Sen. Bennett loses GOP nomination By: David Catanese May 8, 2010 03:59 PM EDT
SALT LAKE CITY— Sen. Robert Bennett lost his party's nomination during the second round of voting at the GOP state convention Saturday, making the three-term Senator the first incumbent to fall in this volatile midterm election cycle.
Bennett finished in third place in the crucial second-round vote, garnering just 26 percent of the delegates' support, well behind Tea Party-backed attorney Mike Lee and businessman Tim Bridgewater, who will advance to the June 22nd primary.
"The political atmosphere obviously has been toxic and it's very clear that some of the votes I have cast have added to the toxic environment," Bennett acknowledged in a brief media availability with reporters shortly after he was eliminated in the second round of voting.
"Looking back on them, with one or two very minor exceptions, I wouldn't have cast any of them any differently, even if I had known at the time they were going to cost me my career," he continued.
Bennett was dogged by his support for the Troubled Asset Relief Program and for co-sponsoring a healthcare bill with Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Oreg.). To help make his case to the 3,452 delegates, he even tapped the star power of former Massachusetts governor – and fellow Mormon – Mitt Romney to make a final pitch.
But in the end, the furor stirring at the grassroots level of the party over spending and the growth of government was too much for him to overcome. .............>>>>.................>>>>............http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0510/36960.html
All incumbents beware the people aren't happy with you.
True. But it will be interesting to see what happens in NYS.
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
In NYS the most likely outcome will be the voters will re-elect the same idiots again to represent us. The voters just never seem to learn you can't re-elect the same people and expect a different results.
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