Puckett Announces Campaign
Here is the live blog of today’s candidacy announcement.
4:06 pm-St. Joe County GOP Chairman Chris Riley starts off. Riley praises Puckett for deciding to run. Puckett’s family is standing in the front on one side, former GOP mayoral candidate Juan Manigault and state party employee Brad Powlen flank the podium on the other side.
4:09pm-Puckett takes to the podium to applause and thanks all for attending.
4:10pm-Puckett talks about the excitement of this race. Thanks his family for standing with him and allowing him to run this race.
4:11pm-Talking about meeting people from across the district. Says there is no Red side and Blue side but a unity of people across the district.
4:13pm-Economy, health care, national security, border security and Hoosier values are the themes of the campaign.
4:16pm-Not the time for a tax increase. *Puckett’s little niece toddles up to him and gives him a hug.*
4:17pm-We’ll fix health care by driving down costs and increase competition.
February 13th, 2008 at 9:27 am
Today’s problems require real, Conservative solutions, and Mr. Puckett seems ready to fight for them. Even if you think that Mr. Donnelly is on the right side of some issues, please remember that a vote for any Democrat is a vote for a Pelosi controlled House and the conscientious treason that has become her trademark. Ask any returning veteran about her recent comments that Iraq in general, and the Surge in particular, have been a failure – this in a time when even anti-war zealots like John Murtha concede the obvious value of the Surge and the progress coming from it. We need leaders that will support our troops and the progress they are fighting and dying to make; not cogs in a Democratic machine all too willing to throw our National Security and the sacrifices our veterans have made for it under the bus merely from political expediency.