The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is running ads against 28 House Republicans, attacking them for voting against Obama’s economic rescue plan.
“These are serious times, hard working families are worried about keeping their jobs, health care and homes – they want action, not House Republicans cheering about doing nothing,” said Brian Wolff, Executive Director of the DCCC. “Republicans’ champagne wishes and caviar dreams simply don’t connect with middle class families struggling to make ends meet and furious that their tax dollars are going to bail out banks, build schools in Iraq, or send American jobs overseas. The Putting Families First campaign is only the first step, we will continue to go district by district to hold Republicans who continue to vote in lockstep with party leaders and against the folks in their districts accountable.”
Check out the list of targeted Republicans below, which includes some surprising choices AND ONE VERY OBVIOUS OMISSION:
Representative Don Young AK-AL
Representative Dan Lungren CA-03
Representative Elton Gallegy CA-24
Representative Ken Calvert CA-44
Representative Brian Bilbray CA-50
Representative Bill Young FL-10
Representative Tom Rooney FL-16
Representative Lincoln Diaz-Balart FL-21
Representative Mario Diaz-Balart FL-25
Representative Tom Latham IA-04
Representative Donald Manzullo IL-16
Representative Brett Guthrie KY-02
Representative Joseph Cao LA-02
Representative John Fleming LA-04
Representative Bill Cassidy LA-06
Representative Roscoe Bartlett MD-06
Representative Thad McCotter MI-11
Representative Michele Bachmann MN-06
Representative Blaine Luetkemeyer MO-09
Representative Lee Terry NE-02
Representative Leonard Lance NJ-07
Representative Christopher Lee NY-26
Representative Henry Brown SC-01
Representative Pete Sessions TX-32
Representative Eric Cantor VA-07
Representative Dave Reichert WA-08
Representative James Sensenbrenner WI-05
Representative Shelley Moore-Capito WV-02
Really, Chris Van Hollen? You’ll run ads against conservative dinosaur Jim Sensenbrenner, but Mike Castle isn’t worth your time? You’ll run ads against Roscoe Bartlett in an R+13 district, but not here in D+6.5 DE-AL? (I’m using 2006 PVIs for comparison until 2008 numbers are out for all districts)
You’ll take on NRCC chairman Pete Sessions and House Minority Whip Eric Cantor, but not powerless, spineless, old Mike “Fancy Coins” Castle?
What kind of bullshit 49-state strategy is this? This is how you push Castle to retire? This is how you encourage John Carney to run?
Does Tom Carper’s “Castle Protection Program” extend to the DCCC?