charles taylor

After your first day on the job you said,
"It's official, I work for the devil."
But you always felt that you knew yourself well
and would know how to keep your head level.

But Charlie got greedy, and Betty got needy,
and you have two children to raise.
Your tongue was soon split with the capital talent
of doubletalk, spin, lies, and haze.

Heath Shuler's fundraising for his race against Charles Taylor has been nothing short of stupendous. Outraising Taylor and spending less left Shuler with nearly three times as much cash on hand as the disreputable incumbent.

In what has become a perennial campaign habit, Charles Taylor took out two loans for his campaign totaling $850,000. That is, he's borrowing money from an unnamed bank to run against Shuler. Any candidate who gives more than $350,000 of his own money invokes the so-called Millionaire Rule.

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The 450-seat Thomas Auditorium on the campus of Blue Ridge Community College in Flat Rock, NC was at least 3/4 full. White people from all over came to hear white people talk about how to have fewer brown people in our country. The two-hour "Immigration Town Hall Meeting" was paid for with your tax dollars, and I didn't hear a voice of dissent all night long. The Taylor for Congress team was there shooting footage for advertisements both during and after the event - call it government subsidized campaigning.

Press Secretary Deborah Potter came up to me, and though we'd never met, said, "Screwy, how are you. You lambasted me...". Ms. Potter was very nice, some might say flirtatious. She couldn't keep her eyes off of me for the first half-hour of the show, and she later told me, "behave yourself" after giggling at the famed Hooligan wit. See this dramatized video capture of Ms. Potter striding into the meeting.

Sorry to keep posting teasers; I'm trying to do this in between chores and errands here, and my brain's still a little scattered, smothered, covered, topped and diced from the proceedings...

Last night's immigration town hall meeting was a very, um, educational experience. It was the first right-wing sanctioned event I'd ever been to that I actually sort-of attended, rather than standing outside with a sign.

If the estimated crowd of about three hundred is a fair, representative cross-section of Henderson County, then all I can say is that Henderson County really, REALLY doesn't like brown people.

apologies for the graininess...

There's a full report of today's Immigration Town Hall Meeting on the way, but here's a wee snippet to whet your political whistles. Thanks to syntax and Photoshop Guru for their fraternity as we entered the acidic belly of the Republican beast.

Google Video:

Calling all BlueNCers! Today is the big "Immigration Town Hall Meeting" featuring Charlie Taylor and racism's favorite Congressman, Tom Tancredo. It's in Hendersonville from 5-7pm on the campus of Blue Ridge Community College (click here for a map). If you're in the Asheville area and would like to car pool, folks are meeting at the Asheville Brewing Company on Coxe Avenue at 3:30pm. Several groups are attending including One America and Operation Democracy.

it looks like taylor's switched from mud to poo...

so, the d-trip has been running ads here in the 11th criticizing charles taylor for taking more than $100k from big oil... here's chainsaw's rebuttal.

as far as i can tell, the only redeeming quality about this steaming dump is the fact that you can hear the voiceover guy saying "charles taylor's a tool!"

I wish that my site could take credit for this; we can't, but this was too good to let sit in my inbox until I had time to publish updates...

I got an e-mail this morning from a guy who put together his own DIY political ad, attacking Charles Taylor. Kind of timely, too...

Click here to check it out.

Apparently there's going to be a whole series of these leading up to November 7th. I'll have to put this on the site ASAP.

Thanks,
Lyle C. Rashorta
Webmaster, TaylorSucks.org

the mud's getting thicker, folks...

for your discussion, dissection, analysis, etc., here's the latest charles taylor campaign ad attacking heath shuler.

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there are so many things i can say about this ad, but i'll save them for later. a nice, long day of vb coding awaits. (sigh)