Once again Pro-Abortion, Pro-Tax Increase, and Pro-Illegal Immigration Bob Corker has got himself into a conundrum.All during the 2006 Senate race, Corker has attacked Congressman Harold Ford Jr. for out of state fundraising.
He has also went out of his way to lambast his fellow Republican candidates Ed Bryant and Van Hilleary for being K Street insiders.
However, recent reports have revealed a dirty little secret that I am sure Bob did not want to get out.
It turns out that Corker is putting together a team of power players that have the ability to recruit various kinds of businesses that can establish a Washington fundraising structure that will help Corker raise out of state money during the 2006 campaign.
Roll Call reports, "Republicans hoping to protect their majority in the Senate this year can count on at least one strategic advantage: GOP candidates seem to have learned a lot about being team players.
Led by some of the lobbying world's top operatives, key Republican candidates are operating on a "team" fundraising approach, in which potentially diffuse support on K Street is molded into fundraising juggernauts benefiting Republican candidates for Senate."
"Help for additional GOP Senate hopefuls may be on the way. Fundraisers close to the efforts said they are considering assembling teams for Rep. Mark Kennedy, who's running for an open Minnesota seat, former Chattanooga Mayor Bob Corker, who's running for an open Tennessee seat and New Jersey state Sen. Tom Kean Jr., who's angling to oust Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez."
The bottom line: while Corker is campaigning in Tennessee, he portrays himself as a Washington outsider while bashing Congressman Ford for out of state fundraising and attacking Ed Bryant and Van Hilleary for being Washington lobbyists, yet he is now setting up a group based in Washington solely for the purpose to raise out of state funds.
Can you say D-O-U-B-L-E S-T-A-N-D-A-R-D?
I guess Corker is a believer in the old proverb of 'do as I say, not as I do'.
Hopefully, Tennesseans will follow that advice when he tells them to vote for him this year.
