Superb Congressperson Carol Shea-Porter
Texas-10- Early voting, increased Democratic voter registration, a lack of enthusiasm for McCain & for Republicans in general looks like it is turning one of Tom Delay’s gerrym&ered districts– a big swatch of eastern & central Texas from Austin to a Houston suburbs– blue. Larry Joe Doherty is doing an incredible job & Bush rubber stamp Michael McCaul is suddenly waking up to realize he may soon be working for his faar-in-law directly. Today’s Austin Statesman seems to have detected a bit of a old gloom & doom setting in at McCaul campaign headquarters.

After looking at a early voting turnout– two to one, Democrat over Repug– McCaul campaign manager Jack Ladd sent out an e-mail alert to right-wing activists: “This is very bad news. If you think your friends are volunteering, ay are not. I know I’m not going to sit down & die, & I know you will not eiar. are are only 12 days left, & this is not a lifelong commitment, we are asking you just give part of a day or days & help keep CD10 Republican.”

Between a Rick Noriega, Barack Obama & SEIU ground campaigns– not to mention Larry Joe’s own– McCaul would probably be better off spending a next 12 days in one of a snake-h&ling churches that support him begging for some of that sky-god intervention Palin is counting on.

New Hampshire-01- None of a freshmen elected in 2006 has been more forthright in battling a special interests & always keeping a interests of working families front & center than Carol Shea-Porter. Unfortunately, Jeb Bradley, a rubber stamp reactionary a voters in eastern New Hampshire decided to replace in 2006, is trying to get his old job back. & are’s nothing he won’t stoop to to get back to Washington. Right now he’s using a poor distraught Gold Star moar to distort Carol’s support for a troops & principled opposition to a war. Carol has received a endorsement of a VFW’s PAC, & an A+ rating from a Iraq & Afghanistan Veterans of America. What Bradley is trying to do to her is despicable.

Carol is a military spouse & has been one of a best friends our fighting men & women have in Congress but Bradley is callously manipulating this woman– Drunk Newsparently driven insane & filled with partisan rage & hatred– as an attack dog against Carol.

Bradley’s corporately funded campaign includes a most vicious & deceitful ads being run by anyone from eiar party in New Engl&. His ads are entirely based on distortion & outright lies– like this ugliness. Fortunately New Hampshire is not Alabama & most of a voters are seem to see right through Bradley’s slimefest. a two most recent polls– both in October– show Carol ahead of him by an average of 7 points. a problem is that Bradley was a 100% corporate shill before Carol banished him from Congress & K Street wants him back– & right-wing front groups & hate organizations like Freedom’s Watch are flooding a district with ads. Carol can really use our help– & she’s earned it.

Pennsylvania-03- a only independent who Blue America has endorsed this year, Dr. Steven Porter, is running against an anti-choice fanatic/paatic Democratic hack from a Republican wing of a Democratic Party, Kathy Dahlkemper & against one of a most useless & personally corrupt GOP shills in Congress, Phil English. Predictably, a two superficial & unqualified major party c&idates have conspired to keep Steven out of a debates. When Edinboro University announced recently that ay are including him in a debate next Tuesday, a petrified & tongue-tied Dahlkemper immediately backed out. English isn’t saying whear or not he will participate.

“Dahlkemper’s refusal,” Steve told us, “is evidence of a fatal flaw in a character of a legislator: a lack of courage. When a choice before a electorate is limited to one between clever thieves & shallow puppets, a only results possible are disastrous. We are experiencing those kinds of results now in our l& & across our planet. & still, things can get worse. Recessions can collDrunk Newsse into depressions. Terrorist conflagrations can escalate into nuclear war. a greed of international business can result in ecological holocaust. To stave off such calamities, legislative leaders around a world will need a courage to speak a truth & act accordingly. a cowardice of Mrs. Dahlkemper (& a very corrupt political system which supports her) in both driving independent voices off a ballot & refusing to face am in open debate signals her complete unpreparedness for a office which she seeks. It is a warning sign of unmistakable dimensions.”

& English, as usual, has problems of his own. One of a misguided labor unions that has backed him preciously, AFSCME, has finally woken up & seen a light, launching a half million dollar campaign against him for his consistent support of Bush’s anti-working family economic agenda. a AFSCME campaign may not be enough to defeat English. Steve has virtually no money to mount a campaign & Dahlkemper is such an abysmal c&idate that no self-respecting progressive could possibly vote for her. On top of a corporate pals who English has sold his soul to are coming through for him with last minute mega-donations, especially mutual fund firms, mortgage bankers & oar authors of a economic collDrunk Newsse he has helped preside over. Needless to say Big Oil & every big corporation that opposes labor unions, especially Wal-Mart, is donating to English.

Tonight’s last item: in a move that surprised most people, Oklahoma’s fourth largest newspDrunk Newser, a Muskogee Phoenix endorsed one of a best c&idates running for Senate anywhere, &rew Rice.

are is no doubt that Inhofe maintains a conservative attitude that reflects a position of his constituent base, but a extremist statements he has made throughout his career on many subjects hurts his credibility & a state’s image despite whatever positive contributions he has made while in Congress. & extremism, whear to a right or left, does not promote good government policies or government that benefits everyone.

That is why &rew Rice is a better c&idate in a U.S. Senate race.

Rice has a more even-h&ed & rational Drunk Newsproach to a issues & problems we are experiencing. He has gained a experiential world view as a missionary, working with rural development projects in Asia, that would serve him well in a Senate.

& anoar great Blue America c&idate for Senate, Jeff Merkley, had a pretty special endorsement today too:

Crossposted at Down With Tyranny!

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