News More Casey v. Savage Press
From today’s Washington Post:
The campaign of Pennsylvania Senate candidate Bob Casey Jr. has returned a $2,100 contribution from syndicated sex columnist Dan Savage because of his “vulgar” jokes about conservative incumbent Rick Santorum—which, no, we can’t reprint. Savage said Democrat Casey’s campaign originally accepted the money… and invited him to a fundraiser before having a change of heart; he said yesterday the donation has been accepted instead by an unaffiliated group campaigning against the senator.
From today’s Philadelphia Daily News:
The Philadelphia Inquirer reported this week that Bob Casey’s U.S. Senate campaign had rejected a $2,100 check from Dan Savage, the syndicated sex columnist whose work appears in Philadelphia Weekly. The Casey people decided that accepting money from the not-always-tasteful Savage, who has a vulgar anti-Santorum Web site, would cause more trouble than it was worth….Smar said there is no firm policy on donations from sex columnists.
“We vet all checks we receive very carefully,” Smar said. “If they pass the vetting process, we’d accept them.”
The Savage money will still benefit Casey. After the rejection, Savage sent the check to Philadelphians Against Santorum, a group headed by Ray Murphy that’s registering young adults whose views on sex are closer to Savage’s than Santorum’s.
“We’re proud to accept Dan Savage’s contribution, and he can rest assured that we’ll smear Santorum like no one else in Philly can,” Murphy told us, tastelessly.
From Wonkette:
No one has done more to ruin Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Penn.)’s good name than sex columnist Dan Savage… with the possible exception of Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Penn.). After the senator compared gay sex to bestiality and pedophilia, Savage ran a contest to rename something sexual in his honor. The winner: “The frothy mix of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the byproduct of anal sex.”Earlier in the year Savage donated $2,100 to Santorum’s opponent, Democrat Bob Casey. And Savage learned what Traci Lords, Marilyn Chambers, and Richard Nixon learned before him: It’s hard to go legit.
it sounds more and more like Casey did the right thing. this way, Casey looks good to the prudes who vote.