GOP Town Committee Runs Candidate School

Published: Thursday, November 5, 2009 10:03 AM EST

More than 80 Republican candidates attended the Foxboro Republican Town Committee's first "campaign school" Sunday at the Lafayette House.

State Sen. Scott Brown, R-Wrentham, speaks at a fundraising event Friday night at Lucianos at Lake Pearl in Wrentham. Brown is running for the U.S. senate seat vacated upon the death of Ted Kennedy last summer. At left is Brown’s father, Bruce Brown. Others in background, from left, are: Kevin Poirier; State Rep. Betty Poirier R-North Attleboro; and Jay Barrows, R-Mansfield.

Run by town committe chairmain Angela Forster Davis, the event featured WTKK talk radio host and the Boston Herald "Lone Republican" Michael Graham and GOP Strategist Holly Robichaud.

"We have scores of candidates who will be taking on races in hopes of restoring the balance our state government so desperately needs," said Davis, who is also National Correspondent/Editor on REDCOUNTY.COM. "It was a full house, and more seating had to be created in the crowded room."

House Minority Leader Brad Jones and Senate Minority Leader Rich Tisei were introduced by MFRW President Celeste Wilson also, and they spoke to the candidates.

The Campaign School comes on the heels of a major Republican fundraiser attended by 300 people and headlined by former governor and presidential candidate Mitt Romney Friday night at Lake Pearl Lucianos in Wrentham. A presentation was made by the Foxboro Republican Town Committee in the form of four maximum campaign donations that were presented to State Representative Jay Barrows, State Representative Elizabeth Poirier, State Representative Richard Ross, as well as State Senator Scott Brown in his bid for U.S. Senate.

Brown is running as the lone Republican challenger in the Jan. 19, 2010 special election for U.S. Senate. Davis recently completed a regional gathering pf more than 2,200 signatures to get Sen. Brown onto the ballot, the top gathering in the state, Brown noted.

"Massachusetts has had a long tradition of sending folks down to Washington to help build our nation. We need Scott Brown to go to Washington to save our nation," Davis announced.

"We feel as a Town Committee it is one of our strategic goals to financially support those Republicans who fight the good fight on Beacon Hill," Davis said. "All of these hard working reps are running because they believe in small government, are opposed to government bailouts, new programs and increased taxation. They know people in the state are concerned about jobs and the economy."

Angela Davis