GOPers Demand Sean Duffy Salary Tape Be Pulled From The Internet

[MH1]

GOPers Demand Sean Duffy Salary Tape Be Pulled From The Internet

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/03/gopers-demand-sean-duffy-salary-tape-be-pulled-from-the-internet.php

ok this is a couple days old so maybe it was already posted, but I guess it doesn't hurt to be reminded how crass and out of touch these guys are.

First the Republican Party in Polk County, Wisconsin, pulled the tape of Rep. Sean Duffy (R-WI) fretting about making ends meet on his $174,000 a year salary from its own website. Now they want it gone from the whole Internet.

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The tape caused a stir for Duffy, a first-term conservative best known for his past as a reality TV show star on MTV's The Real World. Democrats flagged the comments about his taxpayer-funded salary (which is nearly three times the median income in Wisconsin) and criticisms began to flow Duffy's way.

In the clip, Duffy is asked whether he'd support cutting his own salary. Duffy says he would, but only as part of a plan where all public employees' salaries would be cut. He then said that the $174,000 in salary (not including benefits) he receives is a squeeze for his family of seven to live on:

I can guarantee you, or most of you, I guarantee that I have more debt than all of you. With 6 kids, I still pay off my student loans. I still pay my mortgage. I drive a used minivan. If you think I'm living high on the hog, I've got one paycheck. So I struggle to meet my bills right now. Would it be easier for me if I get more paychecks? Maybe, but at this point I'm not living high on the hog.

Cry me a river. (After you tell me how you voted on estate tax repeal, and continuing the Bush tax breaks for millionaires, and the war on women.)

[iwishiwas]

1. Double punk as Hollywood Duffy replaced Dave Obey.

[MH1]

4. ouch, that sucks.

Did Obey retire? Because it casts serious aspersions on the voters of that district if they chose this wad over Obey.

[iwishiwas]

7. Yes, he retired.

[NYC Liberal]

2. Streisand effect. It's the internet...the video can't just be deleted.

If they get one person to take it down someone else will put it up. No doubt thousands of people have already downloaded copies.

[QC]

5. Thanks for the reminder--I just saved a copy!

I just might have to post it on Youtube a few times myself.

[Ian David]

13. You can't stop the signal. n/t

[murielm99]

3. These repubs are so stupid about the Internet.

Of course, they are stupid about many things. But once it is out there, it is out there. It is never going away, asshats.

[eilen]

6. Now we will have to play it over Times Square. nt

[iwishiwas]

8. The Vicious Left-Wing Media Attack on Sean Duffy Posted: .....

Advice---to read before commenting.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/randy-turner/the-vicious-left-wing-med_b_843464.html

[gratuitous]

9. Dear Sean: That's not how the internets work

A dimwit and a nitwit. Care to go for the trifecta as a halfwit?

[SpiralHawk]

10. Whiney, value-free RepubliBaggers (R) are so out of touch with human beings...

Republicons should make a fact-finding trip to Planet Earth. There's a lovely country called the United States of America, and they would do well to learn about the lives - and incomes - of the people who inhabit this place.

And then the Republicons should STFU and stop whining about their $174 K a year.

Gawd almightee.

[MO_Dem]

11. Ooooh, it will make a really great campaign ad

:evilgrin:

[Ian David]

12. Is there a link to someplace where I can download a copy? n/t

[YellowRubberDuckie]

14. Let them demand all the want.

Once it is on the net, it is there forever. Let them go fuck themselves too.