When pondering the situation one wonders why Davis was having research done on who actually gave money to his vastly underfunded and non-PAC money taking opponent. My goodness, how thin-skinned can you be. And a thousand dollars is a drop in the bucket compared to all the money that Davis raises.
This is how Tom Davis functions. It's all down to the dirty dollar where Davis is concerned. A prominent area Democrat can't even give from his private funds to support a fellow Democrat without the primadonna of the 11th District getting upset. Imagine the fun if Davis actually loses the election!
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Tom must be having a bad season... he used to be nice to you even when you supported the other guy.
I gave $1000 to the Robert McBride campaign in 2000, and worked a lot to get his name recognition up there. The sad truth is Robert (as a 3th and 4th party candidate) never had a chance, and even the Democrat in 2000 did not have a chance to beat Davis in the 11th (anyone remember who that was?).
I contacted (then) my congressman about the insidiously evil Tauzin-Dingell handout to RBOCS and got very nice responses from Congressman Davis despite his being aware of my supporting an opponent. Once I discovered him to be responsive, I contacted him on several issues - until I moved out of the district in 2002. He was always responsive, always polite, and only agreed with me on that one issue (Tauzin-Dingell - the NetNeutrality issue of it's time).
I guess it is easy to be magnanimous with constituent service when you are assured of victory!
Lying Republicans.
Once, Davis even had a candidate fired from his job so he wouldn't run.
There are many stories about Davis bullying contributors so they wouldn't contribute to his opponents. Andy Hurst told a gathering of supporters one time that Davis even called partners at Hurst's law firm to try and coerce them into not contributing to Hurst.
Davis plays nice guy when he is out in public, but he is really a nasty individual who seeks and gets revenge against his enemies.
And let's not forget that he votes with Bush more than 90% of the time, he is an ardent supporter of the Iraq War, and he voted in favor of the marriage amendment.
What a guy!
Is this incident well attested? Has the mainstream press picked it up?
I've got the nice version on tape (from the ethnic rally) where Davis says he went out of his way in a rain storm to help change a flat tire for a woman because he saw she had a Davis bumper sticker.
It boils down to this: if you do something for Tom he'll be nice to you.
You bet he keeps an eagle eye on who donates how much to whom. What I told him at his Annandale office was, "Yes, I did. It's not you, Tom, it's your party. It's a mess." But by now, unfortunately, it IS Tom as well as his party. He is too entangled in the whole creepy and disgusting mess.
First, Tom did not call to me on my porch; we were no where near my house. The whole conversation took place by the Republican booth as I was walking home with some items I had bought at the fair. In fairness to Tom, he seemed less angry about my monetary contribution to Andy Hurst than other things. After all, in a much friendlier conversation at the Dale City July 4th parade I had disclosed to him that Andy Hurst was a personal friend of mine and that I thus felt compelled to support him. At that time Tom indicated he understood and gave me an example of his having had to do the same thing in the past. He responded that as elected officials we still shouldn't "go after" each other, which I thought was reasonable, and reflective of the Tom Davis that I will admit (which will score me no points with Democrats) I have often voted for since my days living in Fairfax.
What really seemed to have set him off at the fair was not my giving money to a personal friend, but his belief that I had been "trashing" him on the Hurst web site. I've no idea where he got his information, but it was absolutely false. Not only have I not trashed Tom, but to my knowledge I've never been quoted, paraphrased, or even mentioned on the Hurst web site save for a photo shaking the hand of a Hurst volunteer from a period before I was an elected official. Also in fairness, in terms of bad temper it was not all one-sided. I admit to having been both surprised and angry at him for his accusation for a whole host of reasons, only one of which was that it wasn't true. After repeatedly arguing about the inaccuracy of his assertion--my guess is that a staffer just gave him bad information--we both calmed down and that was the end of it.
Earnie Porta
Leave it to the Republicans - they make the sorest winners. I'll fight them every day, just like the big dog, the last rightfully elected President, Bill Clinton. Just like Andrew Hurst.
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Or maybe Andy Hurst is making him pound the pavement this election year, for a change?
Maybe he was making sure the new report on the Abramoff "investigation" - the one that didn't include any information from Abramoff was stripped of the information to show that Abramoff and Davis raised money together at the NRCC and Abramoff made payments to Davis's campaign funds.