Katherine Harris BUSTED; padded her resume, list of accomplishments

[CatWoman]

Harris pads role, impact on housing, reports say

WASHINGTON — On the campaign trail and in her literature, U.S. Rep. Katherine Harris boasts that, as a freshman member of Congress, she passed the American Dream Downpayment Act, "enabling 4.5 million low-income workers to own their first home while growing the U.S. economy by $256 billion."

Federal reports indicate Harris' claims are grossly exaggerated.

A Government Accountability Office report issued June 30 found that, through 2005, only $98.5 million of the $211 million Congress appropriated had been used by local governments to help more than 13,000 low-income families buy new homes — far below her claim of 4.5 million.

Harris also has taken projections of the Bush administration's goals for expanding minority homeownership and used them as the basis of her claims for the economic impact of the American Dream Downpayment Act.

Harris' congressional spokesman, Gerry Fritz, conceded Wednesday that the claims in her campaign literature were inaccurate.

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/nation/epaper/2006/07/13/m1a_HARRIS_0713.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=17

[MADem]

1. BUSTed.....PADDED??????

Hmmm, I thought Moxie and Spunk were a surgical feat, not a couple of boxes of Kleenex!!

[burythehatchet]

18. mmmmm ...... Moxie and Spunk

[NewYorkerfromMass]

20. Well she has

padded her BUST with silicone.
And she did pad Bush's Florida vote totals in 2000, while she busted Gore's.
So there's no shortage of truth in these words.

[Coexist]

21. ROFL - you made a BIG funny.

hee hee hee.

[Fridays Child]

2. Don't listen to the naysayers, Kathy! We love ya, hon!

:evilgrin:

[warrens]

9. Yeah, keep running and spending daddy's money

Like I said earlier, I'll help you pick out a nice shopping cart when you become homeless.

[iconoclastic cat]

3. "Is this a bust?" nt

[kiki]

10. Yes, it's very impressive...

...but that's not important right now...

[WI_DEM]

4. It is too late for them to put another candidate in isn't it?

She is going to go down hard.

[Orangepeel]

6. there are two people running against her in the primary

but neither of them is anyone who could beat Nelson.

[robinlynne]

23. That's why the repubs tried to get her to step down....

[Mz Pip]

5. Inaccurate campaign literature???

Horrors! But her supports don't give a f*ck. They will follow Moxie and Spunk over a cliff. Grossly exaggerated works well on all fronts with those folks.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[SammyBlue]

7. If her resume includes "election thief," "cast-iron bitch" and

"overall harpie," then it's a legit resume.

The rest is pure bullshit.

[H2O Man]

8. No way!

This noble lady just enjoyed being a part of such an exciting couple of moments in history.

[spanone]

Another lie from a Bushco family member....what's new?

Lies have become a form of entertainment from these criminals. The saddest part of it all is that Americans let them get away with it.

[spanone]

11. Another lie from a Bushco family member....what's new?

Lies have become a form of entertainment from these criminals. The sad part of all is that Americans let them get away with it.

[nealmhughes]

12. Wow! That means that over 1 out of every single 600 Americans has

got a Harris House now!

How in the world could her staff have let such a ridiculous claim go to print? The math is pretty simple: 300 E6 divided by 4.5 E6....

[mikeytherat]

19. Even better -- market research shows approx. 45,000,000 property

owners in the U.S. That means one in 10 property owners has a Harris House!

What a doofus. I think they took out her brain, and stuffed it into her boobs.

mikey_the_rat

[TahitiNut]

13. "I was instrumental in withdrawing all U.S. troops from Viet Nam."

I could literally put such a statement on my resume and be 100 times more truthful than Cruella Harris has been. Who, in their right mind, would brag about being a wart on the ass of progress?


In 1969, I (re)designed, wrote, and implemented the key in-country computer-based systems by which the DOD/USARV managed troop strength and draw-downs in Viet Nam - the "Strength Accountability System," the "Enlisted Personnel Requisitioning System," and the "Officer Requisitioning System."

[mavoix]

14. Katherine Harris BUSTED...

I think I saw on C-span this a.m. (on a crawler) that 5 of her staff had just up and quit. Anyone else see it?

[CatWoman]

15. I saw a thread about it somewhere around here

check page 2.

[Flying Dream Blues]

16. Bwahahahahahaha! nt

[Ron Green]

17. Florida again. I'm keepin' track.

[Czolgosz]

22. Resume padding? Does her resume imply that she's human?

[Joanne98]

24. Katherine Harris is such a boob!

[The Count]

25. Why, Katherine? Why? You don't need any padding, we all know

who you are! You're a national figure - like Scalia and Delay. Wear it proudly!

[unblock]

26. "harris claims to have INVENTED mortgage financing!"

:rofl:

[jberryhill]

27. Awww... give her a break....

After all, we know that counting is not her strong suit.

[CatWoman]

28. *SNAP*

:D