Obey Fear Campaign Continues
According to the Stevens Point Journal, Congressman Obey is continuing his fear campaign on Tuesday. According to the news brief, "Obey will talk about prominent issues in the U.S. Congress. He will address congressional cuts in student financial aid."
We imagine it will look a lot like his trip to Superior that we commented on earlier. In that conversation with college students, he focused on condemning Republicans. He basically made it sound like Republicans are trying to shut down colleges across America. As we noted in that earlier post, the centerpiece of the Republican plan is to make schools justify the amount of financial aid they receive based on the number of students who actually qualify. Sorry Dave, but that means MORE deserving college students can actually receive financial aid in Wisconsin, not less, because schools like Harvard won't see an increase in federal student aid just because they got some last year. It's just common sense.
Dave Obey is once again using scare tactics in a desperate attempt to hold on to his seat in Congress. We believe he must really be scared about his re-election if he's resorting to these tactics nearly a year before he faces the voters.
We imagine it will look a lot like his trip to Superior that we commented on earlier. In that conversation with college students, he focused on condemning Republicans. He basically made it sound like Republicans are trying to shut down colleges across America. As we noted in that earlier post, the centerpiece of the Republican plan is to make schools justify the amount of financial aid they receive based on the number of students who actually qualify. Sorry Dave, but that means MORE deserving college students can actually receive financial aid in Wisconsin, not less, because schools like Harvard won't see an increase in federal student aid just because they got some last year. It's just common sense.
Dave Obey is once again using scare tactics in a desperate attempt to hold on to his seat in Congress. We believe he must really be scared about his re-election if he's resorting to these tactics nearly a year before he faces the voters.
posted by ObeyOut2006 at 10:10 AM
3 Comments:
A good college Republican ought to go to that meeting with a camcorder and a couple questions on whether Obey thinks its OK for schools who don't need it to keep getting more money every year without having to justify the number of qualifying students - then pick a couple other good issues and ask him about those as well.
I've been to town hall meetings where Obey had people removed for asking questions that were too tough and made him upset, so I'd watch out if I didn't want my camcorder broken.
Yeah, Obey's likely to blow his stack. That blowing your stack image has helped scare many good candidates away over the years.
I'm a Nick Reid supporter because he won't be intimidated by Obey and because he is setting up a campaign that isn't destined to fail on day 1. Not since Scott West circa 1994 have I been this optimistic about knocking off Obey.
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