Bowling for dollars
Two of our favorite blogs — MyDD and The Fighting 29th — are tag-teaming Randy Kuhl’s $2.5 million in Federal loans for the Roseland Bowl bowling alley in Canandaigua. Here’s MyDD’s take:
Here’s what’s weird. It’s worth noting that Roseland Bowl’s loan is coming from the Department of Agriculture, which is part of the executive branch and run by Bush partisan Mike Johanns. That’s useful to know because one of the main ways that the Republicans maintained power in Congress was through Congressional earmarks to vulnerable districts. When the power to put Bridges to Nowhere disappeared with the Democratic takeover, it seems that in order for this political machine to work the executive branch would have to pick up the slack and push cash to critical districts. And lo and behold Randy Kuhl is on Karl Rove’s watch list as a vulnerable seat, which we know from a presentation given to personnel in the non-partisan General Services Administration.
Two point five million will buy you a lot of those funny bowling shoes, my friends.
I hope Kuhl has good backspin when he bowls… he’s going to need some serious rhetorical backspin when this really hits the fan.
Teagen Goddard has also linked this story in the “southpaw” section of his Political Wire, which is another very good national political blog.