Meet Scott Rothstein, the new mini-Madoff to the tune of some $100 million.
Now with special bonus. He’s a big giver to politicians of both parties — and a close friend of and fundraiser for Gov. Charlie Crist, the increasingly embattled contender for the Florida GOP senate nomination. And if that’s not enough, we’ll throw in the fact that he’s a business partner of Republican uber-operative and dirty trickster Roger Stone.
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Man, if these were Dems, John Fund might have a serious, election-undermining scandal on his hands.
We have late reports that police had to be called to a St. Lawrence County polling sites when frenzied and sticker clad Hoffman backers refused to leave the 100 foot non-electioneering zone around the poll. They were “yelling anti-choice stuff at voters,” says a former state Dem chair.
Sens. Nelson and Landrieu say they haven’t given up hope that they can resurrect a ‘triggered’ public option with the help of Sen. Snowe.
The Christie campaign is complaining to the state election commission and calling for an investigation of Democratic robocalls promoting independent candidate Chris Daggett in Republican friendly parts of the state.
Gibbs says Obama decision on Afghanistan still “weeks” away.
It’s looking like unexpectedly high turnout in Maine today. The conventional wisdom would suggest that’s good news for marriage equality supporters.
Of course, conventional wisdom and $3.95 will buy you an overpriced cuppa Joe at your local cafe.
In our first installment of the Scott Rothstein fraud story we told you that accused Florida political power player Scott Rothstein (allegedly) made off with a $100 million in other people’s money. Now it turns out he almost made off with GOP fixer Roger Stone’s website.
TPMMuckraker’s Justin Elliott got hold of Stone today who told him the whole sordid tale — Rothstein’s attempts to censor Stone’s criticisms of Rothstein’s pal Charlie Crist on Stone’s website, Rothstein pulling the plug on the infamous Stone Zone, a ridiculous scale of high living, compulsive political contributions, a private investigator. You could say the relationship seems to have broken down.
Justin has the story.
Looks like we’ve got a fun one cookin’ already.
A short while ago, Conservative Doug Hoffman, the special election candidate in NY-23, breathlessly announced that frustrated Dems had slashed the tires of one of his campaign workers. Right-wing yakkers rose to heights of auto-blogotic self-asphyxiation.
Alas, closer inspection suggests, and local police confirm, said poll worker ran over a bottle.
New headline: GOP campaign worker’s tires slashed by Dem bottle.
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7:06 PM and VA-Gov race still not called for McDonnell.