Wolfe wins on issues (and I sent him $100). Let's hope that issues can overcome inertia...
Posted on 10/15/2002 2:15:07 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
Mike Connolly Daily Mail Staff
Tuesday October 15, 2002; 11:00 AM
Not even the Republican Senatorial Committee thinks Jay Wolfe can unseat incumbent Democrat Jay Rockefeller in the West Virginia Senate race.
The committee can give Wolfe, 47, up to $202,000 to help his campaign. So far, they haven't given him a dime and the election is only three weeks away.
But Wolfe isn't complaining too much. He knows he is a long shot to beat Rockefeller.
"I guess I understand it," Wolfe said about the committee. "When I got into it, I didn't ask them if I should. I really didn't expect them to help me much."
So the Wolf Summit resident will try to beat an incumbent three-term senator from one of the wealthiest families in America with $100,000 and almost no name recognition.
But Wolfe is confident. He's challenged some tough politicians before and even won once.
With no money from the state Republican committee, Wolfe beat 14-year Legislature veteran Gino Colombo in 1986 to win a seat in the state Senate.
Two years later he ran against Sen. Robert Byrd for a seat in the U.S. Senate and lost by a considerable margin.
"Most people don't even remember that I ran," Wolfe said, but he also reminded the Daily Mail's editorial board Monday that he got 35 percent of the vote against Byrd -- which is better than most people can do against West Virginia's senior senator.
This year, even as his own party dismisses him as running a lost cause, Wolfe is confident he can win. Wolfe says that Rockefeller's assumed easy victory is the exact reason he will pull off an upset. He is concentrating his efforts on getting state Republicans out to vote.
He hopes that Democrats, certain of a Rockefeller victory, will stay home Nov. 5.
"The conventional wisdom says Rockefeller will win," he said. "I don't think he is nearly as well loved as Robert Byrd is. I think he is vulnerable."
A key plank in Wolfe's plan is pointing out how different he is than Rockefeller. He calls Rockefeller "a typical tax-and-spend liberal." Wolfe, a Baptist deacon at Clarksburg Baptist Church, is a fiscal and social conservative.
"Government needs to do as much as possible to get out of people's lives," Wolfe said.
He is staunchly pro-life, opposes the "radical homosexual agenda" and wants to take funding away from museums and theater groups that produce "pornography."
"I believe there is a war in this country right now over morals," Wolfe said.
When it comes to taxes, Wolfe has a plan to radically revamp the federal tax system.
If Wolfe were elected, he would work to abolish all federal income taxes including Social Security and Medicare deductions. To replace the tax base, he would create a national retail sales tax somewhere between 20 percent and 30 percent. Wolfe claims his plan would be revenue neutral and would stimulate the American economy.
"It would help our industrial base," Wolfe said. "We could become again the industrial giant that we used to be."
Wolfe also supports President Bush's plan for a war in Iraq, has the backing of the NRA when it comes to gun control and wants to cut taxes.
He is very clear about what he wants to do. Now all he has to do is pull off a seemingly impossible upset. But recent history seems to favor a Republican underdog in West Virginia.
"Nobody gave Bush a chance to win in this state in 2000 either," Wolfe said with a smile.
Writer Mike Connolly can be reached at 348-4806
If you want to assist in the upset of left-wing incumbent Senator Jay Rockefeller, here is the contact info:
Friends of Jay Wolfe
P.O. Box 364
Salem, WV 26426
wolfeussenate@aol.com
www.jaywolfe.net
Or call and ask for Tom at: 304-622-3559 or 605-366-4382
A BUMP and best regards,
Another thread here mentioned they might pump another $500,000 into New Hampshire to help Sununu out. I thought they helped him in the primary so he would be supposedly a much stronger candidate. Hello?
I'm afraid no one is picking up that phone, my friend. ;-)
Oh well, we'll just have to finish the job without em.
But everyone better remember, if this State provides the critical difference in the control of another branch of our government like it did in 2000 that it was Jay Wolfe and his thousands of wonderful volunteers who pulled it off.
Have you done a side by side Jay Comparison with with 2 columns? Tables are easy to comprehend and they don't take long to do. Just my two cents.
If I had star power, I'd be there tomorrow. But, unfortunately, I don't.
Any famous West Virginian celebs who are stumping for Jay? I'd find some and drag them all over the place with yall. There must be some celebs in WV... I'm done. FV
What is GMTA? I am floriduh, after all.
I have some 2nd amendment friends I can ping. From California all the way to Florida. They may want to HELP FREEPER JAY WOLFE IN WEST VIRGINIA. Hello, liberty bells team...
Wolfe wins on issues (and I sent him $100). Let's hope that issues can overcome inertia...
No kidding. Complacency is a disease....with sometimes fatal complications.
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