Evidently Feeney's 2002 race was quite contentious. His friends, I mean those people with whom "his only connection was as an attorney prior to 2002", Yang Enterprises, solicited their employees (and subcontractors) to contact television stations to demand they "cease and desist from running" his opponent's "outrageous" political ads.

Why? Because "Mr. Jacobs accuses his opponent, Tom Feeney, of using undue political influence with the Florida state government to obtain contracts for YEI and also to get state employees fired for reporting such undue influence."

According to Yang, these accusations "are bold face lies and are unconscionably calculated, for political reasons, to harm innocent families and business people – such as you and I."

Poor Yang Enterprises. The fake outrage continues: "Negative political campaigns are bad enough in America today, but when they are calculated to harm innocent bystanders, it is too much. They indicate a gross and reckless disregard on the part of Mr. Jacobs and his political cronies of the truth about YEI and its longstanding and respected professional and personal competence in the business community."

Oh stop it, Mrs. Yang! You're killin' me.

Source: http://eqs.sdrdc.com/eqs/searcheqs Search case #5336.

lmao!!!

Brad~
lol! Tom Feeney for Emperor!!

It takes courage! It takes Tom Feeney to commit fraud, run unopposed, get bribed and join the Wikipedia's Hall of Fame.

Joan, right you are! Tom Feeney for Emperor!

Goodness!!! Did I detect a little sarcasm in Brad"s post. Nah! Sometimes the truth is more than laughable.

Feeney is on my top ten list of GOP basterd's that I would most want to see do the perp walk. The added bonus would be if the smut on Feeney lead a trail to the most evil corrupt Florida politician of all, JEB!

Yes, please, don't forget us blues, stranded on that hopeless iceberg known as the state of Florida. My fellow citizens have been so disenfranchised and lied to that they wouldn't recognize the truth to save their lives. Many of us are in therapy and/or on Prozac just to deal with the daily cognitive dissonance which is our life. Battered Voter Syndrome.

I said it during the sElection and I'll repeat it again: Don't count on Florida. This state is far too gone, we are way too embedded with GOPer's. Please, send help!

Sorry Brad, as much as I've appreciated virtually all your blogs to date, this one seems more like flailing than substance. It tends to dilute past and promised future Feeney arguments.

I truly believe that the 2004 election was stolen and was hoping that the Feeney stuff might be a way to unravel the facts. Unless I am missing something, this blog does nothing toward that end.

So where did that nearly million dollars in campaign money go if there was no campaign? Voting software?

re #7 : George, I mean this with no disrespect to the Brad Blog, but how many people do you think read Wikipedia? Getting information about Feeney onto a site like Wikipedia seems like a great idea to me. If the major media won't spread the word then we might as well use the alternatives, no?

Re: #7 ...George

Consider this.

If a candidate runs "uncontested", shouldn't voters have the opportunity to write-in a candidate of their own choosing? Especially when redistricting has created a political advantage for a specific party. At least give those 40% in the minority a voice and a choice, even if it's a feeble one. If I interpret this correctly, this statute was added in 2003. Who proposed it, and why? If redistricting eliminates possible challengers, isn't that also voter manipulation and control? If I'm not mistaken, Mr. Feeney was also quite acitve in the redistricting in Florida.

As to the exposure of Mr. Feeney on Wikipedia, he has accumulated an enormous amount of political influence, and with that in mind, his past, present and future proposals, bills, amendments, etc., will impact all of us. Information has to be available on a wide variety of sites - we all need to be informed - especially when we have an administration which thrives on mis/disinformation.

Lori - great point.

In our little town, when there are no "declared" opposition candidates listed on a ballot, spaces are provided for write-ins. That's the law. That's the only democratic, as opposed to autocratic, way to go about things. For a "candidate" like Feeney to declare he has "won" an election when his name doesn't even appear on the ballot is pretty far along - just about there, in fact - on the road to a dictatorial regime.

BTW, on Nov. 2, several Progressive candidates for town offices were elected, ousting (or at least diluting, in the case of committees) a couple of old-guard entrenched conservatives. It works. That's why they changed the law in Florida.

Try searching on "Bridgette Gregory" or "Bridgette A Gregory" along with "Feeney" for some funny results.

#12 ...News Junkie

Thanks for the very entertaining search suggestion.

#11 ...Peg C

Always enjoy your posts.

Hi all,

I would love to invite everybody to come to Wikipedia and help! If you've never contributed to Wikipedia before, check out our welcome page and our neutral point of view policy, probably before you contribute.

We love newcomers, but sometimes it can take a little while to get the hang of contributing.

Also, please note: Wikipedia is not public domain. It has a very liberal copyright policy meant to encourage the creation of freely-reusable texts, but it protects ourselves from somebody taking our text, changing it, and not letting us use the changes.

Look forward to seeing you there!

What a totally odoriferous piece of work Tom Feeney is! Thanks, NEWS JUNKIE, for the linkage.

And today, Amy Goodman on Democracy Now was citing him as a leading hunter of "lenient judges" who uphold the law and impose sentences in line with evidence and criminal history instead of minimum guidelines.

Maybe those "soft judges" will be just what he needs when HE stands before the judgement seat...

:O And we're teaching Iraq about democracy. What lesson covers crony capitalism. I hope he has a good seat at the inauguration. I say just appoint Diebold to the Iraq elections and the Iraqis will never even have to leave their homes to vote. The head of Diebold has already guaranteed that Bush's appointed candidate will carry Anwar province. We will teach them democracy if we have to kill everyone to do it.