GOP businessman announces campaign to oust US Sen. Warren
Source: Idaho Statesman
Republican business executive John Kingston is formally announcing his candidacy for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Democrat Elizabeth Warren.
The Winthrop executive is planning to outline his campaign goals Wednesday evening during a speech at the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the U.S. Senate.
Kingston says that instead of looking for ways to "improve the lives of hardworking Americans" politicians like Warren "drive wedges between us for their own political gain."
He already has poured $3 million into his campaign.
Read more: http://www.idahostatesman.com/news/politics-government/national-politics/article180743361.html
Ah, another millionaire claiming that his wealth is a virtue in that he can buy his way to power.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,192 posts)pnwmom
(108,978 posts)SkatmanRoth
(843 posts)paleotn
(17,920 posts)Elizabeth Warren is anything but weak opposition. Attach a handle and mop the floor with him.
Jim Lane
(11,175 posts)If he self-funds an expensive ad campaign, we won't be able to take Warren's seat for granted. I had expected not to have to contribute to her. If it looks as if she's in any danger, I'll have to send her money that might otherwise go to a progressive Democrat challenging a vulnerable Republican incumbent.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,192 posts)Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)Judi Lynn
(160,542 posts)John Kingston
SunSeeker
(51,559 posts)rpannier
(24,329 posts)Tiggeroshii
(11,088 posts)Dopers_Greed
(2,640 posts)Russia is going to be campaigning hard for this guy
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,491 posts)Here we go again. A millionaire that undoubtedly will be supported by a number of billionaires in his campaign that will try to make Elizabeth look like the devil incarnate. And, a bunch of us regular citizens will need to pitch in and defend our hero against the power of those evil bastards.
The thing that regularly infuriates me is that much of the money they pour into any GOP candidacy ultimately came out of the pockets of "hardworking Americans", a penny or a dollar at a time.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,320 posts)How divisive can you get????
I'm sure that fact he's a merchant banker himself (in every sense) has nothing to do with it.
PaulRevere08
(449 posts)that the gathering of assets, no matter the human cost, is justified?
Reading through his background he talks a good game regarding racial justice but it's from a seat of power and devoid of any risk. I read his statement on Charlottesville and it came across as a much more eloquent version of "there were good people of both sides".
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)She is a top contender for 2020.