GOP Taylor Withdrawing from Montana Senate Race

foxnews ^ | 10-10-02 | GRRRRR

[GRRRRR]

GOP Senate candidate, Mike Taylor is withdrawing from the Montana Senate race, FoxNews said in a breaking news alert at 1045 Central.

Taylor cites increasingly nasty and mean campaign ads run by his opponenet the incumbent Max Baucus D-Montana.

This opens the way, Taylor says, for a write in campaign for another GOP candidate.

Baucus has beem seeking re-election to his fifth term in a state that, according to FOX, has a decidedly Republican tilt.

[GRRRRR]

Keep your eyes peeled for more on this on the TeeVee..."Mean and nasty ads"?? Why withdraw for that?

GRRRRollin'

[Miss Marple]

Here it is!

[Miss Marple]

I can think of one Montanan that could win in a write-in.

Marc Racicot.

[ErnBatavia]

Baucus is ahead by 20 points....what's good for New Joisey should be good enuff for Montana.

[A CA Guy]

Why do Republicans have so many losers?
You don't withdraw due to ads, you get out because of things hidden in closets about to come out.

[antidisestablishment]

What the heck? Mean and nasty ads scaring a candidate away? I thought Montana would have been a he-man's state?!

[Jim Noble]

Is there any state which Gore won by >54% of the vote that has a GOP Senator with no RAT challenger?

How come GOP challengers are in trouble in SD, Montana, Louisiana, Missouri?

[Thinkin' Gal]

Exactly. Let's see the demoncrat outrage.

[TShaunK]

I smell switcharoo!!!

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

Biographical Data For Senator Mike A. Taylor of Montana

Biographical Campaign Finances Issue Positions (NPAT) Special Interest Groups Voting Record

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Current Office: State-Senate
Current District: SD37
Name: Senator Mike A. Taylor
Party: Republican

Gender: Male
Family: Wife: Janna; 2 Children: Zak, Chris.
Birth Date: 06/12/41
Birth Place: Hobson, MT
Home City: Rollins, MT
Religion: Presbyterian

Educational Experience:
  Diploma, Wilmington (OH) High School, 1959.
Professional Experience:
  Owner, Twin Creek Ranch, 1981-present
  Owner, Consumer Beauty Supply, 1979-1993
  Owner, Taylor's Institute of Hair Design, 1977-1997
  Owner, Taylor's International, 1969-1977
  Agriculture, 1962-2000.
Organizational Memberships:
  Member, Rotary, 1994-present
  Member, Elks, 1994-present.

First Elected: 1996
Last Elected: 2000

  Montana State Legislative Election 2000
    Votes Received: 6555

Next Election: 2004

Political Experience:
  Montana Senate, 1996-present
  Chair, Lake County Republican Central Committee, 1991-1992.
Caucus / Non-Legislative Committees:
  Alberta-Montana Trade Committee, 1996-2000
  Montana Manufacturing Committee, 1996-2000.
Committees:
  Business and Labor, Chair
  Committee on Committees
  Energy and Telecommunications
  Natural Resources
  Rules

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How To Contact Senator Taylor

Campaign EMail Address: mike@taylorussenate.com
Campaign EMail Address2: news@taylorussenate.com
Personal EMail Address: taylor2@digisys.net
Campaign Web Address: http://www.taylorussenate.com
Capitol Web Address: http://laws.leg.state.mt.us:8000/laws01/plsql/LAW0260W$LGTR.QueryView?P_ENTY_ID_SEQ5=138

District Address - Proctor
  Post Office Box 152
  Proctor, MT  59929-0152
  Phone: 406-849-5281

Capitol Address 2002
  Post Office Box 200500
  Helena, MT  59620
  Phone: 406-444-4800

Capitol Address
  Post Office Box 201706
  Helena, MT  59620-1706
  Phone: 406-444-3064

Campaign Address
  921 Euclid Avenue
  Helena, MT  59601
  Phone: 406-449-3535
  Fax: 406-449-3535

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[concerned about politics]

I smell switcharoo!!!

Let's hope so. Democrats have asked us not to disinfranchize any voters, right? Go big. Go real big. This area has a Repulican slant-usually.

[GraniteStateConservative]

Racicot is not going to run as a write-in. He could have had the nomination fair and square, but said no.

This is so stupid, it made me look at my calendar to see if today was April 1st.

[GraniteStateConservative]

Taylor was the NBA after Racicot. The farm team isn't that strong apparently.

[Puddleglum]

WTH (what the...heck).

I'd rather not do a switcheroo, but I also like giving dem Dems a taste of their own medicine.

I keep telling my wife we live in crazy times, and she believe it, too.

[cogitator]

How come GOP challengers are in trouble in SD, Montana, Louisiana, Missouri?

Incumbency? (I wouldn't say Thune is "in trouble" in SD. That one's still too close to call.) In Missouri, Carnahan is the incumbent and probably still has some emotional links to the deceased governor. Can't say for Louisiana.

What was the Bush margin of victory in Montana?

[wny]

Because, they're a bunch of wusses.

[concerned about politics]

How come GOP challengers are in trouble in SD, Montana, Louisiana, Missouri?

The Missouri Democrat, Gepfart, may have just cooked his goose if we play our cards right. He asked all illegal aliens to vote Democrat in the upcomming election. They had to do it to earn their citizenship.

[justshe]

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[William McKinley]

I have mixed feelings. I would love to see Baucus lose. I would love to see the Democrats hoisted on their own meathook.

At the same time, it would be somewhat sleazy to do, and I don't like that.

However, probably the only way we will get things changed so that the law is enforced is to use this tactic against the Democrats, so I guess I would like it. Go Raicot!

[Dog Gone]

At least we're doing it legally with a write-in campaign, as opposed to the Dems in NJ.