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Christian Science Monitor (Free subscription) | yesterday
... have got to make money, because if they don't, they're not going to have a job," says Rep. Lynn Westmoreland (R), who represents this river city in Congress and who could be asked as soon as next week to vote on a bailout to keep Chrysler and General Motors afloat. "That's the first issue [Detroit auto executives] need to address before they come to Congress asking for a bailout or...
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Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
... residents of West Point, these lawmakers are wary of helping the domestic auto companies. Rep. Lynn Westmoreland, a Republican whose district includes West Point, said the bailout would harm the companies by shielding them from the vigorous competition presented by auto plants in the South."Competition makes people do a better job," he said.Westmoreland said fairness is another...
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CBS SportsLine.com (Free subscription) | 20/11/2008
... got a little cartel. It's La Cosa Nostra ... and slavery." Abercrombie is joined by co-sponsors Lynn Westmoreland (R-Georgia), Mike Simpson (R-Idaho) and Jim Matheson (D-Utah) behind the bill that never made it to the floor for a vote this year. It would be considered again when the 111th Congress convenes in January. Seven months ago Abercrombie, Westmoreland and Simpson asked...
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The Truth About Cars (Free subscription) | 16/11/2008
... to open next November, employing as many as 2,500 workers. The site is located within U.S. Rep. Lynn Westmoreland’s 3rd District. Westmoreland, like other House Republicans, voted against the $700 Wall Street bailout. He’ll vote against a Detroit rescue as well - on the grounds that it would create a slanted field of play for the workers he’ll soon represent. ‘One of the things...
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ChooseTheHero.com (Free subscription) | 11/11/2008
What is it with these GOP Congressmen from Georgia? Godwin shoe on other foot. Other foot in mouth. Last summer, Lynn Westmoreland said the following about Barack Obama: “Just from what little I’ve seen of her and Mr. Obama, Sen. Obama, they’re a member of an elitist-class individual that thinks that they’re uppity.” You don’t need a dog-whistle to hear racial tinging [...]
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Political Insider | ajc.com (Free subscription) | 13/11/2008
... not here — he’s at the Republican Governors Association in Miami. U.S. Rep. Tom Price has joined Westmoreland here. U.S. Sen. Lindsay Graham, over from South Carolina, is here as well. Big ally of McCain in D.C.House Speaker Glenn Richardson and U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson named as being here as well. But darned if I can see them.4:30 p.m.: Authorities at Cobb Energy Center have already closed...
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Georgia Politics Unfiltered (Free subscription) | 10/11/2008
John Oxendine, Casey Cagle, David Poythress, Michael Thurmond, DuBose Porter, Lynn Westmoreland, Jerry Keen, Karen Handel, Jack Kingston, Sam Olens... ...What do all these people have in common? According to the Atlanta Journal Constitution , they're all rumored to be possible candidates for Governor of Georgia in 2010. Of the ten possible gubernatorial candidates listed above, three...
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JasonPye.com (Free subscription) | 10/11/2008
... Leader Jerry Keen (R-St. Simons Island), Cobb County Commission Chairman Sam Olens and congressmen Lynn Westmoreland and Jack Kingston. On the Democratic side, Poythress and Thurmond are joined by House Minority Leader DuBose Porter (D-Dublin). I'll start to gather information on potential 2010 candidates and have it updated over the course of the next 18 months. It sounds like a...
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Georgia Politics Unfiltered (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
For the eleven individuals who challenged Georgia Congressmen Jack Kingston, Sanford Bishop, Lynn Westmoreland, Tom Price, John Linder, Jim Marshall, Nathan Deal, Paul Broun, Phil Gingrey, John Barrow and David Scott, they've learned a very valuable lesson. It is extremely difficult to unseat a sitting member of Congress. Most of the incumbent U.S. Representatives defeated their opponents...
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Miami Herlad (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
... be subjected to a 16- or eight-team playoff.When Simpson, Hawaii Democrat and Georgia Republican Lynn Westmoreland introduced their playoff bill last year, football fans immediately could see the partisan motivation: Teams in their states -- Boise State, the University of Hawaii and the University of Georgia -- each had felt slighted in the final BCS rankings in the past two years.Considering...
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ChooseTheHero.com (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
... that helped prevent deeper GOP losses yesterday. When my colleagues Mike Pence, Tom Price, and Lynn Westmoreland sparked the historic energy protest on the House floor, I and other GOP leaders joined them immediately and did everything in our power to keep it going. Weeks later, as a result of our actions, the Democratic majority lifted the ban on offshore energy drilling. In addition...
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Townhall.com (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
... 27 votes for the position in the end."The energy protest started by Mike Pence, Tom Price, Lynn Westmoreland and others last August was an historic event that gave Americans perhaps the most vivid glimpse of our potential. While Democrats were on vacations and book tours, we stayed in town demanding a vote, defying expectations and putting the country’s interests ahead of our own....
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BlogNetNews.com/Iowa (Free subscription) | 27/10/2008
... aide, I assume purposefully, used a pejorative term reserved for - to steal a term from Rep. Lynn Westmoreland - uppity women; more specifically women that ask for more than their skill or status deserves and are extremely superficial. Perhaps then, it is apropos that this statement comes on the days preceding Halloween; I believe we have heard this story before, and I believe the...
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JasonPye.com (Free subscription) | 22/10/2008
... that the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company donated a total of $2,000 to the Price campaign. Incumbent Lynn Westmoreland (R) did not attend the debate, and his challenger attorney Stephen Camp (D) took the opportunity to paint him as an “incompetent congressman.” He stated that the four bills that Westmoreland introduced while in Congress were not enough for the constituents in...
