Big bad Democrats continue mean attacks on poor little rich man's recreational spending

In contrast to local Democrats, who hush and take money from him, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has filed yet another complaint against Sheldon Adelson, or to be precise, Freedom's Watch, the wingnut warmongering propaganda arm generously financed by the bitchy little area megalomaniac.

The latest complaint charges that Freedom's Watch isn't reporting its spending on teevee ads it has run against Democratic congressional candidates in special elections in Louisiana (won by the Democrat) and Mississippi (election next week). The complaint follows earlier ones filed with the Federal Election Commission alleging that Freedom's Watch is coordinating advertising with the National Republican Congressional Committee in violation of federal election laws.

"Freedom’s Watch is operating as the cash-strapped NRCC’s de facto independent expenditure campaign," the DCCC said in a release Thursday. "Clearly, Freedom’s Watch thinks they are above the law," the DCCC added, insightfully drawing everyone's attention to one of the key delusions that so often accompanies megalomania.

For it's part, when it's not hiding behind Adelson's skirt, the NRCC is stuck in a jam. In a giant clam. Or, as Politico's Joe Bresnahan put it in a delightful lede to a story this week: "Shellshocked House Republicans got warnings from leaders past and present Tuesday: Your party’s message isn’t good enough to prevent disaster in November, and neither is the NRCC’s money."

More from that story:

...in a closed-door session at the Capitol, National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Tom Cole (R-Okla.) told members that the NRCC doesn’t have enough cash to "save them" in November if they don’t raise enough money or run strong campaigns themselves.

So War Party members o' Congress nationwide increasingly might be hoping our bitchy little area megalomaniac can "save" them.

But wait — "As the NRCC looks to Freedom’s Watch to save them," the DCCC said in its release Thursday, "the NRCC, Republican Members, and Republican candidates need to decide whether it’s worth it to return to the hay days of Republicans’ culture of corruption by being tied to a group that regularly breaks the law."

Yes, well, three points:

1. Republicans and "a group that regularly breaks the law" is a redundancy.

2. The DCCC's persistent reluctance to single out Adelson by name in its media assaults on Freedom's Watch is increasingly confounding, and one can only hope that omission will be rectified when the DCCC actually starts using some of its substantial cash advantage to discredit Freedom's Watch — and Adelson  — in teevee ads aired in districts where Adelson is throwing money around later this year. Some suggested language, in case the DCCC missed it the first time:  "What does the world's 12th richest man, a Las Vegas gambling kingpin who is building a casino empire in China, expect to get in return for helping elect (insert War Party candidate) to Congress? Will (insert War Party candidate) be good for (insert state), or good for Chinese casinos?"

3. It's "heydays," not "hay days."

Comments

[MikeZ]

Is that a centerpiece on his lapel?

I don't know why we don't run this guy's pix next to our candidates. We'd win every office.

FYI to all, Lawrence Weekly personally told me he returned all his Sheldon money, and now Tom Collins and esp Chris G's 40K have to go back immediately.

Both Chris and Tom are phonier than shit if they hold on to that blood money from Adelson. Chris G should be ashamed of herself, though we expect this kind of shit from Tom who will whore himself to anyone with a buck, we never thought Chris G would whore herself for 40K from Sheldon Adelson.

Constant relentless heat must be place on all Dems who take this man's money. You hurt every Democratic in every office by doing so.

[ban Zahara now!]

Zahara, you've been a pathetic and tedious self-promoter for a long time, but calling Commissioner Guinchiagliani a "whore" is something I thought was beneath even your lizard face.

[Yeah, Mike is all wet here...]

Chris G is certainly not a "whore." At $40,000 she is an extremely high-priced "escort."

[CollegeStudent]

Seriously, they wrote "hay days" instead of "heydays," I mean, its one thing to have bad grammar and typos in blog comment threads...

[MikeZ]

40K from Sheldon deserves our harshest scorn. It will follow her the rest of her political days, that's how bad it is. Many, many will see to that.

Give Weekly credit where it is due...he did the right thing, Chris G did not.

That you don't see a problem and insist on giving Chris G a pass indicates you are a Dem who looks away when its our own, but would be screaming if it were the GOP--soooo, you are a colassal phony.

Gotta hold our own accountable first.

Chris C has destroyed her reputation as a reformer by accepting that cash and yes, has whored herself to Sheldon Adelson, our arch enemy who spends millions against us. If you don't know that every opponent will bash her on this, you are naive.

The vile campaign she ran against Myrna Williams will come back to her in spades.

I guess that million dollar home at Mt Charleston is worth sacrificing your reputation, integrity and honor for.

[Dr. Phil]

Irony alert:
Zahara is assessing someone's reputation.

[KidFromVegas]

Mike, I've said it before, and now I'll say it again... you are a cancer in our party, and you need to be cut out. Your purist tirades are so extreme that any semblance of being reality based is lost. You act as if you and the Lord and savior to Nevada Democrats. You are the antithesis of everything Barack Obama stands for and your delusional approach to politics is repugnant.

[MikeZ]

If you don't see the damage she has done, then you are the cancer on the party; malignant cancer that is spreading. This kind of Chris G phoniness and duplicity is what Barack is running against.

Chris G is an HRC btw.

It's fine you have no political morals, scruples or principles, however, it is people like you that destroy our efforts by not having them.

Tell us why accepting 40K is OK with you. Of course you cannot, you just choose poison prose to defend your friend.

You're probably one of Gary's minions on these threads and regardless, Chris G took 40K from our sworn enemy who has spent millions against us. She didn't need the money, she had plenty.

You're turning the other way is the real cancer here. Do you have any idea the damage Adelson has done to our cnadidates and efforts?

To me, Chris is just another political hack from the NW side of Chicago. Her own conduct here has set that in stone.

Again, kudos to Weekly for doing the right thing. Scorn to Chris and Gary for stuffing their pockets with Adelson money.

[Ouch, somebody hits a nerve]

maybe that is 40K less to spend on wing-nut candidates & causes

nice one Kid

[Pops89103]

Michael is right. Barack Obama would never associate with Gary Gray or Chris G as they stand for everything he is campaigning against. Say and do anything to get elected is what Gray & 'spouse' are all about, not Senator Obama's kind of people.

Gray got bitch slapped severely with the SEIU vote at St Rose. SEIU is his biggest patron and the unions who hate Sheldon Adelson will continue to work against Chris G and Gary Gray. They both made fatal errors in the wicked campaign against Myrna and taking that 40,000 pieces of silver.

Just ask Harriet Trudell who is Myrna's friend how much she likes those two. That race was disgusting even by Las Vegas standards

Gray represents Clarence Tom Collins and his 'wife' Chris G. Coincidence they both took Venetian money?

Thanks Michael

[MikeZ]

I hadn't heard about the SEIU vote, but Pops hit it out of the park. SEIU and Gary Gray are one in the same and no, Obama would never, ever, ever associate, much less acknowledge those two corrupted persons. They will have zero role in the fall race, and no role in the Obama campaign or admin.

Kid may not like me, but I delivered the first Finance Committee in party history, the first professional audit in party history and many changes in policy and direction of the NSDP---all have my direct signature and impreture, and I have a super majority now on my board now toward real reforms that will bear fruit.

Reno will be a test of wills, that is assured because we are finally acting like the oversight board we are supposed to be.

I did this against all odds and people like Kid who are comfy with the corruption and status quo of his buddies and cronies while operatives rob our party and our donors blind. And I do mean literally robbing us blind. Kid is part of the problem, never part of the solution. He can't name a single thing he's done to reign in and comport the NSDP.

I've work in five states all five known for intense corruption, but I've never seen it like I have seen it here. It's appaling even to the casual observer.

Hopefully, we'll change for the better. We can't survive, much less win consistently if we do not.

[KidFromVegas]

MZ (or should I say Pops) having a conversation with yourself?

No one was talking about party finance, I simply mentioned... you suck, and so do your opinions.

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