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 Down With Tyranny has written about John's race and the unique dynamic involving Mitch McConnell, Rand Paul, the Tea Party, and John's appeal to a wide range of voters.
Read the full article here: http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2010/08/tea-party-comb-over-over-some-good-old.html
A few excerpts from the article:
In primary after primary, Republican incumbents have found themselves in real peril from an angry group of right-leaning voters who resent the budget-busting policies that helped bring the economy to its knees. There is a growing divide between the Mitch McConnell machine and the grassroots movement that lifted Rand Paul to notoriety. What will happen when the choice moves to the general election? Can a left-leaning candidate that shares the fundamental frustrations and fiscal concerns of the Tea Party carry more appeal than a follower of Mitch McConnell?
Geoff Davis is trying to thread a very small needle. A Washington backbencher, content to take corporate PAC money from Wall Street, and be a cog in Mitch McConnell’s political machine, Davis must convince Chamber of Commerce types that he will continue to back McConnell’s Big Business agenda at every turn. Simultaneously he is presenting himself as Rand Paul-lite in an effort to avoid the punishment visited upon other Republicans that were complicit in running up record deficits and driving the economy off a cliff.
“You know who gets pay raises even when they do a terrible job, run up deficits and ruin the economy? Wall Street bankers and Geoff Davis,” Waltz says while pointing out that Davis spends way too much time having breakfast with Wall Streeters while Kentuckian struggle to make ends meet.
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As reported in the Kentucky Enquirer...
COVINGTON – The Northern Kentucky Central Labor Council has issued endorsements in nearly three dozen federal, state and local races on the November ballot.
The Covington-based group represents labor and union members across nine Northern Kentucky counties.
“Our endorsements are always based on labor criteria and the common thread between the candidate and labor,” said Jim Cole, the council’s political director.
The endorsement process included a questionnaire and interviews with the candidates. The council voted on the endorsements following a candidates’ night last week.
In the U.S. Senate race, the labor council endorsed Louisville Democrat Jack Conway over Bowling Green Republican Rand Paul.
“Rand Paul has no standing with labor. He’d like to see us go away – and us him,” said Cole, who’s also vice chairman of the Campbell County Democratic Party.
In the Fourth Congressional District, the labor council endorsed Florence Democrat John Waltz over three-term incumbent Congressman Geoff Davis, R-Hebron. |
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From the Hillbilly Report... The wars in the middle-east have dragged on for far too long. As someone opposed to the Iraq War from the beginning, and who realizes we long ago under incompetent leadership lost the window of opportunity to capture Osama bin Laden and do any real good in Afghanistan, it is frustrating to see our party carrying on the disgraceful legacy of men like Dick Cheney and George W. Bush. Why carry on a legacy created upon a lie?? What is really frustrating is how many politicians are more than willing to cower in fear rather than speak out about the fact that we have wasted too many young lives and too much national treasure, and quite frankly our troops deserve better from all of us than to have been sent into the wrong war in the wrong places at the wrong time with the wrong equipment and continue to be sent there over and over again.
Folks, you can say what you want but that is NOT respecting our troops in any way, shape or form. It is not courageous or patriotic to continue a failed, misled vision that we were lied to about to begin with. What America needs is real leaders who aren't afraid to stand up and say what needs to be said. It is time to bring all our troops home from both these failed wars and concentrate our effort and treasure on (gasps) our own country and people.
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John was interviewed by Blue Wave News on his way home from a series of events in Ashland. http://bluewavenews.com/
-From Blue Wave News:
Talking to John Waltz on the phone, I’m struck by a couple of strong impressions: confidence and strength. It’s not just his baritone voice, although that’s a factor. It’s also his air of relaxed comfort as he fields questions for which he’s had no preparation and which (deliberately) lurch wildly from one topic to another, and answers them thoughtfully and completely, with a minimum of obviously prepared stock phrases and no redirection to a topic he’s more prepared to talk about.
The fact that Waltz could be so relaxed and still perform so well on his way home from a campaign event around 10:00 pm just confirms my overall opinion of him. This guy is the real deal. And yet, I can’t shake the feeling that he’s slightly out of place as a political candidate in Kentucky. That is, after all, the state that has spawned the Senatorial campaign of Tea Partier Rand “The Civil Rights Act went too far” Paul, while Waltz is a dyed-in-the-wool liberal Democrat who supports a transition to green energy; who believes in equal rights for minorities, women, and GLBT; and who campaigned during his primary for the public option in the health care debate.
He doesn’t talk much like the kind of Dem you’d expect from Kentucky, either. In fact, his straightforward, tell-it-like-it-is style reminds me a lot of Alan Grayson, but without the self-conscious grandiosity.
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