Monday, June 1, 2009
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While the DCCC unveiled a new campaign today against six House GOPers who opposed the stimulus, the cmte's bigger target seems to be higher on the GOP food chain.
-- The DCCC's radio ads hits GOPers for an issue Dems feel will aid them in the future: the stimulus. But none of the targets (including Reps. Don Young (AK-AL), Thaddeus McCotter (MI-11) and Brian Bilbray (CA-50)) currently have major opposition. These ads, just like the NRCC's last week, will attempt to soften up potentially vulnerable incumbents in hopes they'll help lure a top-line challenger.
-- But you get the feeling the cmte is eager to return fire from the NRCC's attacks on Speaker Nancy Pelosi (CA-08). Playing off ex-Speaker Newt Gingrich's (R-GA) tweet calling SCOTUS nominee Sonia Sotomayor a "racist," the DCCC asks whether NRCC chair Pete Sessions (TX-32) will agree with NRSC chair John Cornyn that those comments are out-of-bounds. Expect Dem criticism to wratchet up as next Monday's NRCC/NRSC dinner (featuring Gingrich) approaches. With George W. Bush out of the picture, we're sure the DCCC was happy to find its old bogeyman ready to lend a helping hand.
-- With polls showing Pelosi's popularity slipping and Sotomayor enjoying a nice honeymoon, the cmtes are toiling on fairly easy soil. Still, you have to wonder if the news out of Peter Visclosky's (D-IN 01) CD, and the constant drip from John Murtha's (D-PA 12), will have a bigger impact.
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Monday, June 1, 2009
- 1 CALIFORNIA 10 (D/FAIRFIELD -- TAUSCHER): Dancing In September?
Special Elections
Special Elections
CALIFORNIA 10 (D/FAIRFIELD -- TAUSCHER)
1. Dancing In September?
Sources say Rep. Ellen Tauscher (D) -- who was nominated to serve as Undersec. of State for Arms Control -- will have a 6/9 confirmation hearing. There hasn't been "much talk of opposition" to her taking the post, so confirmation "would probably follow within a few weeks."
When she is confirmed, the primary will take place "about two months after she resigns from the seat." If a candidate receives over 50% in the all-party primary, he or she will win the seat "outright." If not, the top vote-getter from each party will move to a runoff "about two months later" (Richman, Contra Costa Times, 5/31).
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