What Have I DONN To Deserve This?

You know that has to be on the mind of Donn (the second N is silent) Stanley, as he's named the current campaign manager for the Big Lug Nut.

If you had six months in the Abby Curran pool --YOU LOST and the scientific community is united in that fact.

FIRE IN THE HOLE as another rodent leaves the SS Lug Nut.

What does Donn deliver to the campaign?

He was the Iowa Deputy Secretary of State for Communications when the BLN held the top job, where it looks like in 1999 one of their projects was internet voting and that the BLN was convinced there would be real Internet voting in the states within the next 10 years.

EPIC FAIL!

Lately, Stanley was an ASSistant Attorney General for Tom Miller and had hopes of being appointed U.S. Attorney for Iowa's southern district.

I'm sure this will be a nice gig too -- INCOMING!

Best Wishes

I was at the Lakeview Surgery Center this morning, when I heard a familiar name called out -- Don Stanley.

I noticed a man in Drake University sweats and ball cap.

I couldn't help but wonder if it was the Big Lug Nut's Donn (the second N is silent) Stanley.

If so, the Liter wishes him well and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Probably nothing serious, maybe just a LUG-ectomy.

Helen Wheels?

The Big Lug Nut's campaign has carjacked Terry Branstad's campaign vehicles.

Uh, oh, Terry Branstad’s Winnebago is a no, no!

Branstad bought two vehicles for his campaign after consulting the director of the Iowa Ethics and Campaign Disclosure Board.

Iowa campaign law prohibits a campaign from vehicle purchases. Campaigns, instead, are required to lease.

The director of the state agency has now admitted his error -- “I gave them improper guidance, It’s my mistake, and I apologize...".

Culver campaign manager Donn (the second N is silent) Stanley showed some road rage saying -- "This is a continuation of a pattern of the Branstad operation believing they are above the law."

Stanley is making an issue of it because Branstad signed the law 19 years ago and he should know more than the man whose job it is to administer it.

Stanley's solution?

“I think what they have an obligation to do is disgorge this from the campaign."

DISGORGE?

That sounds like something the Big Lug Nut needs to do to drop a couple of tons and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Days Of Future Past?

It's interesting that the Big Lug Nut wants to argue about preschool, because he's acting like a child (please).

Sweaty Chetty started with, he "barely got half of the vote" and "He won by less than 10 points".

Then he had a hissy about polling, "...polls aren't always right" because Terry Branstad "was expected to win by 30 points".

Argue about the percentage if it makes you feel better, but Branstad won and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Just like a child (please), Sweaty Chetty wants money with no concern about where it comes from...

Culver hopes tax money covers preschool...He has not said how he would pay for the expansion.

Sweaty Chetty, just like a child (please), has no idea of how much things cost...

$90 Million?

$100 Million?

This fall the cost is $64 million to taxpayers.

Culver's current campaign manager, Donn (the second N is silent) Stanley, weighed in with...

"There's really no better metaphor for the difference in the race because it's about the future versus the past. You don't get any more 'future' than 4-year-old kids."

Thereby pissing off the under 4 demographic.

Hey Bartender

I'm amazed at the Big Lug Nut's campaign, and some in the medias buy in, that I-JOBS isn't about jobs.

The name I-JOBS must be confusing them and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Even before Culver called it I-JOBS, his proposed less catchy Rebuild Iowa Infrastructure Investment Bonds (RIIIBs? ...mmm ribs) was designed to "create jobs" and "strengthen the economy".

He then used his “Shovel Ready” tour to show the immediate impact the I-JOBS program could have.

In early community visits to places like Clinton, March 2009, Culver emphasized -- "This proposal is all about job creation and economic development".

"This is going to allow us to create not only really good construction jobs....but, potentially a number of really good paying permanent jobs".

"What we're trying to do with this bonding proposal...we want to create jobs, we want to invest in bricks and mortar, we want to invest in economic development opportunities".

In September 2009, James Q. Lynch of the Cedar Rapids Gazette weighed in with -- As its name implies, Iowa’s...I-JOBS initiative is about job creation.

However, his next sentence showed the problem -- So where are they?

Lynch found the possibility of employment for 20 bartenders and three clergy.

Dave Price, until he took a break for the birth of his son -CONGRATS!, has hounded Culver and company since April over how many jobs have been created.

Because the jobs aren't there, and to take advantage of the Lake Delhi dam crisis, Culver's camps have tried to shift focus to flooding.

Culver campaign manager Donn (the second N is silent) Stanley criticized a Terry Branstad ad (What Jobs?) as showing “a combination of being arrogant and being out of touch that they are attacking a program that has been helping flood victims at a time of another big flood.”

The administrations official spokesperson, James Flansburg, said of the job numbers, “That’s only one element to it.”

Tim Albrecht, a Branstad spokesman, put it -- “Changing their message midstream does not change the fact this program has failed to create the number of jobs promised.”

Midstream...LOVE IT!