Bill Hudak "gets it on terrorism, he gets it on the peace process, he gets it on Iran"

Bill Hudak was only half joking yesterday when he told us "Sean Bielat is lucky" to be running against Barney Frank, a big, fat, juicy target in this wave-election year. Everybody's heard of him, and a lot of people beyond District 4 — ourselves included — are putting our money where our disgust is. Hudak, on the other hand, is running against a relatively obscure incumbent, seven-term Congressman John Tierney (MA 6). But scores could really change in the wake of the Congressman's wife's recent conviction on federal tax charges. As Stacy McCain put it:

Campaigns win elections, and events influence campaigns. When a congressman’s wife pleads guilty to a federal felony charge, my friends, that is an event.

Regular readers may recall it was Tierney who tried to silence dissent at our very first Tea Party back in March of 2009. Now he's trying to smear Hudak with this season's false accusations du jour, racism and nuttiness.

We had a chance to shake hands and chat with the affable and articulate Boxford lawyer and businessman at a rally in historic Newburyport's Market Square yesterday. We hadn't been following the Hudak campaign too closely, but our friend Sol of Solomonia happened to attend a public forum on the subject of America's policy toward Israel last week and was sufficiently impressed to jump districts (he lives in Edward Markey's District 7) and recommend readers contribute to Hudak's moneybomb (through tonight):

Hudak held forth without reference to his notes for just over twenty minutes, then proceeded to patiently take questions and then hang around afterward spending time with anyone who wanted to continue the discussion …

This guy is good. He is a real friend of Israel who believes America's interests and Israel's interests are directly in sync (in direct contrast to J Street's man, the corrupt and arrogant incumbent, John Tierney) … He gets it on terrorism, he gets it on the peace process, he gets it on Iran. He gets it.

According to one of Hudak's campaign workers, Rep. Tierney's office was unable to supply a schedule of where their candidate would be in the coming days.  Disintermediating impediments to communication with his constituency via the new media, Hudak proudly showed us how he keeps in touch with campaign headquarters via smartphone with GPS-enabled foursquare. He then proceeded to send out a tweet naming names. John Tierney may be hiding, but if you want to know where Bill Hudak is, it's all out there on Twitter.

Fellow red stater behind blue lines in this ultra-liberal bedrooom community 30 miles north of Boston Suzanne, above, told us she had been totally energized at the realization that she was not alone when she discovered the monthly meetings of a group of local republicans. As our dear friend neo neocon remarked at our first sub rosa local bloggers' gathering years ago, "Here I am with my peeps at last," unloosing a preference cascade that promises to wash away the fashionable and pervasive political correctness that has stifled free speech in these United States with increasing totalitarianesque psychological jack bootery for decades (See NPR and Williams, Juan). Again, click here to contribute to Bill Hudak's moneybomb.

Crossposted at Riehl World View and Liberty Pundits.

Comments

[goomp]

Here's to Bill Hudak and other honest citizens who are striving to remove the corrupt life time pols who now hold office.

[KingShamus]

To paraphrase New Orleans Saints fans during last year's Super Bowl: "Hudak gonna beat that Tierney!"

Go Hudak Go.

[Gayle Miller]

And this just in from Roger L. Simon's blog:

In a breaking development that may affect the close California Senate race, Pajamas Media has learned The Foundation for Ethics in Public Service sent a letter to Eric Holder last Thursday requesting the attorney general “begin an investigation to determine whether United States Senator Barbara Boxer violated any criminal laws or should be liable for any civil penalty for failure to disclose real property on her Personal Financial Disclosure Reports between 2002 and 2010.”

The Foundation for Ethics in Public Service is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization “that seeks to bring a new level of transparency, accountability and integrity to all levels of government in the United States.” Boxer is the chair of the Senate Select Committee on Ethics.

The specific property FEPS is referring to is an Oakland, California, home valued at over a million dollars and co-owned by Boxer, her husband Stewart, their son Douglas, and his wife Amy. The letter to Holder reads in part:

Despite the fact that Senator Boxer had an ownership in 854 Longridge Road [in Oakland], she failed to report this substantial real property asset on any of her personal financial disclosures between 2002 and 2010. She had also failed to report the mortgage on the property. Further, she failed to report the purchase of 854 Longridge Road in 2002. Each year Boxer was required to have filed a “full and complete report.”

The filing of false or incomplete disclosure statements is in violation of the Ethics in Government Act. The Act authorizes the Attorney General of the United States to seek civil penalties against Senators who knowingly and willfully falsify or fail to report required information. The knowing and willful concealment of the existence of substantial amount of real property for a prolonged period may subject Senators to federal criminal prosecution under 18 U.S.C. paragraph 101. [other citations are available at the link]

The Oakland home is currently lived in by Douglas and his wife. This is not the first time Senator Boxer’s son has been the center of controversy. The senator reportedly paid out nearly $500,000 from her campaign contributions to her son’s public relations firm between 2001 and 2009. Those moneys could have been used to pay off the mortgage on the Oakland property, adding urgency to the DOJ investigation sought by The Foundation for Ethics in Public Service and further complicating the legal and ethical issues involved.

Indeed, ethical questions have been dogging the chair of the Senate Select Committee on Ethics of late. According to an October 13 Washington Examiner article by Marta Mossburg (“It’s time for Sen. Barbara Boxer to come clean on her mortgage loans“), Boxer held no fewer than seven mortgages with Countrywide Financial, the company at the center of the mortgage scandal she was investigating as chair of her committee.

Despite the obvious impropriety, Boxer did not recuse herself. Instead she signed as “chair” the letter that exonerated Chris Dodd after the Connecticut senator got favorable mortgage rates from Countrywide. That letter — available at the ethics.senate.gov site — is worth reading now in light of what we have learned of Boxer’s own activities.

If Barbara Boxer is returned to the Senate, she will resume her position as chair of the Senate Select Committee on Ethics. It is she who will preside over investigations into the ethical behavior of our senators.

Call her Senator - for now anyway!

[Gayle Miller]

The Dems just don't seem to be able to help themselves any longer - bent is their default position!