Posted on 06/17/2014 7:52:18 AM PDT by cotton1706
Rep. Raul Labrador on Tuesday made his case to be elected as House majority leader by saying that he can unify the Republican conference better than Rep. Kevin McCarthy and that he will end the leaderships top-down approach to members.
What weve had is kind of a top-down approach where you talk to members of Congress and they feel like theyre totally irrelevant, Labrador said on Fox and Friends. One of my friends told me that he feels that 80 percent of the conference feels that they are irrelevant because everything is done by the leaders here.
McCarthy is regarded as the frontrunner in the race to replace Rep. Eric Cantor in the House post.
I think what I can do is bring the party together, bring the conference together, much better than Kevin McCarthy, said Labrador, a sophomore Republican from Idaho. I want every member to contribute, I want every member to participate in the process and to know that their ideas, whether they are good or bad, theyre going to be heard.
Labrador only has two more days to collect the needed 118 votes ahead of Thursdays House GOP vote.
Were close, he said on Fox. We still have a lot of work to do but weve talked to a lot of people, a lot of people are switching their votes and theyre really excited about having someone challenging the establishment right now.
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I lived in Idaho when he was first elected.
He's not perfect, but he's smart and he's a fighter.
He was also one of only 12 who voted no when Boehner was 'elected' Speaker of the House.
The bonus is that if he did beat McCarthy then Boehner in all likelihood have to step down---you can hardly serve as speaker with a House Leader who opposes you.
Of course for that reason the champions of the status quo will attack Labrador all the more.
Good advice about not letting propaganda prevail. Except that one should pay attention to what he has DONE, not what he has SAID.
Labrador's sole private sector practice was spent representing the interests of illegal aliens. Just like Rubio, he played the conservative role in the state legislature, until he reached the national stage. Then the racist latino shows his true face.
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