When will Oklahoma State
GOP Chair Gary Jones
jump the Shark, like this guy did ?
GOP Chair Gary Jones
jump the Shark, like this guy did ?
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/
State GOP chairman heads Huckabee team
POSTED AT 5:12 PM ON JANUARY 7, 2008 BY TIM PUGMIRE
The chairman of the state Republican party announced today that he'll head the Minnesota campaign of GOP presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee.
Ron Carey says he's been quietly supporting Mike Huckabee's presidential campaign for a year. Four days after Huckabee's convincing win in the Iowa caucuses, Carey went public with his preference. He also unveiled a list of other prominent Minnesota Republicans who've joined the Huckabee team. Carey said Huckabee is the best of a stellar group of GOP candidates.
"He really has an opportunity to rebuild a coalition of average Americans, just like Ronald Reagan did, and bring us together with hope and opportunity, yet at the same time not compromising our conservative values that make the Republican Party what it is," Carey said.
Carey says he doesn't know if Huckabee will visit Minnesota before the February 5th precinct caucuses.
The move is unusual but Carey says the state party bylaws allow him to give his early support to a presidential candidate.
"I'm going to take some hits for this," Carey said. "But I truly believe in the long haul that this is the best thing for the Republican party to have a viable campaign for Mike Huckabee. And I think he's the candidate that has the best chance to lead up to success in November."
But a co-chair of Mitt Romney's Minnesota campaign criticized the move. Brian Sullivan said Carey would be better served helping all Republicans rather than one particular candidate.
1 comment:
To have a State GOP agree to Chair a campaign is beyond my comprehension. It should always be the standard that the State Chairman stay neutral in primaries. We should have learned in OK after the former chair got involved in the Republican Primary for Governor in 2006 that certain Chairs do not follow that standard.
That said, our current Chairman told the Tulsa World that a straw poll gave the Huckabee the nod for Oklahoma. Who pays any attention to Straw Polls or touts them as being scientific?
I don't blame Romney for being upset. Every campaign should demand he step down. When you cannot depend on a State Chair to remain neutral, then why have a State Party organization at all?
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