IN MAY WE SAID GENE TAYLOR MAY BE IN TROUBLE … NOW HE’S SHOT HIMSELF IN THE FOOT… AFTER THAT GAFF, HE MAY BE SELF-DESTRUCTING.
The INSIDE POLITICS Column said on May 27, 2010:
Our incumbent Congressman Gene Taylor, long considered safe by most political odds makers, may be facing that same anti-incumbent anger that threatens to oust Nancy Pelosi from the Speaker’s Chair in January.
That’s why Republican candidate Steve Palazzo is running his campaign theme to oust the very unpopular Speaker. He says electing Taylor would help to retain the Democratic majority and Pelosi’s hold on the Speaker’s Chair.
Look out Gene. This anti-incumbent and anti-Pelosi sentiment may get you too. No incumbent is safe.
Then what did Taylor do?
First, as he heard the massive winds of change blowing his way, so the entrenched incumbent quickly signed onto Congressman Steve King’s (R-IA) discharge petition to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act or ObamaCare. He made national news as one of the few Democrats to sign this repeal.
Did that stop Palazzo? Nope his polling number kept getting better.
Last week a Tarrance Group poll paid for by Steven Palazzo showed Taylor with a slight lead of +4 points, 45% to 41 – a statistical tie. The margin of error is +/-5.8%.
That is not the worst news for Gene. Among voters who know both candidates, Palazzo leads Taylor by +13 points, 52% to 39. And it keeps getting WORSE. Among voters who describe themselves as “extremely” likely to vote, Palazzo leads by +11 points, 48% to 37. On a generic Congressional ballot, Republicans are twenty points ahead of Democrats in Mississippi’s 4th Congressional District, which is generally considered one of the most conservative districts in the entire country.
What was poor Gene to do? People were still upset with his vote for Pelosi as Speaker of the House. So he decided to do something dramatic:
Taylor told The Hill (A Capitol Hill Newspaper) that he’d like to see Ike Skelton, a Missouri Democrat and chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, succeed Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) if Democrats retain a slimmer hold on the House after the November election. He said to the reporter (I’m not making this up), “What I would want is a Democratic nominee for Speaker that is much more in tune with what I believe.”
This is the VOTING RECORD of Ike Skelton provided by Y’ALL POLITICS:
• Votes with Nancy Pelosi 94.7 percent of the time.
• Supported President Obama’s failed stimulus spending bill (House Roll Call 70).
• Supported the reckless $3.4 trillion Obama-Pelosi budget (House Roll Call 192).
• Supported the Obama-Pelosi National Energy Tax that could cost Mississippi nearly 11,000 jobs (House Roll Call 477).
• Voted for a permanent extension of the job-killing Death Tax (House Roll Call 929).
• Voted for the government bailout of Wall Street (House Roll Call 681).
• Voted to increase the federal debt limit by $2 trillion to a whopping $14 trillion (House Roll Call 46).
IF THIS DOES NOT CHANGE, WE PREDICT A WIN FOR PALAZZO.
I BELIEVE WE SHOULD DEMAND THAT EVERY CANDIDATE FOR CONGRESS SUPPORT THE 28TH AMENDMENT
Amendment 28
“Congress shall make no law that applies to the citizens of the United
States that does not apply equally to the Senators or Representatives,
and Congress shall make no law that applies to the Senators or
Representatives that does not apply equally to the citizens of the
United States.”
Charles McKellar
Ocean Springs Record (reprinted with permission)
9/30/10
Magnolia Tribune
