Labor & Employment Law

Blanche Lincoln, The Senator From Virginia

By admin

This is a crosspost from Blue Arkansas.

Nice house, right? Certainly nicer than almost anything you see regularly here in Arkansas. Guess who owns it. That’s right, Blanche Lincoln. (It’s in her husband’s name.) And guess where it’s located. Helena? Nope. It’s located in Arlington, Virginia. That’s right, Senator Lincoln, the person who’s spent her whole campaign trying to scare people about Bill Halter being rich and childishly calling him “Dollar Bill,” has a home worth over 2 million bucks IN VIRGINIA!

Now, normally I wouldn’t run a piece like this, but I think it’s relevant for two big reasons. First and foremost, Lincoln has based much of her campaign around attacking Bill Halter for his (self made) wealth, calling him, as I said, “Dollar Bill” and “a multi-millionaire.” Yet here she is, a multi-millionaire herself, living in a very expensive home out of state. Complete hypocrisy on her part.

Secondly, Blanche’s only big selling point is how much she’ll do for Arkansas on the Ag. Committee. Between this, and all her privately funded travel (a HUGE majority of which was to places out of Arkansas), I think it’s pretty clear that Senator Lincoln’s commitment to Arkansas is skin deep, like so much else.

As I said, Lincoln brought this on herself with this Dollar Bill crap. She could have taken Halter’s offer on ending negative campaigning, but she just had to keep trying to scare people with the whole “he’s rich!” line. Now, like Senator Rick Santorum in ‘06, she now has to address both a residency issue and questions about her commitment to Arkansas.

Full post as published by AFL-CIO NOW BLOG on May 07, 2010 (boomark / email).