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Not just a local Primary squabble!

offerorofferor Member Posts: 8,625 ✭✭
edited May 2002 in General Discussion
Paul Helmke is trying to unseat multi-term incumbent Mark Souder for the 3rd District Republican Primary HR seat in Northern Indiana. Why should you care?

Paul Helmke was the head of the national city mayor's association for a while during the Clinton administration, spent significant time in Washington sucking up to his old school chum Clinton and their staff. Helmke also TRIED TO GET THE TOP JOB AT HANDGUN CONTROL INC. while he was there. Yes, I said Republican....

This week, President Bush not only endorsed Mark Souder but gave two cabinet members his blessing to make local visits to support Mark. AND the NRA has a full blown local mailing campaign going, as does the Gun Owners of America. One of the NRA mailings says Souder gets an "A" and Helmke, a rabid anti-gunner who vowed to do anything he could to further gun control, gets an "F" from the NRA.

If Helmke were to win the seat in the heavily Republican 3rd District, he would become a career politician in Washington, voting with the anti-gun community at every opportunity and working for liberal issues entirely apart from the Republican party agenda. He could do incredible damage despite his freshman status from the small state of Indiana. When I found out he interviewed for the job heading up HCI, I just about fainted. This guy has got to be defeated on Tuesday. H has delusions of liberal grandeur, and has already made enough Washington connections during his Clinton-buddy days chairing the national mayoral group to be very dangerous. IF you have any connections in Northeast Indiana, use them now. Primary is May 7. Mark Souder must win. the difference is nothing less than one vote for or against gun owners in the House of Representatives.

-- Life NRA Member
If dishonorable men shoot unarmed men with army guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and not by general deprivation of constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878

Comments

  • MercuryMercury Member Posts: 7,830 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Yet another example of why we shouldn't look at just "republican" or "democrat".

    Unfortunately, they are nearly the same these days.......both suck.

    Both are detrimental to the "common man". :(

    Merc


    NO! You may not have my guns! Now go crawl back into your hole!

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  • badboybobbadboybob Member Posts: 1,658 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    We have the same problem here in North Carolina. Lizzie Dole is an anti gun socialist in Republican clothes, yet has the blessings of the national party. She gets 50 time the publicity her opponents do since the socialist press loves her. God grant that the voters know enough to vote that * out in the primaries.

    PC=BS
  • offerorofferor Member Posts: 8,625 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Luckily, the Republican National Committee made Helmke take a photo out of his TV ads that showed him standing beside Bush, since Bush has officially endorsed Souder. Now Helmke has replaced the photo with a blank slide that says "the photo Souder doesn't want you to see." More accurately, but much less to his advantage, Helmke's slide SHOULD read, "the photo the Republican National Committee says I'm not entitled to show you because they say it is misleading."

    -- Life NRA Member
    If dishonorable men shoot unarmed men with army guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and not by general deprivation of constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
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