From Stephen Stromberg of Salon:
Posted by DeLong at August 5, 2004 09:25 AM | TrackBack | | Other weblogs commenting on this postRep. Katharine Harris has earned herself another dubious distinction. After doing her best to secure Florida's electoral votes for President Bush in 2000, the former Florida secretary of state turned U.S. Rep is now inventing terror plots to boost Bush's campaign. The AP reports today:
Republican Rep. Katharine Harris said Wednesday she regrets concerns caused by her claim that a plot existed to blow up the power grid in Carmel, Ind. City officials disputed the claims of a plot. 'I was told in an open, group setting that a recent situation threatened a Midwestern community and that it had been diffused,' Harris said Wednesday. 'I regret that I had no knowledge of the sensitive nature of this situation and any undue concern this may have caused.'
But the Florida lawmaker stands by her statement that the United States has thwarted more than 100 potential terrorist attacks. Harris, who was at the center of the political storm over the disputed 2000 presidential election, made the comments about terrorism and the plot on Monday at a rally for President Bush in Venice, Fla., and a subsequent interview with the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. She told the audience that while in the Midwest recently, a mayor told her about a plot in Carmel and how a man of Middle Eastern heritage had been arrested and hundreds of pounds of explosives were found in his home. 'He had plans to blow up the area's entire power grid,' she said, according to the newspaper.
City officials in Carmel said they know of no such plot.
Carmel, Indiana? That would be Dan Burton's district, the guy who shot the bullet into the watermelon. Is there a connection?
Posted by: bakho on August 5, 2004 09:38 AMWolf!
Posted by: Nina Katarina on August 5, 2004 09:49 AMHey, so I'm gullible! Cut me some slack, OK?
Posted by: kharris on August 5, 2004 10:00 AMThat shameless foreign hussy Terreeza shoots her foreigner mouth off, and you liberal America haters criticize the kind and beautiful Katherine Harris. A woman who has served her country, her President, her soul.
What is the world coming to? Katherine knows that we've turned the corner, and you don't. You're jealous of her mind. Because your mind doesn't know freedom.
Posted by: Free Lover of Freedom and Free LIberty on August 5, 2004 10:45 AMCan't bloggers spell the trull's name correctly? It's not as if she hasn't been in the news. K-a-t-h-e-r-i-n-e.
If she's getting to see classified information, the Bush Administration should be charged with treason, just on general principles.
Posted by: Charles on August 5, 2004 11:48 AMKatherine Harris should get out of Florida and return to Stepford for reprogramming. The voters from her district who believed she best reflected their intellect and values need their batteries checked. They all are an embarrasment to the rest of us here in Florida.
Posted by: Vaughn on August 5, 2004 12:32 PMWell luckily, we are not ruled by Katherine Harris. And if the voters in Florida have any sense we never will be.
But do you think Senator Shelby was the one who leaked the classified info?
Posted by: KevinNYC on August 5, 2004 01:09 PMMy hat is off to "free lover of-etc"in the above post,a dittohead & parrot, in that he has stated at least 5 or 6 talking pts of the GOP-slime machine. its too-oo-o bad that he doesn't have a mind of his own to do some thinking and ckeck the facts out.
The slutty bimbo Katherine Harris,formerly of the Jed Bush,Florida voter Crime Family,who you stated served her country,her President,her soul,along with her p---y has again made false & lying headlines which she was made famous for in the 2000 election voters recount.
The Bush crime family,along with Dan Burton of INDANIA are like the motorcycle biker gang in they like to share there "women",so off the bimbo Katherine Harris goes to Washington D.C. to serve another "BUS-H".
Thank goodness,we had a reporter who knows KATTIE well & check the facts of her lies,& low and behold discover that bimbo KATTY lied & made up her story to suit the GOP slime machine & the BUSH crime family.
Carmel, Indiana, is a small (but fast-growing) bedroom suburb. Lots of rich Republicans, and not-so-rich Republicans who want to be rich. I cannot imagine why anyone would think to bomb the power grid there. I mean, it's a SMALL power grid, in a really unimportant place. Presumably she got some info from somewhere... but we'd have to question the intelligence of anyone who thought knocking out power to Carmel, Indiana, would terrorize. After all, every month or so, a tornado or thunderstorm does just that, and everyone's used to it. Maybe the Midwest isn't the most effective place to disrupt power? It happens all the time quite naturally.
Posted by: ali on August 5, 2004 04:33 PMAccording to AP (and my own recollection of the odd spelling in 2000), it is in fact Katharine, not Katherine.
Posted by: torridjoe on August 5, 2004 04:51 PMIs ther mercury in that make-up?
Posted by: Palolo lolo on August 5, 2004 05:11 PMI like to think that both sides can be responsible and not spread misinformation and not politicize issues, but it looks like I am wrong.
Posted by: Brian on August 5, 2004 09:25 PMAnd what's up with "diffused"? Does Katharine commit mispellings in her speech? Did the AP writer make a mistake? People, these are the questions we should be asking ourselves.