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Heath Shuler Is Exploring a North Carolina Senate Run
National Journal ^ | August 6, 2016 | Alex Roarty

Posted on 08/06/2015 3:29:47 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued

Former Democratic Congressman Heath Shuler is actively exploring a Senate run in North Carolina, two sources with direct knowledge of the situation tell National Journal.

Should he run, Shuler, a former NFL quarterback who represented a district in the state's western half, would instantly become the Democrats top recruit for the Senate seat held by Republican incumbent Richard Burr. Earlier this year, former Sen. Kay Hagan turned down Democratic entreaties to run for office, and the party has since struggled to find another potential contender.

Shuler served three terms in the House before deciding not to seek re-election in 2012.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: nc2016

1 posted on 08/06/2015 3:29:47 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued
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To: fieldmarshaldj; AuH2ORepublican; Impy; GOPsterinMA; randita; Sun; NFHale; ExTexasRedhead; GeronL; ..

In Congress, Heath Schuler wasn’t the worst member of his party and he made a quixotic run for Speaker against Nancy Pelosi. Meanwhile, Richard Burr posts less-than-impressive approval ratings.


2 posted on 08/06/2015 3:31:38 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued (The War on Drugs is Big Government statism)
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To: Clintonfatigued

just like his nfl career; if he runs, he’ll fumble. if he throws his hat in the ring, it will be intercepted and returned for a touchdown.


3 posted on 08/06/2015 3:32:20 PM PDT by JohnBrowdie (http://forum.stink-eye.net)
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To: Clintonfatigued

That’s because lil Dickie is a proud member of GOPe


4 posted on 08/06/2015 3:39:24 PM PDT by Axeslinger (Where has my country gone?)
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To: JohnBrowdie

Maybe they can find a trucker like the one in Mississippi.


5 posted on 08/06/2015 3:40:49 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (There's a right to gay marriage in the Constitution but there is no right of an unborn baby to life.)
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To: Clintonfatigued; fieldmarshaldj; AuH2ORepublican; randita

This chump would be an able ballot filler for the rats, but Burr isn’t gonna lose. The curse on the seat has been broken.


6 posted on 08/06/2015 3:50:36 PM PDT by Impy (They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)
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To: Clintonfatigued

Mark Meadows needs to run for Burr’s seat.


7 posted on 08/06/2015 4:26:03 PM PDT by parthian shot
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To: JohnBrowdie

Actually, Shuler is fairly conservative for a democrat....


8 posted on 08/06/2015 5:30:54 PM PDT by Boonie ("Nuke 'em all...Let Allah sort 'em out...)
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To: Boonie
Actually, Shuler is fairly conservative for a democrat....

What does that mean? That he will vote to confirm a conservative supreme court justice?

That he will vote to defund obamacare? To deport illegal immigrants as the law requires?

To defund Planned Parenthood and its evil baby parts marketing scheme?

Somehow I doubt it. That's not how Democrats work these days.

9 posted on 08/06/2015 5:37:44 PM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: Boonie

A Conservative Democrat today is a Marxist as opposed to being a Stalinist.


10 posted on 08/06/2015 5:53:24 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: Axeslinger

Also a champion of homosexualizing the military. Which branch of the service did his sons serve in? Him?


11 posted on 08/06/2015 6:06:48 PM PDT by MSF BU (Support the troops: Join Them.)
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To: Clintonfatigued

This supposes that the Fatwa has been lifted. Shuler and Giffords offended Don Nancy Pelosi of the Baltimore Nosa Costra. Giffords got two in the hat and Shuler disappeared.


12 posted on 08/06/2015 9:00:36 PM PDT by namvolunteer (Obama says the US is subservient to the UN and the Constitution does not apply. That is treason.)
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To: Boonie

That’s like saying a guy’s fairly good looking, for a severe burn victim.

Schuler is pond scum.


13 posted on 08/06/2015 9:31:46 PM PDT by Impy (They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)
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