Perhaps you prefer this one? :) (Lowell - 4/11/2008 5:59:30 PM)
Does Dick Wadhams have the curse of "macaca" or what? First, there was the George Allen fiasco that we all are well familiar with, as is most of politically observant America. Now, Wadhams is back in Colorado, and he's got another debacle on his hands:
This year Wadhams has resurfaced managing the campaign of none other than Colorado's Bob Schaffer (R), the de facto nominee for the seat of retiring Sen. Wayne Allard (R-CO). Schaffer is the sharpie who for no apparent reason extolled the merits of the guest labor system in the Mariana Islands in an interview about immigration policy he gave to the Denver Post.As we've noted over the last few days, the Marianas program has a rather poor record -- what, with beatings, forced abortions, child sex trafficking and so forth. From a political perspective, though, almost as damaging is that the Marianas (aka the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands) were deeply entwined with the Jack Abramoff scandal. So it really does seem like an unforced political error of almost Macaca-like proportions.
It's even better for Schaffer since in 1999 he went on one Abramoff's infamous Marianas Islands junkets, with pictures, no less.
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For now Schaffer seems to have gone to ground, refusing any interviews or comments to the press on his ties to the Marianas crew or his desire to imitate their immigration system, leaving it to Wadhams to speak for him and clean up his mess.
Interesting that Dick Wad(hams) has Schaffer not saying a word about this situation. Perhaps Wad(hams) thinks he'll have better luck with this strategy than he did with the "no he meant mohawk," "no he meant caca" strategy he tried with George Allen in the aftermath of "macaca?" We'll see how it all works out!
I always enjoy a good Dick Wad(hams) update.