http://blackbeard.blogivists.com Just another Blogivists weblog Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:58:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en FEC reports don't lie. For someone who has been running around the 2nd District of Kansas saying she is pro-life, Lynn Jenkins' last FEC report stands in stark contrast. If nothing else this has to raise the questions: will she say anything and do anything to get elected? The WISH List ... http://blackbeard.blogivists.com/2008/07/25/lynn-jenkins-wish-list-republicans-for-choice/ We have been asking ourselves that question all day. For someone who is getting soundly beaten in all the polls, including her own, why is she not spending her money? Does she think that Ryun will beat her in the primary and then lose in the general, therefore she wants to ... http://blackbeard.blogivists.com/2008/07/25/why-is-lynn-jenkins-not-spending-money/ The numbers are in. During the 3rd Quarter: Lynn Jenkins: Raised $134,829.90, Spent $131,846.68, Cash on Hand $489,211.81, Debt $101,231  Mystifying. She barely broke even for the quarter and still has over $100k in debt. Any poll you look at has her down by an average of 20+ points. She should be spending a lot more money. ... http://blackbeard.blogivists.com/2008/07/25/fec-filings/ A friend sent this to me along with Jenkins' comments. It was too good not to post. Evidently Lynn is doing more than campaigning. Lynn Jenkins' Trained Monkeys in Action http://blackbeard.blogivists.com/2008/07/23/footage-of-lynn-jenkins-and-her-trained-monkeys-in-action/ Proof that Lynn Jenkins and Prime Time are worlds apart. . . .  Lynn Jenkins and her Trained Monkeys http://blackbeard.blogivists.com/2008/07/23/video-of-lynn-jenkins-and-her-trained-monkeys/ On the short list of Democrats listed as vulnerable in November listed in today's Politico is Nancy Boyda.  "If there’s one moment in the freshman congresswoman’s brief congressional career that could come back to haunt her, it’s when she walked out of a House Armed Services Committee hearing last July during ... http://blackbeard.blogivists.com/2008/07/23/boyda-in-trouble/ Much has been made of Jim Ryun's out of state fundraising. He obviously has Kansas donors and he has a lot of Texas donors. A lot. And they aren't small dollar donors. Here are a few of them. I post these simply because they are curious. POWELL, MARK AUSTIN  TX 78703 06/04/2007 1000.00 ATLANTIC TRUST COMPANY ... http://blackbeard.blogivists.com/2008/07/22/jim-ryuns-texas-donors/ Who said politics is not a full contact sport? The information I share below is neither from Jim Ryun nor Lynn Jenkins' camps (as best I can tell). It is simply floating around the political grapevine in the 2nd District of Kansas and I thought I would track it down. ... http://blackbeard.blogivists.com/2008/07/22/nancy-boydas-character-problem/ Maybe we should just start calling Nancy Boyda "Two Face." She has been telling the 2nd District of Kansas from the first day of her tenure in Congress saying she will not take Washington, DC money. Yet her FEC report is choked full with labor union PAC donations, donations from ... http://blackbeard.blogivists.com/2008/07/21/nancy-boydas-funny-money/ Word along the political grapevine is that Lynn Jenkins said at a recent forum that "I have trained monkeys who could have done a better job in Washington, DC than Jim Ryun did." Just a wee bit snarky for little Miss Jenkins as she prepares to walk the political plank ... http://blackbeard.blogivists.com/2008/07/21/lynn-jenkins-trained-monkeys/