Roger Hedgecock has Darrell Issa and Brian Bilbray on right now.
Bilbray wants to drive home border control and fiscal sanity in Washington.
Issa says he's not endorsing Bilbray as a slap to any other candidate ... Bilbray's experience will enable him to hit the ground running with his seniority and be able to get more done.
Bilbray wants to drive home border control and fiscal sanity in Washington.
That must disapoint the third party folks. They don't like
conservatives.
"Issa says he's not endorsing Bilbray as a slap to any other candidate ... Bilbray's experience will enable him to hit the ground running with his seniority and be able to get more done."
Bilbray has been out of Congress for 5 years, nearly as long as he was in. The "seniority" issue no longer has any merit.
Still touting the same thing, I see. It makes no sense, as was pointed out when you posted it before. Bilbray needs some new talking points for his campaign. How will someone gain seniority over the other Congresscritters(R) who have been in there fighting for the past few years. He wasn't a loyalist by any means then (as evidenced by his voting record posted upthread), why do you think they'll give him seniority now (thereby reducing the seniority of others). Why would they move this guy forward in line?
I think AuH2ORepublican said it better on a prior thread (in a post to you, doodlelady).
Doodlelady: "If elected, he would enter Congress as a senior member"AuH2ORepublican: "Actually, he probably wouldn't. He would just have more seniority than someone sworn in on the same day, but since he'll be running on a special election, whoever gets elected will come in ranking 435th in the House. Sometimes the Speaker (or Minority Leader, as the case may be) will offer an ex-Congressman part or all of his old seniority if he runs, but in a heavily Republican district where Bilbray isn't needed to hold the seat I doubt that Hastert will offer anything to Bilbray---why would Hastert piss off the dozens of Republicans with less than 6 years of seniority who would be stepped over by Bilbray?"