The Battle for America 2010: Rep. John Hall Worried He’s Not ‘Still the One’
Orleans music lovers need to update their fan sites. It’s now a fact: “Vote with Me” is Democratic Congressman John Hall’s least favorite song and he has made the legal threats to prove it.
Don’t be fooled by the playful guitar riff or catchy melody. This song is quickly becoming a headache for the incumbent. Despite his best efforts, it’s not going away.
Those of you who haven’t completely repressed the 1970s might remember John Hall as the former frontman for the mostly naked pop-rock group Orleans. He was the musical mastermind behind elevator classics with three-word titles like “Still the One” and “Dance with Me.” That was until 2006, when he was swept into office with a majority of fellow Democrats, winning the race to represent New York’s 19th Congressional District. This year he is pressed hard to defend his seat against a strong conservative challenger in Nan Hayworth. In fact, a recent Daily Kos/Public Policy poll showed Nan Hayworth up two points.
As you would expect, being a hit rocker has its fundraising benefits. John Hall’s celebrity has been a key strategy to his re-election. He books fellow music performers to hold concerts as opposed to campaigning. For example, he has opted for OFA astroturf over leading and organizing a local campaign, presented New Jersey Congressman Robert Andrews at a local town hall to explain his vote on health care, and sent a local mayor to read his answers at a debate he was supposed to attend with Nan Hayworth. If not campaigning, there is one thing that John Hall is interested in, and that is pulling Nan Hayworth’s Young Voters for an Orleans Reunion Tour off the Internet.
Like many brilliant ideas, the birth of Nan’s Young Voters occurred while sipping coffee at Dunkin’ Donuts. “We had just finished greeting commuters at a train station and were talking about how we liked Hall’s music, even though we thought his politics were driving our country off a cliff,” group leader and Yale student Michael Knowles explained. John Hall might just be one of the only congressmen proud to have “gone Washington” and like the rest of the 111th Congressional Democrat Caucus, John Hall believes his “constituency is Nancy Pelosi.” There wasn’t an Obama agenda item John Hall didn’t try to check: government bailouts, cap and trade, ObamaCare — I’m sure you are familiar with the list by now. In response, Nan’s Young Voters envisioned a website dedicated to reuniting John Hall with his old band.
Instantly, the idea paid dividends in media attention. The group’s first video was picked up by the New York Daily News, one of New York’s largest statewide newspapers. Realizing that what they had created was the perfect counter to Hall’s rock celebrity, they produced their own “Dance with Me” spoof music video called “Vote with Me.”
I love grass roots creativity. Hall’s response is good, too, actually. Would that more races have this much popcorn munching attibutes!
Um, attributes. Sorry. Caffeine deprivation.
just sent this on to fb twitter and stumble—love the idea and lyrics
FANTASTIC!!!! LOL
As Hall is my Congressman, I can’t wait for the opportunity for Election Day and vote against him. That way I can just turn off the radio whenever he comes on and I don’t have to wonder what he’s doing down in Washington ever again. When you think that serving the whims of a Botoxed horror from San Francisco is your political reason for being, then it’s time for the folks you actually sent you to Washington to send you on your way back to Orleans.
Michael Knowles is NY19′s Karl Rove!
I’m in the same boat as Akaky. I mean, Hall seems like a nice enough guy, and he’s been good on veterans’ issues, but he votes with the Wicked Witch of the West close to 100% of the time. That ought to disqualify anyone for public office.
More New York thoughts:
Q: How can you tell when Kirsten Gillibrand is lying?
A: Chuck Schumer’s lips are moving.
(Rimshot)
I am a constituent of NY-19 who has experienced first hand how evil John Hall truly is. I am one of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of people who repeatedly contacted his office since he’s been our “representative” to ask him not to go along with Obama & Pelosi’s destructive agenda (Obamacare, bailouts, gov’t takeover of 2/3 of our auto industry, card check, etc.) only to be ignored and then further insulted when John Hall would send me form letter emails bragging about how he ignored the wishes of his constituents and even asking me for campaign donations!
But not only is John hall a party hack who is completely out of touch from reality, he is also a tyrannical enemy of free speech & political dissent and quite possibly dangerously insane, in addition to being inextricably linked to radical leftists, corruptocrats and communists.
Here is my story of how John Hall launched a vicious and baseless smear campaign against me (forgive me if you’ve seen the following already elsewhere as I have been desperately trying to clear my good name & get the word out about what a shady nasty character John Hall truly is:
My own sitting Congressman, a member of the DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS OF AMERICA John Hall (NY-19) recently became unhinged when the little facebook political information page that I run voiced support for his opponent in this year’s election. He retaliated by sending out a mass email slandering my page and its nearly 600 fans as dangerous radical extreme bigots, when he is the one with all the dangerous radical affiliations and shady connections. In addition to his membership in an openly socialist group which in the past has posted advocacy for violence and murder, he has also enjoyed backing by George Soros and is being assisted in his campaign by Obama’s creepy activist agency, Organizing for America. He has contributed to and received funds from disgraced corruptocrat Charlie Rangel. Having been a rubber stamp for every anti-American big spending power grabbing policy put forth by Obama/Pelosi/Reid, John Hall cannot garner support based on the facts of what he has done in Congress, so all he has left is to use lies in a feeble attempt to attack free speech and political dissent – just like a true totalitarian. Since John Hall launched his baseless attack on my page I have been unfairly stigmatized, even by my fellow conservatives! Please feel free to share information from my blog and also the page which John hall lied about to all who would benefit from knowing the truth about this man and the dangerous alliances he has to the radical left.
Here is the page (which represents moderate conservative values and works to expose the leftist radicals who are trying to destroy our country & the MSM hacks who shill for them) that John hall’s campaign spread vicious lies about:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/ANTI-CRAPTASTIC/127576023926747
Here is an article in the New Media Journal which explains why John Hall’s attack exposes him as a true radical extremist who uses tactics of tyranny to silence political dissent:
http://www.newmediajournal.us/staff/puglis/2010/10022010.htm
The following links at my blog all contain the true facts about John Hall’s despicable act and his leftist extremism (in chronological order starting with his smear against my page which was reported in the NY Daily News):
http://politizilla.blogspot.com/2010/09/congressman-john-hall-ny-19-hates-free.html
http://politizilla.blogspot.com/2010/09/my-rebuttal-to-congressman-john-halls.html
http://politizilla.blogspot.com/2010/09/tell-congressman-john-hall-to-stop.html
http://politizilla.blogspot.com/2010/10/socialist-congressman-john-hall-ny-19.html
http://politizilla.blogspot.com/2010/10/congressman-john-hall-ny-19-is-among-70.html
The last link is particularly damning as it has a youtube video which explains about the dangerous and violent nature of the DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS OF AMERICA which John Hall and many other high ranking government officials belong to.
You all have my full permission to re-post any and all of it anywhere you like to help get the word out about how destructive John Hall really is and why he is unfit to govern.
Since he was first elected to Congress in 2006 (with the help of George Soros and many people who do not live here but have vacation homes here which they use the address for at the BOE to influence our elections), I contacted Hall’s office many times on a variety of issues only to be ignored every time and then later get an email from him not only bragging about how he’d done the opposite of what I had requested of him but also to solicit campaign donations!
After he made his vicious slanderous attack on the page I run and all of its fans, I tried to ask him why he’d done that on his facebook page. My posts were deleted and I was banned from posting there again along with dozens of others whose questions he refused to answer. He further slandered me and other innocent people by lying about us, saying we were “spamming” his page! He ignores his constituents, lies about innocent people and is a rubber stamp in Congress for Nancy Pelosi.
Please help me to get the word out about him!
Thank you.
He probably refused to answer because your Facebook page makes you look like a crazy. I don’t know if you have an agenda, if you’re capable of formulating an agenda, but your site doesn’t make anyone say “Hey, this is a rational citizen who I should answer.”