Posted on 04/17/2015 6:04:52 AM PDT by cotton1706
Conservative activist Mike Flynn has joined the race for Congress in the 18th Congressional District of Illinois.
For more than two decades, Mike has been a national leader in moving the conservative agenda forward. In 2009, as Editor in Chief of Andrew Breitbart's BigGovernment website, Mike published the ACORN videos, ushering in the demise of this government funded liberal advocacy group.
But Mike hasn't reserved his attacks to liberals. Just last year, he took on the Republican leadership for passing the omnibus spending bill that funded the government until September of this year, including full funding for Obamacare and Executive Amnesty for illegal immigrants.
Mike will lead the charge for change in DC. He'll sponsor and work for term limits. He'll lead the fight against executive overreach. Mike will take on big special interests, both labor and business, that set the agenda in DC through political contributions and back room deals.
Mike believes that deal making shouldn't decide who is our next Congressman from the 18th District. Mike doesn't believe that we should hand our voice in Washington to someone whose principal accomplishment is having a father who worked for Barack Obama and was instrumental in passing the stimulus bill.
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*Spawn of LaThug gets a challenger ping*
Here’s John Fund on the LaHood/Flynn race: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/417055/establishment-and-tea-party-face-illinois-john-fund
National Review’s Jim Geraghty gave just a few reasons why conservatives should support Flynn:
A Good Unifying GOP-Primary Fight to Cleanse Our Palates
My fellow men and women of the Right . . . indeed, as my colleague Jonah pointed out, the family-squabble phase of the Republican primaries has arrived. You’re going to insist my assessment of Ted Cruz is condescending. You’re going to insist my assessment of Ted Cruz is agitprop hagiography. Repeat for all other contenders.
Let’s turn our attention to the special election in the 18th congressional district of Illinois to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of former U.S. representative Aaron Schock, (R., Peoria).
The date for the special primary election is July 7 and the date for the special general election is Sept. 10. Mr. Schock resigned last month after a controversy about his use of federal funds that is now the subject of a federal grand jury investigation.
Gov. Bruce Rauner called for a special election to replace Mr. Schock and on Tuesday released a statement finalizing dates for the election. A federal judge approved a consent decree to amend the election schedule to comply with the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act.
The 18th Congressional District includes the cities of Peoria, Springfield and Quincy and includes part of Stark County.
Can we all unify behind someone — some conservative — behind, say, a Republican running for Congress who’s the son of an Obama cabinet official? Right now the only filed candidate is state senator Darin LaHood — son of former Republican congressman-turned-Obama-transportation-secretary Ray LaHood. You remember, the earmark guy. The let’s-publicly-demonize-Toyota-while-the-government-owns-GM guy.
Sorry, we can’t. You may characterize this as blaming the son for the sins of the father, but besides the hereditary-monarchy aspect of Congress, the elder LaHood stepped up for the Obama agenda when the president asked.
As our John Fund writes:
LaHood is about as establishment a choice as one could imagine. He is the son of Representative Ray LaHood, the very moderate Republican who represented about half of the current district in Congress until 2009. He then left office to become President Obama’s Transportation Secretary, where he promoted pork-barrel spending and dubious high-speed-rail projects. His son’s supporters say his politics are distinct from those of his father, but clearly the LaHood name will be a mixed blessing in a primary. On the one hand, it brings strong name identification for Darin LaHood. But on the other, it leaves many of the district’s conservatives looking for a fresh, non–status quo alternative.
Somebody like Breitbart’s Mike Flynn? Fine.
Because if LaHood wins, despite his professed Republican status, you know what the national media’s take-away is going to be. “Despite all the ups and downs of the past six and a half years, Obama still plays in Peoria.”
Is he the only challenger? I hope so as I don’t want to see the conservative vote split and we get stuck with son of RINO.
No, two conservatives are running against Sen. LaHood.
If so, one needs to drop out.
I was mistaken. According to www.politics1.com, these candidates are at least considering that race:
Mike Flynn (R) - Political Consultant & Conservative Blogger
Kent Gray (R) - Community College Trustee
Darin LaHood (R) - State Sen., Attorney & Son of Ex-Congressman Ray LaHood
Mark Zalcman (R) - Attorney & ‘14 State Rep. Candidate
Flynn and LaHood said that they’re running. Gray hasn’t announced whether he’s running. Zalcman dropped out, but he said that he’ll run in the 2016 primary.
I’m glad (and surprised) that Ron Wallace dropped out, Marc Zalcman also dropped out. Hopefully it’ll be a two way race, filing deadline on the 20th.
Fortunately, this guy wasn’t from Illinois, or he’d be voting for Hillary himself in 2016:
Didn't hear what state it was, NC, thank goodness.
So filing deadline
3 Republicans filed, LaThug, Flynn and “former corrections employee” Donald Rients.
http://www.pjstar.com/article/20150420/NEWS/150429992
For some reason on the evening news they said the desultory Rients was LaThug’s only primary foe. But online articles and the state election’s website confirm that Flynn filed.
I’m not particularly optimistic but at least we have a vote, in NY the parties anoint their special election nominees.
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