Posted on 10/09/2017 11:53:19 AM PDT by cotton1706
Longtime Republican donor Foster S. Friess said Monday that he is exploring a 2018 bid for U.S. Senate in Wyoming, making him the latest conservative figure to consider challenging Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), a low-key member of the leadership.
“Normally, over the years, I’ve dismissed these urgings,” Friess said in an email to The Washington Post. “But due to the stature of the people requesting, I sense a responsibility to prayerfully explore the possibility.”
Friess added that he is partly motivated by his concerns about the nation’s health-care system and his desire to see health-care providers “publish prices.” Those concerns, he said in the email, “might be enhanced by a position in the Senate.”
Friess, 77, did not specify who has encouraged him to run, but a person close to former White House chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon said the two men have had conversations in recent days.
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When the Establishment's attack ad playbook stops working, they're through! And with Trump and Moore as examples, we're just about there.
That’s nice.
At 77 he’s got one foot in the grave and the other foot on a banana peel.
Better he finds a fire breathing young’n and wills him his entire estate.
Barasso will be that hard to dislodge.
But this guy WAS a donor. I don’t know what publishing the prices for health care would do while Zerocare is in effect. At least at 77 - assuming he’s successful - he won’t be in the senate for many, many terms.
For crying out loud 77 years old...???
That’s crazy.
Erik Prince all the way, a much better choice.
True.
“If you look at the solutions that government comes up with, they’re almost always an unmitigated disaster,” Friess said at a recent speech to a Rotary Club in Minnesota.
Exactly, look to Bannon for direction. I will support whoever he endorses.
Ditto.
I smell a rat. This is likely a ruse to dilute the opposition to Barrasso. So far, Breitbart has been favorable toward Prince.
. . . and it took this long for him to notice this? It appears to me that Erik has the establishment scared S*&#less. Barasso must really be polling bad.
77 is not as old as it used to be. What is inappropriate is not so much years of age as years in Senate. Look at McCain, Cochran, etc. It’s obscene.
You forgot the fossil Hatch.
He was elected in Utah when I got my first adult job.
I’m now retirement age and...he’s still there.
77? He should stick to selling ice cream. Should he win there’s no need to finish out a 6 year term. Wyoming is safely red. His purpose would only be to take out the brassiere. It’s his own money but is it worth it? No need to spread the war too far.
POublishing prices is just one of many small reforms that are needed. There is no single silver bullet to make things better.
Repealing ACA is necessary. But the system was messed up before the ACA.
If this guy was running to replace John McCain in Arizona or Susan Collins in Maine I could certainly see the value of having him run ... but Wyoming?
US Senators seem to have an uncommonly long shelf life.
Good God, WTF with all these carpetbaggers targeting Wyoming? Liz Cheney was bad enough. Yesterday it was Erik Prince, today this bozo. Neither has any roots in the state. Why don’t we just put senate seats up for auction to the 100 richest or most newsworthy Americans? This carpetbagging Senate mentality is utterly flipping the finger to the founders intent.
Do they understand how insulting this is to Wyoming voters?
Its no different than Hillary buying a seat in New York. Cowards like him, Erik Prince, and Liz Cheney should take on democrat senators in their home states. Theres not much wrong with the Wyoming repub Senator they are going after.
He doesn't even live in Wyoming. Apparently he doesn't even live full time in his home state of Virginia. Dubai, UAE is listed as one of his residences. Is this really the guy you want in the U.S. Senate?
“Erik Prince all the way, a much better choice.”
Yeah, an admitted CIA asset, with neocon thinking and who wants the middle east wars to go on forever, with no political office ever held, a resident of Virginia, Abu Dhabi, and UAE, with a business based in China, with ZERO connection to Wyoming.
You aren’t supposed to drink the bong water.
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