charles taylor

The dirty campaign ads on tv and radio weren't enough, I guess, so here come the dirty campaign fliers!!!

I'm sure at least fifty-thousand of these have already been sent out all over WNC, so if anyone has seen this already I apologize for the redundancy. Someone sent this to me earlier this morning, and I had to share (click the thumbnails to enlarge):

I'm buried under work, but this news is too good to let languish on other little sites like MyDD and Daily Kos.

Charles Taylor - 40% (!)
Heath Shuler - 51% (first time over 50% in a poll)

Looks like those negative ads aren't working for Chainsaw Charlie. Looks like Heath's campaign knows what they're doing.

Surely this is unprecedented:

NORTH CAROLINA 11 - Democrat Heath Shuler, a former pro football player, leads Republican Rep. Charles Taylor 51-40 percent.

Of course, this doesn't mean by any means that we should rest...

The RNCC, embroiled in the Foley scandal after accepting $100,000 from the disgraced former Congressman in order to keep his pedophilia a secret, today delivered a glossy mailer to the Hoolie home and the homes of thousands of residents of North Carolina's 11th district. The title? "Heath Shuler Dropped the Ball...". The subject? Shuler's business, with which he no longer has any direct involvement, was late to pay taxes. The problem? Charles Taylor's unpaid taxes have been news in this district for eight years.

I just encoded and uploaded another Taylor ad (more on that later - Google Video is still processing it. They must be busy right now) that I grabbed from a two-hour chunk of programming from our local BushCo-approved Sinclair Broadcast Group mouthpiece, WLOS, that I TiVo'd last night. (Actually, I TiVo'd four hours of it, but it's all infomercials after Kimmel...)

While I was skimming through it, I decided to keep score as far as the number of campaign ads that were being shown...

I caught this in the middle of last night's episode of Vanished:

More below the jump...

This is a copy of my LTE to the ACT, only I have went beyond the 200 word limit. I really didn’t think you would care if I added to it and at least said here what I really wanted to say in the Times. If they publish it, that will be a first. Hope it makes sense at least as I am in one of those "The more I think about it, the more pissed I get" moods! And, for those of you in or close to the 11th, I would really appreciate it if you would just happen to email it to anyone you know in the 11th!

In the online edition of Friday, Sept 29th Asheville Citizen Times, Congressman Charles Taylor took a lot of cheap shots at Heath Shuler & Ex. GA Senator, Disabled Vietnam Vet, Past Secretary of Veterans Affairs and the National Cmdr. of the Disabled American Vet's, Max Cleland. He was, at best, Misleading & Dishonorable! Taylor seemingly has no, nor, has he ever had any, Respect for Veterans of the 11th District, much less a highly decorated Veteran such as Cleland!!

WNCNN is proud to bring you our third episode, "Shiny Happy Charlie", where our dedicated news team attempts to bring balanced reporting to the network by revealing the brighter, happier side of Congressman Taylor.

Do they get results? Most definitely. Do they succeed? Well...

- You'll Have to find out after the jump -

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VA STORY
By Oz Bachs Wife
http://www.spankyandourgang.com/ozbach/VAStory.html

I am telling this lengthy story because it needs to be told. The director of the Asheville North Carolina Veterans Administration Medical Center has made it a practice to have members of his staff systematically turn away any veteran to whom they figure they can deny treatment. This practice is ongoing and has been for the furtherance of the director's personal career, under the guise of economizing. Veterans' co-payments are turned back into the regional office instead of going for patient care. This information was provided to me by a former Congressional aide. Congress recently granted this facility $26 million for its expansion but patient care is low on the director's list of priorities. Many of these veterans have no private health insurance and have nowhere else to go. A number have died because they could not get care in time. They are not impoverished or underprivileged. They are shocked to find that they cannot receive at the Asheville facility care which would be routinely available at any other VA facility. Apparently because of the whimsical personal policy of the director, James Christian, they are simply being denied illegally the care to which they are entitled.