Maness is well positioned to run for the special election in 2016
If Maness dropped out of the race would it have put Cassidy over the 50% threshold? Hard to say.. Now at least he gets to show some class and goodwill plus a deeper profile for a future election process.
Plus Miss Piggy gets to witness that her loyalty to DC is not returned when she needs their help. How fitting-—
I heard Sarah Palin mention this and that she was flying to Louisiana to attend the unity event. Imagine, Snow White invading Miss Piggy’s territory.
Oh, I forgot .. .. Miss Piggy hasn’t actually lived in Louisiana for many, many years.
http://blogs.theadvocate.com/politicsblog/2014/11/08/rob-maness-backs-bill-cassidy-in-dec-6-runoff/
Rob Maness backs Bill Cassidy in Dec. 6 runoff
November 8, 2014 Mark Ballard
Republican insurgent Rob Maness announced Saturday morning that he would back Congressman Bill Cassidy in his race to unseat incumbent U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu.
Maness received about 14 percent of the vote in Tuesday’s primary, which put Cassidy and Landrieu in a Dec. 6 runoff.
Maness, of Madisonville, had said all along that he would support the winning Republican in the primary.
A retired U.S. Air Force officer backed by the national TeaParty Express, Maness had run to the right of Cassidy, who some in the GOP had considered not conservative enough.
Since Tuesday night, when Cassidy polled 603,032 votes – or about 41 percent of the total cast – the Baton Rouge Republican has been shoring up the most conservative elements of the GOP. Cassidy’s first public appearance after election night was to accept the backing of the Susan B. Anthony List, a national group that opposes abortion.
Landrieu topped the field with about 16,000 votes more than Cassidy.
Maness and his wife, Candy, joined Cassidy and his wife, Laura, Friday night at Ye Olde College Inn in uptown New Orleans, according to the Maness Facebook page.
“I shared with Bill some thoughts on ways to grow our party and keep our elected officials more connected to those they serve. Before it was over, Bill even helped me put a new bumper sticker on our Truck,” Maness said in a prepared statement.
They discussed public policy and the situation at Bayou Corne, where residents have been displaced by a sinkhole, the Facebook entry stated.
Maness said he would join U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Kentucky, and U.S. Rep. Cassidy at a noontime function in Huey’s, a bar in downtown Baton Rouge.
Billed as a “unity rally” the Louisiana Republican Party says that in addition to Paul, Maness and Cassidy, U.S. Sen. David Vitter, Gov. Bobby Jindal and other prominent Louisiana Republicans would attend.
Excellent!
I was praying that Rob Maness would win though am happy the run off will have a united force to take care of business with Landrieu. She has done nothing but push the leftwing agenda in which has hurt her constituency. These women like this, can you image how manipulating they are to their own families, if you don’t condone to their wants. She comes across as being such.
It’s not enough to win this race, we need to win by a landslide. Send them a message, Louisiana!
Saw Sarah P. on FNC Friday night and she said she was also going to be in LA at the support rally Monday.
I voted on principle for Col. Maness.
Since I will have to slog out to the voting box, again, I will be voting for Cassidy, since it is high time that “the blonde from dah chawk-litt ci-tee” gets the-box-for-her-desk-with-a-security-guard exit.
But Vitter said in an earlier interview that neither are options. “There will be absolutely no understanding, arrangement, or deal tying any appointment to the campaign in any way,” he said.
http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/10/david_vitters_politicial_playb.html
As for Cassidy, Vitter cleared the rest of the GOP field for him early-on, convincing Congressman John Fleming, state Rep. Paul Hollis and former Congressman Jeff Landry to sit this one out. That helps explain Vitter’s encouraging words for Landry’s attorney general bid and makes one wonder if Fleming might be positioned to run for Vitter’s seat, should Vitter be elected governor.
http://thehayride.com/2014/11/breaking-tony-perkins-is-now-on-board-with-bill-cassidy/
Cassidy’s vote on the 2009 Hate Crimes bill in Congress was a major sticking point with Perkins and many of the other activist social conservatives in the state, and it’s a reason why Perkins took such a hard line against supporting him in the earlier stages of the campaign even despite the fact Cassidy’s rating on the FRC Action scorecard has been 100 for the past several years.