TX SEN: Gingrich Fundraising For Michael Williams
Vince Leibowitz | Aug 25, 2009 | Comments 1
Controversial former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA) is helping Texas Railroad Commissioner Michael L. Williams raise money for his campaign to replace Kay Bailey Hutchison in the U.S. Senate.
The Williams campaign featured a Gingrich fundraising appeal in an email sent out Tuesday morning:
Having been a part of the last effort to retake the congressional majority, I am convinced we don’t have to wait 40 years this time to regain power. Democrats in Congress offer the same old, tired recipe of Democrats past — big government hand-outs, bloated bureaucracy and big-time deficit spending.
The kind of change they offer is simply a return to the discarded practices of the pre-Reagan era.
Our problem is not that Americans are newly attracted to Democrat ideas, but that Republicans simply failed to live up to their own ideas.
Let me illustrate my point this way: while conservatives continue to embrace the conservative label, liberals have been re-marketing themselves as progressives. You can call a used car pre-owned all you want, but I will be just as worried about the engine going out.
We do not need to change our ideas, we need to live up to them. And when I talk about modernizing the Republican brand, I mean using tried and true Republicans principles in new ways to solve new problems.
The key to building a new Republican Majority is not simply branding Democrat policies as the destructive and discredited ideas of the past…but offering real alternatives that meet Americans where they are. And offering new leaders not bogged down by the old fights of the last decade.
We need conservatives willing to engage the Democrats on the field of ideas…willing to speak of a 21st Century conservatism…willing to stand and fight on principle. We need leaders like Michael Williams.
Gingrich–once the most powerful Republican in Congress–and Williams are an odd pairing to say the least, but Gingrich remains the most widely recognized national GOP figure to wade into the U.S. Senate race in Texas to date. That is because most national GOP figures, unlike Gingrich, are waiting to see who Governor Rick Perry appoints to the post after Kay Bailey Hutchison resigns to run for governor.
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Gingrich If Republican state railroad commissioner Michael Williams runs to the center in his open-seat Senate bid next year, Democrats will be able to remind voters that one of his earliest endorsers was none other than that “uniter-not-a-divider”:Newt Gingrich. The divisive former GOP House Speaker has sent out a fundraising letter on Williams’ behalf this week. Williams needs all of the fundraising help he can get, though: FEC reports at the end of June had him being outraised by a nearly 8-to-1 margin by -
Gingrich If Republican state railroad commissioner Michael Williams runs to the center in his open-seat Senate bid next year, Democrats will be able to remind voters that one of his earliest endorsers was none other than that “uniter-not-a-divider”:Newt Gingrich. The divisive former GOP House Speaker has sent out a fundraising letter on Williams’ behalf this week. Williams needs all of the fundraising help he can get, though: FEC reports at the end of June had him being outraised by a nearly 8-to-1 margin by
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