Posted on 08/19/2002 9:45:01 AM PDT by ruppertdog
I'm not sure who I would vote for if I lived in that district. (Isackson is my representative) If Linder loses, I'm sure the RNC or President Bush will offer him an important position in the administration. If Barr loses, I don't think the same would hold true, but Barr would easily become a powerful talking head/voice/lobbyist for the political right. (Hey!! Maybe MSNBC could hire him to help em get some viewers.)
Dan
Linder's anti-gun vote revealed
There is a reference to the house record for the vote.
"Ralph E. Reed, Jr.
Chairman, Georgia Republican Party
Ralph Reed is Chairman of the Georgia Republican Party and is founder and president of Century Strategies, a public affairs and public relations firm.
Ralph has advised dozens of successful candidates for U.S. Senate, Congress, and Governor nationwide. Among his previous clients: the George W. Bush for President campaign, U.S. House Majority Leader Dick Armey, House Conference chairman J.C. Watts, Senator Richard Shelby, and Senator Paul Coverdell.
In the 1980s he served as chairman of the College Republicans of Georgia, executive director of the College Republican National Committee, and co-chairman of the youth effort for President Ronald Reagans re-election campaign.
In 1994 he played a critical role in the election of the first Republican Congress in 40 years. He has worked on six presidential campaigns, most recently serving as a senior advisor to the campaign of President George W. Bush in 2000.
In the spring of 2001 Ralph was elected Chairman of the Georgia Republican Party. In his role as state party chairman, he has played an important role in grassroots organization, fundraising, and candidate recruitment.
During Ralphs tenure, the Georgia Republican Party has increased its donor base from 12,000 active donors to over 20,000, while increasing membership in the Georgia Republican Foundation from 180 members to over 750 members. The GRP reported more contributions and funds raised since Reeds election than at any time in the Partys history.
In addition, Reed has led the launching of the Georgia Volunteer Leader program, which has included dozens of training seminars across the state that have graduated roughly 2,000 grassroots activists from precinct training seminars.
As executive director of the Christian Coalition in the 1990s, he built one of the most effective grassroots organizations in modern American politics. During his tenure, the organizations budget grew from $200,000 to $27 million, and its support base grew from two thousand to two million members and supporters in thousands of local chapters.
Acknowledged as one of the most important political strategists in America today, Ralph has been named one of the top ten political newsmakers in the nation by Newsweek, one of the fifty future leaders in the country by Time magazine, and one of the twenty most influential leaders of the baby-boom generation by Life magazine.
He received his B.A. from the University of Georgia and a Ph.D. in history from Emory University. He is the best-selling author and editor of three books, and his columns have appeared in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Support Technologies. He and his wife Jo Anne live with their four children in Duluth, Georgia. They are members of Perimeter Church."
Georgians can disagree without being disagreeable, one hopes, and I for one, don't see anything Carvillian about Ralph Reed.
Ralph Reed worked hard on the energy deregulation bill for Pennsylvania which is considered a model for the entire country.
Further, I have never ever heard the man utter a negative word about others. He prefers to state his point and case without tearing down others.
Just a FYI.....I'm neither a member of the Christian Coaltion or a resident of Pennsylvania.
Yeah - like that "A" rating from the NRA means anything. RINO Jim Kolbe in Arizona District 8 is no friend to gun owners, has voted for such things as the Brady Bill, Assault Weapons Ban, etc. yet he still garners "A" ratings from the too-politicized NRA. In this Primary Election, the NRA Pols decided to endorse RINO Kolbe instead of far more conservative pro-2nd amendment challenger Jim Behnke. Local NRA members were vocally against their plan to endorse Kolbe, but their complaints fell on deaf ears. Apparently, the NRA would rather "sure thing" instead of backing the more worthy candidate in such a race. Their ratings and endorsements are meaningless, if you ask me. And the NRA hasn't found a single foundational principle that they won't back down on to appease the gun grabbers
It's a little difficult to take any of the article seriously with an opening like this. When you label your opponents as name-calling children in the opening sentence it sort of sets the tone for the rest of the "article".
Maybe he should be politically active in the Democratic party where his views were more in line with his associates. I feel that a person should follow his conscience and be with like-minded associates rather than trying to influence a different party into changing their mainstream objectives.
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