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O'Donnell blames "thug" politics - David Catanese: O'Donnell blames "thug" politics

December 30, 2010

Former Delaware Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell is blaming "thug political tactics" for the allegations she faces about the potential misuse of campaign funds.

O'Donnell appeared on ABC's "Good Morning America" and NBC's "Today" show Thursday morning to defend herself against a report that she faces a federal investigation.

"I'm confident that we have always done everything to comply with all the rules and regulations," she said on ABC.

The Associated Press first reported and POLITICO later confirmed that O'Donnell is under federal investigation for allegedly using campaign contributions for personal expenses, including rent.

She blamed "two fired disgruntled" employees from her 2008 effort for the charges and said she was tipped off that the political establishment in Delaware was scheming to destroy her.

"We were tipped off. You don't need an anonymous source, you don't need a tipster to show that this is politically motivated," she said. "Unfortunately, I even expect more things to come."

O'Donnell, who has run and lost three times for U.S. Senate, did not rule out a future campaign and said she's launching a political action committee and writing a book "to give a voice to the voiceless."

"The movement has to continue to keep the politicians accountable ... and that's what they're trying to stop," she said to Robin Roberts on "Good Morning America."

(Read the original POLITICO story HERE.)


Her television appearances Thursday morning followed a remarkable statement Wednesday night, in which she accused both political parties in Delaware and the vice president of the United States of trying to destroy her political career.

Because media outlets such as AP and POLITICO used anonymous sources to report on the investigation, O'Donnell took the liberty of citing anonymous "high-ranking Democrat insiders" who informed her the establishment planned to "crush" her with investigations.

O'Donnell's campaign manager did not return a call and e-mail for comment, but O'Donnell's statement was e-mailed to her supporters later. Here's her entire response:

Since anonymous sources are being taken seriously, please allow me to share some tips I've received and keep the tipsters' identities anonymous. We've been warned by multiple high-ranking Democrat insiders that the Delaware Democrat and Republican political establishment is jointly planning to pull out all the stops to ensure I would never again upset the apple cart.

Specifically, they told me the plan was to crush me with investigations, lawsuits and false accusations so that my political reputation would become so toxic no one would ever get behind me. I was warned by numerous sources that the DE political establishment is going to use every resource available to them. So given that the King of the Delaware Political Establishment just so happens to be the Vice President of the most liberal Presidential administration in U.S. history, it is no surprise that misuse and abuse of the FBI would not be off the table.

And further connecting the dots, do you think it is just a coincidence that Melanie Sloan was a senior Biden staffer just before she joined CREW and filed her complaint against me?!

I have faith that our supporters and the general public will see right through these thug tactics. This is simply an Establishment trick to stop the anti-establishment Tea Party movement in its tracks. Heck, the Presidency is at stake in 2012.


Posted by David Catanese 11:10 AM

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