The following Arkansas 1st District candidate's remarks in
Politico merits some commentary:
Rep. Marion Berry's chief of staff, Chad Causey, announced Tuesday that he's running for the seat his boss plans to vacate after seven terms in office. "I've been meeting with voters from across the district, and I'm hearing what they have to say: 'We need jobs,' 'fix our economy' and 'put our needs first,'" Causey said in a statement. "We face some big challenges, and while I don't pretend to have all the answers, I do promise that no one will listen longer, no one will work harder, and no one will take this responsibility more serious than I will." Causey, who has spent the last decade as an aide to Berry and became his chief of staff in 2006 . . . [Full Story]
As expected, Causey has announced for office. He has "Berryism" all over him. Causey has been the young lucid liberal democrat supporting Marion Berry for over 10 years including being his Chief of Staff - Berry's Chief Steward - for the last 4 years. He must think the voters of the 1st District are not reflective when he says "I've been meeting with voters from across the district, and I'm hearing what they have to say: 'We need jobs,' 'fix our economy' and 'put our needs first,'" When and to whom was he listening? Well, maybe he listed to his family and close friends.
When did chief advisor Causey get Rep. Berry out to meet with the citizen's across the District at citizen called town hall meetings? When did he sway Berry not to side with Nancy Pelosi? If elected, Causey who already knows his way around Washington, D.C. with his liberal democrat friends, would rejoin Pelois and Obama in supporting programs which are killing real jobs in Arkansas and taking over numerous aspects of our lives and liberty. Arkansas cannot afford to risk our futures on a candidate who stated qualifications are bagging groceries, becoming a congressional staffer and then advancing to chief of staff. Note this added statement by Mr. Berry's Chief of Staff:
"People today are experiencing these same hardships; they're concerned about jobs and their kids education, they're angry that Wall Street's wants are trumping Main Street's needs. I hear them, and I promise that I'll keep listening and put their needs first."
Well he knows the liberal mantra and played the jobs and education card. Even though education and jobs are not the Federal governments Constitutional responsibility although they so continually interfere with them. Causey, age 34 in April, has been with Rep. Berry for over a decade (10 years) which means he was 24 or younger when he was fortunate enough to leave bagging groceries and to pursue his then dream of being a congressional staffer for Marion Berry. As a staffer, especially has Chief of Staff, young Chad appears to have been part of the neo-democrat socialist agenda "hook, line and sinker" which does not reflect being attuned to the majority of voters in the 1st District. However, he is attuned to the progressive socialist in Washington attempting to ruin main street and America.
Fellow voters, this young man does not know the reality of living in the first district. He has been on the Congressional staff payroll and a part of the Washington D.C. liberal establishment for too long. He has been part of the system which has placed Arkansas families at risk. Like Blanche Lincoln, Causey hopes to be returned to Washington, D.C. but he hopes to do so on the coat tails of his soon to be retired boss. Let's look at those coat tails. The 1st District is tired of his boss. And some of the most embarrassing years of Congressman Berry time in office have been his last 10 years while Chad Causey was with him even as his chief of staff.
Young Chad reflects total Berryism. He claims to understand the concerns and problems experienced by Arkansans and pleads for us to send him back to Washington. Causey, then in his statement, picks up the mantra of the Pelosi, Reid, Obama progressive socialists and blames Wall Street for our problems in Arkansas. Chad recollection of Arkansas may be going to school, his family, and his hobbies of fishing, hunting, and football. But based on his work experience for the democrat congressman, he ignored the fact that Big Spending Government and its dictatorial social engineering is responsible for our ills today. Wall Street is not the problem for all of the main streets in Arkansas. However, Big Government is hurting us. And, it is the Democrats who have created the largest finacial deficit and National Debt in history.
Chad Causey may seek to be a "good ol' boy" back home here in Arkansas, but in Washington, D.C., he is part of the problem. He promises to keep listening and to put our needs first. His words ring shallow. Marion Berry noted the "winds of change" and grasped that his days in office were numbered. Berry might even have become tired of being treated as a lap dog for Pelosi and Obama. Now it is time for Berry's staff to find other jobs not paid by the taxpayers.
We definitely do not need this Berry-Lite candidate back in Washington pursuing the retirement and benefits which he watched his boss accrue over the years. The 1st District voters do not need the "chief steward" of the Marion Berry returning to Washington to support Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi's agenda. We wants to "vote the bums" out and that includes Chief of staff Chad Causey!
Tags: 1st Congressional District, AR-01, Arkansas, Candidate for Congress, Chad Causey, liberal, Marion Berry
Today, Princella Smith announced for the Republican nomination to represent Arkansas' 1st Congressional District. Princella Smith officially launched her campaign for the U.S. Congress today with a rally at E.U DeShay Park in Wynne, Arkansas. Joined by family and friends from all over the district, Smith told the crowd:
Born and raised in Wynne by her father John Smith, a former school board Vice President and the minister at Christian Fellowship Church and her mother Sandra Smith, the vice principal at Wynne High School, Princella will work to bring real solutions and new leadership to Arkansas. Princella is the granddaughter of a farmer and educator—both of whom passed down the values of hard work, discipline, and determination to her family. Princella is a graduate of Wynne High School, Ouachita Baptist University, and the Buckley School of Public Speaking. 
