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Posted at 10:56pm on Jun. 19, 2008 2 Freshman House Ds From Fla. Ripe For Defeat

By pilgrim

Promoted from the diaries by Neil Stevens...

U.S. Reps. Ron Klein (left) and Tim Mahoney (right) join Rep. Rahm Emanuel, D-Ill. for 'Let's go Communist' bill to be introduced by Rahm Emanuel, Maurice Hinchey, Ed Markey, and Nick Rahall as co-sponsors. This is what Maurice Hinchley said on the House floor June 19, 2008:

We (the government) should own the refineries. Then we can control how much gets out into the market.

On Ron Klein's website he writes:

I am working to pass legislation
that gives the oil companies an ultimatum: “Drill It or Lose It.”

On Tim Mahoney's website he writes the following:

The Responsible Federal Oil and Gas Lease Act of 2008 employs a "use it or lose it" tactic that will compel oil and gas companies to either produce or give up the federal onshore and offshore leases they are stockpiling by barring the companies from obtaining any more leases unless they can demonstrate that they are producing oil and gas, or are diligently developing the leases they already hold.

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Posted in 2008 | FL-16 | FL-22 | Florida | Nationalization | oil | Rahm Emanuel | Ron Klein | Socialism | Tim Mahoney — Comments (48) / Email this page » / Read More »

Posted at 2:10pm on Mar. 17, 2008 A Tough Decision For FL-22 GOP Primary Voters

The case for picking the candidate that makes strategic sense in both the long and short term.

By Martin A. Knight

The 22nd Congressional District of the state of Florida is currently represented by a freshman Democrat, Ron Klein, the former Minority Leader of the Florida Senate, who defeated Republican Clay Shaw in 2006, a very senior 26 year veteran of the House.

This is still a marginal district, a purple seat with neither red nor blue having a distinct advantage, even with the benefit of incumbency that Ron Klein currently holds.

And it is one of those seats we need to start winning before we can have a hope of regaining a majority any time within the near future. 2006 saw the GOP lose probably around 90% of every toss-up race in the country, and to make matters more ... difficult, we just lost our former Speaker's nominally Republican seat thanks to our side's nomination of someone who, by all accounts, was a terrible candidate.

Like Dan would say, it's people ultimately that run for public office, not disembodied ideas, ideologies or Parties.

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Posted in 2008 | Allen West | Archived | FL-22 | GOP | Mark Flagg | Primary | Ron Klein — Comments (10)/ Email this page » / Read More »