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Gabrielle Giffords Listed Among 15 Most Vulnerable Democrats by DCCC
By Eleanor Clift - Politics DailyIt has only been four months since the midterm elections, but Democrats are already building a safety net under their most vulnerable members. Of 15 lawmakers dubbed "Frontline Members" by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, one is Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. She, of course, is recovering in a Houston rehab facility from a gunshot wound to the head. Fellow Democrats are looking out for her, getting fundraising underway that she can't do personally -- and not presuming there will be a big sympathy vote carrying Giffords to reelection. Politics has a way of turning nasty when ...
DCCC Spent $82 Million on House Elections
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyIt bought mostly heartbreak, but the Democrats' election campaign panel in the House spent $82 million on 107 congressional races over the last two years. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee's funding totals were revealed Friday in an internal memo by chairman Chris Van Hollen, The Wall Street Journal reported. Van Hollen wrote that the money helped keep up to 20 Democrats in the House, while conceding that the loss of over 60 seats and the majority was nothing short of a disaster for the party. "There is no sugar-coating the election results," he wrote. "As President Obama ...
Left Adrift by His Own Party, Ohio Democrat Steve Driehaus Fights On
By Walter Shapiro - Politics DailyCINCINNATI – Beleaguered Democratic House incumbent Steve Driehaus is the antithesis of a stiff-upper-lip, suffer-in-silence politician. Confronted with bad news (and the 44-year-old freshman congressman has had more than his share this week in his rematch race against Republican Steve Chabot), Driehaus revels in his defiance. Saturday morning, the red-faced Driehaus – leaving his blue blazer on the chair as he stood to rally 150 AFL-CIO union activists -- began his five-minute speech with an admission that most candidates would bury in the fine print of their Federal Election ...
Never Mind That Sex Allegation: Al Gore Writes Op-Ed, Raises Money for Dems
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyA massage therapist's recent claim that Al Gore demanded sexual contact from her in 2006 may have put Gore back in the hot seat on late night talk shows, but so far it doesn't seem to be hurting his standing in political and media circles. Late last week Gore published a Wall Street Journal piece on how to create "a more long-term and responsible form of capitalism." And on Monday he sent out a fundraising pitch for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. In the pitch, timed for urgency as a June 30 fundraising deadline looms, Gore says "we must keep pace" with House Minority Leader ...
Van Hollen, Head of Campaign Committee, Admits Dems Face 'Uphill Climb'
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyOutside of Washington's Beltway, the jargon "D-Triple C" holds little currency for the general public. But inside it, most people know that the DCCC -- the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee -- is where money is raised and candidates are recruited to protect the power of the majority in the House of Representatives. And playing defense in this election year is the name of the game for the person who chairs the committee, Rep. Chris Van Hollen, a good-natured Democrat in his fourth term from an affluent suburban Maryland district. In a lengthy interview with The Hill newspaper, Van ...
Inflaming the Health Care Debate: A How-to Guide for Democrats
By Bob Franken - Politics DailyTo: Candidates From: The House and Senate Democratic Campaign Committees Re: Explosive "Town Halls" We urgently recommend that you schedule, as SOON AS POSSIBLE, a town-hall meeting on health care reform. In addition, make sure that the opposition Web sites know exactly when and where it's being held so they can send their wrought-up protesters to yell at you. ...
Clinton High-Rollers Threaten Pelosi and DCCC
By Denise Williams - Politics DailyA mild chastisement or an extortion threat? A group of well-heeled Hillary Clinton supporters did not take too kindly to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's thoughts on the role of SuperDelegates™ and "so-called pledged delegates." This past Sunday, Pelosi told ABC News, "If the votes of the superdelegates overturn what's happened in the elections, it would be harmful to the Democratic party,". But just ten days earlier, Pelosi told The Hill: I believe super-delegates have to use their own judgment and there will be many equities that they have to weigh when they make the decision. ...
Republicans Court Rich Candidates
By Jonathan Berr - Politics DailyAttention wealthy people interested in politics: the Republican party wants you.As the New York Times noted today, the party that wants people to pull themselves with their own bootstraps expects the same of people running for Congress. It has little choice since The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has raised $56 million with $29.2 million at its disposal compared with the $40.7 million raised by the National Republican Congressional Committee, which as a cash balance of $2.5 million, the paper said.While having self-funded candidates seems like a dream come true for the GOP, there ...
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