Posted on 09/27/2010 10:41:15 AM PDT by JulieRNR21
Issues, issues, and more issues. That’s all State Rep. Jeff Perry really wants to discuss. Whether it is his support for the right to keep and bear arms, his pro-life stance or his desire to repeal the Democrats’ healthcare measure enacted by Congress earlier this year, the Republican nominee for Congress has an opinion and detailed facts to back it up. And Perry believes, with all his heart, that the terms “conservative” and “Republican” should be basically the same. So what makes him so special among scores of Republicans running for the House of Representatives this year? That’s an easy question to answer: Jeff Perry is from Massachusetts.
In a state where liberal Republicans such as Sen. (1966-78) Ed Brooke and former Gov. (1990-96) William Weld are the norm and conservative GOPers rare, attorney and former policeman Perry is proof that times are changing. It has been said that Republican Sen. Scott Brown, whose capture of Ted Kennedy’s seat made international headlines in January, has taken positions that Brooke, Weld et al. would never have thought of adopting.
If Brown is the first step in a sea change in Bay State politics, then Perry is the next step. Backed by Brown’s on line and field strategists State Rep. Perry handily won the Republican nomination for Congress in the 10th District (Cape Cod) over a well-known moderate.
Perry ran for Congress with the intent of opposing seven-term Democratic Rep. William Delahunt.
Then Delahunt announced his retirement and the betting was that the Democrats would try to nominate local assistant prosecutor Joseph P. Kennedy, III. But the heir apparent to Camelot could see the handwriting on the wall. In a district that Republican Brown had carried by 20 percentage points in the Senate race, young Kennedy opted not to run.
So the Democratic nominee is Norfolk County District Attorney William Keating. As Perry observed, “He is the opposite of me on issues from gun control to healthcare, and, most important of all, he will vote to make Nancy Pelosi speaker again. I won’t.”
There is one other significant difference between the contenders in the 10th District. As a state legislator and now as a candidate for Congress, Perry has been a champion of term limits. In his words, “I said I would serve no more than four or five terms as a legislator and kept my promise. I will do the same in Congress. That’s what members did for many years—went back to their homes and worked in the private sector. That’s how it should be.”
Jeff Perry for Congress, P.O. Box 1435, Sandwich, Mass. 02563.
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I’ve always liked Perry . . . well, at least since I first of him and that as one of two who voted against RomneyCare! Wish I were in his district to vote for him.
Perry has a bit of dirty laundry but it will just make Keating look bad if he harps on it and he will.
I’m in the 3rd district where we hope to retire Jim “I love Chavez” McGovern.
Well, it did wonders for Joe Malone! ;-)
I'm in the 9th -- I actually liked Steve Lynch when he was a lowly state rep. Since he went national, however . . .
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There is one other significant difference between the contenders in the 10th District. As a state legislator and now as a candidate for Congress, Perry has been a champion of term limits. In his words, “I said I would serve no more than four or five terms as a legislator and kept my promise. I will do the same in Congress. That’s what members did for many years—went back to their homes and worked in the private sector. That’s how it should be.”
“I’m in the 3rd district where we hope to retire Jim “I love Chavez” McGovern.”
I wonder if McGovern’s a little upset at the news that another one of his FARC pals in Columbia just got whacked?
Funny how that relationship got buried in the press real quick.
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I hope he pushes for term limits, which might be possible if Republicans win back Congress. I think a limit of 12 years in each house of Congress is enough.
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