October 09, 2009 05:53 AM UTC

McHoltzman?

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• by: TaxCheatGeithner

It’s a good thing Congre$$man McScandal raised a hefty chunk of change this quarter.  He’s gonna need it.  

After a fumbling, bumbling start of his campaign — followed up by his admitted law-breaking on voicemail — then a good ol’ fashioned whoopin’ at the GOP Straw Poll last month, it’s clear the McInnis braintrust (sorry if I just made you spit your coffee out) has decided to petition on to the ballot.  

This strategy reminds us of 2006 when Napoleon Holtzman set out to buy his way on to the ballot, just to learn the hard way that money isn’t all that matters.  

No one should fool themselves.  McInnis spent 12 years in Congress and the last 5 years as a corporate lawyer-lobbyist.  He has plenty of favors to call in. The question is: considering it will cost him no less than $500,000 to petition his way on to the ballot next year, where will he go to raise money the next couple of quarters? Can he pay for petition circulators and still keep Hesse, Duffy, Culpepper, Tonner, etc. whole? Will he continue using federal PAC money to pay his staff and family under the table?  Enquiring minds want to know…

PS — Wouldn’t it be nice if the media asked questions like: “Congre$$man, are you 100% committed to going through the caucus/convention process next year?”  We all assume his plan is to go around the party next year (based on his antics in Keystone) but let’s get some confirmation, eh?