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DEL.ICIO.USPrice gets national political seat
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Rep. Tom Price of Roswell has been drafted to serve on the national committee that doles out cash and other help to Republican congressional candidates at a time when the GOP’s money is short and the number of open seats it has to hold onto is growing.
Price was given an executive committee spot of the National Republican Congressional Committee once held by Rep. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.). Wicker moved to the Senate to replace retiring Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.).
“Tom Price is a hard-working member and a team player,” NRCC chairman Tom Cole (R-Okla.) said in a statement. “Having his help on the NRCC Executive Committee will be a tremendous asset.”
Price will take his seat at the table at a time when retirements and resignations of House Republicans is growing, leaving the party with the ever-growing burden of finding and funding candidates that can hold on to those districts.
And it’s no better off financially. The committee’s budget has only just started to run in the black after the committee spent more than a year paying off a multimillion dollar debt run up in 2006.
In the same NRCC statement, Price expressed no concerns about the daunting challenges facing the NRCC.
“We have a terrific opportunity to demonstrate to the American people the fundamental differences between the two parties in Washington,” he said.
Comments
By JK
January 24, 2008 12:45 PM | Link to this
Oh goodie! Dr. Price is gonna show us the fundamental differences in the two parties by shoveling dough to the campaings of more BORROW & SPEND, big-gov’t-married-to-big-CEO Republicans! What a breath of fresh air, that Doctor Price is! Let’s sit back and watch the magic happen.
By RJ
January 24, 2008 1:09 PM | Link to this
As a Congressman, Tome Price is a joke. I hear that he is a good physician. He needs to go back to his forte. Shrinking money is a strong indicator of shrinking confidence.
Beyond the usually hollow soundbites by labelists, here lately there is a noticeable absence of substantive postings by Republican loyalist, standing up for their national and state elected comrads. Surely, there are some national and state performance accomplishments they can tout.
Let see, at the state level there is the “go fishing” initiative by our Governor, who works hard at keeping his name included on the list of possible Vice-Presidential candidates. At the national level, it looks like some progress is being made in Iraq…help me fellow Republicans…please.
By JK
January 24, 2008 1:31 PM | Link to this
RJ, that’s not fair now. Dr. Price has been a good little pledge, doing just what his bosses in the GOP tell him to do, and ignoring those pesky citizens of the sixth. Why, in his first term alone, he held town hall meetings where he trotted out pie charts (and also nationally for the CSPAN cameras), explaining why we should privatize social security and entrust it to the goons who are tanking our 401Ks right now. He also explained to the good people of North Fulton and East Cobb that our number ONE problem is the scourge of illegal immigrants swarming our district. See, I never would have known if not for him!
By Kimmiega
January 24, 2008 4:31 PM | Link to this
Dr. Price is my congressman, and to the best of my knowledge all he does is mail me things I didn’t need to know, all on the tax payers dime with congressional franking privledge and collect large fluffy dollars for his unchallenged re-election campaign from big pharma. He’s perfect for his new post. Purrrrfect.
By Craig
January 24, 2008 7:13 PM | Link to this
“Team player” Republicon speak for “I do what my bosses at the White House tello me, and the heck with my constituents”
By otis
January 25, 2008 11:13 AM | Link to this
REPRESENTATIVE PRICE IS NOT IN MY AREA, IF HE WAS I WOULD VOTE FOR HIM,APPARENTLY MOST OF YOU MUST BELIEVE THAT THE PERSON GETTING THE MOST VOTES SHOULD NOT BE BE THE OFFICE HOLDER. DO YOU FAVOR APPOINTING OUR OFFICIALS RATHER THAN BY VOTES BY THE PEOPLE? DO YOU ALSO BELIEVE THE APPOINTMENTS SHOULD BE MADE BY A DEMOCRATIC CAUCUS? WAKE UP AND SMELL THE ROSES.