Shaheen hoping for Sununu indictment?

Posted: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 7:34 PM by Domenico Montanaro
Filed Under: Congress

From MSNBC.com's Tom Curry
In a breakfast pep talk to Democratic donors this morning at the Brown Palace Hotel here in Denver, New Hampshire Senate candidate Jeanne Shaheen said her opponent, first-term Republican Sen. John Sununu was until last week the Senate’s most endangered Republican.

“But when Ted Stevens got indicted I think that maybe” put Alaskan Stevens at the top of the endangered list, she noted.

“We’re hoping for an indictment against Sununu, but it hasn’t happened yet,” she told the crowd.

When I asked her as she was exiting the donors’ event what she meant by the “hoping for an indictment” comment, Shaheen got flustered and said, “Oh no, I was kidding. So I should probably not have said that. I was just -- trying to be funny.”

Sununu defeated Shaheen in 2002.

She said her comment was not intended to be an allusion to the 2002 phone-jamming case in which three Republican operatives were found guilty of violating federal communications law by arranging for the flooding of Democratic and union phone lines -- disrupting Democratic get-out-the-vote efforts and perhaps helping elect Sununu.

Helping make the case for more Democratic money to be poured into the Shaheen-Sununu battle, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D- Minn., in her introduction of Shaheen told the Democratic financiers that “one thing you might not know about this race in New Hampshire -- it is actually in the most expensive media market of any of our targeted races -- you might not think that,” but she explained “you need to buy Boston television. And Jeanne is just ripping it up in New Hampshire. Everywhere I go, I hear people talking about her.”

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The notion that the Dems are still divided is just Repuke bluster. Polls have shown that 70%+ of Clinton supporters have switched support to Obama. 20 some % to McCain and somewhere in the single digits for still undecided since she lost. But if you take those number and further break them down. Almost half that 20% were rupukes to begin with but truly supported Clinton. Since she lost, they went back home. The other half were Rush's "Operation Chaos" Repukes who were gonna vote for McCain in the 1st place in the General Election and irrational PUMAs . They just wanted to mess with the primary numbers. So around 12.6 million Clinton supporters now support Obama while 5.4 million are not or undecided. So you can stop with the 18 Million thing now. And so if you look at the numbers of the Dems Only you see that they are united. Why do you think the Repukes are fighting tooth and nail. Cause they know it's true and that they are in trouble. They're desperate and the MSM is just lost in translation.

Just thought the uninformed needed a quick education lesson here.

CIH8U2, Tacoma, WA (Sent Wednesday, August 27, 2008 7:42 PM)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5dPwegqgDU&feature=related

McCain is a traitor and should be thrown in prison. Everyone watch this video and you will see the real John McCain and the traitor to America that he is.

FL (Sent Wednesday, August 27, 2008 7:45 PM)

“I honor John McCain’s service to our country. He served in uniform with honor and distinction,” Obama said. “We owe him gratitude for that. But we don’t owe him our vote."

As someone who will be voting for McCain in November, I believe this statement to be one of the best and most fair I’ve seen in addressing this one element of John McCain’s background and character. There is nothing in it that I disagree with and it is a legitimate political point.

It would be nice if more of Obama’s constituents here would exhibit the same class and probity as their candidate.

That being said, with Obama potentially the first African-American to be president, there is a chance to do something historic by electing Barack Obama solely because of this one history-making element of his background and character.

We should recognize that. But we don’t owe him our vote.

Richard, Washington State (Sent Wednesday, August 27, 2008 7:50 PM)

It would be justice if Sununu gets indicted. The repugnant ones are just the party of White Collar Criminals and it's way past time that justice be brought to these nafarious criminals. We need to indict Bush/Vheney and throw them in prison and throw away the keys! For all the good soldiers they murdered in Iraq they deserve to rot in hades.

Hey how about that really classy lady Hillary Clinton? I was so impressed at how she showed her being a team player by asking to give Obama the nomination by acclamation. She has shown a rare quality that I never saw any male politician exhibit in my convention watching since 1968. I say give a big round of applause for the First Lady of Class, Hillary Clinton! And this from an ardent and longtime Obama supporter who was way miffed at her kitchen sink strategy. I'd say Mission Accomplished on bringing about party unity!

Hey First Read where's an article on Hillary's great deed on the convention floor? She deserves a good article for her good deed!

Go Obama/Biden 08/12!

Eric, Salinas, CA (Sent Wednesday, August 27, 2008 7:51 PM)

Sununu learned his politics from his dad.
The acorn doesn't fall far from the tree.
We need to vote for some one with true values, not the fake values used as political fodder for the masses.
Our country and our families need the party that looks out for everyone, not just the few.
Look at what the repubs have to offer, look at what they have done to our country, our economy and
sons and daughters in the military.
More of this and we are a country lost to the
moneyed interests.
Help us all, help our country, vote DEM this year.

John Alexander,PA (Sent Wednesday, August 27, 2008 8:20 PM)

I have always voted Dem and look where it got me---nowhere,no place,nobama.A lesson I will never forget.JFK the first one.It has been a long run but now it is over.

MIvoter (Sent Wednesday, August 27, 2008 8:51 PM)

I'm always shocked that people who claim to be making a point result to name calling and unfounded allegations. There seems to be no shortage of Democrats calling for the indefinite imprisonment of Republicans, based on unspecified charges. I guess they're just guilty of disagreeing with you. How open-minded, how...liberal.

Michael McCarthy Nashua NH (Sent Wednesday, August 27, 2008 8:52 PM)

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