Wealthy Businessman to Challenge Byrd

[Judi Lynn]

Wealthy Businessman to Challenge Byrd
Wealthy GOP Businessman to Challenge Democratic Sen. Robert Byrd in W.Va.
By LAWRENCE MESSINA Associated Press Writer
The Associated Press

CHARLESTON, W.Va. Jan 25, 2006 — A multimillionaire businessman entered the GOP race to challenge Sen. Robert C. Byrd on Wednesday, hoping to deny the 88-year-old incumbent Democrat a record ninth term.

John Raese, 55, said he would campaign on a platform touting free enterprise and reduced regulation, among other issues. "What I'm going to run on is a rebirth of capitalism," he said.

The National Republican Senatorial Committee heralded the filing by Raese, a former state GOP chairman who has sought office before.

Though four other Republicans are running in the party primary, the GOP committee called Raese "the first financially credible opponent Byrd has faced since 1982."
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http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=1542554

[LiviaOlivia]

1. Good Grief

He might as well say "More dead miners needed, because capitalism and market forces are equal to our GOP Godliness(borg). You will be assimilated."

[leftstreet]

2. ROFL!!!! "rebirth of capitalism"

:spray:

[NEOBuckeye]

3. Leave it to the GOP to outright try to buy an election

...When they can't present a credible candidate.

[WernhamHogg]

4. REDUCED regulation???

While I have never lived in West Virginia, this just really surprises me that ANYONE would be stupid enough to run for office in that state at this point with a campaign promise of "reduced regulation".

After what happened at the Sago mine due in large part to the already reduced regulations, is this guy hoping that the citizens of West Virginia forget or is he hoping that they are stupid enough to think that the MINE COMPANY got an unfair shake in the whole awful situation?

[booksenkatz]

5. Pockets of gold = tin ear.......NT

[adigal]

6. My thought exactly!! The mines definitely need LESS

regulation, don't you think? I mean, they are overregulated so much, poor dears, that they are not killing ENOUGH miners.

This it today's GOP.

[bleedingheart]

7. ask the families of the dead miners if reduced regulation is good...

i bet they say no.

[bigworld]

8. ...and here's how he's gonna win

...
"His business interests also include The Dominion Post of Morgantown, the West Virginia Radio Corp., which owns 15 radio stations, and the MetroNews radio network serving 56 stations" , per the ABC.com article.

That's a large chunk of the WV radio market he owns.

jim