Stabbed in the back by a fellow Democrat

[CatWoman]

By The Hill Staff
April 24, 2007
Shocking news out of Florida! Nearly nine months after Rep. Robert Wexler (D) said that cocaine and prostitutes are fun things to do, someone wants to take the lawmaker’s job. Imagine that!

No one in the political world has forgotten Wexler’s comments to Comedy Central’s Stephen Colbert last summer, especially Democrat Ben Graber, who announced last week he is challenging the sixth-term incumbent in the 2008 primary.

Graber, an OB/GYN doctor who has held political offices in Florida, told Under the Dome yesterday that the comments were not themselves the reason why he got into the race. But will he be using the Wexler-Colbert interview as political ammo on the campaign trail? Oh, yeah.

Graber, who is apparently not the kind of guy to let a gag go unpunished, suggested Wexler may not have been joking when, egged on by Colbert, he looked into the camera and said he enjoys cocaine and prostitutes “because it’s a fun thing to do.”

“There are many ways to look at it,” Graber said. “Maybe he was shocked and the truth came out.”

http://thehill.com/under-the-dome/wexler-cocaine-comment-may-haunt-him-2007-04-23.html

[blogslut]

1. Sleeeeazy

Cheap tactic.

[Phredicles]

2. This Graber sounds like a bad guy;

is it a sure thing that he's not some kind of stealth candidate (either a Publican plant or a Larouchie)?

[SteppingRazor]

3. My own take on this:

"FLORIDA POLITICS — THE HOOK AND THE CROOK
Moving to the state level, Democrat Ben Graber, the former Broward County commissioner who lost a state Senate bid in 2006, announced he'd run against Democratic Rep. Robert Wexler for the House's District 19 seat in the 2008 primary. Graber said that Wexler was vulnerable due to his support for the Iraq War, which may be true, but given the fact that Graber debated switching parties to run against Ron Klein in District 20 before deciding on a race against Wexler, he's hardly the Democrat to outflank Wexler from the left. Despite Graber's reasonable name recognition in the district, this race is all over but the crying. Somebody get the hook and get this guy off the stage."

http://blogs.southflorida.com/citylink_dansweeney/2007/04/the_hair_the_bible_and_the_bom.html


Put more bluntly, Graber'll get stomped.

[CatWoman]

4. LOL

"Somebody get the hook and get this guy off the stage."

:rofl:

[SteppingRazor]

6. To clarify, though, Graber is a long-time Democrat...

but he's self-serving more that party- or people-serving.

[NNN0LHI]

5. I bet if someone digs a little they will find a Republican funded former Green here

Just a feeling. Its there MO.

Don

[nealmhughes]

7. Does he think Eleanor Holmes-Norton also hates Colbert?

[Geoff R. Casavant]

8. Is she the DC rep? I love their give and take.

I gotta confess, tho, I can't tell if she's serious or "in on the joke" half the time. She doesn't seem to be the type of person who would sling the insults she does, so I assume she's in on it.

[JitterbugPerfume]

9. good grief

any half wit who watched that episode would know it was just a gag. I hope this Graber person goes down in disgrace, never to be heard from again