One of California's most conservative Dems, Scott Peters, endorses his rich funder, Paul KerrAccording to OpenSecrets.org, this cycle's half dozen worst self-funders-- at least so far-- include 5 Democrats-- and 4 of this 5 are running ing in Orange County.
But only if you consider being born into a wealthy family knowing how to get things doneNC-13 is an unlikely primary battleground for the DCCC to gin up. The district's in the middle of the state flowing west from Greensboro, through High Point, Lexington and Salisbury to Statesville and Mooresville. It went for Trump 53.4% to 44.0% and the PVI is daunting but not impossible [in a wave cycle] R+6.
Cisneros keeps threatening to sue everyone; he's just like another Republican: TrumpI've been writing about Gil Cisneros' hopes to buy an Orange County congressional seat he doesn't live in for about a year now-- and I've been talking with DCCC staffers for that long about it as well.
The DCCC and the New DemsNo one in their right mind is ever going to call Rick Santorum a liberal, or even a moderate, but he can't fool himself any longer about Señor T having any kind of relationship with Truth. The day after the Washington Post's Fact Checker announced that Trump had told 3,001 lies since taking office Santorum told CNN that Trump's a liar (but that Obama was a worse liar).
If Pelosi, Hoyer, Ben Ray Lujan, Dan Cena and Jason Bresler read one piece of journalism this month, it should be this piece by Daniel Marans at HuffPo:
DCCC executive director, Dan Sena-- he knows what's wrong but is too cowardly to act on itIt was lonely out there when DWT first started covering DCCC perfidy in 2005. It isn't any longer. At the rate things are going, it'll be on TV news soon. TV news should have covered Pelosi's visit to the Austin American-Statesman in February.
What's wrong with the DCCC? Jason Bresler and Steny HoyerI hope you read Lee Fang's blockbuster post at The Intercept yesterday, featuring a secret recording of crooked K Street whore Steny Hoyer trying to crush another progressive candidate for Congress.
This morning Lee Fang broke a story at The Intercept that we touched on back in January-- basically how the Democratic establishment is trying to crush progressive CO-06 candidate Levi Tillemann in order to push their corrupt conservative candidate Jason Crow. The story stars Steny Hoyer and if it reminds you of what the DCCC did to Laura Moser in Texas, it should...
Gil Cisneros-- this is what a DCCC recruit looks likeAlexander Burns decided to tell the story from a primarily DCCC/Washington perspective: Fearing Chaos, National Democrats Plunge Into Midterm Primary Fights. Yes, they fear chaos... but there's more to it than that. He picked CA-39 as the example.
