adam hasner – Moe Lane

#rsrh OK, more major shakeups in Florida races.

(See also Leon Wolf of RedState) With the latest round of redistricting in Florida, most notable for the problems faced by Republicans Tom Rooney and Allen West by it (see here for an analysis by Sean Trende about how the latter probably wasn’t being deliberately targeted), there’s been a flurry of jumping around to try to take advantage of the two new seats available to Florida because of the 2010 Census. Republican legislators have already negotiated district switches aplenty; but Rooney and West’s situations were particularly baroque. This is how they resolved things:

Tom Rooney will be leaving the new swing district of FL-18 (which used to be FL-16) in order to run in the new, Republican-leaning FL-17.
Allen West will be leaving the now-more Democratic district of FL-22 in order to run in FL-18.
And Florida Senate candidate Adam Hasner will be reportedly leaving the Senate race in order to run in FL-22.

Continue reading #rsrh OK, more major shakeups in Florida races.

RS Gathering 2011: Adam Hasner (R CAND, FL-SEN PRIMARY).

Adam Hasner was one of our speakers at the RedState Gathering, and he was available for a few moments for comments. You may recognize the backdrop; it’s from the Teddy Roosevelt painting, and I’d like to note that I think that campaigns looking for nice backgrounds from which to do their videos could do worse than use Steve Penley’s stuff.

Adam’s site is here. I liked talking with him; nice guy. The phony-moderate Democratic Senator named Nelson that Adam’s running against is Bill, by the way: Ben Nelson’s the phony-moderate Democratic Senator from Nebraska. Keeping track of which one is which is an annoyance; but with any luck and a good bit of work, it’s an annoyance that will abruptly end, starting January 2013…

Moe Lane (crosspost)

#rsrh QotD, Too-Public Pragmatist? edition.

Not that I intend to get sucked into the FL-SEN primary quite just yet, but this line from Ace about Florida primary candidate Adam Hasner made me laugh out loud:

I am completely against choosing political candidates based on irrational, tribalistic ethnic appeal, in all circumstances and based upon sacred principle.

Unless it works in our favor. In which case… okay.

Particularly since normally we’d be talking about going a little bit incremental, given that it’s a Democratic-held seat and all that. But that’s the thing about getting a couple of wins; it makes you hungry for more.

Moe Lane