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The following information was provided by the folks over at The Hayride concerning Col. Rob Maness' working with a group that advocates amnesty and immigration. Maness has cast himself as the outside the Beltway candidate not in the mainstream and is a Tea Party favorite.
Read more: Rob Maness Once Served On ‘Hispano’ Board Which Advocates For Mass Immigration And Amnesty
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The Hill is reporting that retired Col. Rob Maness will seek Sen. David Vitter's Senate seat in the upcoming election. Vitter has announced that he will not seek re-election after his defeat in the recent Louisiana Governor's election.
Per the piece, the following was reported:
Col. Rob Maness, the Tea Party challenger in the 2014 Louisiana Senate race, will mount another Senate bid in 2016.
Maness declared his intention to fill retiring Republican Sen. David Vitter’s seat in a new filing with the Federal Election Commission Tuesday that lists him as a candidate for the upcoming race. Politico first reported the filing.
GatorPac and retired Col. Rob Maness endorsed several candidates in Saturday's election that went on to victory. Those that were successful in winning their respective races are as follows:
In a release issued by email over the weekend, GatorPac had this to say about the future of this group:
GatorPAC is proud of our endorsed candidates, and we will continue to support conservatives with the backbone to stand up to the progressive status quo.
Hillary Clinton and her liberal army are preparing to spend millions to win the presidency and the U.S. Senate, and you and I must fight with everything we have to stop her in our state.
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BATON ROUGE, LA - At a press conference this morning in front of the Pentagon Barracks, Colonel Rob Maness (retired) - GatorPAC founder and a former Republican U.S. Senate Candidate who earned more than 200,000 votes - endorsed Jeff Landry for Attorney General.
"The Attorney General race is an opportunity to elect a proven conservative Republican to fight continued Federal overreach, protect religious liberty, and fight corruption in statewide politics," said Maness. "I endorse and GatorPAC endorses Jeff Landry for Louisiana Attorney General."
Highlighting Landry's record of military service, law enforcement experience, and his conservative voting record in Congress - Maness continued, "I know Jeff will aggressively take on the big issues that affect Louisiana."
In accepting the endorsements, Landry declared: "I am humbled to have the support of Colonel Maness. Like him, I am not a politician.; rather, I am a husband and father who started a successful small business in the oil and gas industry. I am attorney who worked for one of Louisiana’s top 10 law firms. I see the destruction liberal policies have on our country, and I am running to fight back."
"While Colonel Maness and I stood together to oppose Mary Landrieu, Buddy Caldwell twice offered his support to her last year... even in the runoff," added Landry. "No conservative would do that. No Republican would do that. No one who is truly pro-life or pro-second amendment would do that."
"The purpose of GatorPAC is to keep the grassroots army we built during my 2014 U.S. Senate campaign engaged and to build upon that base. We look forward to mobilizing our troops to support Jeff Landry’s campaign for Attorney General," concluded Maness.
Source: The Family Leadership Summit
Former Senatorial candidate from Louisiana, Rob Maness, has announced an event in Shreveport that will include Rafael Cruz, father of Senator and presidential candidate Ted Cruz. Proceeds from the event are to support Maness' PAC, GatorPac.
Read more: Col. Rob Maness (ret.) & Rev. Rafael Cruz!
“It’s time for fresh leadership in Washington. It’s high time for Mary Landrieu to go,” Maness said.
Maness’ campaign manager Michael Byrne said Maness will support Cassidy in the runoff.
Chris McDaniel is endorsing and helping Rob Maness in his bid for Louisiana U.S. Senate.
Republican Maness faces incumbent Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu and Republican Rep. Bill Cassidy in a race that is expected to go to a runoff, with Maness polling behind the other two.
The tea party backed Maness campaign in its announcement called McDaniel “the top vote getter in the Mississippi U.S. Senate primary race.”
McDaniel lost the Mississippi GOP primary to incumbent Sen. Thad Cochran, but is challenging the loss in court.
