Gregg: Sununu would "be a Great Candidate"

Sununu retread (0.00 / 0)

Remember that guy you didn't vote for in 2008 based on his record?

Well he has the same record, but now he's spent two years not tracking TARP money!

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by: This Was The Moment @ Mon Feb 16, 2009 at 06:12:35 AM CST

open seat (4.00 / 1)

It may officially be open now but its been empty for a while.
Anybody want to list 5 things Judd has done in three terms?
No peeking at your neighbor's paper ...

Without deviation from the norm, 'progress' is not possible.

~Frank Zappa

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by: JonnyBBad @ Mon Feb 16, 2009 at 06:24:12 AM CST

I can... (4.00 / 3)

1. He voted against raising the minimum wage every time in 12 years and accepted every congressional pay raise.

2. He voted with Bush 95% of the time.

3. He refused to return a $30,000 deposit on a house he was selling after the potential buyer was diagnosed with terminal cancer.

4. He demanded a Virginia bank break its own rules and reimburse the $5,000 his wife's kidnappers forced her to withdraw.

5. He convinced Frank Guinta (a man who has lived in NH barely ten years)to name a bridge in Manchester after him.

Doing my best to elect NH Democrats since 1968 and getting better at it every year!

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by: Ray Buckley @ Mon Feb 16, 2009 at 12:16:31 PM CST

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Happy President's Day Ray ! n/t (0.00 / 0)

Without deviation from the norm, 'progress' is not possible.

~Frank Zappa

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by: JonnyBBad @ Mon Feb 16, 2009 at 12:29:23 PM CST

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Funny how (0.00 / 0)

with number 3 on your list, there was no "backsies" for Judd the way there was with the Commerce post.

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by: Dean Barker @ Mon Feb 16, 2009 at 17:55:49 PM CST

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A few of them, anyhow (0.00 / 0)

1. He won $800,000 in Powerball.

2. He voted against home heating oil assistance to low-income households.

3. He saw nothing wrong with 1 and 2 happening on the same day.

IT for John Lynch '04 and NHDP '08 - I'm liking my track record so far!

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by: RealNRH @ Mon Feb 16, 2009 at 12:37:47 PM CST

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was he ever in favor of anything positive ? n/t (0.00 / 0)

Without deviation from the norm, 'progress' is not possible.

~Frank Zappa

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by: JonnyBBad @ Mon Feb 16, 2009 at 12:57:22 PM CST

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Top 5 (4.00 / 2)

1. Sponsored Legislation that cut $12.7 Billion for student loans (it passed).

2. Sponsored Legislation that cut $12.7 Billion for student loans (it passed).

3. Sponsored Legislation that cut $12.7 Billion for student loans (it passed).

4. Sponsored Legislation that cut $12.7 Billion for student loans (it passed).

5. Sponsored Legislation that cut $12.7 Billion for student loans (it passed).

-President, College Democrats of New Hampshire

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by: sdoyle @ Mon Feb 16, 2009 at 13:11:18 PM CST

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Generic (0.00 / 0)

I don't think we can read too much into Gregg here, partly because his credibility is zero, and partly because the statement is so bland. It even backpedals on itself.

"a great candidate. . . . We've got a lot of great candidates in the Republican Party."

You could put almost any name in front of that.

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by: JimC @ Mon Feb 16, 2009 at 06:49:48 AM CST

I dont see any reason to doubt Gregg when he says he is not running. (4.00 / 6)

There seems to be no advantage  gained by saying it if it's not true--
1. doesnt make sense for him to encourage people, especially the Sununus, to think about running for Senate.

2. It completely freezes any fund raising for Gregg in what will undoubtedly be the Mother of All Races in financial terms

3. It frees supporters to go elsewhere - "Well , you said you weren't running and Papa John asked...."

4. context-- it doesnt stand alone but comes days after a admittedly embarrassing about face on the Commerce post. Whatever compelled Gregg to abandon the Commerce post had to be a powerful incentive-- it certainly wasnt that he suddenly found out the OBama wasnt an incognito winger--- snd it is easy to imagine something so powerful  as also being potent enough so as to create an incentive to cap a thirty year career.

5. He demonstrated that he was willing to say goodbye to the Senate when he took the Commerce job. It's much easier to say goodbye the second time.

6. The signs have been out there for a long time-- when longtime staff chief Joel Maiola left without explanation last year, many (including me) began to doubt that Gregg really intended to run again.

"But, in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope." Si se puede. Yes we can.  

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by: Paul Twomey @ Mon Feb 16, 2009 at 08:13:40 AM CST

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#6. (4.00 / 3)

At a neighborhood party over the weekend I spoke with a gentleman who once worked in a high staff position for Gov.Judd Gregg...he felt this imbroglio was directly attributable to the absence of Maiola's good counsel.  

Without deviation from the norm, 'progress' is not possible.

~Frank Zappa

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by: JonnyBBad @ Mon Feb 16, 2009 at 09:02:28 AM CST

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Can anyone confirm this? (4.00 / 1)

Wikipedia says Gregg became a Senator on January 5, 1993.  That's wrong, as is the Wikipedia standard on this (he took the oath on the 5th, but he took office on the 4th.  Just like regardless of when the President takes the oath, he becomes President at noon on the 20th), but it doesn't change the fact that it also says he left office as Governor on January 7th, 1993.  That would mean that, for a few days, he was both Governor and Senator.  The US Constitution specifically forbids this.  The only other person I can think of who did it is Huey Long.

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by: This Was The Moment @ Mon Feb 16, 2009 at 14:31:16 PM CST