Posted on 05/12/2006 1:21:49 PM PDT by John Geyer
TALLAHASSEE, FL (AP) -- US Representative Katherine Harris has a challenger for the Republican senatorial nomination in Florida. Peter Monroe is a developer who helped manage the government's savings and loan bailout.
Governor Jeb Bush and other Republican leaders had been looking for someone to take on Harris because she trails incumbent Democratic Senator Bill Nelson by about 30 percentage points in public opinion polls. Bush has said he didn't believe Harris could beat Nelson.
Monroe of Safety Harbor in the Tampa Bay area managed the liquidation of more than $400 billion in real estate assets from failing savings and loans while heading the Federal Resolution Trust Corporation Oversight Board in the early 1990s. State Representative Dennis Ross of Lakeland also says he may enter the Republican primary.
We'll today was the last day for someone to challenge her. Whomever we have, we need to get behind them 100%.
Does someone know what the hell is going on???????????????
Divide and conquer, I always say. Divide and conquer.
"Does someone know what the hell is going on???????????????"
Was that a rhetorical question?
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Bill McBride...this Bill McBride that ran against Jeb last go?
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/vote2002/races/fl_mcbride.html
This is so screwed up that it will take a major miracle for any Republican to beat Nelson.
She has several challengers, none well known.
This is so sad. First she is having a little difficulty in the campaign (mostly Republicans fault). She has made a few missteps I admit. However, now her vision has gone back to having to fight for the nomination. She already is low on money or she would never have used her personal funds (if she did - not sure about that - story too confusing), but now she has to fight these lightweight guys who are just an annoyance (flame away on that statement). Now keep in mind, the primary is in October!!!! That means whoever wins has ONE MONTH to go after Nelson.....This is so depressing and sad!!!!!
No. Different person.
First of all, the primary is on September 5, 2006, not in October.
I don't personally know much about any of the three other republican candidates for the nomination, so I don't know if they are "lightweights" or not. Perhaps you know quite a bit about all of them, so you can make that statement?
I'm looking forward to the opportunity to learn much more about McBride, Collins, and Monroe in the next few months, and making the appropriate comparisons and evaluations between them, as well as Harris. Ultimately, of course--and I hope this is true for all of us--one of those candidates will be the candidate whom I feel best represents the interests of the people of Florida and the nation, and that will be the candidate for whom I'll cast a vote. Obviously, that's an individual process, and the outcome may vary among individuals...that's what the open democratic election process in the USA is all about, after all, and thank God. You apparently feel differently about that, and that's your right...no flames from this direction. We just disagree.
Finally, according to her FEC reports, Katherine Harris has--thusfar--put $3,250,000 of her own money into her campaign. FYI.
Thank you for the update especially on the date. 5 September is much better specifically because August is a "dead month" in politics. The three guys are not lightweights in the sense of being weak. I just meant unknown more than Katherine. Your whole date change makes me a bit more hopeful. I still think that Katherine could have really fought back over the summer against Nelson and now will not be able to. I guess it will come down to if it was meant to be. I just thought at least at the beginning that it would have been another "fairly easy" Republican pick-up.
You're welcome. :-)
The three guys are not lightweights in the sense of being weak. I just meant unknown more than Katherine. Your whole date change makes me a bit more hopeful. I still think that Katherine could have really fought back over the summer against Nelson and now will not be able to.
I guess I really don't understand what Katherine Harris could have done to "fight back" over the summer (were she unopposed for the nomination) that she still cannot do. No one has strapped a muzzle on her; no one has taken campaign funds away from her; no one has restricted her travel and campaign appearances. She now has an opportunity that she might not have had (because she didn't have the challengers) to truly differentiate herself as a candidate. We all have an opportunity to learn more about her...things we might not have had an opportunity to learn had she been unopposed for the Senate nomination. Having challengers in the primary means to me that we (the voters and potential constituents) have the benefit of getting to know her better, and that could very well mean that many of those who are terribly uncomfortable in supporting her based on what they believe they know about her now might have a pleasant surprise in the next 4 months.
I just don't see a negative in this...not for Harris, and definitely not for the voters in Florida (although I feel sorry for the democrats, since Nelson is running unopposed, so they don't have the benefit of that choice before the general election).
Unless Peter Monroe has a mountain of money in his bank account and spends it (like Jon Corzine did), it doesn't matter. Katherine Harris is the nominee.
Been to Pinellas lately? Developers don't even know the meaning of "affordable housing". Developers are in the pocket of the real estate lobby from the get go.
When the Bushes term out, we will all be better off. I won't be fooled again.
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