Posted on 05/14/2013 10:58:13 AM PDT by cotton1706
Rob Maness, a retired Air Force Colonel who has never run for public office, announced Monday that he is entering the race. Republican Rep. Bill Cassidy is also challenging Landrieu.
“After serving 32 years in the military devoted to supporting and defending the Constitution from threats outside of America, I realized when my peers and I were facing out, behind us the political class in office was not living up to their oath to support and defend the Constitution,”
Asked what he brings as a candidate that neither Landrieu nor Cassidy does, Maness said it was his sense of principle.
“We need men and women in Congress who legislate from set of principles not from public opinion polls,” he said. “I will stand on principle. I will read each piece of legislation through the lens of the Constitution. I will stand with Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, Mike Lee and stand alone when needed.”
Louisiana has an open primary system, meaning all candidates, Democratic, Republican and from other parties, are placed on one ballot. If no candidate gets fifty percent of the vote, the top two vote-getters go to a run-off.
Maness said he was unconcerned about splitting the vote with Cassidy and giving Landrieu a victory, taking a jab at the viability of his opponent.
“Competition is good. The voters deserve the best we can offer,” he said. “We don’t believe that Rep. Cassidy will take away enough votes from us for it to be a concern.”
Maness dismissed Cassidy’s candidacy in general, saying he would not be able to beat Landrieu.
“Rep. Cassidy is a nice man and a loyal Rove Republican,” Maness said, “and that is the problem. A Rove Republican can’t beat Mary Landrieu.”
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Yes. And Cassidy is already campaigning.
Good. She’s one phony I’d like to see gone!
We can’t botch this like we did those other Senate races,she needs to go!
These Tea Party candidates need to go to some type of boot camp.
They can preach to the choir but a lot of them stumble when in hostile territory. The media lives to bombard conservative candidates.
Scary is that the Rove Republicans are attacking another conservative...using the stupid “liberal media support “ excuse against Maness. This is the same crap the Rove Republicans used to sandbag Todd Akin over the rape comment
Whenever someone attacks a conservative with the liberal”splitting the vote” crap....they are supporting the liberal candidate...always
Right on. Maness is the real deal and one of the most exciting candidates I have worked with in my career. You get to know this guy you will get to love this guy.
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