With just a couple of weeks to go before the Georgia primaries, insurgent candidate Shane Hazel has picked up a key endorsement in his bid to unseat liberal Republican Rob Woodall in the Georgia 7th Congressional District.
Hazel, the former Marine Force Reconnaissance member and proven businessman, has picked up the endorsement of the Republican Liberty Caucus. The RLC, also known as "the conscience of the party" endorsed Hazel should come as little surprise. The RLC has a long history of focusing on endorsing liberty-minded candidates, rather than establishment members who have proven themselves to be unreliable when it comes to conservative issues.
The RLC earlier this year likewise endorsed MO Senate Candidate Austin Petersen.
The outpouring of support for insurgent candidates is clear as supporters take to social media to voice their displeasure at the lack of follow-through from lawmakers like Woodall during their time in control of both houses of Congress and with Donald Trump in the Oval Office. The failure to repeal Obamacare as well as passage of a massive $1.3 Trillion omnibus bill has angered most voters on the right, resulting in the realization that giving the GOP control of Washington is not enough, they must, in fact, cull the GOP Congressional roster of those who make conservative promises, but vote like leftists.
As my readers have noted, I've followed several insurgent races across the country. Hazel's may be the best example of a truly grassroots movement of ordinary citizens fed up with "business as usual" in Washington, and instead want to see real change with a return to Constitutional principles.
In a past article, I noted that Hazel and others were not garnering any support from many of the major lobbying groups. In the latest of their disappointing moves, the National Rifle Association chose to endorse Woodall, telling Hazel they preferred to stick with "the devil we know." Well, the problem with dealing with a devil is sooner or later he'll betray you. Woodall had bragged previously that he has the lowest score from the NRA of all Republicans in Georgia, and that he was proud of it.
Always a class act, instead of complaining about the NRA's rather typical move in endorsing establishment candidates, he told me "I will never vote for any legislation that puts people, especially veterans, on a no-buy list without due process. Woodall has voted repeatedly for Feinstein gun control, Fix NICS, against national reciprocity, and for Obama's 4660 that has put 200,000 veterans on a list denying them their right to bear arms, without due process. Shall not be infringed means exactly that."
The NRA's hierarchy can say what they like, but we rank-and-file gun 2nd Amendment advocates don't vote the NRA line, and I think we're smart enough to vote for a man who truly cares about liberty, not a man who has proven he doesn't.
You can learn more about Shane at www.shanehazel.com
