Posted on 05/30/2002 9:27:14 AM PDT by Constitution Day
U.S. Senate Minority Leader Trent Lott said he flew to Rocky Mount on Wednesday to support a friend who is an "outstanding, Southern lady," Republican U.S. Senate candidate Elizabeth Dole.
"I'm here in North Carolina to be of any possible assistance to my good friend Elizabeth Dole," Lott said to a small group of local and national reporters who met his plane at Rocky Mount-Wilson Airport.
Lott, R-Miss., came to the area to attend a fund-raising reception for Dole at Rose Hill Farm, north of Nashville. More than 125 area political and business leaders attended the reception, which raised between $75,000 and $100,000 for Dole's campaign, said N.C. Rep. Gene Arnold, R-Nash, one of the organizers of the event.
"We're very pleased with it," Arnold said. "Trent made some good comments about (Dole), and she gave a marvelous presentation. She's definitely senatorial material, and we think she's going to make it."
At a news conference at the airport, Lott described Dole as a ferocious advocate for doing the right thing, having shown compassion and leadership as the head of the Red Cross.
It can take years for freshman members of Congress to be able to get things done, Lott said, but it would not be that way for Dole because of her experience.
"She will be a leader in the Senate on the day she arrives," Lott said.
Acknowledging that another Republican senator would be good for his party's chances for regaining control of the Senate, Lott said that it was more important to have the right kind of man or woman representing North Carolina.
"North Carolina deserves the kind of leadership Dole would give," Lott said.
Dole said she would like to help Lott and the other Republicans overcome the liberal agenda in the Senate. Lott quickly pointed out that 50 bills that have made it through the Republican-controlled House have not moved through the Senate.
"When we control the agenda, those ideas will be moved," Lott said.
Both the senator and the Senate hopeful agreed they shared common values and Southern heritage. Both of them said that jobs and education needed attention in their respective states.
"Our economy is in transition," Dole said. "We've got to grow this economy. It's so important now that (President Bush's) tax cuts be made permanent because then businesses can make long-term plans."
Fresh off her 100-county tour of North Carolina that wrapped up earlier this month, Dole repeated some of her basic tenants from earlier speeches, placing emphasis on a strong national defense and a decrease in federal regulations.
"With schools, the federal government is six percent of the funding but 50 percent of the regulation," Dole said.
Dole also repeated her assertion that North Carolina and the nation need a tobacco quota buyout, but added that because of her pledge not to raise taxes that some other means of funding it would be necessary.
Dole spoke briefly on a bill that recently passed the Senate that would give the president "fast-track" authority to negotiate trade agreements that could only be voted up or down, not modified, by Congress.
"They don't want to do deals with us," Dole said, explaining that many foreign countries avoid deals because Congress can add so many changes to proposals later on.
"If we can't get them to the table, we're not going to get a level playing field for North Carolina," Dole said. "The president is following through on his commitments to textile companies."
The president had fast-track authority until 1994.
Thank you! People are forgetting that the Dems would love for NC Republicans to bicker and fight over Liddy Dole. It gives their candidates an edge.
-CD
Making Tax Cuts Permanent
Building a strong and modern military
Strengthening National Defense
missile defense system
fill the federal bench vacancies(more than likely with Pres. Bush's selections)
she signed the Taxpayer Protection Pledge promising to oppose all efforts to increase marginal income tax rates for individuals and/or businesses; and any net reduction or elimination of deductions and credits, unless matched dollar for dollar by further reducing tax rates.
will fight for North Carolina jobs and for our working families by cutting taxes, reducing the burden of regulations on business and pursuing strict enforcement of our trade laws.”
(Not my phrase - don't remember who said it).
Libby Dole makes me nauseous. It worries me that people like that can even half-way make it in politics.
I guess it just takes conservatives a long time to realize that their party doesn't represent their views anymore. It took decades for conservative Democrats to make themselves get out of the party. A few of them STILL won't admit the truth to themselves.
While that may be true, the primary election for governor in Kalifornia revealed that the press will also pick the RINO every time. Riordan is anti-gun and deserved absolutely no support from Constitution advocates.
The time to ensure that a conservative is running is the primary. Leadership in the Senate will do us no good if it only provides control of how we spend the budget. RINOs like McCain would see to it that no pro-gun measures get attention.
The choice now in Kalifornia is between Simon, who lacks experience in office but holds truly conservative views, or Gray-out Davis whose incompetence may yet destroy the state completely before election day arrives.
That wipes the slate of everything else supposedly "conservative" in my book.
Deo Vindice, brother!
Everything listed here benefits primarily the pocketbooks of her rich, elite, NWO friends. Nothing wrong with that on the face of it, but were is her positions on cultural issues like so called "hate crimes," illigal immigration and immigration in general, correcting the PC crap that is taught in the government schools, and a myriad of other issues like this???? She doesn't want to make a stand on these issues, because she would lose.
Might have not been uncommon but then again not everybody speaking this way was the POTUS were they?
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