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This will be updated periodically. The rest of country ... threads will be posted within a few days and a link will be placed below in this thread.
Again, the criteria: the candidate must have a legit shot in NOV in their district and they are also in a tough primary fight against a candidate with lesser conservative appeal (or even a liberal).
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LA-6 gets added later. First ballot is in NOV, so technically there is no primary.
Catherine Ping is going to need everyone’s help in IN-7 against Crypto-muzzie Andre’ Carson.
All 4 local TV stations, and the Indianapolis Star, did not even show, OR MENTION, the R primary race, or the winner. It is like it never happened.
I had to go to the Sec of State’s website to get the vote totals on election night.
Local media is too frightened of what might happen should they give a Carson challenger any acknowledgement, at all. It could mean their jobs, or worse.
Midwest Primary thread is now up
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3154295/posts
Here is the link to the Senate Primary thread
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3153246/posts
here is the thread for the MOUNTAIN WEST
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3154332/posts?page=2
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I just noticed that you included Dr. Mathis among your two AL-06 choices. Until a little over a month ago, I thought that Mathis, being a doctor who understands and can enunciate the problems with Obamacare, would be a particularly effective congressman from arguably the most conservative district in the nation. But a month ago I read this post by the incomparable Quin Hillyer at National Review Online, and my opinion on Mathis has soured to the point that I probably would prefer whoever his runoff opponent is, given that honesty and forthrightness are indispensable traits in a representative:
Cheap Shots in Alabama
By Quin Hillyer
April 4, 2014 4:27 PM
Things are getting nasty, all from one direction, in what otherwise has been a mostly positive but vigorously contested Republican primary battle for a House seat in a deep-red district near Birmingham. The race involves numerous heavy hitters, and already is demolishing statewide primary fundraising records with two full months left before primary election day.
Anyway, a Tea Party–aligned candidate named Chad Mathis, a medical doctor, has been struggling to gain traction, in large part because several of the other candidates are demonstrably solid conservatives as well. So Mathis seems to be panicking. He’s out with a radio ad characterized by the local paper as letting his “claws come out.” In it, he takes shots at the four strongest other candidates, calling them a “gang of four” while lobbing various attacks at each of them — several of which seem dubious. I can’t vouch for the responses of three of those four, but the attack against Gary Palmer, longtime head of the conservative Alabama Policy Institute think tank, is particularly ludicrous and meretricious.
The ad accuses Palmer, without attribution, of once supporting hikes in property taxes. Based on earlier claims from Mathis, it appears the entire basis of this attack is a single stray comment in an old Palmer column that eventually the state will indeed need new revenue. The comment came in the course of an entire column devoted to opposing a package of tax reforms/revenue-raisers that then was being bandied about the state capitol. As any supply-sider can tell you, one need not raise tax rates of any sort in order to get more revenue. Jack Kemp himself was fond of saying that the way to cure deficits was by the government gaining more revenue — specifically from massively higher private-sector growth, not tax-rate hikes. As a supply-sider, Gary Palmer quite obviously meant exactly that, considering that the entire column was an argument against tax hikes.
As it was, I remember that issue very well, and was in frequent touch with Palmer that year, because I was writing editorials and columns for the Mobile Register about the state’s looming budget crisis. And Palmer was absolutely consistent: The state government, he said, eventually would need more revenue — but only about a third as much as the eventual ballot proposition called for. Palmer vigorously opposed the proposal at issue, saying that the way to create the new revenue was via economic growth. What’s more, Palmer’s entire career of more than two decades at API is one of a strongly anti-tax-hike supply-sider. In fact, he’s the one who fed me the data necessary when I advocated a local sales-tax cut in Mobile.
To run an ad accusing Gary Palmer, of all people, of being a tax hiker is as absurd as it would be to say the same about Arthur Laffer.
Any sentient follower of public affairs in Alabama knows that Palmer and API are low-tax advocates. Nobody with a conscience would dare assert otherwise. Chad Mathis ought to be ashamed of himself.
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/375097/cheap-shots-alabama-quin-hillyer
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Wil Brooke sounds like Jeb Bush when he talks immigration.
FYI....Young Conservatives of Texas have endorsed, and Sen Ted Cruz is stumping for, Quico Canseco for TX 23.
I know some of these aren’t from the correct region but disproportionate amount of those surveyed are from the south.
http://fairtaskforce.com/?paged=2
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Brian Slowinski, GA
John E. Stone, GA
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