Posted on 11/06/2023 4:37:42 PM PST by cotton1706
State Representative Barbara Freiberg (R) is seeking re-election in the House of Representatives and her opponent in the runoff is not your standard Democrat. Freiberg says she’s running as a somewhat moderate Republican while her Democrat opponent, Steve Myers, says he’s a conservative.
“This makes it one of the most interesting races in the state actually,” said Myers on Monday.
Myers has run for other positions in the past like mayor and judge, only he ran in those races as a Republican. This time, he says he’s switching parties as part of his strategy.
“The labels mean absolutely nothing. It doesn’t change who I am or what I believe. I said the demographics were very good as a chance to make the runoff as a Democrat and so I simply switched parties and ran as a Democrat,” Myers explained.
In his view, he’s more conservative than the incumbent, Republican Barbara Freiberg. Claiming he’s a pro-life, pro 2nd amendment, pro-school choice type of conservative. Adding that Freiberg has served her first term in office as a left-leaning Republican when it comes to how she votes on police and education-related legislation.
“So, we basically have a race that I call a DINO vs. RINO, a Republican in name only vs. a Democrat,” Myers added.
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Freiberg says if she were to be re-elected, she would aim to finish the work she started at the legislature to find a way to have universal early childhood education. Election day is on Saturday, November 18.
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Cue the Hillary "universal pre-k" Christmas campaign ad.
If Myers pulls this off, it may be just the strategery to eliminate more RINOs.
No such thing as a Conservative Democrat, hell there is hardly such a thing as Conservative Republican.
“somewhat moderate Republican” = assistant democrat ... period ...
Like saying a “conservative Communist”... what a joke.
Freiberg isn’t literally the most liberal Republican in the LA House among the 71 GOP members.
She’s only the *second* most liberal Republican.
Since it is impossible for Democrats to take control of the LA House in this election or even threaten the R’s vetoproof majority, why not vote for whoever truly IS the most conservative candidate regardless of label?
The challenger may be all hat (and all mouth) and no cattle, but we already know that Freiberg is a squish.
No offense, but given your screen name, you associate yourself with a state that the last conservative, at least from my family, left about 1820.
Louisiana has traditionally been very flexible with labels.
The first Pub governor since reconstruction was Buddy Roemer, and he managed to finish third in a three-way jungle primary against another republican, (David Duke), and a former governor who, IIRC, had to cut his earlier term short to do time in the big house.
Whatever one may think of that, I would rather have my choice of Louisiana politicians than of politicians east of Ohio and North of Richmond.
Sinema does it now and then votes and caucuses with the Democrats.
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Realy really?
Talk is cheap. I've heard many Republicans claim to be conservative, but weren't in reality.
But there is this tidbit:
Myers has run for other positions in the past like mayor and judge, only he ran in those races as a Republican. This time, he says he’s switching parties as part of his strategy.
If he wins, will he switch to Republican Party, after being sworn in?
Not anymore, for sure. But Zel Miller and Bobby Bright were probably more conservative than many republicans these days.
Dave Treen was the first GOP Governor since Reconstruction, elected in 1979. He lost reelection to Fast Eddie Edwards. Buddy Roemer won in 1987 as a moderate Democrat. The White House under Bush, Sr. convinced him to switch parties ahead of the 1991 elections and they’d give him full support. Unfortunately, Roemer was so squishy (and pro-abort) that he placed 3rd behind Edwards and Duke (Roemer didn’t exactly inspire the GOP base). And it forced the White House to endorse Fast Eddie over Duke (of course, had Duke been a Black Supremacist Dem, the Demonrats wouldn’t have endorsed the Republican. Double standards, of course).
Zell was, he got over 90% ratings from the ACU in the Senate. Bobby was more of a squish, I think in the 60s%, although that made him the most Conservative Dem in Congress. It’s hard to find a Dem that scores higher than 10-12% Conservative now with the full purge of non-Marxists.
I did a security detail overseas and Bright was one of the principals. It was right after the Obamacare clown show.
One of the Republicans in the group let it be known that Bright voted against it.
During the days I spent with him….he was very funny and talkative, unlike any of the other democrats I dealt with….some of the things that came out of his mouth didn’t jibe with his party designation.
His mistake was choosing to run in the wrong party, and the only reason he won the general in the first place was an ugly GOP primary battle that saw the loser endorse Bright. Had he switched parties before the next election in 2010, he probably could’ve held the seat as long as he wanted.
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