Vince Coakley Announces Candidacy for the US House of Representatives
Vince Coakley joined over 30 supporters who braved the snowy weather to attend a special announcement at the Dilworth Neighborhood Grille on January 28. This was the final stop in a 6 stop tour where after months of speculation, Coakley made it known he was, in fact, running for Congress from the 12th District of North Carolina.
With the characteristic good humor for which he is known, North Carolina broadcaster Vince Coakley says he went out and bought a pair of padded boxing gloves because he knows he’ll need them during this fall’s election campaign in the 12th Congressional District.
“Election campaigns are the precise point where diametrically opposed ideas clash and bang against each other,” Coakley said. “And because it is that clashing and banging of competing ideas that makes for a vibrant nation, as a candidate, I’m looking forward to challenging not just the status quo in Washington, but my political opponents who keep thinking that the policies which have never worked in the past are somehow supposed to find traction and start working tomorrow.”
“Albert Einstein once said it is insane to keep doing the same thing over and over again, expecting that there will be a different result or outcome. Yet that is exactly what’s been going on in Washington for years,” Coakley said.
“It explains why our economic troubles are ongoing, why taxpayers are being crippled by government debt and the massive interest payments we are forced to make because of that debt, and why key elements of the business community are coming under so much pressure and regulation that they can’t effectively create the jobs we all know we need.”
Forty-eight year old Coakley, who for many years was a well-known TV newsman in the state, said during his 6 county rolling announcement tour that the many people in the 12th District who are underemployed and unemployed is clearly a pressing issue. He also said that wherever possible, he will seek and support solutions that arise from cultivating family and community assets.
“In some cases, the solution for a problem being faced in the 12th District, or in any of North Carolina’s Congressional Districts, is several hundred miles up the road in Washington. In other instances, the solution we seek is in our own hands,” Coakley said. “I want to help empower the people of the 12th District and work with you to rebuild our families and communities. Then, together, we can reshape Washington and bring it back under the control of WE THE PEOPLE.”
Here is the video from the announcement.
Tea Party token.
RACIST!
Correction, this is the most pathetic post you have ever made.
Really? So, basically your opinion is that African Americans have to be liberal? That’s a bit stereotypical. You criticize the Tea Party for not being welcoming of minorities, which is a LIE, but then when we have a solid member like Vince you criticize him as just a token? So basically there is just no pleasing you is there?
Pathetic, low brow, and just plain sad.
I have more in common with Vince Coakley than I do with Mitt Romney or John McCain.
Uh-huh. When the Tea Party movement has more than 5% minority membership I’ll cede to your point. Better get busy, though. By the looks of things you have a ways to go to get there.
That’s going to be coming soon after Amnesty opens the borders. Mexicans will be the largest Democrat voting bloc.
What does membership have to do with anything? Minorities are always welcomed, as is anyone who shares our conservative beliefs. We don’t have a racial litmus test for joining. If they aren’t coming, after being invited, how is that our fault?
Not even a valid argument on your behalf.
The BS is getting pretty deep, Christian. If y’all are so welcoming to minorities, why is it there are no shortage of Confederate Battle flags at your rallies? Why is it we keep hearing that we should ‘just deport them all’ at your gatherings? That rally in DC y’all were so proud of feature more than a few that camped out in front of the White House with a confederate flag. Why all the hate at the first black president in US history?
I’m not calling you out personally, but the only two organizations more bigoted and unwelcoming to minorities in this country than the Tea Party are the KKK and the Aryan Brotherhood. Not racist, puleeese.
Zon – You take one guy at the Million Vet March (not a Tea Party event) and use that to judge the hundreds that were there. Since it was in DC – what’s the chance he was a plant from the SEIU meant to smear?
BTW – the KKK and racial cleansing were all ideas from your Democratic Party. (As well as your Confederate Flag that your SC Democratic Governor put on top of the SC Capital).
Zon, do you still think the Civil War was about slavery? Bwahaha. The Confederate battle flag has been tainted by leftist redefinition. When I see it, I don’t view slavery, I view someone anti-federal and supportive of states rights and autonomy. I will always fight against slavery, and there is no bigger slave master today than the United States government.
Christian. Slaves today instead of getting subsistance level food and housing for picking the right Cotton get their sustenance from picking the right candidate.
A typical litmus test of the left: when you take the left’s members and have them join you, then I’ll accept you, but if any members of the left join you, the left will join together in berating them for having left the left.
He should run as a Democrat and we should all register as Democrats and vote for him in the Primary if we live in district 12 .
I wonder what advice Jack Brosch may have for Mr. Coakley?
Love it how Proglodytes complain the Tea party is all white then you point out black or brown faces and its “Uncle Tom”.
Well Skyler, you can’t be a progressive unless you’re not. Reminds me of Barber calling Scott a dummy. They’re just trying to keep their people in line. (another racist attitude of the left)
http://www.coakleyforcongress.com/
We look upon people as individuals and judge them by their actions. The left looks upon people based on the group they belong to and judge people based upon the predefined definitions of that group. It also helps that use Hegelian dialectics to twist the meaning of words to support whatever point they choose to make.
Is my memory faulty or didn’t Zon once claim on these pages to be a Conservative Republican?
Your memory serves you well.
Liberal logic is an oxymoron. There is just no pleasing them.
Zon,
There are homosexuals, hetrosexuals, and people such as yourself who are hatersexuals. So you consider Vince a tea party bigot or a KKK suporter?
I believe I said he was a token. Wassamatter, you can’t read?
Zon,
You sure have a low opinion of Vince. Why would a intelligent person like Vince allow himself to be used by people you consider to be racist? I guess the Tea Party is paying him well using your logic.
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