Steve Palazzo

[JD Farrell]

What do you guys think of Palazzo, he is the Pub Running against gene taylor.. give me your thoughts

[lurker]

I'll vote for any one running against the encumbent. in any political race.

[burninfilm]

I'll vote for any one running against the encumbent. in any political race.

[Altus62]

I'll vote for any one running against the encumbent. in any political race.

[JD Farrell]

common guys go to steve's web site and join him.. just write in that John Farrell told you to join.. we have got to win this county... lets put our money were our mouth is...

Just visit palazzoforcongress.com in the commit box say i sent you and you will be priority mail. another words they will get back with you and see to your concerns, plus it helps me to get in the position to possibly asst. manage HQ in PRC. I am not going to lie you joining this will help me if you put my name somewhere on there, but it also helps Steve win this race. check him out on facebook also.

[slowroller]

He's got my vote

[Altus62]

I signed up.

[JD Farrell]

thanks we need as many people as possible to sign up... and I also need as many of you to mention me in order for him to that I am doing what I said that I would..
thanks all keep passing the word..John farrell

[JD Farrell]

Palazzo wrote a letter supporting S.B 1070 in AZ... I thought that it was a good thing to do .

[n2bbque]

I actually went to his site and wrote a message asking him if he plans to come to Pearl River County and make the rounds. I have had no response from him or his staff. You cannot win if you do not make a showing.

[JimmyOwens]

Well Bubba Q. Your man was in town. Did you go? If so what do you think of Pallazzo?

[slowroller]

All I needed to hear was that he is a fellow Recon Marine. Hes got my vote for sure.

[nanrpudn]

I don't know the man. And I think its time for Taylor to go. According to what I hear - and this from someone who's in a position to know - Palazzo's part of a shell game and was encouraged by those who want to see Taylor stay in office, to run against Tegerdine, but not to beat Taylor. Can't verify it - just a rumor - but an interesting one, nonetheless.

[JD Farrell]

August 11, 2010
Palazzo makes local campaign stop
By David A. Farrell, Item Staff Writer
The Picayune Item

PICAYUNE — Fourth Congressional GOP candidate Steven Palazzo issued a challenge to incumbent Democratic Congressman Gene Taylor, as Palazzo swung through Hancock, Picayune and Pearl River Co. on a campaign tour on Tuesday, headed for Clarke County near Meridian for an engagement, and as Taylor prepared to make his first stop on Thursday in Picayune and PRC since January.

Palazzo wants to debate Taylor in each of the 15 counties making up the fourth district before the Nov. 2 General Election. He also said the other two candidates, Libertarian candidate Tim Hampton of Hattiesburg, and Reform Party candidate Anna Jewel Revies, also of Hattiesburg, could both join the debates, too.

“I not only want to debate him on WLOX-TV,” said Palazzo, greeting prospective voters by shaking hands at PJ’s Coffee House at Goodyear Boulevard and North Main Street, “I want to debate him in each of the 15 counties of the district. WLOX doesn’t reach all of the district.” WLOX is based in Biloxi.

Taylor is scheduled to be in Picayune on Thursday at 2 p.m. at the Picayune Drug Co., 110 Hwy. 11 North, in connection with what is said to be a fact-finding visit to Picayune Drug to highlight the services offered by independent community pharmacies.

Palazzo on Tuesday said he has not had any contact so far with the Taylor camp.

It was Palazzo’s first swing through Pearl River Co. since the June 1 GOP primary, when Palazzo beat Joe Tegerdine of Petal for the GOP nomination. Tegerdine beat Palazzo in Pearl River County, but Palazzo took the nomination after the districtwide voting was tabulated.

Palazzo, a state representative and CPA from Biloxi, was looking for office space on Tuesday to open a campaign headquarters here to reach the southwest portion of district four.

He also toured Stennis before arriving in Picayune about 11 a.m.

He was accompanied by two campaign aids, and greeted citizens and visited with a number of businessmen here.

Taylor’s Thursday visit, right behind Palazzo, is his first appearance in PRC since he held a town-hall meeting at PRCC in January. Last week, Taylor was in Afghanistan visiting the troops. Libertarian candidate Tim Hampton has been here twice, once in June and again in July, and plans another visit on Aug. 19 at Cafe Amore in what is termed a “Liberty Beer Bash” at 6 p.m. Cafe Amore is located at 321 East Canal Street. The political rally is sponsored by a group calling itself “The Campaign for Liberty, Pearl River Co. Chapter.”

Palazzo’s advisers think they can take Pearl River Co. The county has in the past sometimes went for Taylor’s challengers in previous elections; however, Taylor has easily defeated all his opponents over the last 20 years. While Taylor has sought to be independent and plough his own political row, representing the fourth district tends to keep one a little to the right, although some of Taylor’s critiques have called him a “closet liberal.”

Tegerdine charged Taylor with being a “closet liberal” and Taylor shot back that Tegerdine was a “liar.” Palazzo and Taylor have avoided so far any contentious confrontations.

But Palazzo thinks things are different this time, and local and national GOP officials say they believe that Taylor is vulnerable because of the anti-incumbent feeling among voters who are fed up with what they call the “tax and spend Democrats” who control the U.S. Congress.

Also some Palazzo strategists have said privately they are afraid the Libertarian candidate will drain off some patriot and tea party votes that Palazzo would otherwise garner.

Palazzo on Tuesday, in a short interview here between handshakes, said that Taylor’s vote to confirm House Speaker Nancy Pelosi proves that Taylor is not a conservative, although Palazzo maintains that Taylor has crafted a more conservative voting record this year than in the past since Palazzo’s appearance as the GOP challenger.

Palazzo charged that, even though Taylor voted against Obamacare, he also voted against a viable alternative proposed by the Republicans in the House that would have addressed pressing health care issues without piling on the debt and taxes.

“People are just fed up, and they want a change, and they want a change right in their backyard,” said Palazzo.

“He (Taylor) is a conservative on the big issues when Mississippians are watching, but on the small issues and day-to-day business, he’s not a conservative. Because if he were a conservative, he would not have voted for Nancy Pelosi,” he said.

“He voted for her not once, but twice,” said Palazzo.

Palazzo said if he wins, the district will get “someone that is not afraid to take on Pelosi and Obama head-on but will also be conservative not only on the big issues but the small ones as well.”

“If you are such a good ‘Blue Dog Democrat’ why did the Blue Dogs help elect Nancy Pelosi?; why did the Blue Dogs help pass Obamacare?; there is enough Republicans and Blue Dogs, if they stuck together, they could kill all this job-killing legislation. But you don’t see it from Taylor,” said Palazzo. Taylor has been labeled a Blue Dog Democrat by the national media, which means they believe he is a conservative Democrat as opposed to a liberal Democrat.

“If you are a Democrat and you are in Congress, you answer to Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama,” said Palazzo. “And we have seen that. But South Mississippians are waking up to Taylor’s method, and are finding out that he is not as conservative as we expect him to be.”

Palazzo, who served with the Marines in the 3rd Force Recon on the front lines in Operation Desert Storm, currently serves in the Mississippi National Guard. He says he will honor the nations commitment to veterans and says he will help lead a movement to repeal Obamacare if elected.

He touts having experience in running a small business, his accounting firm, and hiring and creating jobs. He says as an accountant he will move to slash government spending and help force the Congress to live within its means. He said he has already sponsored legislation to ban Obamacare in Mississippi.

Palazzo’s family is well known and has deep family roots along the Mississippi Gulf Coast, a weakness in former Taylor challengers, and his wife Lisa, whom he met while attending USM, has relatives and family in the northern counties of the district. He has three kids, two boys and a girl: Barret, Aubrey and Bennett.

[JD Farrell]

Gene came to and talked about mostly Katrina. I mean thats all you have heard from him since it happened.. we would have forgotten what he looked like if it was not for the Hurricane, his vote for stretch polosi twice, and the fact that he has been there 21 years and cant get just maybe 2 or 3 to vote against health care. Now hes got the oil spill to last him for another 21 years if we cant unseat him