Two Senate candidates walk out of GOP dinner
The Associated Press
March 26, 2002 1:16 am
Posted on 03/26/2002 4:44:10 AM PST by Constitution Day
The Associated Press
Two Senate candidates walk out of GOP dinner
March 26, 2002 1:16 am
CONCORD, N.C. -- Two Republican candidates for the U.S. Senate walked out of a GOP dinner after a party official refused their request to speak.
Elizabeth Dole was the keynote speaker at the Cabarrus County Republican Party's annual Reagan Day dinner on Monday. Other GOP candidates were invited to attend but not speak.
One of the candidates, Ada Fisher, posted herself outside the club with a sign protesting the denial of what she called her "free speech."
When Dole arrived, Fisher complained about the perceived slight.
"I'm delighted to have you come in and speak," Dole told her. "Why don't you go tell them that it's fine with me."
Dole made similar comments to rival Jim Snyder of Lexington.
Last week Cabarrus GOP Chairman David Black said Dole campaign officials had said they prefer other candidates vying for retiring Sen. Jesse Helm's seat not speak at Monday's dinner, which served as a party fund-raiser.
Though Snyder left, Fisher went into the dinner and took a seat at a table with fellow Senate candidate Douglas Sellers of Rowan County. During the introductions, Fisher blurted out: "Do we get our chance to speak that Mrs. Dole said we could have?"
"Mrs. Fisher I'm sorry," Black replied. "But we're running about 45 minutes late tonight."
Fisher and Sellers stood up. Turning to leave, Sellers announced, "I'm not afraid to look at any of you. Please don't be afraid to look at any of us."
Fisher, Snyder and other GOP candidates have complained about what they see as the preferential treatment party officials accord Dole. Critics complain that Dole is getting unusual help from party officials -- including President Bush, who has plugged her on three trips to North Carolina since January.
As she left the Speedway Club, Fisher was still angry.
"I can beat anybody in a fair race," she said. "But when you tie me down and stuff my mouth so I can't talk, it's a little difficult."
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Bush and the GOP can cram that compassionate conservatism where the sun doesn't shine, they are compassionate to everyone but the people they owe a duty to.
Oh, well Liddy, that's mighty nice of you!! One candidate has to give their go ahead for the others to speak? The more I read about this woman, the sicker it makes me. The RNC has picked their candidate. There are some in this state that think she's the only Republican candidate. Might as well give this RINO the seat. Might as well vote for Erskine Bowles. At least he'll look you straight in the face and tell you he's a liberal. And people ask why the Constitution prevented the general public voting for Senate races...
Oh! This is funny! With all the talk of what's constitutional and what isn't, this is a potential embarassment for her since she apparently doesn't understand the Constitution, either.
The First Amendment states, "CONGRESS shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances."
This doesn't apply to private property. In my home, I can throw whoever I want out on the street for saying the slightest thing I don't like. This doesn't mean I actually would, but, I'm not violating anyone's Constitutional rights if I were to do so.
This woman's "free speech" was not curtailed. You don't have "free speech" at someone else's party. Congress is not supposed to deprive you of free speech, but people in their private homes and/or gatherings can.
Why not just elect your local liberal communist democrat and save yourselves a lot of grief and dissapointment?
There are RINO's everywhere starting at the very top of our government. Rush Limbaugh can't even hide his dissapiontment any longer and is making a valiant effort to be supportive of a president who is clearly advancing the liberal agenda. Bush has krapped on his conservitave base...Worse, he has the all the RINO's as well as the communists in Congress helping him.
So it goes....RINO after RINO lies, people are suckered in, he gets elected.....and our life, liberty and property are pounded into the RINO rat hole.
She stepped away from the Red Cross job in the nick of time. Convenience or conspiracy?
I was dispirited by B. Dole's nomination and the giveaway of that election, now L. Dole stands to repeat the fiasco.
DOLE IS NO HILLARY! On the carpetbagging issue that is.
DOLE IS NO HILLARY! On the carpetbagging issue that is.
Yeah, but she's a Big Pro-Gunner now.
She changed her position papers and pamphlets and everything.
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