"There were talking point memos sent from the National Republican Senatorial Committee suggesting language to urge Akin to drop out. Political consultants were ordered to stay away from Akin or lose future business with GOP committees. Operatives were recruited to set up a network of pastors to call Akin to urge him to get out. Money has changed hands to push him off the plank."
Shame on you, Mike Huckabee, forcing those poor GOP operatives do these things! /s
I said it before. I will say it again. This is a full blown 21st century LYNCHING. It is sickening and the mob is winning.
Repost:
“McCaskill spent a million and a half to help Akin win the primary. She wants to run against him.”
Crossroads spent a hefty amount itself, far more than clairebear. She has played reverse psychchology here. He is/was not as weak as how he is being presented here, and it’s nuts.
“He’s proven himself to handle the spotlight very poorly.”
Evidently, he has handled himself in and OUT of the spotlight for lo these many years...and quite well it would seem.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_Akin
Missouri House of Representatives
Elections
Akin was elected to the Missouri House of Representatives in November 1988, running unopposed to represent District 85 which included Town and Country and much of West County.[3] He won re-election in 1990 (59%),[4] 1992 (100%),[5] 1994 (70%),[6] 1996 (67%),[7] and 1998 (66%).[8]
Tenure
In 12 years in the state house, Akin voted for carrying concealed weapons, voted against the parks and soils sales tax, voted against the 1993 tax increase and education spending increase.[9] Akin sponsored legislation to prohibit casino companies from contributing to Missouri state lawmakers.[10] In 1995, he fought Democrat Governor Mel Carnahan on state-funding for abortion, which Akin opposed.[11]
Committee assignments
He was a member of the House Ways and Means Committee.[12]
U.S. House of RepresentativesAkin is listed in the House roll as “R-St. Louis”. The likely reason is that many areas in the St. Louis County portion of the district, including one of his district offices, have St. Louis addresses, even though the district does not include any part of the city of St. Louis itself.
Elections
In 2000, Republican U.S. Representative Jim Talent vacated the seat in his unsuccessful run for Governor of Missouri. Akin won a closely contested Republican primary election to replace Talent, defeating former St. Louis County Executive Gene McNary and State Senator Franc Flotron.[13] He defeated Democratic State Senator Ted House in the general election, winning 55 percent of the vote.[14] He never faced another contest even that close, and was reelected five times.
In 2010, Akin won re-election with 67.9% of the vote.[15] He had been challenged for the seat by Democratic nominee Arthur Lieber, Libertarian nominee Steve Mosbacher, and write-in candidate Patrick M. Cannon.
Tenure
Todd Akin voted for Paul Ryan’s FY 2012 budget, which would restructure Medicare.[16]
Akin is an outspoken opponent of abortion in all cases, including health reasons or in cases of rape or incest. He opposes embryonic stem cell research, is a supporter of the right to keep and bear arms, and is generally opposed to increases in taxation and spending. As a U.S. Representative, he has continued to support these views, earning a 96% rating from the American Conservative Union in 2008, and 100% in 2007.[17] Akin has an A rating from the National Rifle Association.[18]
Akin is a staunch advocate of a federal prohibition of online poker. In 2006, he co-sponsored H.R. 4411, the Goodlatte-Leach Internet Gambling Prohibition Act,[19] and H.R. 4777, the Internet Gambling Prohibition Act.[20]
Akin has spent significant time working on military and veterans issues. On the House Armed Services Committee he currently serves as the Chairman of the Seapower and Projection Forces Subcommittee, which handles all Navy and Air Force issues. In the past he has served as Ranking Republican on the Seapower Subcommittee and the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee. Akin has also introduced a number of veterans-related bills, most notably the Open Burn Pit Registry Act, which creates a registry for Iraq and Afghanistan veterans who were exposed to burn pits.
Committee assignments
Committee on Armed Services
Subcommittee on Tactical Air and Land Forces
Subcommittee on Seapower and Expeditionary Forces (Chairman)
Committee on the Budget
Committee on Science, Space and Technology
Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics
Subcommittee on Energy and Environment
Caucus memberships
Republican Study Committee
TEA PARTY CAUCUS
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You see why they want him gone?
“I believe what we are watching is nothing compared to what McCaskill’s oppo research has compiled. When it’s too late, and all the deadlines are past, I think she will unload years of Akinisms that may be as bad or worse than what he’s currently backpedaling from. And you can bet some will dovetail nicely with the national War on Women.”
And what do you think would happen with ANY staunchly prolife CONSERVATIVE candidate, which Akin obviously IS?
129 posted on Thursday, August 23, 2012 1:49:28 AM by MestaMachine (obama kills)