Hope you optimism is warranted. Bentivolio sees it differently.
Kerry Bentivolio to Wage Write-In Campaign
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He also noted his write-in campaign is a long-shot.
“I don’t think we’ll get enough votes to keep the opponent from getting elected,” he said, referring to Trott.
“All I’m concerned about is getting people who want a voice through a protest vote to do a protest vote and vote for Terry Lynn Land,” he said. He hoped doing so could get “a few thousand votes” for Land.
A one-term congressman, Bentivolio won the GOP primary in 2012 on a lark after then-Rep. Thaddeus McCotter, R-Mich., petitioned to run with faulty signatures.
I wondered if Terri Lynn Land was a district, like a suburb, or something, but i see she is more a women of dead-ends, contributing to an apparently 'safe' democrat Senate campaign in Michigan.
Terri Lynn Land comes out of hiding, but not into focus
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Land's opposition to Obamacare is a centerpiece of her campaign. "We need to repeal and replace it," she told Pluta again and again.
"What would be the essential components of the replacement part?" Pluta asked.
"Well, exactly," Land responded.
Pluta repeated his question once, twice, three times, but Land seemed tuned to a different frequency.
"Well, again, we talked about two kids," she said, "and dental is very important when you have children at home. It changes when you get older and you don't have kids at home. So there's lots of things that would be involved in a health care plan, but the key is you'd have the choice."