On 10-13-10, ROSS SAUER said to ALL:

RS>Well, the word is out.


RS>The US Chamber Of Commerce gets $885,000 in donations from foreign
RS>corporations.


RS>And the Chamber of Commerce's answer to this exposure?
RS>They refuse to admit to it, and blame "blogs from George
Soros" for the
RS>exposure.


RS>So if in an "issue ad" you see it's from the US Chamber Of
Commerce, you
RS>can make a sure bet the money is from some foreign corporation, especially
RS>ones owned and run by communist China.


Well, the word is out. You lied about your military career. That gives you a
lot in common with this guy:


His Name Is 'Dick'


By Ann Coulter (Archive) Thursday, October 14, 2010


If the Bush administration ever treated terrorism suspects the way Connecticut
Attorney General Richard Blumenthal treats law-abiding citizens and small
businesses, even conservatives would have blanched.


This activist, interventionist Democrat -- like his identical, slightly less
oily twin, Eliot Spitzer -- decided at age 5 he was going to be a U.S. senator
and then the first Jewish president. And he doesn't care how many lives he has
to destroy to get there.


Currently, Blumenthal is running for the U.S. Senate against Linda McMahon in
Connecticut. He must be stopped.


Even his ideological ally, The New York Times, thinks he must be stopped. That
paper ran a front-page expose on Blumenthal's lies about having served in
Vietnam, violating a century-old Times tradition of never printing information
unflattering to a Democrat.


Blumenthal apologized for lying about being in Vietnam, saying, "I take full
responsibility." Who else was he considering blaming? The voices in his head?
Among Blumenthal's taxpayer-funded citizen-persecution projects was the one he
waged against Gina Kolb, owner of Computer Plus Center in East Hartford.


After selling $17.2 million worth of computers and servers to the state in
2001, Kolb found herself being sued by Blumenthal for $1.75 million for
allegedly overcharging the state $500,000.


Publicity-whore Blumenthal sent out an accusatory press release about Kolb,
saying: "No supplier should be permitted to shortchange or overcharge the
state without severe consequences."


Soon thereafter, Kolb was arrested at her home on seven first-degree larceny
charges, courtesy of Connecticut's crazily hyperactive attorney general.


Wonder why you have a $4 billion deficit, Nutmeggers? Blumenthal's endless
investigations into responsible, law-abiding citizens like Kolb have now cost
more than the entire Iraq War. (And that's just the cost of the paper for
Blumenthal's 12 billion press releases!)


A court dismissed all charges against Kolb and her company in 2008. But not
before this female businesswoman had her company completely shattered by the
pathologically ambitious attorney general.


I'm sorry, I know you need to be on television every single day, Dick, but
that's not enough of a reason to destroy innocent citizens' lives, much less
use taxpayer money to do so.


Kolb was far from the only innocent citizen persecuted by Blumenthal. The
reason we know her story is that, instead of moving as far away from
Connecticut as she could, Kolb turned around and sued the state for violating
her constitutional rights.


The jury agreed, awarding her $18 million for Blumenthal's "pattern of
conduct" that destroyed Kolb's business and impugned her integrity.


Noticeably, the attorney general who spends most of his waking hours phoning
reporters, holding press conferences and issuing press releases did not make a
peep about Kolb's total vindication in court, despite his having earlier
blackened her name. Perhaps he was busy attending a fake Vietnam veterans'
reunion that day.


To the contrary, Blumenthal continued using the power of his office to
persecute Kolb. This is the problem with government officials using taxpayer
money to further their own political ambitions: No one could tell him to cut
his losses and stop harassing Kolb.


Blumenthal filed a blizzard of motions -- at taxpayer expense -- appealing the
jury's verdict in favor of Kolb. One of them finally succeeded in getting a
judge to reduce the damages to Kolb, who presumably is now living in Hawaii
under an assumed name so Blumenthal doesn't start making crank calls to her.


(She should go to Vietnam! Blumenthal will never find her there!)


Connecticut taxpayers spent millions of dollars harassing this innocent
businesswoman, successfully destroying a profitable, job-creating computer
company in the state and one law-abiding taxpayer in the process. Thanks,
Dick!


Blumenthal's 24-hour publicity office managed to produce a gleaming press
release on the reduction of Kolb's damages award, in which he vowed to
"continue fighting to overturn this verdict."


Asked by Charles Kochakian of the New Haven Register about the case and
whether Blumenthal ever released a statement when a victim of his legal
harassment was vindicated, Blumenthal essentially said: No one is ever
vindicated. Just because no wrongdoing was found, he said, doesn't mean
wrongdoing didn't occur.


Welcome to Connecticut, where you're guilty until proved innocent (and you can
never be proved innocent).


Most shockingly, Blumenthal said he would never issue a press release about
one of his publicly accused targets being vindicated because "new evidence may
well emerge."


"New evidence may well emerge" that Dick Blumenthal is a child molesting ax
murderer. But until it does, no one has a right to say so. Hello? ACLU? Heard
of Dick Blumenthal?


Everyone in Connecticut knows Blumenthal's name, largely on account of his
daily press conferences for nearly two decades as attorney general, announcing
lawsuits to combat every minor inconvenience. Arby's served jalapeno poppers
at 114 degrees? Blumenthal is holding a press conference at noon!


This hyperactive, publicity-mad lunatic is constantly announcing new lawsuits
far beyond the purview of his office, like some New England version of Hugo
Chavez. This won him the title: "Worst Attorney General in the
Country" from
the Competitive Enterprise Institute.


He's sued power companies for contributing to "global warming," asking the
courts to impose cap and trade -- a bill so absurd neither Obama nor the
Democratic Senate will touch it.


He's sued gun companies, trying to hold them responsible for criminal acts by
third parties involving guns.


He's sued tobacco companies so he could extort millions of dollars for his old
law firm and other legal cronies overseeing the shakedown -- I mean
"settlement."


Blumenthal is now in a tight race with Linda McMahon for the U.S. Senate. I
understand why Connecticut would like to get rid of him, but that's no reason
to foist this menace on the rest of the country. How about sending him to
Vietnam?



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