Feb 22 2010
Burr Files for Re-Election and has some GOP Challengers
Sen. Richard Burr made his re-election campaign official on Monday when he filed for re-election.
But he’s not going to have the Republican primary all to himself. Over the last year, many conservatives have shown displeasure (to put it mildly) with Burr’s support of some budget-busting spending bills. He voted for the first bailout in the last months of George W. Bush’s administration, for instance. Sure, Burr looks like a piker now that Obama’s in office, but it’s too little too late for some conservatives.
ShareBrad Jones, a 65, who runs an electronics businessman, said he is running to provide a more conservative alternative to Burr, Rob Christensen reports. Jones said the Burr “rubber stamped” all of the spending policies of President George W. Bush and voted for the bank bailout.
“I want to give people an alternative,” Jones said. “I’m more of a Jesse Helms conservative. Now that there is a Democrat in the White House, he (Burr) is acting more conservative.”
Eddie Burks, a 48-year-old Asheboro City Councilman, calls Burr “unresponsive and inaccessible.”
“Have you seen any leadership from Sen. Burr?” Burks asked in an interview. “I haven’t. Most people can’t tell me anything they like about the senator.”
Burr is fine. Note, I don’t say that with much enthusiasm.
But this state becomes Jersey without even a tint of an Conservative anchor, even the fake kind like Burr, if he loses.
Why we even fielded Elizabeth Dole is still beyond me.
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Richaed Burr is from here and REPRESNTED Winston-SALEM years before Ginny Foxx. This isn’t up for discussion.
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If this was 2008 Burr would be in deep shit right now. He’s lucky that the political environment has turned the way it has because that will probably save him despite his crummy approval ratings.
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He’s not getting my vote in the primary. He was on the fence about the amnesty bill under Bush and would have voted for it if not for the overwhelming number of calls to his office. He voted for Obama’s second “stimulus” or “jobs” bill just recently. That just goes to show how out of touch he is when he doesn’t understand that the federal government doesn’t create jobs, nor produce anything. He does not represent our state as a member of the REPUBLIC! …in other words he is a Republican In Name Only.
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