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.
That wipes the slate of everything else supposedly "conservative" in my book.
You have some pretty stringent ideals. One strike and you're out, huh? I'm unsure how you'll ever find a candidate to vote for since the majority have all changed their position on one issue or another in their lifetime. And as for being a carpetbagger. I didn't know that term was applied to some who was born, raised, attended college, and whose family still resides in the same state that she has returned to. Of course, following most of the Freepers logic on this thread it would dictate that no one should ever be allowed to run for office if they've ever moved out of the state no matter the length of time. Please don't take this comment personally, anyone, but I find that to be an unintelligent response with no basis in sound logic.Dole Backs Off Gun-Control Position As a Senate candidate, however, Dole has softened her gun control stance. "In the past, I expressed support for the ban on assault weapons," Dole wrote in a letter last month to the North Carolina Rifle and Pistol Association, an affiliate of the National Rifle Association. "Seven years after President Clinton and his allies outlawed so-called assault weapons, there appears to have been little effect on crime prevention or punishment. What is effective is the Instant Check system. We should stick with what works. We do not need new restrictions on those who already observe the thousands of gun laws on the books."Dole added, "North Carolina has another common-sense proposal in place: a right-to-carry law that allows citizens to obtain a concealed handgun permit from the local sheriff after being trained and certified."
Campaign spokesman Jay Warshaw said Dole changed her gun-control stance based on states' experience with new laws. "With regard to concealed weapons, she said at the time it's a matter for states to decide," Warshaw said. "Her concerns have been satisfied regarding the North Carolina law."
I can show you even better: an amendment to the United States Constitution that lets me carry a gun - and use it if necessary - without getting permission from the state.
If/when Liddy Dole gets around to understanding what the Constitution is about, she might get my vote. But not before.
Oh brother.
...thanks for nothin'.
Ms Dole completes her recent "eastern swing" by wearing thousand dollar ensembles in counties where unemployment is 10 per cent. She wears Italian designer shoes that cost more than the average Edgecombe, Halifax, or Hertford county family takes home every two weeks. This is not North Carolina -- her race is some kind of surrealistic vision foisted upon the citizens of the state by the RNC and the gnomes of L Street.
The mistake the RNC makes is in thinking the thirty year success known as Jesse Helms has anything to do with them. Senator Helms was/is his own man -- and the conservative Democratic voter recognized the fact.
Ms Dole's stunning defeat in North Carolina will be a political earthquake for the Republican party. Without conservative Democrats "down east" the GOP cannot win a statewide race as has been demonstrated countless times. Sure, Bob Dole will address the convention Saturday in New Bern -- much to the (rightful) dismay of Jim Snyder, Dr Parker, and Dr Fisher -- but he will be preaching to the RINO choir.
Because, you see, the conservatives in the party won't be showing up this weekend just like they won't be there for the Empress in November.
"Senator Erskine Bowles" -- best get used to it.
J
Okay if this is true I'm convinced she is pure evil.
Okay if this is true I'm convinced she is pure evil.
Let's see you two are condemning her more than anything based on her last name and her parents choices in life. If the rest of the voters in NC have the same level of intelligence and maturity this state is going to hell in a handbasket real fast. Of course, BlackElk, you live in Illinois, don't you have enough of your own candidates to worry about without trashing others from other states?
I feel for you both. Both states have worse problems politically than we do here.
LOL! Couldn't have put it better myself!!!
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