Posted on 11/21/2006 8:12:05 AM PST by EternalVigilance
BOISE, Idaho
Representative-elect Bill Sali has been elected president of the incoming freshman G-O-P class in the U-S House.
Spokesman Wayne Hoffman says the 13 Republican lawmakers who will start their first two-year terms in January chose Sali because of his background in the Idaho Legislature.
Sali defeated Democrat Larry Grant to fill the open seat in Idaho's First Congressional District.
(Excerpt) Read more at khq.com ...
I'm happy to see that his fellow freshman recognize his leadership abilities.
Congratulations, Bill!
Ping...
Bill Sali is a prolife, profamily, constitutionalist warrior.
If we just keep adding men and women of this caliber, eventually we will win...
Club For Growth backed candidate victory!
From a 'reliable source':
If you have the ability to leave comments on FR, you should let everyone
know that you heard from a "reliable source" that it was Sali who
corralled the 6 Club freshman into voting as a bloc to elect himself and
two other Club guys to leadership positions. There were only 13 GOP
freshmen so the Club was just one vote short of locking in everything.
But it was easy to pick up that one non-Club vote.
i suppose that's all well and good but being president of the freshman class is a rather meaningless position.... the important job is to be the freshman representative to the leadership, whcih gets you a seat on the committee on committees.
Sali, Smith, Bachmann, Wahlberg and I'm sure there are more. What a great freshman class.
Yes, I voted for him. This was the first time I got to vote for someone I actually met.
One of the few bright spots in this election.
Well, of course it is. But, nonetheless, it's good to see a good man like this stepping up to lead in any way that he can.
In Sali's sixteen years in the Idaho Legislature, he wrote large portions of the Idaho Code as it now exists, including one whole chapter. He knows the process. I'm expecting great things from him in the coming years.
I hear ya.
I've heard a lot of criticism of the CFG. The Left has tried to demonize them and make them a campaign issue. Some of our friends in the border security movement have misrepresented who they are and what they do. But, the fact is, no one has done more than they have to bring real resources to bear on electing real conservatives and defeating RINOs. God bless 'em.
Indeed!
Now it's our job to send them reinforcements in '08.
Indeed.
I'm proud to be a Club For Growth member.
Thanks to you and to all of your fellow Club members!
I just hope he pays attention to the folks back home, does his basic homework and shores up his support -- he didn't win by all that much. Were I advising the Main Street Partnership types, I would suggest they seriously consider running a more moderate candidate against him in the primary two years hence -- giving them a scalp of their own to hang on the wall. But I'm not (and never would) so I won't.
How come I don't know this yet!? WONDERFUL!
Amen!
Well, your thinking reveals alot.
RINOS and Dems were way ahead of you on that, though, and they threw everything they had it, along with the their friends in the Democrat Media.
But it just didn't work.
"He also will plan get-together receptions with Democratic members."
Why would any decent person want to associate with those vile, loathsome scumbags?
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