New Hampshire Republican Candidate for Governor not Invited to Speak at Palin’s New Hampshire Rally

 From this New Hampshire Union Leader article:

To borrow a phrase from Palin, the McCain campaign “ruffled feathers” in the Kenney camp during the Palin tour on Wednesday. Staffers refused to allow Kenney to speak at any of her three events.

If it weren’t for Jeb Bradley, Joe Kenney wouldn’t have received a mention at two of the three venues.

“I think Joe should have been allowed to speak,” said his campaign manager, Rep. Casey Crane. She said Kenney, a Marine who served two tours in Iraq, “would have motivated the crowd.” Not to mention get some badly needed exposure.

Kenney was officially introduced in Dover, but only Bradley and John Sununu warmed up the crowd.

Casey said that when Palin was late arriving at Laconia, after Sununu and Bradley had spoken, there was plenty of down time and an empty microphone on stage.

Kenney asked the staff for permission to speak to the crowd, but according to Crane, was told “he wasn’t listed in the original program to speak, which was sent to Washington to be approved. They said that it couldn’t be changed at that point.”

She said the McCain campaign never offered originally to have Kenney in the official script.

“The senator is a big supporter of John McCain and he still is,” said Crane. “But it made sense to me that with the down time available, he wasn’t allowed to rev up the crowd.”

 Joe Kenney is the Republican candidate for governor in New Hampshire and he faces long odds. He could have used any possible bump that he could get, yet at Sarah Palin’s three stops here he was not invited to speak. This is so frustrating. John McCain should be kissing the asses of every Republican and Independent voter in New Hampshire, we propelled him to the nomination, but he doesn’t care about us and our local elections. It would not have been too much to ask to let the Republican candidate for governor say a few words, yet his campaign refused. John McCain has New Hampshire to thank for his becoming the nominee and how does he repay us? By ignoring our one chance at removing the liberal, tax and spend Governor Lynch from office.

 Here is a little of the straight talk express for all of you New Hampshire voters; John McCain doesn’t give a fuck about our state and what happens here. All he cares about is our four insignificant electoral votes. If he truly cared about New Hampshire he would have at least agreed to let Joe Kenney Speak at one of Palin’s events.