The GOP Beltway establishment is celebrating the victory of Thom Tillis, Speaker of the North Carolina House, over his Tea Party and Evangelical rivals in Tuesday’s primary for the U.S. Senate.
But the story ended less happily for the Beltway elite in the Tar Heel State’s 3rd Congressional District. There, the planned purge of Rep. Walter Jones was repulsed by his loyal Republican base.
Yet, this massively funded effort, to kill the career of a 20-year House veteran, whose father held the seat for decades before him, testifies eloquently to the intolerance of the ideological and monied elite of the party to which conservatives give allegiance.
Reportedly, a million dollars of super PAC money poured into the 3rd, from Republicans, in support of a brazen Big Lie campaign to paint Walter Jones as a liberal. But what is the Congressman’s real record?
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http://www.ontheissues.org/NC/Walter_Beaman_Jones.htm
ReplyDeleteRight Conservative but voted for all the bailouts and stimulus spending.
I'm in Walter's district. I've had my issues with him in the last few years but in the end
ReplyDeletedecided to vote for him one more time. That decision was based primarily on the fact that almost all of Taylor Griffin's money came from out of state and I never could get a clear picture of who it came from and exactly where he stands. I know what he says but politicians say a lot of things. He knows Sarah Palin personally and worked for her. She finally endorsed him but it was late, just days before the election and appears to have been a half hearted endorsement.
One of Griffin's campaign ads said it all for me. His first words in that ad were: "I want to go to Washington". It matters not what he said after that. he's been in DC messing around in politics his whole adult life and I'm pretty certain he's looking for a way to stay there. If he hangs around down here in the 3rd district for the next 2 years and proves himself then maybe I'll give him a nod next time.
She finally endorsed him but it was late, just days before the election and appears to have been a half hearted endorsement.
DeleteThanks. Seeing he has no track record, it worries me that Palin endorsed him.