Posted on 07/22/2013 5:55:48 AM PDT by cotton1706
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) will have a challenger from the right in Matt Bevin, a local businessman and Tea Party candidate who plans to announce his run for Senate this week.
Bevin, who has been exploring the race since February, is reportedly already buying airtime and has met with multiple conservative groups about his run. He'll launch a 3-day, 8-stop tour of the state after he formally announces his intentions on Wednesday.
Bevin is a partner at a Kentucky investment firm and the owner of Bevin Brothers Manufacturing, a Connecticut bell-making company founded 160 years ago. He previously worked as CEO of Integrity Asset Management, an investment management firm with offices in Kentucky.
His personal wealth would be an advantage running against McConnell, who has nearly $10 million cash on hand for the race.
McConnell has long been considered vulnerable to a primary challenge, but no candidate had previously emerged.
He's worked, in recent years, to shore up support on his right flank, and hired Jesse Benton, the former campaign manager for Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) with ties to the Tea Party in Kentucky, to his team.
Democrats believe McConnell to be vulnerable heading into 2014, citing polling that shows him unpopular in his state. They also got their preferred remaining candidate in Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes, after a handful of other Democrats passed on the race.
Can Bevin beat Grimes.
I hope that we can boot Mcconnell, Boehner and Graham.
Now that’s a good primary challenge!
oh, can somebody create a list of Tea party Candidates challenging entrenched RINOs or just plain wimpy GOP candidates.
I’m not rich, but I would like to start donating to all these challengers. The more money they get, the more fear they will instill in the parties apparatchiks.
Win or lose, being primaried will make them think twice for their next elections.
bevin could be the next cruz or rubio. or, he could be the next angle, o’donnell, akin, or mourdock . . .
Rubio?
He could be the next Patrick Henry, or he could be the next Benedict Arnold.
The time is long past when you could whitewash Rubio for conservatives.
That’s a trifecta that should be a #1 priority for the Tea Party!
The next Rubio? Go, let’s hope not!
Need to be careful here... McConnell may be more vulnerable in the primary than the general election. Hopefully, the TP in Kentucky has vetted Bevin for attitudes on rape and other hot-button issues. Need to avoid giving the dems freebies like the disaster in November.
2008 biography of Matt Bevin. Former U.S. Army Captain and graduate of Washington and Lee University.
http://www.bizjournals.com/louisville/stories/2008/12/15/story14.html?page=all
Southern Seminary opens center for missions mobilization (2012).
“The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary officially opened its new Bevin Center for Missions Mobilization, Oct. 9, during the seminary’s Heritage Week.”
http://news.sbts.edu/2012/10/09/southern-seminary-opens-center-for-missions-mobilization/
his attempt to revive a longtime family business, East Hampton, Conn.-based bell-maker Bevin Brothers Manufacturing Co.
http://www.bizjournals.com/louisville/blog/2011/12/npr-to-feature-holiday-bell-company.html?page=all
“...the company, which makes the hand bells for the Salvation Army bell-ringers and made the bell used in “It’s a Wonderful Life.”
He also owns a compressed gas cylinder manufacturer called P.S.I. Plus.
Six natural children (less a 17 year old daughter who died in a car crash while on mission), and three adoptive children. He and his family recently had a year long, cross America, India and Africa trip.
All we need now is a challenger for Boehner
Curious and tricky will be Rand’s position on the race. Does anyone know if he’s a Bevin supporter?
Sitting Senators of the same party are famously reluctant to back a challenger to their counterpart.
They can win if they stick to the main issues — Bash the rats over the head with obamacare, part time job nation and the economy.
it isn’t “attitudes” on rape that blew up the last guy. it’s biology 101 that nailed him.
someone give the guy a high school equivalency tests in bio, pronto. the media will be waiting for just the right moment to lob a grenade into his nest.
“Need to be careful here... McConnell may be more vulnerable in the primary than the general election. Hopefully, the TP in Kentucky has vetted Bevin for attitudes on rape and other hot-button issues. Need to avoid giving the dems freebies like the disaster in November.”
My answer to that is, republicans will get new leadership if McConnell is removed, either by Bevin or by Grimes. McConnell’s been there since 1985. He’s old, tired and a piss-poor leader. And he frequently undermines conservatives. I’m done with being a “keep the seat in republican hands at all cost” man. We are better off without Mike Castle. We are better off without Richard Lugar. We are better off without Olympia Snowe. We are better off without Scott Brown. And we will be better off without McConnell.
Kentucky is a pretty republican state and the people are becoming more and more aware of the democrats’ games. So I think it’s likely a republcan would be elected there anyway.
I was simply pointing out tea party victories vs. losses. whether they turn out to be genuine is a longer term conversation.
From what I’ve read, Rand is behind McConnell. And McConnell has hired Rand’s campaign manager. But if Rand is smart, he’ll just let things play out. I’m tired of these senators picking and choosing who they’d like to work with instead of letting the people decide who they want to represent them.
Bye bye mitch... I never liked you and I will NOT miss you... I just do not like spineless liberals... mitch.
LLS
*God*
I agree. If it takes using the 'Rats to clean out some of the GOP dead hands then I'm ready to let them do it. A solid GOP primary candidate is always to be preferred but some of these GOPe RINOs simply have to go by any means available.
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