GOP House campaign honcho hosts $1,000 dinner for Ed Martin
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CLAYTON — Texas Congressman Pete Sessions, head of the committee charged with electing Republicans to the U.S. House, is in town tonight, hosting a high-dollar fundraising dinner for Capitol Hill hopeful Ed Martin.
Sessions, head of the National Republican Congressional Committee, will headline the event tonight at Luciano’s Trattoria in downtown Clayton.
The price is $1,000 a plate, or $5,000 to also attend a VIP reception, which will be hosted in a private residence in the nearby Plaza in Clayton, a luxury condo tower.
Current congressman Roy Blunt, Todd Akin and Blaine Luetkemeyer are expected to attend.
Martin, former chairman of the St. Louis Elections Board, is attempting to unseat Democrat Russ Carnahan in a district that is considered reliably Democratic. (Just ask the previous inhabitant, Dick Gephardt.)
Whether Sessions’ personal visit is a sign that Martin’s stock as a challenger is rising or just a courtesy he extends to many candidates is tough to say.
One thing is more clear: Martin, who kicked off his candidacy in the parking lot of Lemay bakery, realizes that while his Tea Party supporters can grow the grassroots, it’s the Clayton Republicans who can raise the green.
If Martin had any decency, he’d use the funds to pay back all of the taxpayer money he’s wasted. http://www.firedupmissouri.com/node/7812
Good to see Ed Martin wasting his time on this rather than causing trouble for Missourians. A viable Martin candidacy would be a fundraising coup for Carnahan.
Carnahan’s support of Obama’s healthcare, cap and tax, and his other socialist plans will be his downfall. Come election day I am sure we will see the Carnahan goon squad, also known as SEIU, trolling voting stations with crow bar in hand. Just like the Black Panthers did in Pennsylvania for Obama.
The klan meeting is at Missouri Conservative’s cave this evening. Be sure to bring your own hoods.
Debbie Cakes - I am confused as to what I wrote that would lead you to think I am in any way associated with the klan. Is it my mention of the Black Panthers intimidating voters in Pennsylvania? (In case you were unaware that did happen and was even caught on video. Of course no charges came of it when the Attorney General’s office under Obama decided to not to pursue charges against the Panthers.) Or is it just my general opposition to a President that happens to be black? If that is it, then I would question which of us is blinded by color? In any case if you were looking to offer an invitation for people to meet up, I would think you would want to invite everyone to the thug meeting at Carnahan’s office. And remind them to bring their own purple shirts.
Armed union members prowling polling locations? Black Panthers badgering voters? Carnahan “thugs” plotting in secret?
Fox News viewers really do live in a world of their own creation. Keep on teabaggin’, M.C.