Last week, I wrote about the tough times for the Florida's doyenne of electoral deceit, Katherine Harris. Already badly trailing in her Senate race to unseat Democrat Bill Nelson, revelations a week ago showed that Harris accepted $32,000 in illegal campaign contributions from Duke Cunningham sugar daddy, defense contractor MZM.
Now comes the latest chapter in the decline and fall of Katherine Harris. On March 1, the Sarasota Herald Tribune reported that former Harris scheduler Mona Tate Yost left her staff in April 2005 to take a job with MZM. Just three days later on March 4, the Washington Post reported that Harris in 2005 requested $10 million in funding for a Navy intelligence program in her district at the urging of MZM's Mitchell Wade. It was the very same Mitchell Wade who directed the illegal campaign funds to Harris in 2004
Some have compared Katherine Harris to Marilyn Manson or even "Leona Helmsley on Halloween." While reasonable people will disagree, there can be little doubt that she has joined Jack Abramoff, Duke Cunningham, Tom Delay and many more in the ranks of the Banana Republicans.