Re Paul Hackett’s Ohio Candidacy for the US Senate: A Question
It’s apparently official:
“Paul Hackett is running for U.S. Senate,” said spokesman David Woodruff, who served as Hackett’s campaign manager in his special election race against Jean Schmidt. Hackett is planning to officially announce his decision on Oct. 24 in his hometown of Cincinnati and then begin a bus tour through Ohio, Woodruff said.
On June 15, the day after he won Ohio’s 2nd Congressional District Democrat primary, in a one-on-one radio interview with WLW talk show host Bill Cunningham, Hackett stated that, according to detailed notes taken by me at the time, “if elected he will get out of the reserves, but if he loses he will go back to Iraq” (sixth item under Hackett at link).
Not “probably.”
Not “expects to.”
Definitely not “unless a better offer comes along.”
And absolutely not “unless I become the darling of Bill Maher, Chris Matthews, and the moonbats of the left.”
The unequivocal answer was that he would go back.
So that leaves only one question: Will Paul Hackett be returning to Iraq immediately after the bus tour, or will he be able to wait a few weeks?
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UPDATE: The unconditional promise to return was reported several times in local papers in the runup to the June primary, and may have been present on the Hackett for Congress web site at the time (it’s obviously not there now).
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BizzyBlog Flashbacks:
- 2nd Congressional District (OH) Special Election: Anatomy of the Campaign’s Greatest Deception (Hackett-Bush-Iraq)
- 2nd District (OH) Congressional Election: Hackett-Schmidt Guest Toons in Review
- Democrat Congressional Candidate and Bush Critic Uses Presidential Video Footage, Pretends to Support the Iraq War
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Oct. 5 Outside the Beltway Jammer.
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Pingback by NixGuy.com » Blog Archive » A Question for Paul Hackett — October 5, 2005 @ 8:48 am
Have you tried doing a ‘wayback machine’ search for the reference on his old web site?
Comment by Porkopolis — October 5, 2005 @ 12:29 pm
#2, Wayback isn’t opening at the moment (grrr).
Comment by TBlumer — October 5, 2005 @ 12:41 pm
Hackett ditches commitment, joins bandwagon
Of course, Hackett isn’t the only one who wants to see Senator Mike Dewine out of office. Speculation is that Republican Bob McEwen may also seek the seat.
A Hackett/McEwen race… I wonder who BizzyBlog would hate more?
Trackback by Project LOGIC — October 5, 2005 @ 6:14 pm
#4–Talk about a nightmare scenario. “Hate” isn’t the right word. “Despise” is short of hate. I don’t want to see any of them come to harm, but I sure as bleep don’t want either to be a Senator.
Comment by TBlumer — October 5, 2005 @ 6:45 pm