Posted on 05/21/2019 10:06:21 PM PDT by Michigan Bowhunter
And the hits keep on coming!!!!!!
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Are you Tom Norton? Where is his resume? It’s commendable he is a vet but so was Hunter Biden.
No. Tom was on WOOD1300 AM earlier this morning. Will post interview later.
The article makes it clear that Lower’s bio was substantially correct, and explains why Dr. Calley’s $10,000 loan (which he later forgave) that paid for less than 10% of Lower’s $120,000 education had been omitted from the bio in the first place; Lower then pulled the bio in order to correct it and will put it back on to his website soon.
Here are the important passages from the article:
“Lower replied to the post on Facebook later the same day:
“John thanks for catching this. Your dad is a great guy, and I’ve always appreciated him helping me out when I really needed it my first year of college,” Lower wrote.
“We’ll get it updated. I believe the team was trying to make the point that I come from a working class background. In the lead up to the announcement, it got missed.”
The line about Lower paying for his own education had been removed from his campaign website by Tuesday afternoon, along with the rest of his biographical information.
A spokesman for Lower said he paid for more than 90 percent of his education, which cost $120,000, and that Dr. Doyle Calley — father of Brian and John Calley — loaned him $10,000 during his freshman year.
“This was a loan that he later gifted to Jim,” spokesman Steve Mitchell said by email.
“Dr. Calley made it clear to Jim that he wanted this to be anonymous, which is why Jim did not mention it in his bio.”
John Calley said his father worked at a factory while in college and developed a relationship with its owner, who ended up helping with his tuition.
“So my dad returned the favor, in a ‘pay it forward’ sense,” Calley wrote.
Lower went on to graduate from Michigan State in three years, skipped a semester and went on to Grand Valley State University for a master’s in business administration, Mitchell said.
Lower has said his family struggled when his father lost his job after Electrolux moved its plant from Michigan to Mexico.
“Brian and John were both very good friends, and Dr. Calley knew how tough things were. I have been forever grateful for that loan of $10,000 that he later converted to a gift,” Lower said in a statement.
“I have always honored his desire for anonymity on this gift, which is why I did not mention it. Dr. Calley is one of the finest, most generous men I have ever met. He gave me the ability to get through the first year and from there, working almost full time while a student, I paid the remaining $110,000 it took to get my education.”
John Calley provided the following statement from his father, Doyle:
“My son came to me with the concern that his friend couldn’t attend college, and I thought that it was a travesty that someone with James potential wouldn’t be able to fulfill his dreams without assistance. So I paid for his first year. And I did forgive the loan.” “
But as I wrote before, I’m not sure that Lower is the best candidate for the seat, but the website thing that you point out by no means reveals a flaw in his character.
Et tu, Mr Photographer?
Another seat that we can add to our column is NY-11 (Staten Island and Bensonhurst), where state Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis is running for the GOP. When she ran for mayor in 2017 she won 67% in the NY-11.
https://nicolemalliotakis.com/welcome/
Sorry, I don’t understand the “Mr. Photographer” reference.
Wow, great news. I wish Steve Pierce would run for his old NM2 seat. He had no shot at Gov.
Yeah, Pearce would win his seat back with no problem; he’s already done it before (the previous time that he forewent reelection to run statewide).
The GOP has some pretty good candidates in IL-14 (state senator Jim Oberweiss) and IL-06 (former Lt. Gov. Evelyn Sanguinetti), both of whom should return to the GOP fold in a more normal election than 2018 was. And I’m sure that someone good with run to reclaim UT-04. There’s plenty of low-hanging fruit for 2020.
I guess I have to bust out the “Matlock” theme music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQgdfJoxX1s
Freepers need to be supporting the strongest challenger to unacceptable traitor Jussie LaRouche not pimping nobodies who FILED FIRST. This kind of well-meaning but geriatric thinking is what saddled us with Amash in the first place.
And not for nothing but as you touched on the district is not 100% safe, we don’t need to be nominating someone weak.
NM-2 should be a gimee with any decent candidate.
For UT-4 we damn well need someone from Salt Lake County.
“with any decent candidate.” This is an issue in NM.
I travel all over and usually speak to GOP groups. The story is always the same, “Our party in this state sucks.” I have yet to hear ANY state boast of its state party. Perhaps OH and FL come the closest.
But the New Mexicans are truly depressed, repressed, oppressed, suppressed, sittin’ on the group W bench (to quote Arlo Guthrie.) They REALLY have no faith in their state org at all.
Pearce is party Chairman now, I hope he can turns things around.
I can’t imagine Torres-Small (who voted for the gun control bill) being reelected unless we eff up big time. The seat has only gone rat in 2 big rat years, 08 and 18.
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