Cough It Up
Oct 19th, 2006 at 6:26 am by Susie
Chris Bowers is right. Why are all these unopposed Democrats sitting on all that campaign cash?
That $26.3 million should be the fruits of the successful 435-district strategy this cycle, where for the first time in a long time Democrats ran candidates in more districts than did Republicans. This is supposed to be one of the ways that the fifty-state strategy actually drives resources to swing districts, rather than draining resources from swing districts. It is particularly disgusting that unnamed Democratic consultants are trashing Howard Dean for running the fifty-state strategy, rather than pressuring all of the unchallenged Democratic incumbents to donate their entire campaign bank accounts to the DCCC and / or Democratic challengers. These incumbents do not need election cash, since they have already won their elections. What these incumbents do need is a Democratic majority so they can actually govern for their constituents.
[...] Was it Rahm Emanuel or Simon Rosenberg who thought to put the squeeze on safe-seat Democrats to the tune of $3M in the past week? No, if memory serves me, it was MyDD blogger Chris Bowers. [...]