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News Release: Wanted: Moderate Republican State Legislative Candidates

No New Texas!
 

Wanted: Moderate Republican State Legislative Candidates

Contact: Robert S. Carney Jr., bob@RepublicanContract.com

(612) 824-4479 News groups: College

For immediate release

Minneapolis, MN, March 30, 2006 – An internet, ad and media campaign has been launched in Minnesota to recruit moderate Republican State Legislative candidates, and urban candidates. Currently there are no Republican State Senators or Representatives from either Minneapolis or Saint Paul. Republican Governor candidates are also being recruited, based on a moderate Republican Governor's Contract with Voters. Governor Pawlenty will be asked to agree to the Contract.

The campaign slogan is: “No New Texas!” The campaign is not sponsored by the state or national Republican party.

College students in particular are encouraged to consider running for the Legislature. Additional information, including articles about the Legislature, and campaigning, are on-line at www.RepublicanContract.com

The Legislative part of the campaign is based on a Republican State Legislator's Contract with Voters. Important contract provisions include:

• “Winner take all, “take no prisoners” politics has got to stop..

• The Legislature is a deliberative branch, responsible for lawmaking, policy and oversight. Caucus driven, party line voting must stop to allow deliberation and representative democracy to be effective.

• Geographic political divisions are harmful to the state, and must be reduced or eliminated. Republican legislators from different districts should and will represent different interests.

• Special interest money in politics is poison – it must be limited or eliminated whenever possible.

• Maintaining a good “public-private mis” -- a strong private sector combined with an excellent public sector, including government and non-profits, is a part of our history and heritage. We need to keep asking:-- what is best done in the public sector?-- the private sector?-- and with public-private combinations.

“I'm from the Republican wing of the Republican party. We need to take a look at what it means to be a Republican Legislator,” said Bob Carney Jr., a Republican State Alternate Delegate from Senate District 60 who is promoting the campaign. Carney added, “of course, incumbent Republican Legislators are being invited to agree to this contract. District party officials are also being contacted about this campaign. However, if there are legitimate differences over some issues, there's nothing wrong with taking these differences to voters in the primary.”

Carney disassociates himself from Republican Federal races, saying. “the need for checks and balances in Washington is so great that this must be the overriding issue in this year's Congressional races. We need Republican moderates, including people who would like to see the Bush administration thoroughly investigated for a number of abuses of power.”

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The map above shows the “donut hole,” a blue region of Minnesota State House districts including all of the two main core cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul, with zero Republican representation in the State House. The map is used with permission from Bill Cooper (not the TCF Bill Cooper) of FairData2000.com. Please contact him if you want to use the ad as a graphic in your publication.