Posted on 03/28/2014 4:37:05 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
Seems like the real deal, I got a fund raising appeal from him recently.
Anyone know anything about him?
Looking for Florida info
http://calvinturnquest.com/the-first-of-our-freedoms-the-right-to-life/
The First Of Our Freedoms, the Right to Life.
Agreed!
His opponent is Patrick Murphy; hope he tosses him out!
Best of Luck and Prayers!
Who?
Beats me.
I hope he’ll toss Murphy out. Isn’t West running for his old seat?
No, West isn’t running again.
Here’s another Black GOP candidate running for Congress (in Allen West’s old seat).
He needs money.
Former State Rep. Carl Domino is the only Republican with close to enough.
BTW did you know that Patrick Murphy’s middle name is “Erin”. AFAIK that is exclusively a girl’s name.
Yeah, I know. At least it ain’t Mary.
I wonder why he isn’t.
Erin in Irish is also a boy’s name. It could be that his mom honored a relative with the name. Our middle son’s middle name is Ashley, named for my wife’s uncle. (wife is a Brit, we met at UCONN and Ashley is still a boy’s name there.)
I think he announced early on he wasn’t going to run. It’s possible he may have bigger plans for 2016, so running for an office he may not be spending all his energies to serve in might be why. I’m hoping he runs for Senator against Rubio, who went native 5 minutes after arriving in DC, betraying the very reason he was elected.
I believe that “Erin “ means “Ireland” in Irish Gaelic (”Erin Go Bragh” means “Ireland Forever”).
I wasn’t aware “Erin” was ever used for boys. “Behind The Name” http://www.behindthename.com/name/erin lists it as female only. But other sources (wikipedia) do list it as unisex, must be pretty rare for boys. It’s # 39 in popularity in Ireland, for girls.
I know “Ashley” was/still is used as a boys name too. Mostly in the UK and American south. A similar name is “Lindsay”. There are a few others I think, like “Leslie”. I know when I’m looking up a southern candidate with one of those names it’s usually a guy. Actually, I think with those names they began as surnames, then started to be used as male given names and THEN female names.
“Madison” is now one of the most popular girls names, I can’t stand it. All because of that stupid move where Darryl Hannah is a mermaid who names herself “Madison Avenue”. It means “son of Maud”, the “son” part is right there!
You might be interested in this onomastic discussion.
I had been hoping that Adam Hasner would run in this district. His name had been mentioned, but I’ve read nothing recently.
I wanted Hasner to run there as well, since he could raise the money to be competitive with Murphy and likely would beat him in November. The choices in the district are underwhelming, a mix of interesting candidates with no money and has-beens with some money. Murphy is the only Democrat in FL holding a seat carried by Romney, and we have a chance to wipe out all Democrats in Romney districts nationwide this November (we’re already assured of picking up UT-04 and NC-07 due to retirements from Matheson and McIntyre). I’m going to be really pissed if we blow this race.
Murphy is an odd one. He supposedly put out feelers last year about switching parties (!) but was rebuffed.
Lesley is the given name of Bob Hope.
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