Along with my local JBS Chapter Leader, Les Creech, I enjoyed an evening in Greensboro last night with fellow supporters of Congresswoman Virginia Foxx. Elected representatives in our Congress willing to give the time of day to average voters - and actually listen to them - are a rare breed. We need more like her.
Keynote speaker for the fund raiser was former Newt Gingrich and Dan Quayle operative, Rich Galen. Galen (originally from Mt. Airy) has has been running a popular gig as proprietor of www.mullings.com.
In a nod to full disclosure, Galen informed the guests at the gathering that he has taken a position as a senior adviser in the Fred Thompson (not yet quite but really close to being official) presidential campaign. Galen said the War on Terror will be the pre-eminent issue voters elect their next president on, even without another terrorist attack that Hillary Clinton says Republicans are hoping for.
Galen was on a tight schedule to get to Raleigh for an appearance on the Alan Colmes show so I missed out on being able to ask if rather than the War on Terror the operative phrase in the 2008 campaign might again become, "It's the economy stupid."
Photo Notes: Galen does not tower over people like his new boss, he just knows how to get a leg up on a Congresswoman on a stairway. (No, Senator Craig jokes please)
GOP
Senate leader Phil Berger and House Rep. John Blust appeared to be discussing the possibility having GOP members of the North Carolina Legislature start wearing pastel colored neckties as a silent protest over how our state is being like a fiefdom in the control of an evil cabal of Democrat oligarchs. (Jim Black is finally where he should have been years ago, but the song remains the same in Raleigh folks. A handful of Democrat elites really do run this state. Damn the voters and their elected representatives.)
It was originally announced that Howard Coble's schedule precluded him from making an appearance during the evening. Political trooper that he is though, he did manage to stop by before the night was out. I couldn't get the right camera angle so you will have to take my word for it that the tennis sweatband on his right wrist makes him look ten years younger.
Regarding my most passionate issue, Howard said he would vote again for NAFTA if it was up for passage. He did say he was not sure though whether it should be expanded.
Virginia Foxx along with fellow North Carolinian Walter Jones is one of the original co-sponsors of HCR 40, which calls on the President to stop all work on the expansion of NAFTA being conducted via the secretive SPP process. Representative Foxx is also close to having her name added to the Repeal NAFTA resolution that Walter Jones, Virgil Goode and presidential candidate Ron Paul are all on. We are hopeful that our own irascible Howard Coble will at least add his name to HCR 40.



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