One of the loudest opponents so far to the decade-long governor has been a congressman from his home state: Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Texas. The nine-term Austin lawmaker has appointed himself the Democrats’ lead attack dog against Perry’s incipient campaign, speaking at an anti-Perry event last weekend, when the governor was headlining a mega prayer rally in Houston and sending national reporters a press release this week denigrating Perry's record. Shortly after Perry declared his candidacy Saturday afternoon, Doggett issued a press release dismissing his state's governor with a Texanism.
As Texas Gov. Rick Perry prepares to launch his bid for president, some of the early opposition hits haven't been coming from his other GOP opponents or even the Democratic National Committee.
One of the loudest opponents so far to the decade-long governor has been a congressman from his home state: Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Texas. The nine-term Austin lawmaker has appointed himself the Democrats’ lead attack dog against Perry’s incipient campaign, speaking at an anti-Perry event last weekend, when the governor was headlining a mega prayer rally in Houston and sending national reporters a press release this week denigrating Perry's record. Shortly after Perry declared his candidacy Saturday afternoon, Doggett issued a press release dismissing his state's governor with a Texanism.
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EMILY's List is announcing its first congressional endorsements of the 2012 cycle, moving five Democratic women off its early "On The List" designation and giving them full backing.
Their first full endorsements include former Iraq war veteran and former Veterans Affairs Assistant Secretary Tammy Duckworth, running in Illinois's 8th District; former West Palm Beach Mayor Lois Frankel, running in Florida's 22nd District; 2010 nominee Ann McLane Kuster, running again in New Hampshire's 2nd District; former Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick, running again in Arizona's 1st District; and former Iowa First Lady Christie Vilsack, running in Iowa's 4th District. House Majority PAC is launching an ad offensive in against three House Republicans, hitting them during recess on "misguided priorities," including ethics problems and votes they say hurt the middle class.
The six figure cable TV buy starts today and runs through next week, targeting freshmen Reps.Tim Griffin, R-Ark., Scott Tipton, R-Colo., and Chip Cravaack, R-Minn. Updated at 6:55 p.m.
Republican Bob Turner is up with a shocking TV ad, reigniting the debate over the mosque near Ground Zero in his special election in New York's 9th District that will occur just two days after the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks. "It's been ten short years. Everyone remembers," the narrator says, as images of the burning World Trade Center play across the screen. Some, though, want to commemorate the tragedy by building a mosque on Ground Zero. President Obama thinks that's a good idea. And so does Congressional candidate David Weprin." Democrat Kate Marshall is continuing to hammer Republican Mark Amodei over Medicare in Nevada's 2nd District special election, and will release an ad starting on Reno TV tomorrow featuring seniors questioning the GOP budget plan, according to a Democratic source.
"I worked 45 years...50 years...55 years...I paid for it...I earned it," seniors say in the ad. "You can't end Medicare." Michigan Republican Gov. Rick Snyder signed into a law the state's congressional redistricting map on Tuesday, helping several vulnerable Republicans and leaving one Democrat without a district after the state lost a House seat in reapportionment. The map was passed by state Republicans last month, but still faces legal challenges and must pass muster with the Department of Justice.
Democratic Rep. Gary Peters was the odd man out in the redistricting musical chairs, seeing his district carved up. He now finds himself now in the same district as longtime Democratic Rep. Sander Levin. Running against one another isn't what either congressman wants, but both have made clear they will run for reelection regardless. The National Republican Congressional Committee is launching an ad campaign hitting Rep. Kurt Schrader, D-Ore., Hotline On Call has learned.
The three-week buy begins Wednesday, with Republicans arguing in the ominous 30-second spot that the health care reform law has cost the area jobs. Updated at 10:33 p.m.
Can the Medicare lightning strike again in a special election for Democrats? Kate Marshallhopes it can in Nevada's 2nd District race. The Democratic state treasurer released her third ad on Friday in the contest against Republican Mark Amodei, but the new spot strays from the solely economic debate which has been the primary focus in the race so far. In the new 30-second ad, Marshall hammers the former Nevada GOP chairman for his support of Rep. Paul Ryan's, R-Wis., budget plan that would revamp Medicare. It's a tactic that worked well for now-Rep. Kathy Hochul, D-N.Y., earlier this year in New York's 26th District race in a slightly more Republican-leaning district. Let the August messaging wars begin.
The Democratic and Republican House campaign committees offered sneak peeks today of the talking points they'll use and the way they'll put pressure the opposition as members head back to their districts for the August recess. Embattled Rep. David Wu, D-Ore., had announced last week he would resign from Congress at the conclusion of the contentious battle over raising the debt ceiling. It was the final legislative hurrah for the seven-term lawmaker, who said he would step down after a damaging report that he had an "unwanted sexual encounter" with the teenage daughter of a campaign donor. But now, nearly twenty-four hours after the president signed the debt bill into law, Wu still remains in office. |
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