RightRoots - endorsed GOP challenger Mike McGavick has his hands full taking on incumbent Sen. Maria Cantwell in Washington state, but he seems up to the task as recent polls show the race tightening up. McGavick had a conference call with bloggers last night, as John Hawkins of Right Wing News reports:
Tonight, I got in on a conference call with Rightroots endorsed candidate Mike McGavick, the Republican candidate for the Senate in Washington State. Bill Frist was there to introduce him to the bloggers, but McGavick did most of the talking.
McGavick is an interesting guy. He got his start creating his own public affairs consulting firm and did so well that he ended up running Safeco. He took Safeco from a point where they lost a billion dollars in a year's time to record profits four years later.His line about this was that he, "ran out of problems to solve at Safeco, but the Federal Government will never run out of problems to solve."
Not bad.
Read the rest at the link above.
I've criticized Sen. Dole and the RSCC for their failure to recruit strong candidates early to challenge the weak Democratic first-term incumbents like Cantwell, Stabenow, and Bill Nelson. With McGavick, the GOP may have lucked into a strong natural candidate. The momentum is certainly on his side. Ironically, part of Cantwell's problem with her liberal base in the state is her support for the Iraq War. They are turned off, and she has done nothing in six years to distinguish herself in the Senate.
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