Well, here’s a good excuse to post on the lovely Kate Upton (as if I needed one). At New York Post , ” Sanchez in huddle with Secret beauty .” Also at London’s Daily Mail , ” NFL quarterback Mark Sanchez ‘dating underwear model Kate Upton’ .”
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Is Mark Sanchez Dating Kate Upton?
Over on the home page , I take a look at retired Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez – campaigning as “Ric” Sanchez — in Texas’ Senate race. Despite a lot of optimistic headlines when he debuted in the race, he’s been rather quiet since then: Despite all the fanfare, Sanchez has stumbled coming out of the gate, and the quiet debut doesn’t offer many signs that he’ll be the man to turn around Texas Democrats’ fortunes. His fundraising is pretty weak, considering the costs of running in Texas; in his first quarter as candidate, he raised about $160,000. ( In the 2008 cycle , incumbent Republican senator John Cornyn raised $19.3 million and spent $18.9 million.) By contrast, on the Republican side, former state solicitor general Ted Cruz raised about $800,000 in his first quarter and former Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert is putting more than $2 million of his own money into his campaign coffers. In Sanchez’s first quarterly report with the FEC, $9,000 of the $11,657 he spent in the quarter was to Integrity, a St. Louis tech company, for “website” expenses. Keep reading this post . . .
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Capitol Hill’s Other Dirty Laundry by Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate Copyright 2011 The same congressional panel that launched a preliminary inquiry into Weiner-gate this week has been diddling around with several other Democratic ethics scandals for years. These aren’t foxes guarding the henhouse. They’re sloths guarding the foxhole. The House Ethics Committee is now reportedly probing into Twitter-holic Democratic New York Rep. Anthony Weiner’s possible abuse of government resources while sending pervy messages and photos to young women across the country. The latest batch of Weiner’s leaked social-media self-portraits — more cheesecake than beefcake — showed him in various states of undress at the congressional gym. From what other public buildings has Ick-arus tweeted his junk? And how much time on the public’s dime did his government staff spend coaching Weiner girls to assist with damage control? Don’t expect an answer from the House ethics watchdogs until after Weiner’s first child enters kindergarten. The wheels of justice grind more slowly there than a dial-up modem. Weiner’s dirty laundry is just the latest addition to a teeming heap of scandal. To wit: The committee still hasn’t issued a final report into last year’s reckless Capitol Hill predator du jour, former Democratic New York Rep. Eric Massa. He’s the notorious creep who serially groped male staffers and subjected interns to “tickle fights” for months while then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi looked the other way. Then there’s Beltway swamp queen Democratic California Rep. Maxine Waters. Last summer, after a yearlong investigation, the House Ethics Committee charged her with three violations related to her crony intervention on behalf of minority-owned OneUnited Bank in Los Angeles. The panel accused Waters of bringing discredit to the House for using her influence to seek and secure taxpayer-subsidized special favors for the failing financial institution. Her Democratic guardians have successfully delayed a trial for 10 months. Another California Democrat, Rep. Laura Richardson, has been under the House Ethics microscope since the fall of 2009. She defaulted six times on home loans, left a trail of unpaid bills in her wake and allegedly failed to report required information on her financial disclosure forms while receiving special treatment from a lender. While the panel cleared her of “knowingly” accepting favors, she is reportedly the subject of a second probe into using employees on government time to work on her political campaign. The panel has also toyed for the past two years with Illinois Democratic Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.’s pay-for-play scandal involving charges that he or his staff sought to buy President Barack Obama’s former Senate seat. A separate congressional ethics office referred the matter to the House ethics panel after it “learned that staff resources of the representative’s Washington, D.C., and Chicago, Ill., offices were used to mount a ‘public campaign’ to secure the representative’s appointment to the U.S. Senate.” But Jackson’s House ethics probe remains on ice while the feds chase former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who was at the center of the scheme and remains on trial. The House Ethics Committee suffers from dysfunction by design. It is chronically understaffed and underfunded. The panel most recently went without a staff director for four months. Its investigative backlog was compounded by the partisan-charged suspension of two staff attorneys last fall who were knee-deep in the Waters’ probe. And the panel’s ranking Democratic member, California Rep. Linda Sanchez, is bogged down with her own ethical conflicts of interest. Sanchez’s chief of staff, Adam Brand, is the son of the lawyer handling Waters’ ethics defense. That lawyer, Stan Brand, also represented Sanchez and her sister, Democratic Rep. Loretta Sanchez, in a separate ethics case. The sisters engaged in smelly hiring shenanigans after an aide to Loretta embezzled money from the office account in 2006. Short of funds, Loretta “borrowed” three aides from Linda’s staff. House rules ban members from paying people to do work in offices other than their own. Miraculously, Loretta’s embezzling aide avoided jail time, and the Sanchez sisters escaped any sanctions for their payroll-sharing collusion. The House ethics opinion on the matter remains confidential. Intended to boost voters’ confidence in Congress (now at an all-time low), the committee’s stubborn secrecy and predictable wrist-slap punishments (see “Rangel, Charlie”) only make matters worse. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: House-soilers can’t be cleaners. Voters, not Washington politicians, are the ultimate ethics committee.
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Capitol Hill’s Other Dirty Laundry
Somehow, I suspect this is not the way Texas Democrats would like articles about their likely 2012 U.S. Senate candidate to begin : Former Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, who oversaw coalition forces in Iraq before retiring in the aftermath of the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal, is running for Senate in Texas as a Democrat. Two Democratic sources with direct knowledge of Sanchez’s plans said he will announce his run Wednesday on Facebook, then file campaign paperwork in San Antonio. The sources would speak only on condition of anonymity before the announcement. Oh, sure, the Senate race in Texas will probably be dominated by issues like jobs, the economy, gas prices, drilling on and off shore, immigration, taxes, spending, etc. But the Democrats are attempting to rebrand a figure they pretty vehemently labeled a villain less than a decade ago. That effect may linger, even if we suspect that most members of the party are, as Allahpundit eloquently puts it , “ridiculous frauds whose standards of behavior turn entirely on the party identification of the president.” Or the Senate candidate.
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Ricardo Sanchez, Still Instantly Associated With ‘Abu Ghraib’
-By Warner Todd Huston Making it easier every day to assert that Democrats hate the U.S. Constitution, once again we find a Democrat in Congress expressing disgust with the law of the land. This time extremist, left-wing Democrat Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D, CA) was heard complaining to a lefty radio host that many of her new
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Another Democrat That Hates the US Constitution
At The Blaze, “‘Well Loretta It’s Unconstitutional’: CA Rep. Sanchez Mocks Congressional Tea Party Republicans as Slow for Caring About the Constitution (With Bigoted Southern Accent!) “: And according to the Latino Politics Blog: ” This is vintage Sanchez — she loves to do voices .” Now, if the shoe were on the other foot, and Republicans slurred Latino Members of Congress as illiterate immigrant day-laborers, we’d be having civil rights marches and demands for resignations.
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‘This is Vintage Sanchez’ — Rep. Loretta Sanchez Slurs Congressional Republicans as Dim-Witted Southern Hicks
It may seem like forever ago, but there once was an anchor at CNN named Rick Sanchez who called Jon Stewart a bigot and said Jews run the media. Those comments led to Sanchez’s firing. Now, three months later, a group calling itself “Friends of Rick Sanchez” has launched a website defending the oft-ridiculed newsman. “This site has been put up by Rick’s friends, people who have cared about him for many years,” the site explains . “Rick is a good man with a long history of success in the television industry. We created this site because we don’t believe a man’s life should be judged by one misconstrued moment, one interview, one soundbite taken out of context. We believe that runaway headlines shouldn’t malign someone’s reputation, leaving him unemployed and ruined.” Among the chief claims of the site: Sanchez never said Jews run the media. It links to several articles that claim his now infamous rant was actually referring to “snooty white liberal elites.” It made that point clear during a couple recent tweets from it’s official Twitter account : A tour around the site, friendsofricksanchez.com, shows the deposed anchor hasn’t really been up to much. In the “Where’s Rick?” section, his “friends” spend seven paragraphs outlining his blase endeavors since the firing. Business Insider is unconvinced the site is the work of simply “friends,” and instead suggests its the work of the former anchor himself. BI also points out that Sanchez is appearing with Rabbi Shmuley Boteach soon in order to trumpet, not surprisingly, the same exact message his “friends’” are pedaling on their site: “My career path was changed because of a misconstrued comment, which very few actually even bothered to listen to. I have spent the last few months concentrating on my family, but instantly jumped at the opportunity for a public dialogue with my friend, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach. I look forward to addressing any and all questions and concerns of the Jewish community.” Sanchez has also been pushing the site on his own Twitter account : To recap, what we have is a completely, 100% independent site supporting Rick Sanchez and trumpeting the same I’ve-been-taken-out-of-context message he’s set to debut to a Jewish rabbi (who by the way wrote such gripping books as “Shalom in the Home” and “Kosher Sex”). Just coincidences. (H/T: Business Insider )
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Rick Sanchez ‘Friends of Rick Sanchez’ Launch Website Defense
“Hey I’m Mark Sanchez I just beat the Browns I talk with my hands n I wear raccoon hats!” That’s the caption New York Jets tight end Dustin Keller gave to a photo he took of team quarterback Mark Sanchez last night on the team plane. “What photo?” you ask. This one: Sanchez led the Jets to a dramatic overtime victory over the Cleveland Browns yesterday. I guess that calls for some tomfoolery.
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‘I talk with my hands n I wear raccoon hats!’
