SEIU To Yank Support For Arcuri (Voting No On HCR) Will Search For Challenger

[kpete]

Source: The Plum Line

SEIU To Yank Support For Arcuri, Will Search For Challenger

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The SEIU bluntly informed Dem Rep Michael Arcuri of New York yesterday that it’s pulling support for him in the wake of the news that he’s an all-but-certain No, I’m told. And the search for a primary or third-party challenger is underway.

Jerry Dennis, the president of SEIU local 200, which represents 14,000 workers statewide in New York, called Arcuri yesterday and delivered the news, SEIU spokesman Matt Nerzig tells me.

“Jerry called him yesterday and told him it’ll be very difficult to support him come next election if he’s not on this bill,” Nerzig says. “The search for alternatives has already begun.

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Separately, in a bit of good news for Dem vote counters, Rep Charlie Wilson, a former Yes who was thought to be undecided, will vote Yes again, a good get for Dems because he shared the Stupak dozen’s concerns.

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[dmallind]

1. No excuse for Blue Dogs not to support the bill qua Blue Dogs

And I say this as somebody with considerable agreement with the coalition's stated goals and philosophy.

And as someone (rare on DU it seems) who knows who are and are not BD's. Arcuri is.

When your main driving purpose is exercising fiscal restraint and decreasing the deficit, a bill that the CBO says decreases the deficit $130B is manna from heaven.

There are still some BD's opposing this bill, albeit less than 1/3 of them. They however MUST be doing it for reasons outside their BD philosophy. There is some overlap of course between fiscally conservative Dems and socially conservative Dems (the latter I have far less sympathy or agreement with) and I suspect it is the latter driving most of the current no votes.