Comments on: Independent qualifies for ballot against Mo Brooks

By: Mark Bray

Mark Bray — Thu, 31 Jul 2014 02:42:41 +0000

@Dick Just ask me what I am for…

http://www.brayforcongress.com/blog/7/op-ed-the-future-past-of-american-space

I am a problem solver and I won’t get bogged down in partisan nonsense. I have a proven record in the space industry of standing by facts and promoting the expansion of commercial and civilian uses of space. While space is important to defense, I believe we should be looking to have more commercial and civilian missions than defense missions and I look forward to the first truly private commercial profit table mission. That will change the industry forever and for the better.

On the broader issues, the economy is the driving problem and neither party has a plan to resolve it.
One wants to inflate our way out, the other wants austerity. A few want bankruptcy. I want to grow our way out which requires innovation and investment is a true free market environment not the crony capitalism of the last 70 years.

By: Dick Eagleson

Dick Eagleson — Thu, 10 Jul 2014 02:20:27 +0000

Mark and I do not see eye to eye regarding the FAR and SAAâ€™s

I presume, given Mr. Bray’s employer, that means he’s a partisan of wasteful and useless business as usual as long as he gets paid. No real improvement over Brooks that I can see, especially if you happen to be a U.S. taxpayer living beyond the borders of Alabama’s 5th Congressional District. Too bad they both can’t lose.

By: Gary Anderson

Gary Anderson — Wed, 09 Jul 2014 16:06:52 +0000

I know Mark Bray. I have wished him luck publically as I have done several times privately. Running against any incumbent is an uphill battle regardless of party or non-party affiliation. Mark is a qualified NASA, Marshall engineer. Yet, Mark and I do not see eye to eye regarding the FAR and SAAâ€™s, but if I was an Alabama 5th voter Mark would have my vote. He is no socialist Democrat by any stretch but he will get that vote, just because. Also Mark will score the anybody-but-incumbents vote. If I were Mo Brooks, I would not be looking at Mark Bray as a pesky gnat, but as a tenacious opponent.

By: Hiram

Hiram — Wed, 09 Jul 2014 15:21:27 +0000

I don’t think there is a Democratic challenger to Brooks. So Bray doesn’t represent a “third party”. He represents “an other party”. He represents a choice, where it is looking like there would otherwise be none.

Yeah, I suppose that if Brooks ran uncontested the only way you could “siphon off votes” from him would be to kidnap people as they headed into their polling location.

By: amightywind

amightywind — Wed, 09 Jul 2014 12:07:24 +0000

Pure vanity. David Brat did it the right way, defeating Cantor in a primary. A third party candidate will just siphon off votes from the Republican, which no doubt is Bray’s only goal.

By: Hiram

Hiram — Tue, 08 Jul 2014 14:52:07 +0000

Looking at Bray’s issue statements, he’s really pretty undefined as a potential legislator. The main spin of his campaign seems to be “I’m not like them!”, which kinda leaves a lot to be determined. He’s also very pro-space but, for lack of any other substantive political commitment, he comes across as a mostly single-issue candidate (which, of course, actually might suit AL-5 just fine!) One would hope that Bray is not anywhere near as scientifically illiterate as Brooks, whose science expertise is allegedly political science.