Barney Frank owns his Massachusetts district. That is, he’s never really faced a serious challenge, running up huge victory after huge victory, sometimes even running unopposed.
Until this year.
Politico.com has the surprising story of Frank’s funding problem:
Longtime Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank has given his re-election campaign $200,000 as he faces his toughest race in years.
A campaign finance report filed Tuesday showed that Frank, the chairman of the powerful House Financial Services committee, lent himself the money Tuesday.
Frank, a 15-term lawmaker from Newton, Mass., raised $316,644 last quarter and reported more than $1 million on hand with no debts.
His campaign didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
The chairman is facing one of his toughest fights in recent memory against Republican Sean Bielat, a 35-year-old Marine veteran with degrees from Georgetown, Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania.Republican Sen. Scott Brown won Frank’s congressional district, which President Barack Obama carried in 2008. Bielat has zeroed in on Frank’s service atop the financial services committee, indicating that the Democrat had a hand in the financial turmoil over the last few years.
He had a hand it in? That’s a delicate way of putting it. If they mean Frank was fisting the economy, well, yes, he had a hand in it.
An indelicate way of putting it, perhaps, but true, nonetheless.
Source: Politico.com
This post was last modified on October 20, 2010
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Would the same people who elect Barney Fwanker only because he's a Homosexual use the same criteria selecting a surgeon ?
Maybe an interior decorator, but not a surgeon.
Why would BF put so much of his dough in the campaign since the polls there show his *so far* ahead? Could it be pollsters lie?
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Vic-Barney Frank is from Mass-not NY!
And on that note, knowing the Massachusetts voters, they will vote him in for another term. They aren't too smart up there(obviously-think kerry, kennedy, frank, kennedy, etch)
Yeah. Super sorry. I do know that. I think awful thoughts about New Yawk, 'cause of Billary.
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OMG Bwaney Fwank. You have to wonder why he worries about guys, when he can have so much fun screwing the American people.
I have an honest question: If he looses -- Does he get his loan money back? He is old crony-corrupt politics. We need to toss him out on his ass. He makes New Yorkers look like blithering idiots for keeping him around so long!
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Barney is from the Bay State, NOT the Empire State.
OOPS!! You are absolutely right. Me:bad. (Thanks for the correction)
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