Katherine Harris – Still a Crook

[existentialist]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alan-dershowitz/katherine-harris-stil_b_21494.html

Katherine Harris – Still a Crook

By Alan Dershowitz

Back in November 2000, while Katherine Harris was hard at work trying to suppress the voters' will by preventing a presidential election recount, I commented on Wolf Blitzer's program that the then-Florida Secretary of State was a crook. I thought it was significant that the person charged with handing Florida ballots was not only deeply entangled in the Bush campaign, but that she also had a history of corruption.

The backstory behind my allegation - entirely true and unchallenged - was that during Harris's 1994 state senate campaign, she had taken over $20,000 in illegal contributions. (The story was especially strange, given that Harris is independently wealthy. The University of Florida's football stadium is named after her grandfather.) Harris's campaign manager took the fall and was named an un-indicted co-conspirator in the subsequent criminal investigation that landed the corporate donor's founder in prison for five months. Two years later, Harris shamelessly sponsored a bill favorable to the offending corporation from which she had taken the $20,000 at the request of its lobbyists.

For pointing out Harris's seedy past I was subject to a barrage of abuse from the likes of The Washington Times ("When This is All Over, We Spray for Lawyers"), The Weekly Standard ("The Politics of Personal Destruction"), National Review ("Alan Dershowitz, Goofball"), and of course, various FoxNews shows.

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My e-mail for accepting apologies from my Republican critics is [e-mail].

[donco6]

1. The email address is a nice touch.

I wouldn't be holding my breath, though.

[patcox2]

2. He's a bloodthirsty warmonger

He can apologize to me for supporting, enthusiastically supporting, the Iraq war. Of course he has other allegiances.