Paul Welday’s Facebook page (I am an equal opportunity Facebook friend) today says he is “walking door-to-door winning hearts and minds everywhere he goes. It helps to take dog biscuits.” Maybe Debbie Schlussel doesn’t have a dog. Or maybe she doesn’t live in the 37th District - her mega-bio at debbieschlussel.com (check it out, some things simply defy brief explanation) doesn’t say where she lives. It does say, however, that Paul Welday has ties to Arab terrorist activity and Medicaid fraud, which sound like serious charges until you start reading.
A little perspective is in order. Ms. Schlussel - a conservative columnist who once went undercover as an observant Muslim woman to look for terrorist activity at the Islamic Center of America - says she has known Mr. Welday for more than 20 years. This is a woman so obsessed with stopping him, that when she heard Mr. Welday was considering a run for office, she bought up paulwelday.com, paulwelday.org and paulwelday.net, each of which will take you to a column she wrote about him in 2004. She ties him up with a thread that runs through comments he made while speaking on behalf of the Bush administration at a 2004 event, through Mr. Welday’s years as Congressman Joe Knollenberg’s chief of staff and, mostly, through Ms. Schlussel’s beliefs about certain organizations and individuals, which Mr. Welday does not share. She also pointed to a case involving Oakwood Hospital, where Mr. Welday’s brother is CFO. Oakwood was once investigated for Medicaid fraud over allegations the hospital helped Muslim women without U.S. citizenship have their babies at taxpayer expense. The government charged no one, and of course, Schlussel attributes this to Welday’s running interference through his work as a lobbyist. In fact, pretty much all of the tying Schlussel does has to do with Welday’s work as a lobbyist.
Schlussel’s action alert concludes with an unpaid endorsement of Welday’s primary opponent, Richard Lerner.
Which brings me to my next post…
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