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re: Abraham's letter to Rispone
Posted on 10/4/19 at 11:47 am to Ron Grover
Posted on 10/4/19 at 11:47 am to Ron Grover
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Ralph Abraham is demonstrating exactly what leadership looks like. This is outstanding and exactly what our state needs now more than ever.
I agree that they should not be attacking each other, but this is not what leadership looks like. On the surface the letter looks "good", but really look at it. He places blame on Rispone with his little jab "and I will pull my response ad". He will pull it anyway, he can't afford to play it any longer. This is someone negotiating from the weaker position.
Also, leaders don't need to seek approval, they do what they know needs to be done and "praise" comes or it doesn't. Leadership, would have been a phone call or letter directly to the other, not blasting it on the internet to "look like the bigger man". That is a move of a weaker person.
This is political posturing from someone that knows he can't win. (He had to loan his campaign $350k when at the early set of the race he attacked Rispone for self-funding and said that he wouldn't have to do that because "he has supporters"). So he is grasping at straws to come across as the olive branch giver. They olive branch has been broken multiple times already (by both sides), this is a hollow gesture with ulterior motives.
You know who else is grasping at straws? JBE. He abandoned his Left supporters to pander to the Conservatives once he saw the early turnout numbers. He started pushing harder his "working with Trump" crap. Then we all rejoiced when Trump called him out on it. Yet as conservatives we are too blind to see Abraham is doing the same principle.
I like the message and he may actually mean it. BUT when you have to self promote and make a private conversation public. The optics say you are doing it for reasons other than the words, and take away the sincerity of the message. I see it as he can't afford to run his commercial, he wants to look like "the bigger man", and he is nervous due to internal polling.
A bigger man would have contacted the other campaign and requested a joint statement (if you want it public), while not putting one above the other or trying to "earn points". Or a bigger man would have honored his two prior words and not attack Rispone at every venue he could and through his PAC, causing this whole thing.
Too little too late. I will still vote for him in the unlikely event he makes the runoff, but he is quickly losing my respect. He is acting more and more like a politician which is something I am sick and tired of having in LA.
Posted on 10/4/19 at 11:48 am to lsursb
So prove how much you really care about Louisiana and step aside, Ralphie.
Posted on 10/4/19 at 11:48 am to 4LSU2
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We cannot allow JBE to win in the primary.
The Republicans put in the AA players and they are up against major leaguerss.......the AA is playing like AA....it's almost incompetent
Posted on 10/4/19 at 11:49 am to TaderSalad
Are you voting for Rispone or for JBE? It's tough to tell the difference between their supporters over the last two weeks. Because they both awkwardly repeat the same weird lines...with basically zero real depth.
Here's another option: Abraham and Rispone are both very conservative. JBE is not.
Here's a reminder for everyone else who might care: Rispone dropped several million of his own dollars for a few months and didn't move in the polls. Rispone has heaped praised upon Abraham publicly. Rispone is a good man but decided to go with Option B: Character Assassination when his campaign hit Threat Level Midnight a few weeks ago. Eddie knows his own ads are intentionally misleading and deceptive...it's exactly why men like Cong. Clay Higgins have decided to step up publicly for Abraham.
Meanwhile, JBE lingers around hoping to walk in through the back door again. Fortunately the bad ads are finally starting to show up against JBE, too. If Eddie really cares about the future of our state, and I know for certain he does, he should've done the honorable thing and kept his focus on JBE's failed policies.
Here's another option: Abraham and Rispone are both very conservative. JBE is not.
Here's a reminder for everyone else who might care: Rispone dropped several million of his own dollars for a few months and didn't move in the polls. Rispone has heaped praised upon Abraham publicly. Rispone is a good man but decided to go with Option B: Character Assassination when his campaign hit Threat Level Midnight a few weeks ago. Eddie knows his own ads are intentionally misleading and deceptive...it's exactly why men like Cong. Clay Higgins have decided to step up publicly for Abraham.
Meanwhile, JBE lingers around hoping to walk in through the back door again. Fortunately the bad ads are finally starting to show up against JBE, too. If Eddie really cares about the future of our state, and I know for certain he does, he should've done the honorable thing and kept his focus on JBE's failed policies.
Posted on 10/4/19 at 11:49 am to Rock the Casbah
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Once again, Ralph first two years - same voting percentage as rest of GOP.
As a citizen of Louisiana, IDGAF about the rest of the GOP. I dont like the GOP. I think they're overly established. I want an outsider. I want someone who's got vision for the state... not someone who uses the GOP as a measuring stick.
Sorry.
Posted on 10/4/19 at 11:49 am to Janky
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Why does he need to write a letter? I think a phone call would have been better. Less optics though.
BINGO
Posted on 10/4/19 at 11:51 am to DavidTheGnome
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Why? I must have missed it, did Abraham do something?
Probably missed another vote.
Posted on 10/4/19 at 11:52 am to Rock the Casbah
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Rep. Abraham has missed 45.9% of votes in the 116th Congress (2019-20). This makes him the 1st most absent member of the House.
LINK
This post was edited on 10/4/19 at 11:52 am
Posted on 10/4/19 at 11:53 am to DavidTheGnome
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Abraham has been a politician for what 4 or 5 years now, is that the definition of career? It seems like with the deceptive ad that he ran Rispone had the qualities of the “career politicians”
So by Eddie’s definition, Eddie will be a career politician if he wins because he will have to serve a 4-year term.
Posted on 10/4/19 at 11:55 am to Ron Grover
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Ron Grover
I was specific and your response is another question about who I am voting for/
This is really simple. Give me someone who is going to do what they say they're going to do and perform to the expectation that they sell for themselves.
"I will vote conservatively" Skips 400 votes.
"I will not raise taxes." Raises taxes.
Im over politics. Been lied to enough. Lets try the outsider approach for a change.
Posted on 10/4/19 at 11:55 am to TaderSalad
I know polls never lie but wouldn’t surprise me if they were manipulated to show Rispone at second so he wouldn’t drop out.
Posted on 10/4/19 at 11:57 am to Rock the Casbah
Trump is also getting real close to being a career politician too I’d think according to Rispone. Wonder if his support will waiver on that
Posted on 10/4/19 at 11:58 am to TaderSalad
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"I will not raise taxes." Raises taxes.
Link?
quote:
Im over politics. Been lied to enough. Lets try the outsider approach for a change.
For someone who is “over liars” you seem to be ready to believe a liar
Posted on 10/4/19 at 11:59 am to TaderSalad
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Im over politics. Been lied to enough.
And yet you’re supporting a candidate that’s been running knowingly deceptive attack ads.
Posted on 10/4/19 at 11:59 am to Havoc
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I know polls never lie but wouldn’t surprise me if they were manipulated to show Rispone at second so he wouldn’t drop out.
What doesn’t lie is the media attacks who has the best shot to win.
They are attacking Abraham. Rispone is happy to jump on the bandwagon to come in a distant second
Posted on 10/4/19 at 11:59 am to NikolaiJakov
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our state is 49th in education. No one has the ability to read the articles debunking his claims.
I wonder what our rankings would be if you subtract the inner cities of NO, BR, Shreveport, etc
Those people are only voting dem anyway.
Posted on 10/4/19 at 12:01 pm to TaderSalad
I think you mean "citizen" of the USA. You're a resident of Louisiana if you live here.
And if you don't use a political party as a measuring stick when voting then you're living in an alternate universe. Taking the "politics out of politics" is like taking the food out of lunch.
Rispone is as much an "outsider" to Louisiana politics as George Soros is to federal globalist politics...although they're nothing alike politically they are both heavy political influencers.
And if you don't use a political party as a measuring stick when voting then you're living in an alternate universe. Taking the "politics out of politics" is like taking the food out of lunch.
Rispone is as much an "outsider" to Louisiana politics as George Soros is to federal globalist politics...although they're nothing alike politically they are both heavy political influencers.
Posted on 10/4/19 at 12:01 pm to TaderSalad
quote:Congressmen miss votes all the time, when there are conflicts in their schedule.
He's admitted to not voting because "it didnt affect Louisiana."
Louisiana is a part of the United States of America. If it affects another state, it will eventually affect us.
Specific enough for you?
The only relevant question is whether he missed any votes on which his presence would have changed the result. Any of those?
Otherwise, this is a big, smelly, red herring.
Posted on 10/4/19 at 12:06 pm to Adam Banks
Posted on 10/4/19 at 12:07 pm to lsursb
Ralph is polling in 3rd now and this is him screaming uncle.
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