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Lt. Gov. Amy Tuck and Other Party-Switchers Visit With President Bush
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| 09/02/03
Posted on 09/02/2003 5:17:38 PM PDT by WKB
Lt. Gov. Amy Tuck met with President Bush on Tuesday in what Mississippi Republican leaders say was a chance for the president to endorse Tuck's re-election.
At the White House, Bush welcomed Tuck and a group of Mississippi lawmakers who recently switched to the Republican Party, said White House spokesman Taylor Gross.
"This primary event was to honor Lt. Gov. Amy Tuck. That's what it was all about,'' said state GOP chairman Jim Herring, who also attended the meeting.
"The president invited Tuck to come up and voice his strong support for her and give her a briefing on various issues and to celebrate the fact that she has joined the Republican Party,'' Herring said.
Tuck was elected as a Democrat in 1999. She jumped to the GOP last winter, saying she found herself at odds with the agenda of national and state Democrats regarding redistricting and whether to support Al Gore for president.
"It was a great meeting,'' Tuck said Tuesday after returning to Jackson. "Hopefully, he will certainly help our campaign.''
Bush will be in Jackson on Sept. 12 for a fund-raiser for Republican gubernatorial candidate Haley Barbour, according to Barbour's campaign. Gross said the White House hasn't released an official schedule for Bush.
Barbour faces Democratic incumbent Gov. Ronnie Musgrove and some lesser known challengers in the Nov. 4 general election.
Herring said he believes Bush will campaign for Tuck while he's in the state. Tuck faces state Sen. Barbara Blackmon in the November election.
"We are placing a great emphasis on enhancing our number in the state Legislature,'' Herring said.
Among the other new Republicans in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday were state Sens. Terry Burton of Newton; Tommy Dickerson of Waynesboro; Travis Little of Corinth and state Reps. John Read of Gautier, Frank Hamilton of Hurley, Herb Frierson of Poplarville and Jim Barnett of Brookhaven.
Herring said the group spent about an hour with Bush who talked about everything from how he chose the paintings on the wall to his re-election bid. Tuck said members of the group also had their picture taken with Bush.
TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Mississippi
KEYWORDS: 2003; amytuck; bush43; realignment
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Bennie Thompson unable to attend
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posted on
09/02/2003 5:17:40 PM PDT
by
WKB
Comment #2 Removed by Moderator
To: WKB
Ex democrats and moderates get the red carpet treatment...conservatives are told to shut up because where else are they going to go? I love the political strategery of the White House.
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posted on
09/02/2003 5:20:38 PM PDT
by
dinok
To: dixiechick2000; MagnoliaMS; MississippiMan; vetvetdoug; NerdDad; Rebel Coach; afuturegovernor; ...
Missppy ping for those who give a rats***
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posted on
09/02/2003 5:21:36 PM PDT
by
WKB
(3!~ ( You, Mississippi FReepers are about as exciting as a “turtle race... make that a Snail race”))
To: William Creel
Why would he attend?
I was being ugly.
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posted on
09/02/2003 5:23:05 PM PDT
by
WKB
(3!~ ( You, Mississippi FReepers are about as exciting as a “turtle race... make that a Snail race”))
To: onyx
Semi Haley Ping. AT least his name is in the article
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posted on
09/02/2003 5:25:39 PM PDT
by
WKB
(3!~ ( You, Mississippi FReepers are about as exciting as a “turtle race... make that a Snail race”))
To: dinok
Were you A+Bert in a former life?
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posted on
09/02/2003 5:36:41 PM PDT
by
WKB
(3!~ ( You, Mississippi FReepers are about as exciting as a “turtle race... make that a Snail race”))
To: dinok
"Ex democrats and moderates get the red carpet treatment...conservatives are told to shut up because where else are they going to go? I love the political strategery of the White House." Even the Saudis get a more red carpet treatment than conservatives. Heck, they are the President's best friends and Secretary of State's "brother".
Conservatives have only the Libertarian Party that probably will never win, or to abstain from voting or being involved altogether. What else (or where else) is there? I would sure like to know.
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posted on
09/02/2003 5:37:18 PM PDT
by
KriegerGeist
("The weapons of our warefare are not carnal, but mighty though God for pulling down of strongholds")
To: Geist Krieger
"Conservatives have only the Libertarian Party that probably will never win, or to abstain from voting or being involved altogether. What else (or where else) is there? I would sure like to know."
I agree...as conservatives we have crappy choices, and saddly we have no place to go.
I dont vote "for" the republicans, I vote "against" the democrats.
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posted on
09/02/2003 6:10:23 PM PDT
by
dinok
To: dinok
A+Bert is a former Freeper known to gripe and complain
a lot. I though you might be him.
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posted on
09/02/2003 6:24:22 PM PDT
by
WKB
(3!~ ( You, Mississippi FReepers are about as exciting as a “turtle race... make that a Snail race”))
To: WKB
Thanks for the ping for the "let's wing elections wing of the party." A lot of people from other parts of the country don't know entrenched the Democratic party is in the deep south and in Mississippi. Every one of those party switchers was a conservative Democrat coming home to the party where they belong.
To: afuturegovernor
A lot of people from other parts of the country don't know entrenched the Democratic party is in the deep south and in Mississippi. Every one of those party switchers was a conservative Democrat coming home to the party where they belong.
They just don't get it do they?
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posted on
09/02/2003 6:30:44 PM PDT
by
WKB
(3!~ ( You, Mississippi FReepers are about as exciting as a “turtle race... make that a Snail race”))
To: WKB
"A+Bert is a former Freeper known to gripe and complain
a lot. I though you might be him."
I earned my right to say my piece Mister...if you have an issue with it, that's too bad.
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posted on
09/02/2003 6:43:50 PM PDT
by
dinok
To: dinok
The only way conservatives will get Republicans' attention is if they abstain from voting for them.
To: dinok
I earned my right to say my piece Mister...if you have an issue with it, that's too bad.
o?
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posted on
09/02/2003 6:51:19 PM PDT
by
WKB
(3!~ ( You, Mississippi FReepers are about as exciting as a “turtle race... make that a Snail race”))
To: dinok
...conservatives are told to shut up...That's not true. Now shush.
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posted on
09/02/2003 6:51:30 PM PDT
by
Consort
To: Consort
That's not true. Now shush.
Thanks for your insight!!
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posted on
09/02/2003 6:54:06 PM PDT
by
WKB
(3!~ ( You, Mississippi FReepers are about as exciting as a “turtle race... make that a Snail race”))
To: dinok
Shouldn't you be reading some "gloom and doom" pedantic tome blaming RINOs and Bush for all the evils befalling the heroic race of Northern Europeans? Or maybe watching some videotaped speech by Howard Phillips over and over?
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posted on
09/02/2003 6:56:26 PM PDT
by
Chancellor Palpatine
("Hee Haw" was only supposed to be a TV show, not a political movement)
To: Consort
"...conservatives are told to shut up...
That's not true. Now shush. "
Shush?!!! Grandma!!! is that you?!!
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posted on
09/02/2003 6:57:24 PM PDT
by
dinok
To: Chancellor Palpatine
Shouldn't you be drinking some purple GW coolaid?
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posted on
09/02/2003 6:58:32 PM PDT
by
dinok
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