In the continuing battle in the 11th Congressional District (Full Disclosure:  My client is Brad Goehring), the recent revelations of David Harmer taking his TARP golden parachute while making six figures (over $400K) and receiving unemployment benefits has rocked the campaign.  The problem probably wouldn’t be so bad for him except for the fact that in recent debates, David Harmer whined incessantly that running for Congress was the most difficult decision he has ever had to make in his life and that he wished he could own a home instead of just renting.  I guess when you’re a silver spoon politician’s kid life can be pretty tough.

True to form, David Harmer shows his mettle once again by sending out his wife to respond.  The Elizabeth Emken campaign has mercilessly attacked Harmer on this issue and a recent Stockton Record story highlighted the Harmer hypocrisy for decrying bailouts while stuffing dollars in his pocket.  The Harmer campaign earlier sent out Elayne Harmer to decry an attack on their faith after a mailer from Emken included excerpts of Harmer declaring in the Mormon Times that he would seek a seat in Congress for the third time. 

 In her latest email they don’t miss a beat to claim anti-mormon bias again by the Emken campaign to gin up some extra campaign contributions.  If one of the candidates proclaimed David Harmer having the wrong position on subsidies for Bangladeshi textile workers, it would probably take the Harmer campaign about 10 minutes to issue a release from Elayne Harmer decrying the venomous attack on her husband and their faith.

The best quote in the email may be this:  "These are serious times, and they demand a serious discussion of the issues."

Thank you Mrs. Harmer, now could you please go tell that to your husband when he returns to the 10th district this evening?

The 11th district is looking for a candidate tough enough to stand up to Nancy Pelosi, Barack Obama and Jerry McNerney.  Maybe Elayne Harmer has a case to be made in that regard, her husband obviously does not.

This entry was posted on Friday, May 28th, 2010 at 12:00 am and is filed under Blog Posts.