Harris Shows Them the Money And that wasn't the only less-than-enthused reaction to the Harris announcement. Quoth Gov. Jeb Bush: "I think for Congresswoman Harris to win, this has to stop being about her and has to start being about Senator Nelson and about the future of our country and the future of the state." I think Jeb should save his breath. For America's most notorious political Drama Queen, it will never "stop being about her."
As you may have heard by now, Florida Congresswoman Katherine Harris spent a good part of last week leading (relieved) Republicans to believe that she was going to withdraw from her can't-lose-the-primary, can't-win-the-general race against Sen. Bill Nelson. She would make a "major announcement" this Tuesday, she said. But instead of getting out of the race and giving Florida GOPers a prayer against Nelson, she went on Hannity and Colmes and announced she was about to dump $10 million in money inherited from her father into her campaign.
Leave it to Harris to think that a lack of money was her main problem--and, for that matter, to think that her difficulty in attracting other people's money might not be a indication of a deeper set of problems.
But if she had to do what she had to do, then she should have probably gone to the trouble to pay some hush money to her top political strategist (prior to this week), the ol' vote-suppressor Ed Rollins, who proceeded to tell the Orlando Sentinel that he and everybody else around the campaign had urged her to withdraw.Harris' chief strategist, Ed Rollins, gave a sober assessment of her chances a day after her television appearance, revealing that he and other key advisers concluded it probably would be best if she abandoned the race against Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson.Rollins said they worried about Harris' sluggish fundraising, her inability to generate excitement among top Republicans and future fallout from illegal campaign contributions she took from a defense contractor who has since pleaded guilty to bribing a California lawmaker.
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