Fredipedia: The Definitive Fred Thompson Reference
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Posted on 12/20/2007 1:48:04 PM PST by TheThirdRuffian
MC LEAN, Va., Dec. 20 /Standard Newswire/ -- Today the Fred Thompson campaign announced its State Co-Chairs and statewide leadership in Nevada. State Senator Bob Beers and State Senator Barbara Cegayske will serve as Nevada Co-Chairs.
Nevada Senator Bob Beers has spent the last eight years representing Nevada. First elected to the Nevada Assembly in 1998, Beers was elected to the State Senate in 2004. A former Republican candidate for Governor of Nevada, Beers has spent his entire public career fighting for lower taxes.
"I am honored to serve as State Co-Chair of Senator Thompson's Nevada campaign," said State Senator Beers. "A strong consistent conservative, Fred Thompson understands the importance of lower taxes and smaller government in ensuring our long term prosperity."
A Nevada resident since 1974, Barbara Cegavske was elected to the State Assembly in 1996 and served as District 5's Assemblywoman for three terms from 1997 to 2001. She was elected to the State Senate in 2002 and has served as Vice Chair of both the Senate Resources and Facilities and Legislative Affairs Committees.
"Fred Thompson has the leadership and conservative principles we need in the White House as we face increasing domestic and global challenges over the next few years," said Barbara Cegavske. "I look forward to spreading his conservative message throughout my home state of Nevada."
"We are proud to have this strong statewide organization in place in Nevada," said Randy Enwright, National Political Director. "We look forward to running a strong campaign in this key early state and this leadership team will serve as a great asset."
Fred Thompson's Nevada Leadership Team includes:
State Senator Bob Beers, Co-Chair State Senator Barbara Cegavske, Co-Chair John Mason, former State Republican Party Chair Madison Graves , Businessman and former Member of the UNLV Board of Regents John Timmerman, former Nye County GOP Chair Dawn Timmerman, GOP Activist Carolyn Swafford, former Elko GOP Executive Director
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Good people. With the primary in about a month, it’s a little late to be putting the team together, but better late than later.
FYI Nevada has caucuses, not primaries. Huge Mormon population, too. Thompson very late to this party.
Good team. I’ve talked with Bob Beers several times when he came through here campaigning for governor. A good man with a sound fiscal head on his shoulders, a rock-ribbed conservative. Most certainly NOT a RINO.
I agree this is very late for TeamFred to be putting this together. Nevada Democrats have been campaigning since, oh, June, calling, pounding the pavement, organizing, etc.
The GOP? Nowhere to be seen or heard. I’ve never received a phone call from ANY of the candidates.
Sounds like an opportunity to step up, to me.
Thanks for the info. It’s really hard to put together a 50-state campaign, even if you start way early.
But I don’t think that a September start necessarily was too late, just that starting that late you really had to be ready to hit the ground running.
At least Fred got enough signatures for Virginia — several candidates did not, including Tancredo and I believe Hunter.
Nevada, the state that gave us Harry Reid!
Fredipedia: The Definitive Fred Thompson Reference
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Living in Carson City, I can assure you that there is far more to Beers than just fighting for lower taxes. Gibbons basically outspent him, and now the citizens of Nevada are paying for it.
No. Las Vegas gave you Reid. Northern Nevada is a completely different issue altogether.
It is not too late for Thompson in Nevada, and it’s not a huge Mormon population. There are two halves - Northern and Southern Nevada.
The good news is that Beers is strong in southern Nevada, and considering that northern Nevada was Gibbons’ Congressional District, is the only reason he’s Governor today.
A power house team. Beers is a one man show.
I think Thompson has a good chance in the northern 7/8’ths of the state as well.
But I don’t think he’s gonna carry Clark County. There’s too many “gimme my federal entitlement in an income-tax free state retirement” folks down there.
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