Posted on 05/09/2014 12:57:12 PM PDT by campaignPete R-CT
NORTHEAST and SOUTH
There are numerous important House Primary Races! And places where we can WIN! PLEASE contribute! And if you can't contribute money ... the least we can do is go to their pages and give them a "like" or a tweet. All of these candidates are involved in primaries that are close (or could be close) against generally more moderate or liberal Republicans. All of these districts are winnable in November.
Maine:
BRUCE POLIQUIN, MAINE-2, JUNE 10th .... Open Seat
Endorsed by: Maine Right to Life, Freedom Works
Bruce Poliquin -- FACEBOOK -- TWITTER -- DONATE
FreedomWorks: "As a successful businessman with more than 30 years in the financial industry, Poliquin understands the economic problems facing America. As the State Treasurer of Maine, Poliquin saved his state 1.7 billion dollars. He believes the best way to create jobs is to substantially lower taxes and regulations. Poliquin has demonstrated the experience to lower government spending, and represents the best choice for Maine voters who believe in fiscal conservatism." Poliquin is the underdog in his race against GOP opponent Raye who has long been backed by the usual Snowe-Collins "pro-choice" crowd. Read here.
New York:
ELISE STEFANIK, NEW YORK-21, JUNE 24th ... Open Seat
Endorsed by: Susan B Anthony List, Conservative Party of NY, NY State Right to Life, Doug Hoffman
Elise Stefanik -- FACEBOOK -- TWITTER -- DONATE
29-year old Elise is probably a slight favorite to beat '10 & '12 candidate Doheny. This is the famous Doug Hoffman vs. Dede Scazzafava district.
New York:
CLAUDIA TENNEY, NEW YORK-22, JUNE 24th ... Challenging incumbent
Endorsed by: Susan B Anthony List, Conservative Party of NY 
Claudia Tenney -- FACEBOOK -- TWITTER -- DONATE
Hanna is the 3rd most liberal Republican in Congress, a Planned Parenthood favorite. Tenney is taking him on next month in this upstate district!
New Hampshire:
FRANK GUINTA, NEW HAMPSHIRE-1, September 9th ... would face incumbent DEM Shea-Porter in NOV.
Endorsed by: Pam Smith, Conservative Activist, Manchester, Bob Bird, Conservative Activist, Wolfeboro, etc.
Frank Guinta -- FACEBOOK -- TWITTER -- DONATE
Pro-lifer Guinta is favored to beat Republican Dan Innis, who is backed by the The Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund.
Alabama:
CHAD MATHIS, ALABAMA-6, June 3rd ... 2 CONSERVATIVES trying to get into the run-off in this OPEN SEAT.
Endorsed by: Club for Growth, Sen. Mike Lee, Gun Owners of America, FreedomWorks
GARY PALMER, ALABAMA-6, June 3rd ... 2 CONSERVATIVES trying to get into the run-off in this OPEN SEAT.
Endorsed by: Gary Bauer, Ralph Reed, Tony Perkins
Dr. Chad Mathis
Chad Mathis -- FACEBOOK -- TWITTER -- DONATE
Gary Palmer
Gary Palmer -- FACEBOOK -- TWITTER -- DONATE
Conservatives Palmer and Mathis need to get into the run-off in this crowded primary. I think you will find that their opponents Brooke and DeMarco are not conservative enough for FreeRepublic, Alabama-style.
thanks Sun. Which district are you in now with the new lines? Are you hearing bout Elise on the radio?
I have always thought that Marilinda is better suited for CD#1. “She is a member of the executive board for Americans by Choice, which advocates for immigration reform.”
there’s a lotta cranky Yankees along that stretch from Keene to Coos. Are they gonna go for Mailinda in NOV?
using the useful metric of Facebook likes, Starbuck looks like a better option vs. Curbelo. He leads Martinez 3283 to 676.
over 3000 is impressive.
I looked at OK-5. Appears as tho Patrice Douglas will coast to be the next congress-critter. The race doesn’t look interesting to Freepers who wanna defeat RINOs.
i’m in the wrong thread on OKLAHOMA
Happily Elise must have the funds because I heard her on radio, and my husband heard her on the radio during Rush’s show, as well as on TV. I followed Elise on Twitter.
I also followed Tenney. She doesn’t have that many followers yet. I will also follow the others you mentioned in the other states, as I think it looks good when they get a good deal of followers.
Hope we also dump Cuomo, who wants to be our president some day. Rob Astorino is running against Cuomo, and has a shot, especially since he won previous elections for Westchester County Executive in a Democrat county. Astorino is pro-life, and conservative on so many important issues. I haven’t found anything I don’t like about him.
Hell of crowded field in OK-5.
Douglas and Turner are the 2 with money. Turner proposed abolishing marriage, as a way to stop gay marriage.
bump
Whether its Palomares-Starbuck, Martinez or RINO Curbelo, I hope that someone defeats Congressman Joe Garcia, who not only is just about the only elected Cuban-American Democrat in South Florida but also someone with, shall we say, unorthodox hygienic and dietary habits:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wk2dyF5Fvv8
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I just noticed that you included Dr. Mathis among your two AL-06 choices. Until a little over a month ago, I thought that Mathis, being a doctor who understands and can enunciate the problems with Obamacare, would be a particularly effective congressman from arguably the most conservative district in the nation. But a month ago I read this post by the incomparable Quin Hillyer at National Review Online, and my opinion on Mathis has soured to the point that I probably would prefer whoever his runoff opponent is, given that honesty and forthrightness are indispensable traits in a representative:
Cheap Shots in Alabama
By Quin Hillyer
April 4, 2014 4:27 PM
Things are getting nasty, all from one direction, in what otherwise has been a mostly positive but vigorously contested Republican primary battle for a House seat in a deep-red district near Birmingham. The race involves numerous heavy hitters, and already is demolishing statewide primary fundraising records with two full months left before primary election day.
Anyway, a Tea Party–aligned candidate named Chad Mathis, a medical doctor, has been struggling to gain traction, in large part because several of the other candidates are demonstrably solid conservatives as well. So Mathis seems to be panicking. He’s out with a radio ad characterized by the local paper as letting his “claws come out.” In it, he takes shots at the four strongest other candidates, calling them a “gang of four” while lobbing various attacks at each of them — several of which seem dubious. I can’t vouch for the responses of three of those four, but the attack against Gary Palmer, longtime head of the conservative Alabama Policy Institute think tank, is particularly ludicrous and meretricious.
The ad accuses Palmer, without attribution, of once supporting hikes in property taxes. Based on earlier claims from Mathis, it appears the entire basis of this attack is a single stray comment in an old Palmer column that eventually the state will indeed need new revenue. The comment came in the course of an entire column devoted to opposing a package of tax reforms/revenue-raisers that then was being bandied about the state capitol. As any supply-sider can tell you, one need not raise tax rates of any sort in order to get more revenue. Jack Kemp himself was fond of saying that the way to cure deficits was by the government gaining more revenue — specifically from massively higher private-sector growth, not tax-rate hikes. As a supply-sider, Gary Palmer quite obviously meant exactly that, considering that the entire column was an argument against tax hikes.
As it was, I remember that issue very well, and was in frequent touch with Palmer that year, because I was writing editorials and columns for the Mobile Register about the state’s looming budget crisis. And Palmer was absolutely consistent: The state government, he said, eventually would need more revenue — but only about a third as much as the eventual ballot proposition called for. Palmer vigorously opposed the proposal at issue, saying that the way to create the new revenue was via economic growth. What’s more, Palmer’s entire career of more than two decades at API is one of a strongly anti-tax-hike supply-sider. In fact, he’s the one who fed me the data necessary when I advocated a local sales-tax cut in Mobile.
To run an ad accusing Gary Palmer, of all people, of being a tax hiker is as absurd as it would be to say the same about Arthur Laffer.
Any sentient follower of public affairs in Alabama knows that Palmer and API are low-tax advocates. Nobody with a conscience would dare assert otherwise. Chad Mathis ought to be ashamed of himself.
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/375097/cheap-shots-alabama-quin-hillyer
that is a great race down in Alabamie.
I’m inclined to remove Mathis ... it looks like DeMarco is going to win the seat in the end ... maybe go with Palmer and Beason on my update. Or just Palmer.
Here is polling
http://blog.al.com/wire/2014/05/in_third-party_poll_paul_demar.html
Hopefully Beason is raising money now
Blackwell is going after Beason
http://www.christianpost.com/news/tweaking-the-buckley-rule-114920/
Redstate explains the smears
http://www.redstate.com/2014/03/12/chad-mathis-candidate-watch-6th-congressional-district-alabama/
Beason
https://www.facebook.com/SenatorScottBeason
Dude!!! You’re on tv dude!! WTH! :D
Funny comment I saw “That’s not ear wax, that’s part of his Liberal brain draining out of his ear canal.”
Some news
FL-13, Ed Jany, the ex-RINO democrat running as an independent (no official rat on ballot) has dropped out amid resume-padding allegations
Jolly’s only remaining opponent on the ballot is the Libertarian. You can now put this seat firmly in the “safe R” column.
And in other news Vance McAllister (RINO-LA 5) is vacillating on whether he will really retire.
This is a note to myself to keep Ken5050 informed in the South .... until we develop a ping list.
In Florida
http://lorenzopalomares.com/
that guy Garcia is being targeted for defeat. Lorenzo looks like the best candidate in the primary. We may need to add him to our Priority List.
bookmark and thank you.
Wil Brooke sounds like Jeb Bush when he talks immigration.
Renee Ellmers donated to Pridemore.
http://rwpc.ellmers.house.gov/members-in-the-news/house-gop-women-play-in-primaries-to-increase-ranks/
I dont know if that says much but I mean I wouldnt tout it if I was Pridemore.
Arkansas is up next Tuesday as well as Georgia (and ID, PA, KY, ND and OR).
In AR-2 French Hill looks like the prohibitive favorite.
2 way primary in AR-4 between State House Majority Leader Bruce Westerman, and businessman Tommy Moll. Moll has more money, Westerman has a huge poll lead in the only poll I’ve seen, 47-10 with the rest unsure. The rats are running James Lee Witt, who is raising a lot of money.
In AR-04, both Westerman and Moll appear to be conservatives, but I prefer Westerman because (i) he has a record that matches his campaign rhetoric and (ii) Moll has been telling outright lies about Westerman and Medicaid: http://m.nationalreview.com/corner/377940/arkansas-medicaid-expansion-and-2014-midterms-avik-roy
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