HarrisWatch: “Pink Sugar” Pushes God, as the Money Runs outOh, Katie.
Rep. Katherine Harris (R-FL) has set fire to her own ambitions yet again, this time declaring to reporters, “if you’re not electing Christians, then in essence you are going to legislate sin.”
It’s increasingly clear to observers that the Harris for Senate campaign has become, in essence, a Civil War re-enactment of Sherman’s march through Atlanta, with Harris playing Sherman and her campaign playing Atlanta. Even the tone of media coverage of her antics seems to have shifted, to be no more or less than a somber and respectfully brief, unflourished recounting of the mayhem that she has caused.
That’s probably because she’s down roughly 30 points in recent polls, so her self-immolating displays hardly matter. Hence reporters are more likely to give only a spare report of the facts, insert an obligatory Democratic “outrage” quote, make a sympathetic call to Harris’ spokeswoman for whatever clean-up statement she’s allowed to give, and call it a day.
What’s more, it turns out Harris may not even have the money to fund her own self-destruction. The $10 million of her own money she promised to pour into her campaign — which was necessary, because she couldn’t raise outside funds to keep going — doesn’t exist, according to a new report.
Apparently, she doesn’t stand to inherit money from her father’s fortune, as she had said; it’s all going to her mother.
As a result, Harris reportedly told her senior staff she would have to sell her numerous properties to come up with the money. Yet “[n]one of the properties have gone on the market,” notes St. Petersburg Times reporter Anita Kumar, who broke the story.
“Republican operatives and political watchers say the Harris campaign may have seen the last of her personal resources,” Kumar writes.
I understand there’s a big swath of folks whose politics move them to hope she won’t ever come to grips with her long odds, her money problems, and her cartoonish inability to portray herself as a viable candidate. But on a human level — isn’t it just a little bit sad to watch this?
