Current Executive Director for the American Majority of Texas and Oklahoma (www.AmericanMajority.org), Drew Ryun recently served as Director of Government Affairs for the American Center for Law and Justice in Washington, DC as well as Main Representative for the European Center for Law and Justice at the United Nations in New York City.
A twice-published author, Drew has appeared frequently as host and co-host of Jay Sekulow Live, a nationally syndicated radio show with 2 million listeners. A former Deputy Director in the political division at the Republican National Committee during the 2004 election cycle, Drew has played a key role in organizing grassroots activities for House, Senate and Presidential campaigns.
Currently residing in San Antonio, TX, Drew and his wife Becca direct the Jim Ryun Running Camps every summer (www.ryunrunning.com) and are the parents of two daughters, Skye and Lily.
A former scholarship runner at the University of Kansas, Drew graduated cum laude with majors in History and English in May of 2000.
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Archive for May, 2009
I just posted the video on our front page, but the Madison Project has endorsed both Marco Rubio (Florida Senate Race) and James Glayean (South Carolina’s 3rd House District). These are two fantastic candidates. Marco is in a tough primary against the RINO Charlie Crist and James is in an open seat primary as current Congressman Gresham Barrett has announced he will run for governor of South Carolina in 2010.
Madison donors and conservatives across the nation-open up your checkbooks and start swiping your credit cards. Let’s get behind these two guys and Pat Toomey. Give early and give often until you max out. The political landscape is shifting and I am seeing some great victories for our movement in 2010.
05 12th, 2009
So a recent poll was conducted by Public Opinion Strategies (Arlen Specter’s old polling firm) in the Pennsylvania Senate race. It was a bald attempt to get former governor, Tom Ridge, into the primary against Pat Toomey.
According to POS, Ridge leads Toomey by almost 40 points in the hypothetical matchup. I find that very, very hard to believe for two reasons.
Ridge and Specter are the same political animal and if Toomey was leading Specter by 20 points a few weeks ago, there is no way he is losing to Ridge by 40. That’s just stupid math done by someone with an agenda.
Two, I have seen POS up close. In fact, they did the polling for my dad’s run to recapture his old House seat in 2008. A week before his primary, POS had him up by 15+ points. He lost.
So at best, POS is a polling firm driven by an agenda (or by the highest bidder). Or they are getting worse and worse at what good pollsters are supposed to do-give accurate information.
05 12th, 2009
I know there is a lot of pressure on one of my home state Senators, John Cornyn, these days. He has been tasked with gaining Republican seats in the United States Senate in 2010. First of all, I have to say, I have seen him up close and in action. The man is pretty conservative, but some of his decision making is endemic of what is wrong with those inside the Beltway. The chattering class in DC is not what I would call conservative and those are the types constantly in the ear of guys like John Cornyn, whispering, “You know, the problem is that Republicans have gotten hijacked by those crazy conservatives. We gotta moderate ourselves, make ourselves more palatable to the American voters.”
So it is no surprise to me that when faced with backing a conservative over a moderate in Republican Senate primaries, Cornyn has gone with the latter. His recent endorsement of Charlie Crist is yet another example of Cornyn’s inside the Beltway mentality.
I know I have said this in the past, but let me be clear-the American people like clear cut differences in the arena. Unfortunately for the Republicans over the last 6-8 years, they seem to think they can out Democrat the Democrats. It’s never going to happen. Ever. And Republicans have not been losing the last few election cycles because of conservatism (which, truth be known, is THE foundation of their party platform). No, they’ve been losing because they’ve been giving the American people two choices-vote for the real deal (the Democrats) or vote for the knock offs (the Republicans). As a consumer, I always go with the real deal.
So when the American voter is faced with a party that does big government really well or one that wants to be like the one that does it well, the American voter will go with the former. It’s simple math.
Which is why John Cornyn’s inside the Beltway thinking is setting him up for a big goose egg on Election Day 2010.
05 7th, 2009
Check out my video on the front page of MadisonProject.com. There are no doubts about this one, folks. Pat Toomey would have won in 2004 had it not been for the White House and Rick Santorum swooping in to save Specter in the Republican primary. He’s going to get another shot and I like his odds. Even if Tom Ridge ends up getting into the primary, I still think Toomey wins that and wins a rubber match against Specter in the general.
