Check this hot mess out!
Jim Bunning is threatening to sue national Republicans if they recruit a candidate to primary him in the U.S. Senate race in 2010:
If Republican campaign organizations tried to recruit another candidate to run in Bunning’s stead, “I would have a suit against the (National Republican Senatorial Committee) if they did that,” Bunning told reporters on Tuesday. “In their bylaws, support of the incumbents is the only reason they exist.”
The 77-year-old senator says he’s repeatedly told Republican leadership that he plans on running in 2010 for a third term.
Now he’s attacking David Williams:
NRSC Chairman John Cornyn of Texas told The Washington Post on Monday that Williams’ meeting with organization officials last week was a “courtesy visit” and that the party “would back Bunning in a contested primary.”
“David Williams usually has the ability to make up his own mind,” Bunning said, adding the state lawmaker “owes me $30,000 and he said he’ll repay me. I was short in my FEC money and he asked me if I would help save two state senate seats… I told him if I did it I would have to have it replaced at the first of the year. So far he has not.”
A Federal Election Commission report for Bunning’s campaign committee, Citizens for Bunning, shows a $25,000 contribution to the Republican Party of Kentucky on Oct. 20, 2008. Bunning said his political action committee donated another $5,000.
And he’s going after John Cornyn:
“I don’t believe anything Cornyn says… I’ve had miscommunications with John Cornyn from first week of this session,” Bunning said. “The NRSC never helped me last time and they’re probably not going to help me this time.
Oh snap!
10 responses so far ↓
1 E // Feb 24, 2009 at 2:22 pm
Power is intoxicating is it not ?
Some people just can’t let go.
2 Steve Magruder (I, not D or R) // Feb 24, 2009 at 2:46 pm
E, it’s funny how I thought of Louisville’s Mayor Jer when reading that.
Anyway, certainly the NRSC was smart to have an additional by-law that reads: “In case one of our incumbents is an out-and-out whacko, the rule about supporting incumbents is null and void.” Oh wait, this is a Republican organization.
3 E // Feb 24, 2009 at 3:48 pm
With regard to Jerry…I guess we’ll have to see when the time comes how vigorously (or not) he clings to power.
It’ll be fun to see if the GOP/NRSC invokes the 1st Amendment ‘right to free association…thus saying that the Constitution/Bill of Rights allows them to associate and support whoever they want…using the Bill of Rights to trump their own bylaws.
All in the name of clinging to and consolidating power…statesmanship and service be damned!
4 kentondem1 // Feb 24, 2009 at 5:02 pm
Jim, you are the best ever!
Please run again, please!
5 Polar // Feb 24, 2009 at 5:43 pm
Don’t you just love how the 2010 Senate race is shaping up? For the GOP, we will have Charles Manson (David Williams) vs Albert DeSalvo (Jim Bunning). For the Dems, it’s David Berkowitz (Mongiardo) versus, hopefully someone with a brain and the intention of enacting some useful legislation for this state.
To paraphrase Dr. Thompson, “how low must we stoop to be the junior Senator from Kentucky?”
6 Tom // Feb 24, 2009 at 9:15 pm
Guess what Senator Bunning? That old bitch, Justice Ginburg, she’s alive and well at Obama’s address to the Senate.
She’ll probably live longer than you!
7 E // Feb 24, 2009 at 11:32 pm
Unfortunately, she’s not well.
Bunning was crass to mention her illness in the way he did, politicizing it. But the type of cancer/pancreatic has almost no real survival rate beyond a year.
Justice Ginsberg should be admired for her couragous efforts to not let the disease break her spirit.
8 Judy // Feb 24, 2009 at 11:41 pm
Run, Jimmy, Run!
9 Republican // Feb 25, 2009 at 11:41 am
It was stated last night by the CBS commentators during Obama’s nationally-televised lie-fest that her pancreatic tumor was benign.
10 E // Feb 25, 2009 at 2:38 pm
I watched NBC ‘love fest’…either they didn’t mention it, or I missed it.
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