Michigan legislative action thread
Posted on 08/02/2014 9:56:47 AM PDT by Jabba the Nutt
I live here in Central Michigan. Dave Camp MI-R, Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee is retiring. We have a primary race between Paul Mitchell, John Molenaar and Pete Konechty.
Konechty filed to run against Camp before he dropped out, seems to be the true Tea Party candidate. Molenaar is a State Senator and Paul Mitchell, businessman/GOP finance chair, both filed after Camp dropped out. I'm going by memory on this.
Paul Mitchell has swamped the district with tv, radio, internet, mail and robocalls. Molenaar has followed with radio ads and mailers. I haven't heard from Konechty, who I believe has been swamped. Molenaar has been endorsed by Camp, Tea Party Express and Sen. Mike Lee.
Both the top dogs have been running as true conservatives and attacking the others. I don't know who to believe in this race.
Would you please ping the Michigan Ping List for this thread? Thanks.
Don’t believe the one financed by the GOP. Don’t believe the one financed by the Chamber of Commerce. Don’t believe any of them that tells you we need to implement any kind of immigration reform other than enforcing current laws.
Who do believe?
Check the Mackinaw site for Molenaar voting record.
Which one categorically states he will not allow any form of Amnesty, legitimization, pathway to citizen ship and want’s illegals rushing our borders to be deported instead of dispersed irretrievably?
Camp voted against the border bill yesterday. Whomever he is supporting, we should be against.
Only 4 republicans voted against it and I believe Upton was the only one.
Actually Upton voted for it and Camp did not vote.
I met Mr. Konetchy this spring, just before Dave Camp announced he wasn’t running again. He’s OK, I think maybe the best choice of the three, but I just don’t know for sure because all I know about Mitchell is he has a lot of money to waste on robo calls and postcards and radio spots. I have the general impression that Moolenaar is the Chosen One and will disappoint.
Konetchy’s website has a lot of information, more than most candidates have, it seems. https://www.peterkonetchy.com/
I was polled and said I would vote for Konechty. But I don’t think he has a chance. I’d like not to waste my vote on a RINO. I still don’t know enough about Mitchell or Moolenaar. I’m leaning to Moolenaar based on the Sen. Mike Lee endorsement.
Here is the link agian:
I’ve met Konetchy and he’s a softspoken but highly principled guy. A friend of mine is helping him. “Good guy running on a shoestring budget” was his comment. I hear Mitchell is a RINO and that Moolenaar is mainstream establishment but at least a social conservative. I don’t live there but I’d support Konetchy, Moolenaar, and Mitchell in that order .
At least one of the local tea party groups support Konetchy. Gladwin.
I didn’t know about the Mike Lee endorsement. That helps. I am probably voting for Konechty in the primary.
It worries me a bit that Mitchell could be riding a wave of anti-establishment sentiment and once he got in would be a RINO. I still haven’t seen any TEA party endorsements of any of these guys, have you?
Tea Party Express endorsed Moolenaar.
I just wasted an hour of my life listening to a live teleconference with Paul Mitchell.
He might be OK if he gets in, but mostly he just kept making noise about being an outsider and repeating campaign lines.
I wonder why TPE didn’t endorse either of the other two guys?
Mrs. P, it would be interesting to have your take and comparison on the 2 teleconferences.
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