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Barbour: McDaniel will cut federal education funding
msbusuness.com ^ | 6/8/14

Posted on 06/09/2014 5:31:49 AM PDT by cotton1706

Establishment Republicans backing Sen. Thad Cochran have launched a campaign to brand GOP challenger Chris McDaniel a candidate who would deeply cut federal education dollars on which Mississippi schools rely. The six-term senator, they said, would protect money for students and teachers.

Former Gov. Haley Barbour offered a preview for what his pro-Cochran super PAC and its allies had planned for the weeks before McDaniel and Cochran face off in a June 24 runoff for the GOP nomination for the Senate. That contest reflects the philosophical split between the establishment-minded Republicans and the new-to-politics tea party outsiders who relish upending longtime political figures.

A McDaniel spokesman said Barbour was “spouting Democratic scare tactics about the dangers of fiscal responsibility.”

Democrats, meanwhile, were preparing for the prospect that their nominee, former Rep. Travis Childers, could face not the genteel, entrenched Cochran but McDaniel, a state senator and former talk show host with hours of audio, some provocative, in the public realm.

No one predicts Democrats have a realistic shot at winning the seat in a state that last elected a Democratic senator in 1982. But the failure of either Republican to win the nomination in Tuesday’s primary re-set the race for the runoff.

In an interview with The Associated Press, Barbour said voters soon would be hearing plenty about McDaniel’s opposition to the Education Department and the roughly $800 million the state receives for students from kindergarten through high school.

“Not 1 percent of Mississippi voters know he says that,” Barbour said.

That was likely to change.

McDaniel, elected to the state Senate in 2007, has said the federal government should have no role in education, not even in helping pay for it.

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To: KC_Lion

McDaniel is a Clear and Present Danger to the entrenched political class of DC.


41 posted on 06/09/2014 11:51:44 AM PDT by TADSLOS (The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
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To: GeronL

outstanding point.


42 posted on 06/09/2014 11:53:05 AM PDT by 12th_Monkey (One man one vote is a big fail, when the "one" man is an idiot.)
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To: cotton1706
McDaniel, elected to the state Senate in 2007, has said the federal government should have no role in education, not even in helping pay for it.

That's my kind of Republican. That's my kind of conservative.

Republicans and [by definition] faux-conservatives who promote a role for federal government in education, defeat the purpose of voting Republican.

43 posted on 06/09/2014 12:00:24 PM PDT by Finny (Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. -- Psalm 119:105)
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To: KC_Lion

Thanks for the ping, Lion!


44 posted on 06/09/2014 12:00:49 PM PDT by Finny (Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. -- Psalm 119:105)
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To: petitfour
Haley is a democrat. I would never have believed it 20 years ago. But he sure sounds like one now.

Barbour is a Southern Establishment Republican. Which means he was a Democrat who became a Republican when he found he could do so and still keep his big spending, big government ways.

45 posted on 06/09/2014 12:04:00 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: Finny

“That’s my kind of Republican. That’s my kind of conservative.”

Right! Who exactly did Haley Barbour vote for in 1980?? Carter?? The same view certainly didn’t hurt Reagan...44 states (and 49 four years later.)


46 posted on 06/09/2014 12:04:36 PM PDT by cotton1706 (ThisRepublic.net)
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To: KC_Lion
Barbour: McDaniel will cut federal education funding

Barbour convinced with that one....McDaniel is my man.

47 posted on 06/09/2014 12:42:31 PM PDT by xzins ( Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for victory!)
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