Senator Elect Roy Blunt of Missouri – Listen to our interview with Roy

Representative Elect Mick Mulvaney of South Carolina – Listen to our interview with Mick

Representative Elect Dan Benishek of Michigan – Listen to our interview with Dan

Special thanks to Chuck DeVore, Mark Shurtleff, Danny Tarkanian, Peter Mills, Alex Hammer, Sammie Bailey, John Dennis, Ari David, Ed Martin, J.D Hayworth, and Angela McGlowan for taking part in this Podcast Series.

Craig Edwards

By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
Published: October 12, 2010

This year, Mr. Spratt faces not only a potential anti-incumbent wave but an aggressive challenge from Mick Mulvaney, 43, a state senator who is riding that wave on a Tea Party surfboard. At the same time, Mr. Spratt’s presence at events is somewhat diminished by his Parkinson’s disease, as his right hand trembles and his speech is sometimes slurred, though he remains mentally sharp.

At a debate here Tuesday at the Fort Mill Golf Club, Mr. Mulvaney shrewdly reframed Mr. Spratt’s carefully built career and cast his one-time political assets — his green-eyeshade expertise with the budget, his ability to work across the aisle, his success in bringing home the bacon — as crushing liabilities.

“People always ask me, ‘What kind of congressman will you be?’ ” Mr. Mulvaney said. “I say, ‘I want to be the kind of congressman John Spratt was in 1997,’ ” when he helped President Bill Clinton balance the budget.

But now, he said, Mr. Spratt is in the leadership of a big-spending Congress where the budget process has ground to a halt.

“The congressman of 1997 balanced a budget; the chairman in 2010 refused to even offer a budget — the first budget chairman ever to fail to offer a budget,” Mr. Mulvaney said. “This is not the bipartisan John Spratt that you’ve heard of from the late 1990s and early 2000s; this is the John Spratt that voted with Nancy Pelosi 98 percent of the time.”

COMPLETE ARTICLE: nytimes.com

RELATED LISTENING: Mick Mulvaney Interview Solid Principles Podcast – Episode 25

The Solid Principles Report: June 12th, 2010

How did the 2010 Contenders fair on the 10 state Primaries?  

An interview with Don Hooper, Republican candidate in the 1st Congressional District of Michigan

Plus a preview of the upcoming Solid Principles audio documentary.

DOWNLOAD

According to Politico, Rep. John Spratt (the current incumbent for the 5th Congressional District of South Carolina), has filed paperwork for his effort at gaining a 15th term.  His Republican challenger, is current South Carolina State Senator Mick Mulvaney.  From an observers point of view, this is going to be one of the more interesting congressional races to watch.

As part of ‘The 2010 Contenders Series’, Solid Principles spoke to Mick Mulvaney on his candidacy and efforts in challenging so called ‘Blue Dog’ Democrat Spratt.  I am certain after hearing this Podcast, you too will know Mulvaney is the fitting to end to Spratt’s 14th term.

DOWNLOAD, add the RSS Feed or get it from iTunes

SOLID PRINCIPLES PODCAST: Episode 25

Mulvaney vs. The Blue Lap Dog: How did South Carolina’s ‘Blue Dog’ Democrat John Spratt, suddenly turn into Nancy Pelosi’s lap dog? Now this long term serving Congressman, faces the race of his life from the conservative Republican State Senator, Mick Mulvaney this November. As part of the 2010 Contenders Series, Solid Principles spoke to Mulvaney on his pursuit for representing the 5th Congressional District of South Carolina.

DOWNLOAD, add the RSS Feed or get it from iTunes / Stitcher