Jan 20 2010
Tim D’Annunzio Holding Candidate Town Halls
Tim D’Annunzio, candidate for the Republican nomination for North Carolina’s 8th House District, is holding a series of town halls to talk about the issues facing our nation and his plans for addressing them if elected to Congress. The schedule is below:
Charlotte
Date: Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Time: 6:30pm
Location: Holiday Inn UNC Charlotte
8520 University Executive Park, Charlotte
Monroe
Date: Thursday, January 21, 2010
Time: 6:30pm
Location: Monroe Country Club
1680 Pageland Highway, Monroe
Albemarle
Date: Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Time: 6:30pm
Location: Stanly County Public Library
133 East Main Street, Albemarle
The Logic Connection plans on making a personal appearance at the Charlotte town hall tonight. I’ll be sure to report back to CPO with all the details.
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I would have liked to have gone, but I had class tonight.
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He shaved his ’stache. Probably a good move.
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Tim held a poll on his website whether he should shave or not.
While I respect social media, ugh. Kind of a fan of grown ups too.
Went to his Troy meeting last night.
He wants to repeal the 16th amendment, arrest the President for treason, and stop all tax dollars from coming back to the district.
Um, wow. I didn’t stay long. I’m sure it got better assuming they didn’t have to call an ambulance for one of the 15 senior citizens that showed up.
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Let’s just say that the best part of Tim’s town hall meeting last night was that it ended in time for me to get home to see State beat up on Duke!
Unlike you Crush, I stayed for the entire meeting (I’m a glutton for punishment). There were approx. 30-35 people, all white, and almost all of them over the age of 50. Tim hit all the conservative/Glen Beck/Ron Paul/Fair Tax talking points to the delight of the audience in attendance, but he showed no sign of original thought the entire night. He is an unpolished public speaker who could not stop circling the podium the whole time he was talking. Our former president wasn’t known for being a great public speaker either, but at least he was known for being a charmer when you met him in person. I can’t say the same for Tim.
When asked his “number one issue” he cited two: nationally it’s jobs, and personally it’s abortion. He then gave the standard speech on why the Fair Tax is going to solve all of our economic problems, including jobs, and then moved on to abortion. Two things are wrong with this. One, the Fair Tax has some validity and is far better than the current system we have in place, but the Fair Tax isn’t going to become law anytime soon. Tim gave no other specific measures he favored to stimulate the economy. Second, abortion plays well with the religious base in the primary, but this is not a family values election cycle. He’s running as a Republican, it should be understood he’s against abortion. Touting your anti-abortion credentials is not going to get you elected when people can’t find a job and the government is spending money as fast as they can print it.
Let me wrap this up since I’m starting to ramble on like dale.
Tim may be a good conservative, family man, and veteran, but that wasn’t enough to get McCain elected and it won’t be enough to get Tim elected (ok McCain wasn’t a conservative but you know what I mean). We need someone who can articulate new ideas and energize not only the base, but independents and moderate dems as well. I will not be voting for Tim in the primary.
Oh yea, and apparently no one told him it was a bad idea to feed the trolls…
http://campaigntracker.blogspot.com/2009/12/gop-rival-tells-big-guy-stay-out-of-our.html
That new campaign manager of his better explain to Tim the perils of getting into arguments with anonymous posters online.
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Probably not a bad point to end on LC. I never even considered being ‘flamed’ by someone that wants to represent me in Congress.
So who’s left standing? All I saw on Tuesday was Mr. D’Annunzio sending 15 senior citizens running back to Kissel.
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I’ve been planning to get to one of his town halls, and I understand that he’s also doing one in Concord next week so I may get to that one.
But I saw him and Huddleston, Jordan and others at a forum a while back and have to agree with Logic for the most part. D’Annunzio desperately, desperately, desperately needs to work on his public presentation. And the flaming in comments section thing is completely unbecoming of someone aspiring to serve us in Congress.
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So back to Crush’s question, who’s left to support?
I haven’t had an opportunity to meet or listen to any of the other candidates in person so I’d welcome any thoughts from someone who has. And I don’t mean from campaign staffers just spinning for their candidate. The primary is fast approaching and the last thing we want in this political climate is to elect someone in the primary that loses to Kissel. I know Kissel is polling well, and he’s not some left-wing radical, but I’d still prefer to get someone more reliable than him elected.
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1. Lou Huddleston
2. Hal Jordan
3. Harold Johnson
And some minor candidates.
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Sorry, I didn’t mean just a list of the other candidates in the race, I was hoping for someone with some insight on the candidates themselves to help the rest of us decide who would be worth supporting. A candidate’s website can only provide but so much perspective on them, it always helps to hear from people that have first hand experience with a candidate.
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Maybe I’ll do what I did with the NCGOP chair race- send ‘em all a questionnaire and post it here.
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Not a bad idea.
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I second the motion
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Good idea about the questionnaire, Press 7. I don’t know if you intended that list to be a ranking, but that’s actually how I’d rank them at this point.
None of these guys have records that they can be judged by, so you can really only go on what they say, and how well they say it. At the forum I attended, I was most impressed with the presentations of Jordan and Huddleston (Johnson wasn’t yet a candidate, and the others had bad presentations). As far as I could judge from that event, Jordan seemed to hit the conservative points a little better, but Huddleston was really ’slick’ so I can see why the NRCC is pushing him.
Jordan almost pulled off the huge electoral upset against Jim Black in 2006, in the overwhelmingly Dem senate district in an overwhelmingly bad year for Republicans. It wasn’t entirely of credit to Jordan of course, since Black was on the verge of being indicted and thrown into prison, but you can’t get around those demographics in a year like that without being pretty good.
I still await something from ‘the Big Guy’…
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That’s actually pretty impressive of Jordan. Few R’s in Charlotte can say they’ve convinced as many dems to pull the lever for them before.
I found this list too. Worth a link.
http://www.8thncgop.com/
Love that idea of each one responding to issues here.
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That was the Dem House district, not Senate, of Jim Black – duh, oops.
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Did anyone ask Mr. D’Annunzio why he left the Army? Ahh Drugs, How about the business he lost in Florida to the IRS?? How about the jail time??
Do your research before you vote
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Any updates on that candidate questionnaire, Celtic?
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Am I missing something?
Probably.
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Okay, doing my part.
Just sent this email to Hal Jordan.
Subject: Did you quit?
Seems like it. Just want the scoop for Carolina Politics Online if you did.
Tweet or something.
Let us know you’re alive.
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I don’t if he’s sent out a questionnaire or not. I sent one to all 13 candidates running in SC-01 and I got very few responses.
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Good news everyone! Hal Jordan is alive.
He had a fish lunch and visited a farm yesterday.
http://twitter.com/HalforCongress/statuses/10300198206
This race is going well, don’t you think?
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