MSNBC news programs: on Principles & Values
David Perdue:
CEO of Dollar General & Reebok; cousin of Gov. Sonny Perdue
Perdue, the former CEO of Dollar General and Reebok and cousin of former GOP Gov. Sonny Perdue, is positioning himself as a relatively non-ideological outsider. He has been critical of Senator
Ted Cruz's recent efforts to use the debt ceiling as a bargaining chip, for example, which he warns could frighten investors. While strongly opposed to the Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform law, he's said that
he favors working with Democrats to amend it instead of the usual repeal calls. "I don't believe I have to give up my conservative ideals to offer up a compromise position in order to get progress," he told
MSNBC. "I'd rather take an 85% solution on the economic issues then sit here and get 0%."The former governor is now backing his cousin's campaign.
Source: MSNBC on 2014 Georgia Republican primary Senate race
Mar 26, 2014
Dennis Kucinich:
I have always considered myself pretty much in the center
I think the American journey has always been towards a center point of recognizing the urgency of the economic rights of people, their social rights. We will back and forth, but I think the center point of the country moves in that direction.
People were saying, well, he`s so far left. Actually, I have always considered myself pretty much in the center. But the center that I have always been trying to find was the underlying unity that I discovered when I went across the country.
Source: MSNBC interview for 2021 Cleveland Mayoral race
Jun 14, 2021
Dick Mountjoy:
Mistakenly claimed navy service on USS Missouri
Mountjoy acknowledged that his campaign biography wrongly said he had served aboard the battleship Missouri during the Korean War. Mountjoy did not appear on the ship’s muster rolls. The statement about the Missouri was on Mountjoy’s campaign Web
site, alongside a photo of him as a young sailor. “After graduating High School, Dick joined the Navy and served during the Korean War aboard the Battleship Missouri,” said the statement, which also was featured in a film on the site.
The retired
state legislator last week said his stint aboard the Missouri had been “very brief” and he served on the heavy cruiser Bremerton. He said later that he occasionally boarded the Missouri during the Korean conflict and was on the ship for “a couple of days
at a time.” Mountjoy called the statement a “mistake” that was likely based on misinformation from an unknown source, dating back at least six years. “I think it was just something that somebody picked up,” Mountjoy said. “It didn’t come from me.”
Source: Associated Press on MSNBC on 2000 election
Sep 22, 2006
Joseph Lieberman:
Accepts V.P. request; "walks the same path" as Gore
"I believe deeply in Al Gore," Lieberman told reporters. "I've known him for 15 years. I have not met a more honorable, intelligent, hard-working progressive person in public life in America than Al Gore. So it's not just an
honor to be asked to run for vice president, but it's a special honor to be asked to run for vice president with a man who I think is ready to be one of America's great presidents." Lieberman said he thought Gore wanted to run with someone
with whom he shared "values and policies... And you know, I'm sure people in these few days will point out a couple of the areas where I may have taken different positions but, honestly if you look at our overall record support
for environmental protection, support of the Gulf War, strong support for the economic policies that have brought us such extraordinary growth in the last decade, on and on and on, Al Gore and I have pretty much walked the same path."
Source: MSNBC.com on 2000 election
Aug 7, 2000
Paul Gazelka:
2020 election was unfair, but Biden won
HUGH HEWITT, DEBATE MODERATOR: In your opinion, did President Biden win the constitutional majority of the electoral college?
DR. SCOTT JENSEN: I can`t know what I don`t know. And I think we have to take that attitude towards 2020.
MAYOR MIKE MURPHY: I do believe there was voter fraud at a massive scale across this country.
STATE SEN. PAUL GAZELKA: I don`t think the election was fair, but I do think we have the results that we have. The electoral college is the way that we determine the election.
STATE SEN. MICHELLE BENSON: The more we watch, the less they cheat.
Source: MSNBC on 2022 Minnesota Gubernatorial debate
Sep 21, 2021
Randy Forbes:
Dropped out of Lt. Governor race to run for House vacancy
The death of veteran Fourth District Democrat Norman Sisisky has set the stage for a major battle to succeed him in Congress. In a contested, the Republicans have picked as their candidate State Senator J. Randy Forbes of Chesapeake.
Forbes has been the Chairman of the State Republican Party for four years. He is given considerable credit for the GOP's winning control of the General Assembly and with recent state-wide Republican victories.
Forbes has served in the General Assembly since 1990. He was running for Lieutenant Governor in the November election but has dropped out of that race to run for Congress. He says he has President Bush's backing.
The Fourth Congressional District is being re-drawn for the election in 2002. But for this special election, the existing district lines will be used. The Fourth extends from Louisa County, south of Richmond, through Petersburg to Portsmouth.
Source: MSNBC.com on 2002 election
May 9, 2001
Scott Jensen:
Can't know what I don't know about 2020 election
HUGH HEWITT, DEBATE MODERATOR: In your opinion, did President Biden win the constitutional majority of the electoral college?
DR. SCOTT JENSEN: I can`t know what I don`t know. And I think we have to take that attitude towards 2020.
MAYOR MIKE MURPHY: I do believe there was voter fraud at a massive scale across this country.
STATE SEN. PAUL GAZELKA: I don`t think the election was fair, but I do think we have the results that we have. The electoral college is the way that we determine the election.
STATE SEN. MICHELLE BENSON: The more we watch, the less they cheat.
Source: MSNBC on 2022 Minnesota Gubernatorial debate
Sep 21, 2021
Spencer Abraham:
Consistent conservative in Senate votes
In the Senate, Abraham has consistently voted for conservative causes. He voted for the ban on partial birth abortion, for the flag-burning amendment and against extending anti-dicrimination protection to homosexuals. He led the unsuccessful effort to
close the Dept. of Commerce and the floor fight for the balanced budget amendment. He led the successful fight in 1996 to differentiate between legal and illegal immigrants in the major Republican immigration reform legislation being debated that year.
Source: MSNBC.com on 2002 election on Bush Cabinet
Jan 8, 2001
Tim Walz:
Minnesota Lutheran, a Midwestern cultural subtype
Walz is Lutheran, as is more than 20% of the Minnesota population, thanks to a wave of Scandinavian Lutherans who settled in the region in the 19th century. He does not often discuss his faith publicly but has posted about attending worship during
Christmas and other services at various Lutheran churches. Walz refers to Pilgrim Lutheran Church in St. Paul--a congregation in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, a mainline denomination--as "my parish."
Walz sometimes describes himself as
a "Minnesota Lutheran," an identity he frames as a sort of Midwestern cultural subtype. "Because we're good Minnesota Lutherans, we have a rule: If you do something good and talk about it, it no longer counts," Walz said in April. "So what you have to
do is to get someone else to talk about you."
The only previous vice president connected to the tradition was another Minnesotan, Hubert Humphrey, who was raised Lutheran but ended up attending a Methodist church.
Source: Rachel Maddow MSNBC on 2024 Vice Presidential hopefuls
Aug 6, 2024
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