The GOP is not letting any grass grow under it’s feet. It is busily identifying freshman and sophomore members of Congress it will target and seek to oust from their elected office. [Blue Jersey]
One of those targeted by the GOP is Representative Dina Titus who represents Nevada’s Congressional District #3. Titus isn’t alone, there are 70 on the targeted list. Republicans are working together in their grassroots organizations. The following statement from the GOP says:
Hi friends, Below you will find a list of 70 districts that the NRCC is targeting this cycle. As Chairman Sessions stated earlier this week at a pen and pad briefing, “There are people proactively coming to us. We are doing far less recruiting and more catching.” With that said we have the opportunity to focus on many more districts and some unusual districts that haven’t been targeted in a long time. We are very excited about our prospects in 2010 and look forward to having your support! If you have questions about a particular district please shoot me a note.
Here in Nye County, Nevada in Congressional District #2. The only grassroots endeavor I am aware of that is working to unseat Republican incumbent Dean Heller (ProjectVoteSmart) is the national Organizing for America organization. I’ve heard of no such local grassroot effort being mounted by the Nye County Democratic Party.
Cindy Trigg, a Democrat, in Northern Nevada had announced she was a candidate for District #2, but dropped out about a month later.
Paul Reeves, of Pahrump, announced he is a Democratic candidate for District #2 last Monday, August 3 at an event sponsored by the Pahrump Chapter of Democracy for America.
Jack Schofield, of Las Vegas, has indicated he is also a Democratic candidate for District #2, and is expected to publicly announce his candidacy soon.
So far as I know both Reeves and Schofield are running on their own without encouragement or assistance of the Nevada State Democratic Party or the Nye County or Clark County Democratic Parties. Nor have I heard of any recruitment efforts by the state or local Democratic organizations to find a competent, viable and electable candidate to run against Dean Heller.
Heller, being the incumbent, has the full GOP organization behind him. Makes it very lonely and difficult for a Democratic Candidate.
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I was on a call the other day with members of the State Democratic Party and the folks who will be running Sen. Reid’s campaign. Mr. Sam Lieberman, who is head of the state party, indicated they can do nothing for the democratic candidates until after the primary election. That’s just flat out bizarre. No wonder we have such trouble mounting campaigns against GOP candidates. We need to have a bit more focus and support as a Party drumming up interest …. but no …. it’s hands off until some hopeful democratic candidate can, without any help/support from the party, win in the primary. How wrong is that?
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I agree with you. I understand the need to remain neutral as between two Democratic Candidates. However I fail to see that the Democratic Party cannot perform as a neutral resource to each candidate. For example, each of them will need the names, addresses, phone numbers and e-mail addresses of registered Democrats in Congressional District #2. Furnishing that information to each candidate on a CD doesn’t seem like partisanship to me. Or, holding a campaign event so that the competing candidates can appear and present their qualifications and platforms should be possible. Even splitting evenly financial support would be fair.
Asking candidates to virtually bankrupt themselves to run for an elective office in a primary contest insures that good, viable candidates are ignored. I think the party’s attitude is archaic. Besides, it is common knowledge that there are “inside” candidates (those with connections to the Party’s leaders) and “outside candidates) those who have no juice within the party. Dina Titus was “outside” when she ran for governor against what’s his name, the mayor of Henderson, who was “inside.”
I don’t think it is fair and also think remaining “hands off” hampers turning the rurals of Nevada blue.