Some points of interest, for various campaigns:
- AR-01: Rick Crawford - who is running against Marion Berry, AKA The Guy Who Can’t Remember That He’s Not Supposed to Be Taken Farm Subsidies - has a revamped website. It’s a definite improvement over the old version, and should allow for more and better networking. AR-01 is a R+8 district, and long overdue for a Congressman not as ready to ‘forget’ about his income (both agricultural and residential) as Berry is. Check Rick out.
- MO-SEN: The website’s name says it all: www.acorncarnahan.com. Apparently, Robin Carnahan (running against Roy Blunt) wasn’t very careful - or careful at all - in keeping distant from ACORN, and the Missouri Republican Party is laying the connections out, emails and all (H/T The Campaign Spot). And you have to wonder: what does her brother Russ Carnahan know, when did he know it, and is he done running away yet? It’s been a couple of months by now.
- NM-02: Cap-and-trade supporter Harry Teague’s opponent Steve Pearce had himself a very good third quarter: 508K, donors overwhelmingly from inside the state. Teague hasn’t reported in, yet - but surely he’s not having problems getting funding from a R+6 district, right? Steve Pearce needs a better website, though: perhaps he can get the people who did Crawford’s…
Moe Lane
Crossposted to Moe Lane.
ACORN and the Carnahans
Brian Simpson Tuesday, October 13th at 9:48PM EDT (link)Quite a long history of connections there. Jim over at 24thstate.com has done some great work on this. Just go check out his archives.
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Third Street Wednesday, October 14th at 12:29AM EDT (link)If Pearce had run for the seat in ‘08 I have little doubt it would still be ours. Next year will be the Pearce/Teague matchup that could have been, and Teague will be packing his bags.
I had occasion to stop overnight in Lordsburg a few months ago. Very run-down, quiet, and depressed-looking. It startled and saddened me (especially as a fan of the original “Stagecoach”) to see how blighted much of that corner of New Mexico appeared (I traveled through Deming the next morning, where things looked about as bad). By a roadside in Lordsburg a ragged billboard stood; a leftover from the election, it had been affixed with crude, handmade lettering exhorting passersby to “VOTE DEMOCRATIC”. Figured.