Unhinged Saxby Chambliss Grabs Camera When Reporter Asks Him About Imperial Sugar Case

Saxby’s losing it.

A reporter for the Florida Times-Union asked him about his refusal to honor a subpoena in the Imperial Sugar wrongful death lawsuit. Chambliss can be heard saying, “You can take it away now” as he pushes the camera away…

Chambliss, getting increasingly desperate to hold on to his Senate seat, has also resorted to gay-bashing fliers.

While Chambliss himself hasn’t attacked Martin directly on gay issues, the National Republican Senatorial Committee mailed a flier claiming Martin should “take his show on the road” on “Left Wing Air.”

“San Francisco would hold a parade in his honor,” the flier claims, next to a cartoon rainbow, noting that among other issues, Martin “opposes banning gay marriage.”

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On Thursday, Georgia’s Department of Labor announced that the state’s unemployment levels rose to 7 percent in October, the highest in 16 years; approximately 43,093 unemployed Georgians are looking for work. That same day, Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA), who is locked in a tough run-off election battle with Democrat Jim Martin, gave a campaign speech on the state’s economic troubles:

It’s imperative that we continue down the road of putting liquidity, integrity and confidence back in the financial marketplace so that we can see the credit market free up and people having the ability to borrow money to to operate and expand their businesses.

However, Chambliss was so busy campaigning that day that he actually skipped the Senate’s vote on the Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2008, which extended unemployment benefits “by 13 weeks in states with an unemployment rate of at least 6 percent.” Chambliss was one of just four senators to miss the vote. WCTV reported that Chambliss later sent out a press released praising “the passage of the law and hopes it will help laid-off workers get by while seeking a new job.”

Yesterday, WXIA in Atlanta said that Chambliss claimed he would have voted for the bill anyway. Watch WXIA’s report: http://thinkprogress.org/2008/11/22/chambliss-unemploym… /

Chambliss, Too Busy Campaigning to Care

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Allegations have surfaced of voter irregularities involving a paid staffer of Norm Coleman, and the ramifications could have a profound impact on the outcome of Coleman’s race against Al Franken.

A reporter for the Minnesota Independent, a progressive online publication, was working on a story about voter turnout when she overheard that Republican poll challengers monitoring voting at the precinct had brought in Mahamoud Wardere to help voters translate.

The Coleman campaign confirmed that Wardere is a paid member of their staff

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“I had already spoken to at least three people who told me that translators were telling them to vote for Norm Coleman,” she said.

The issue could end up being the basis of a legal challenge. According to Prof. Joe Daly of Hamline University, state election law has a provision that if there is a deliberate, serious or material violation of state election law, a district court judge must gather the evidence and present it to the presiding officer of the U.S. Senate, who would then decide the merits of the allegations.

The Senate could even revoke the results of the election and decide who would be seated as senator.

Read more: http://wcco.com/election/voter.irregularities.allegatio…

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A new Star Tribune Minnesota Poll shows DFLer Al Franken clinging to a slim lead over Republican Sen. Norm Coleman among likely voters, 42 percent to 38 percent. That’s within the poll’s 4.1 percentage point margin of sampling error.

Independence Party candidate Barkley, who held steady at 18 percent in the two previous Minnesota Polls, slipped three points to 15 percent.

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And here the context is unmistakable:

I will have to remind Mr. Chambliss that 24% of white voters in GA vote Dem (that is the 2004 figure), and adding in other non-black folks you get to 30% voting Dem. So my point is that this kind of despicable racial politics demonstrated here will not last forever. The demographics are changing, and so are the politics. I just know I really want to unseat this jerk.

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The CEO of a major marine technology company is alleging that he was pressured by a friend and associate of Norm Coleman to secretly funnel tens of thousands of dollars to the Senator’s family.

Paul McKim, the founder and CEO of Deep Marine Technology, alleges in a civil suit that Nasser Kazeminy — a longtime Republican donor, friend of Coleman, and DMT shareholder — directed the company to send $75,000 to the Senator and his wife.

The transaction, which occurred in 2007, allegedly went as follows: DMT would make payments for services to Hays Company, even though no services would be rendered. Since Norm Coleman’s wife Laurie worked at Hays, that money would be given to her in the form of ’salary.’

According to the suit filed against Kazeminy and several other defendants…

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In this year’s TIGHTEST Senate race, Coleman is suing his opponent again. See:

Coleman vs. Franken

http://www.startribune.com/politics/state/33582534.html

I think this might be a major mistake on Coleman’s part because (a) Now everyone will know about the “4th most corrupt Senator” allegation and wonder if its true or not; (b) Talk about hypocracy. Franken might sue him back for the many lies his campaign has made against Franken. (c) Coleman appears like a “crybaby”. Has repeatedly done this before, suing opponents whenever he runs for office

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