The only person/thing I can even remotely compare to Greg Ball or Paul Newell is the other. These guys just have a sixth sense about how to do or say the most idiotic thing imaginable while employing any means whatsoever to get themselves elected. As reformers.
Got to get rid of the three men in the room.
Right.
Today, we find Newell and Bizzy Lizzy, his freeping GOP operative, planning to do a soppy lit drop, evidently financed by some national GOP slush fund. The NY Sun reports:
The mailer, which also includes snippets of news stories and editorials about Mr. Silver and his response to the rape accusation, was bankrolled by an Indianapolis-based organization, the Common Sense Coalition. It's the first time the group has done any work in New York, the executive director of the coalition, Daniel Perrin, said.
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Mr. Perrin is a former executive director of the American Taxpayer Alliance, a group that received funding from energy companies and ran advertisements attacking Governor Davis of California for his handling of the state's energy crisis in 2001. A Republican operative who ran Bob Dole's presidential campaign, Scott Reed, also has run the group.
Geez, you mean a nexus between Obamawitz, the GOP and CA energy policy? We would never have guessed.
Great work, Obamawitz. Take cash from an outfit that took out a sitting Democratic governor. What about these guys, they got a ton of money too, and they can't be happy with Silver either.
While Ball, amid a pathologically stupid robo-stalking stunt, robocalls the Dutchess County Sheriff instructing him to call a state Senator's wife. Keep in mind Ball's running for state Assembly.
The Journal News writes:
One of the people state Assemblyman Greg Ball reached out and touched last week with his automated telephone call criticizing state Sen. Vincent Leibell was Dutchess County Sheriff Adrian Anderson.
The calls led to a Putnam County sheriff's investigator sitting in Leibell's home late Friday afternoon as the senator's daughters fielded "hundreds" of calls. By evening, a deputy in a patrol car was posted at the end of Leibell's driveway. One was still parked there yesterday morning.
Unfortunately, Ball has a shot at winning. I have no idea why Newell is bedding down with these people. But please let us know if you have a theory. And how any of it is related to campaign finance law reform.
Update: Ball is also on page one of today's NY Post print edition. Ya know, I really could have seen Liz Crothers robo-stalking Silver and Ball grabbing the hard-right GOP cash. But like I said, Ball and Newell are nearly interchangable.
