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June 11, 2008 03:37 PM UTC
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“Those close to the debate negotiations report that the hold up is apparently the Schaffer campaign’s insistance that Campaign Manager and mouthpiece Dick Wadhams be allowed to not only accompany candidate Schaffer to the debate, but actually appear with him on the set/stage and answer all questions. Wadhams, who has managed several Republican campaigns, has taken a much more active role in Schaffer’s campaign than in any of the others he has managed. Observers speculate his more activist role in this campaign may be due to his experience managing Virginia Sen. George Allen’s re-election campaign. Prior to his defeat in 2006 Allen was viewed as among the top tier of potential Republican nominees for president in 2008. Allen’s aspirations were dashed along with his re-election chances when he was allowed, unscripted, near a live microphone and uttered a racial slur. This was captured on camera and within days viewed millions of times on YouTube.”
I can’t imagine how in the world Schaffer can possibly expect anyone other than the “21%” to view him as credible if he comes off as so weak that Wadhams has to change his diapers at a formal debate between 2 candidates for the United States Senate. Arvadonian, if this is accurate, Udall can and should air a major campaign advertisement exposing Schaffer for what needing his campaign manager to speak for him in such a setting is……a child, totally unqualified for the job.
My previous post was an inciteful witicism.
Likely not too far off from the truth, but nonetheless presented as humor.
In reality, there is no way Wadhams would allow Schaffer to share the stage with him;-)
When I proposed an online debate Schaffer accepted (via Wadhams) and Udall declined (because of my proposed co-moderator).
Don’t assume the problems are solely due to Wadhams. He may be a “Dick” but that doesn’t mean things are always his fault.
Wadhams could just sit at the keyboard and type the answers.
Maybe Mark Udall should propose having a debate on unions and his support of organized labor. They should also discuss his support of the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) also known as the card-check bill. This bill is a massive handout to organized labor and would overturn decades of settled labor law in order to give organized labor an unfair advantage in union organizing, at the expense of employees’ privacy. We need to urge Mark Udall to join the 94% of Coloradoans who oppose the card-check method of forming a union.
Let’s tell Mark that like Bob Schaffer he must come out in favor of sweatshop factories, no union representation for anyone, and forced abortions on all employees.
Mark coddles workers way too much…
Even given stunning advances in medical technology, it’s not clear Schaffer turns a blind eye to forced abortions on anyone but female sweatshop workers.
I don’t think Schaffer is going to touch anything related to labor/management issues. At least as long as Udall can form the words “forced abortion” and “Marianna Islands”.
They’ve made marvelous advances in electronic miniaturization since 2004.
http://www.visualfuturist.com/…
Along side, or behind, Schaffer?
He’s a puppeteer, not a ventriloquist, isn’t he? That would just be weird if Schaffer conducted the debate while seated on Dick’s lap.
The idea of having Wadhams answer the questions for his candidate is ludicrous.
Who would be the puppet on a string?Wadhams? Shaeffer? The oil and gas lobby?
On a secondary note: In an era in which corporate executives salaries tower 400% above the average worker, how can anybody claim that labor has unfair advantages regarding organization?
For CEOs, it’s more like 4,000 pct. Only by including mid-management can you bring it to 400 and, then, its probably too high. With the avrage worker lucky to see 50k, the typical CEO feels oppressed if he only draws $2 million.
I believe my base salary figure is about accurate. You are correct in that they make their total compensation package much larger. They spend a regular workers’ salary betting on the golf course.
400 percent is four times … that’s a good disparity between an average entry-level office worker and someone who’s stepped into middle management ($10 an hour vs. $40 an hour.)
Pay disparity between average workers and their corporate executives is orders of magnitude beyond that.
Take a look at this interactive feature on Portfolio’s web site, which shows how the pay ratio has grown from 28:1 in 1970 to 465:1 in 2005.
Think stock options, etc., account for most of the difference? Last summer, CNN Money reported:
That doesn’t include the kinds of incentives you rightly point out swell the disparity even further. Still, executive base pay isn’t 400 percent of average workers’, it’s more like 27,000 percent.