque? If so, you might
have given your Social Security number, indeed all the information
necessary to commit identity theft, to a child rapist. In
particular, this guy.

You see, New Mexico ACORN hired this guy, along with a bunch of
other criminals to register voters. In New Mexico, according to the

Bernallilo County Clerk, where this happened, this is the
infromation needed:

Name, gender, birth date, social security number, residence
address, mailing address (if different from your residence) party
affiliation, telephone number (optional), date and
signature.  

Would you trust this information with a child rapist or any
other kind of felon? No.

Then why does ACORN pay them? What the story on the evening news
last night:

Note that one of these guys has actually been convicted on two
counts of credit card fraud. Shouldn’t there be some sort of
background check for people who are paid to collect this
information?

H/T to
Election Journal.

Cross-posted from,
The Next Right

For your Kansas results, I recommend the Secretary of State’s site. With 373/819 in, Jenkins is up by 4%, Topeka is not in.

In Missouri, I recommend the Secretary of State’s office also. In MO-09, it looks like Luetkemeyer won going away. It looks like the Governor’s office primary is closer, but it looks like Kenny Hulshof is pulling it off.

In Michigan, it is not as easy. In the MI-07 primary, State Sen. Mark Schauer, the DCCC’s recruit, won the primary. In MI-13, it looks like Kilpatrick will survive, but be a squeaker. FreeP has the details.

What else?

UPDATE at 11:52EST:

MO-GOV has been called for Kenny Hulshof. Congrats to Congressman Hulshof.

KS-02 is looking very close, but currently with 644/819 in, Jenkins is up over Ryun by 2000. Don’t know which precincts and/or counties are not in yet.

Did he learn nothing from Germany?

Kudos to
Newsbusters for tracking this down.

John McCain and Barack Obama have been invited to participate in

a townhall with the active duty military and their families on
August 11. According to the organizers, only McCain has agreed to
attend. What’s Obama’s excuse? Scheduling conflict:

Obama campaign spokeswoman Shannon Gilson said that while the
senator has a scheduling conflict on Aug. 11, he “strongly
supports” veterans and military families, and he has worked hard on
their behalf in the Senate.

What’s he doing?
Vacation in Hawaii August 8-15, with an “astounding”
fundraiser on the 12th which is supposed to raise $500,000.

Did he learn nothing in Germany? Could he send a clearer signal
to the troops about what he thinks about them?

There are primaries today in Kansas, Missouri, and MIchigan. Election Journal will be on the scene in Michigan and Missouri to find election irregularities.

The key primaries, to my mind, are:

• KS-02: Former Congressman and conservative Jim Ryun faces State Treasurer Lynn Jenkins, a moderate. Ryun lost in 2006 and, while most conservative groups are supporting him very aggressively against Jenkins, there are concerns that he can’t win a general election.
• MO-09. Kenny Hulshof is running for Governor and so Bob Onder and Blaine Luetkemeyer. The primary has focused on immigration. MO RTL has endorsed Luetkemeyer even though Onder was a leader in the cloning debate, and Onder has been endorsed by the Club for Growth.
• MO-GOV. Kenny Hulshof is in a primary against Michelle Steeleman. Ruffini has taken a position on this.
• MI-07. The question here is how well the DCCC’s candidate Mark Schauer does against 2004 and 2006 nominee Sharon Reiner, an organic farmer. Republicans in the district and around Michigan tell me that Schauer can beat Rep. Tim Walhberg (R).
• MI-13. Rep. Carolyn Kilpatrick (D) is in a 3-way primary. Her son is the mayor of Detroit who is facing perjury charges for lying in testimony about an affair that he was having and that he had used city tax-dollars to pay a settlement with a whistle-blower over. In addition, Kilpatrick and her son endorsed Hillary Clinton, which is undoubtedly a good issue on the ground.

I assume that there are good primaries at the state level. Please share in the comments.