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Two Steps Closer to Retiring Nancy Pelosi

By: Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX), NRCC Chairman (Diary)  |  May 11th, 2010 at 05:25 PM  | 

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Since becoming Chairman of the NRCC, I have had one goal – a goal I share with you: to retire Nancy Pelosi. In the next 11 days, we have an opportunity to take two crucial steps, in overwhelmingly Democrat-leaning districts, towards achieving our shared goal. But we cannot sit back and expect victory; we have to go and take it.

On May 18 in Pennsylvania, voters in the late-Congressman Murtha’s district will go to the polls to select his replacement. They are confronted with two clear choices: Tim Burns and Mark Critz. Burns has a history of creating jobs and advocating for smaller government, lower taxes, and now the repeal of the costly government-takeover of healthcare. On the other hand, Mark Critz is a career bureaucrat who would be another dependable vote for Nancy Pelosi. Although he claims he opposes government-run healthcare, he would not vote to repeal it.

This is an election Democrats are determined not to lose and that is why Tim Burns needs your help – click here to help Tim reach his online fundraising goal for the week. While recent polling has shown Burns with a narrow lead (even with National Democrats running ads that FactCheck.org concurred are “blatantly false”), this is a district where Democrats outnumber Republicans 2-1. Additionally, this election occurs on primary day in Pennsylvania, and there are several competitive Democrat races that will drive up turnout – <a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/politics_nation/2010/05/rendell_specter_wins_primary_b.html%

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  • callmeroy

    A man died and went to heaven. As he stood in front of St. Peter at the Pearly Gates, he saw a huge wall of clocks behind him. He asked,

  • edintexas

    You were my Representative until the new district was created, and I gladly voted for you (and your staff was very professional). I would like to think that the NY 23/Scozzafava issue was the result of your NRCC staff screwing up. But that would still leave you in the position of not correcting the Committee staffers in an obvious blunder (when the Democrat is to the right of the Republican, there is a real problem). Between this screw up in the NRCC, the Crist situation in the NRSC and the antics of the Republican Party Chairman, it is going to take a lot of reform before any of my money goes to these Party organs again.

    That is not to say that I no longer donate. I just pick the recipients myself.

  • http://ruminationsaspirations.blogspot.com jonbingham

    Why are you taking sides in a competitive primary with more than one viable, conservative candidate in KY’s 3rd? Bad form (once again), Congressman.

    Reetz is certainly not a Scozzafava situation, but he’s simply not the only respectable conservative in the race. But unlike in other districts where more than one candidate is named as “on-the-radar,” you only have one listed for KY-03.

    The NRCC should have stayed away from singularity in this primary. NRCC coronations probably do as much harm to a candidate as they might help.

    When will you and your staff start to learn, Congressman?

  • proudgop

    Thank You so much Congressman

    I did an internship for NRCC one year and saw firsthand how hard everyone in that building works

  • annas

    CONTINUE to require attention! I read Rasmussen this morning and the Democrats are creeping back up. I am sure they figured on the “folks” having short memories after the healthcare nightmare–and sure enough not much is being said now. The “folks” are on to the next thing. I have to come here and read comments so as not to be discouraged!

  • wideranger

    My ideal was to pick someone who is on the scene and displays my thoughts and goals…and so far I’ve settled on Jim DeMint. He has a group trying to get Conservatives elected where there is a chance of winning. Check him out…

    “Faith was never intended to be a substitue for intelligence”.

  • justfedup

    We still have a way to go before the elections. I do not doubt that pelosi & company will again try something supremely stupid. They are on a mission & they are close, time is short. Call it “target fixation”. The 9.9 unemployment rate will go up as college grads start looking for work. The U6 is at 17.1, michelle & crew going after Spongebob. For the moment the mccain calvary can’t come to the rescue. We just need to keep pressure on the RINO’s in the Senate.

  • tngal

    I agree annas that the pressure has to remain on this one. A Susquehanna poll is out touting Critz being ahead of Burns by 7. Critz 44 – Burns 38. Problem is you can’t get any definitive info on the poll.

    A mention is made on politicalwire, which refers you to a Pittsburgh tribune story but there is little info on the poll itself except that only 400 people were polled and there’s a plus or minus MOE of 4.9. percent ( kinda high in my book). Seems like its still a toss up. Were they likely voters or just anybody who happened to be up at ten pm?

    back in March i sought to bring attention to this and three other special elections just so we wouldn’t be here…less than a week out and all knotted up in these races . It shouldn’t have to be this difficult. The dems screw something up almost daily, it seems as if we’re just not capitalizing on it effectively.

    http://pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/westmoreland/s_680706.html

  • http://moelane.com/ Moe Lane

    I’ve been looking for the poll itself, but so far no luck.

  • tngal

    I caught it first on cqpolitics political wire, which was I guess just a pickup from that paper.. Susquahanna doesn’t put stuff on its website so I’m wondering if it was an internal. If the tribune bought it why didn’t they put in crosstabs and stuff?