Hey Queen, whats going on in MD? Drug addicts paid to attend pol rally?

[valvano]

drug addicts being used by the Dem running for Senate?

http://www.washtimes.com/metro/20060724-111915-6219r.htm

that's pretty slimy

[QueenAdrock]

Rales campaign manager Robin Rorapaugh later said via e-mail that the recovering addicts "were recruited by one of the campaign's contractors without the knowledge of the campaign."

"If I can help people who have some drug issues ... participate in the democratic process, I think that's great," [Rales] said.

Getting people to attend rallies is slimy? Getting recovering addicts involved in politics is slimy? Or do you mean the Washington Times trying to paint him out to be a bad guy is slimy? I agree with the last one. They were "unpaid volunteers," if they didn't want to be there, they didn't have to be. So you should probably read the article before you post it saying that they're "PAID" to attend the rally. They paid the institution to let them take the addicts TO the rally. I don't see anything wrong with that.

[valvano]

They paid the institution to let them take the addicts TO the rally. I don't see anything wrong with that.

so if a politician wanted to pay a child care center to take the children to a politcal rally and use them as a prop, then that would be okay???

:confused:

[kaiser soze]

drug addicts being used by the Dem running for Senate?

http://www.washtimes.com/metro/20060724-111915-6219r.htm

that's pretty slimy

yeah it's unfortunate...but bush had already copyrighted all the children as backdrops for his photo-ops

it sucks

[QueenAdrock]

so if a politician wanted to pay a child care center to take the children to a politcal rally and use them as a prop, then that would be okay???

:confused:

If they agreed to go and their parents said it was okay, then absolutely. If they were VOLUNTEERS, then who's to say they can't go? If you read the article, it says they paid for the vans. The vans transported the recovering addicts.

"They used our transportation service," he said. "We rent vans. They rented the vans from us."
Before the debate, the ICWC volunteers wore white-and-blue "Rales for Senate" T-shirts and held up signs outside the university's student union building.

[Ali]

If you read the article.Vulvano can't read, he can only spew.

[Bob]

so if a politician wanted to pay a child care center to take the children to a politcal rally and use them as a prop, then that would be okay???

:confused:

valvano, are you claiming that a politician used drug addicts as a prop? that's the public image you want, surely. babies, flags, and drug addicts, that's what you want in a photo-op

[yeahwho]

Thats nothing, how about this jackass (http://www.slate.com/id/2108852/).