I really can't wait for the primary in NY-26 to be over and to finally be rid of the hackneyed awfulness that is Jack Davis' "campaign" once and for all. Today we learn that soon to be three time loser Davis is spewing forth warnings about Powers because the guy once got a ticket for...wait for it...jaywalking. No, really. When the people of the 26th have been suffering under the piss poor leadership of Davis' former party for so long, when they have seen their jobs disappear or shipped overseas for decades, while they see the foreclosure signs pop up in their neighborhoods like so many toadstools and lay awake at night hoping they won't be next, when they send their children or their their spouses or their parents off to their third or fourth tour in Iraq or wince as they spend $100 bucks just to fill up their gas tanks, Jack Davis wants them to know that Jon Powers once got a jaywalking ticket. In college. In 2004. This kind of crap is insulting to the people of the 26th. It is simply beneath anyone worthy of representing them. They have real, genuine concerns and they have desperately needed quality representation for far too long. But, Davis can't, and apparently is unwilling, to run on issues and ideas. He even is trying to paint this jaywalking ticket, for which Powers paid a whopping $25 fine, as something more ominous. Why? Because he ain't got nothing else. From the Buffalo News:
The flurry of charges and countercharges began when the Davis campaign produced documents showing that Powers, a graduate of John Carroll University in Cleveland, was cited by a Cleveland Heights, Ohio, police officer on Oct. 23, 2004, for disorderly conduct. In his citation, the officer accused Powers of directing obscene comments at him.
"People need to know this is the real Jon Powers," Davis spokesman Luke Vaughn said. "He flagrantly disrespects a police officer, is found guilty of disorderly conduct and never tells anyone. After 10 years of scandal and embarrassing headlines, we don't need more of the same - we deserve a congressman who will tell the truth."
But Powers spokeswoman Victoria Dillon saw the incident differently. She said Powers was with college friends and fellow veterans in the area, and denied at the time and denies now that he ever used obscene language in addressing the officer. She also offered to produce witnesses to back up Powers.
"At a time when he's under investigation and running from revelations of election fraud and bribery, the Davis campaign is practicing the lowest form of politics by distorting simple facts," Dillon said. "Jon was written a ticket for jaywalking, never arrested and never showed any disrespect to law enforcement."
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Powers was fined $25 and assessed $65 in court costs.
Nice one, Jack. Next up, Jack's old GOP compatriots revealed who they really don't want to run against in November by recycling Davis' BS about Jon's involvement in War Kids Relief.
The chairmen asked Powers to answer questions about how much money was raised for the organization, how much was spent in Iraq, what programs were established in Iraq, how much money was spent on administration, and if he was afforded benefits in connection with the salary he took running the program.
Erie County Democratic Chairman Leonard R. Lenihan issued his own response:
"I wonder how many people at that press conference put their lives on the line in Iraq. How can they criticize someone who braved the horrors of that war and then willingly returned to help the many children from families that were killed or displaced by the war?
"The fact that Republicans are intervening in a Democratic primary indicates their desire to avoid facing Jon Powers in November," he added. "Haven't we had enough of this swift boat sleaze?"
So Davis and his old GOP buddies are tag teaming Jon Powers over a freaking jaywalking ticket and over his efforts to help Iraqi war orphans.
That really tells you all you need to know about who Jack Davis really is and who the GOP fears most.
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