CLINT CURTIS IN A STATISTICAL TIE WITH FLORIDA'S WORST AND MOST CORRUPT CONGRESSLOON

Usually when I list a gaggle of the worst Republicrooks or those most likely to be indicted one name that always shows up is shady Florida wingnut Tom Feeney. But I just realized that I never really got into the details. The short version is simple: Feeney accepted gifts-- including one of those all-expenses-paid Scottish golfing excursions for himself and the Mrs-- from... who else? Jack Abramoff. Oh, what's a $20-30,000 golf trip between Republicrooks, you ask? Feeney's votes were always there for Abramoff's clients, not for his Daytona Beach and suburban Orlando constituents. (Actually I shou;dn't have said "who else?" since there were others. Feeney likes accepting gifts, even illegal ones from registered agents of foreign powers.

In 2000 Feeney was right up there with Jeb and Katherine Harris is manipulating Florida election procedures to disenfranchise tens of thousands of votes in order to deliver the presidential election to George Bush. You might say that everything that has happened since-- all the woes that have been visited on this country since 2000-- can be partially blamed on Feeney. And if it wasn't bad enough that he helped Bush steal the election, once he was elected to Congress, he immediately signed up as an unswerving rubber stamp.

In 2004 the enfeebled Florida Democratic Party didn't bother putting up an opponent for someone who is arguably the worst and most corrupt member of the Florida House delegation. 2006 went somewhat differently. With disatisfaction about Feeney's slavishly Big Business voting record and embarrassment with his corruption building, several Democrats were eager to get in the race against him. One, Clint Curtis, a former Republican aghast at how sharply to the right his party has swerved, won the primary.


Feeney has done his best (worst) to paint Curtis as a tinfoil hat kook. The characterization couldn't be further from the truth and the latest polling-- a dead-heat within the margin of error, according to Zogby-- show that residents of FL-24 don't believe it either. Clint is a much-respected computer expert and a specialist on electoral integrity-- kind of a weak spot for Feeney. Last week the Daytona News-Journal enthusiastically endorsed Clint over the wretched and ethically-challenged incumbent. In the endorsement, the editors have laid out for the public what has mostly been whispered about: Feeney has attempted to subvert the democratic process by hiring a computer firm to rig electronic voting machines for the Republicans.

"Curtis worked for a firm that had been asked by Feeney to create a computer prototype that could be used to rig elections without detection. Curtis said he believed Feeney wanted to use it to prevent fraud but claims that he later discovered that Feeney intended to use the program to control votes. Feeney adamantly denies the allegation."

Clint is running on a platform that is deep and wide and sound-- progressive to the core and exactly what is needed after 6 years of mess from the Bush Regime and its disgraceful rubber stamp Congress.

The Bradblog has detailed the vicious, baseless smear campaign Feeney has been waging against Clint. He refuses to debate and refuses to discuss issues and avoids, at all costs, any discussion of his grotesque voting record (an F from DMI on legislation impacting the middle class and an unblemished string of reactionary and Big Business votes that is among the most extreme in the entire Congess).