Boehner launches GOP communication effort
In an effort to keep his job following the Nov. 7 election, House Majority Leader John Boehner announced Wednesday that he’s launching a strategic communications effort to boost Republicans in key races across the country.The West Chester Republican has run a political action committee -- The Freedom Project -- since 1995 that raises campaign money and doles it out to GOP candidates.
His new effort -- The Majority Project -- will use PAC funds to fund a massive effort by Boehner to get the GOP message out in the final weeks before the election.
Read Boehner's letter about his new project HERE.
All three members of Boehner’s official communications team -- Kevin Smith, Kevin Madden and Don Seymour -- have taken a leave of absence from their day jobs with Boehner on Capitol Hill to volunteer for the project.
Madden said the trio will essentially work as a rapid response team "reaching out to regional and national media to set the record straight" or rebut Democratic claims in targeted races.
The project features a Web site -- http://www.freedomproject.org -- that will include Web videos. Additionally, they’ll be "aggressively booking Boehner on conservative talk shows, cable news networks and broadcast networks" all across the country, he said.
Boehner represents the 8th Congressional District, which includes most of Butler County.
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Post a Comment*John Boehner = Denny Hastert, at least -- Plus, key questions for Tom Reynolds
(Updated below - Updated II - Update III - Update IV - Update V)
(1) The editorial in The Washington Times calling for Denny Hastert's resignation lays out the case quite persuasively, but it is worth remembering that any criticisms of Denny Hastert in the Foley scandal apply equally, at least, to the next-in-line, Majority Leader John Boehner. If Hastert has to resign, how can Boehner stay?
Not only does Boehner admit to having known about what the Washington Times calls the "red flags" raised by Foley's "suggestive and wholly inappropriate e-mail messages," Boehner, ever since this scandal emerged, has been at least as dishonest as Hastert has been (which is saying a lot, since Hastert, as the Washington Times notes, "dissembled, to put it charitably"). And it was Boehner who actively and inexcusably blocked the efforts by House Democrats on Friday to instruct the House Ethics Committee to investigate this matter.
As Brad DeLong documented, Boehner has changed his story multiple times. He first told The Washington Post, definitively, that he talked months ago to Hastert about Foley and "that Hastert assured him 'we're taking care of it.'" But then, when Boehner learned that Hastert had denied knowing about Foley's page problem at all, Beohner "contacted The Post and said he could not remember whether he talked to Hastert." Then, in Roll Call: "Boehner strongly denied media reports late Friday night that he had informed Hastert of the allegations, saying 'That is not true.'" As DeLong emphasized:
Not "I don't remember." Instead: "That is not true." You cannot read Roll Call and both versions of the Post story without concluding that Boehner was lying to somebody last night: three different stories in quick succession defeats all credulity.
And now there seems to be still another Boehner version, as The Palm Beach Post reports this morning: "Boehner told the Dayton Daily News he was '99 percent' sure he talked to Hastert about the matter, but also said he did not recall their conversation."
So: (a) Boehner told Hastert about Foley and Hastert assured him they were "taking care of it"; (b) Boehner does not remember whether he ever talked to Hastert about Foley; (c) Boehner affirmatively claims that it "is not true" that he spoke with Hastert; and now, (d) Boehner is "99 percent" sure he talked to Hastert about Foley but remembers nothing about the converstaion. Does that sound like someone qualified to be Majority Leader of the U.S. House of Representatives, let alone Denny Hastert's replacement for Speaker of the House?
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http://glenngreenwald.blogspot.com/2006/10/john-boehner-denny-hastert-at-least.html
Since your editor was asleep at the switch, I'll help out by providing the fixes needed in this piece:
"All three members of Boehner’s official communications team. . . have taken a leave of absence from their day jobs with Boehner on Capitol Hill to volunteer for the project."
How can they take a leave of absence when they're not working? Congress went on yet another vacation a month ago to make sure their record of working the fewest days of any Congress in history stayed intact.
"Madden said the trio will essentially work as a rapid response team "reaching out to regional and national media to set the record straight" or rebut Democratic claims in targeted races."
Meaning, they will be countering the truth with their usual lies and spin?
"Additionally, they’ll be "aggressively booking Boehner on conservative talk shows. . . "
Preaching to the choir is good strategy?
"Boehner represents the 8th Congressional District, which includes most of [the business and corporate interests, but not the people of} Butler County."
You're welcome. Any time.
Bob Neyner (oops),Tom Noehner (oops), John Boehner?(Sorry about that- I just can't keep all those lying crooks separate anymore).
Oh, that's right!- It's Boehner who's the big K Street conduit to Congress.
His usual greeting to lobbyists is "what's in the bag, dad?". It's a reminder to them that his House leadership position and support for Bushes war helps keep that money train running and the profiteers profiting.
He is so in the pockets of "big money" that even in his House bio he lists his interests as "special".
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