Madison County Commissioner Mo Brooks's Republican primary campaign against Alabama Rep. Parker Griffith picked up an endorsement Wednesday from Griffith's 2008 opponent, according to Alabamareports.
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One day after he filed for reelection and put to rest retirement rumors, Budget Committee Chairman John Spratt (D-S.C.) announced he has been diagnosed with early stage Parkinson’s disease but insists it will not inhibit his ability to serve in Congress.
In a statement on his campaign web site, Spratt said that “symptoms are mild and the progression is slow. The chief symptom is an occasional tremor in my right hand, which responds to medication and is mostly a nuisance.” Chuck Norris is back on the campaign trail. The actor and martial arts expert who stumped for Mike Huckabee during the 2008 presidential campaign is headed again to Iowa, this time to appear with Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob Vander Plaats. Vander Plaats was Huckabee's Iowa chairman when the former Arkansas governor won an upset victory there; now, Vander Plaats faces his own uphill battle against former Gov. Terry Branstad in the GOP primary. Norris will make campaign stops on June 4 and 5, just ahead of the June 8 primary.
MSNBC host Rachel Maddow took out a full-page advertisement in Friday's Boston Globe to rip Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown for suggesting she might run against him in 2012. Earlier this week, Brown warned supporters that Maddow might be gearing up to run against him in his first reelection fight. "I'm not running against Scott Brown. I never said I was running against Scott Brown. The Massachusetts Democratic Party never asked me to run against Scott Brown," she writes in the ad. "Maybe this will make him think twice the next time he wants to smear one of his constituents to raise money out of state." The special election date to fill the unexpired term of Georgia Republican Rep. Nathan Deal has been moved from April 27 to May 11. If no candidate receives a majority of the vote, a runoff will be held on June 8. Georgia elections division spokesman Matt Carrothers said the move was made to ensure military and overseas voters would be able to cast their ballots in time. The qualifying period for the seat will still be held next week, March 29 through 31.
One day after admitting he yelled “baby-killer” during Michigan Democrat Bart Stupak’s speech before Sunday evening’s health care vote, Texas Republican Randy Neugebauer has posted a fundraising video on his campaign web site citing the incident.
“Not only did we see the government take over of your health care, but we saw the lives of unborn children used as a bargaining chip to somehow get the needed votes to pass this legislation,” the three-term congressman says in the video, where he’s joined by his wife, Dana. Neugebauer also sent a note about the incident, which is posted along with the video on the conservative Red State blog. A Libertarian Senate candidate in Oregon has removed a campaign logo from his website after an ESPN blogger pointed out it bore a striking resemblance to the insignia of the Columbus Blue Jackets hockey team.
Mark Delphine's Senate campaign site featured an image showing an American flag wrapped around a star to form a D-shape. The Blue Jackets logo shows the flag of Ohio wrapped around a star in the opposite direction, to form the shape of a "C." New polling released Thursday may help explain why abortion is re-emerging as a sticking point in health care reform negotiations. In seven of eight congressional districts represented by anti-abortion Democrats—all of whom voted for the Stupak amendment to block federal funding of abortion in the House bill—a majority of voters said they would be less likely to re-elect their member of Congress if they voted for a health care bill that included federal funding of abortion.
The polls, conducted by the polling company, inc./Woman Trend for the Susan B. Anthony List, a group which backs pro-life female candidates for office, surveyed voters in the House districts held by Reps. Jason Altmire (D-Pa.), Paul Kanjorski (D-Pa.), Brad Ellsworth (D-Ind.), Baron Hill (D-Ind.), Steve Driehaus (D-Ohio), Charlie Wilson (D-Ohio), Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio) and John Boccieri (D-Ohio)—many of whom face competitive reelection challenges this fall. New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand would lead billionaire Mort Zuckerman by 33 points in a potential general election match-up, according to a Marist poll released Tuesday.
Gillibrand would take 59 percent of the vote, including 48 percent of independents and 38 percent of Republicans, against the billionaire real estate developer. That's an even wider lead than she posted against Zuckerman in a Siena College poll last month, which showed her leading by 20 points. By Alexander Burns and Jessica Taylor
New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand sounded unconcerned Tuesday about the prospect of facing billionaire Mort Zuckerman in her fight for reelection this November, telling MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell that she's faced wealthy opponents before. "I ran two of the toughest races in the country the last two election cycles," Gillibrand said. "My last race, I was outspent. I was outspent my first race. I was outspent in my second race. But I was not outworked." |
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