DCCC & challenging all 435 seats in 2006 from MyDD

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DCCC & challenging all 435 seats in 2006
by Jerome Armstrong

A couple of months ago, I was in a DCCC meeting with their blogger Jesse Lee, and the new Executive Director, John Lapp, among others. Sitting around the table with them, it felt decidingly different then the last gang-- that this crew actually read blogs and was engaged in what we've been trying to do, and would work with the efforts out here to win.
Still, when I brought up the idea of contesting every single CD in 2006, I got mostly the same usual standbys for why that wasn't a priority. I'd been given a Project 90 document before meeting with them, which explains in mind-opening detail, what happens when you contest a race that would have been previously uncontested. Simply put, the safe Republican will go and spend their money helping the endangered or challenging Republicans in other districts, but the challenged Republican-held seat will siphon off money from those other Republicans. This document analyzed it in cold numbers over the past three cycles, and the conclusion was blatent-- it makes sense to challenge all the seats.

Yet, inside DC, that's still a foreign concept. There are 435 federal level seats up next year in the House, and contesting them all just doens't make sense, they say, regardless of the facts. They cannot see the forest for the trees. So, on behalf of the Democratic activists in the blogosphere, I asked for two things of Lapp's crew in the DCCC to research and compile.

First, put up on your website a list of every single CD with the filing dates and deadlines before the primary.

Second, update it when known Democratic challengers enter the contest.

And I asked that this be done before the end of this year.

Lapp is someone that we can work with, he took notes on those two requests, and said he'd deliver (I'm sure that BlogPac could fund such a minor project if need be, but heck, it's their job).

I don't fault the DCCC for not going into the OH 2nd right after the primary, when the campaign of Hackett's requested their input of resources. The DCCC looked at the numbers, and decided that they'd wait and see, and follow the netroots lead.

The off-cycle elections are years in which things are tested by the parties for using in the next cycle. It's pretty obvious that this 'experiment' with Hackett (and challenging every seat) works quite well. We have another special election coming up in California, and again, the blogosphere should lead the way to challenging the Republicans at every turn. Eventually, they'll get it in DC that was the DCCC strategy, whatever.

http://www.mydd.com/story/2005/8/1/84548/24795

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1. Excellent strategy. Recommended.

n/t

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2. Here's a start

Roll of current members from the House Clerk's site http://clerk.house.gov/members/oathoffice.html

ALABAMA
1 Jo Bonner
2 Terry Everett
3 Mike Rogers
4 Robert B. Aderholt
5 Robert E. (Bud) Cramer Jr.
6 Spencer Bachus
7 Artur Davis

ALASKA
At Large, Don Young

ARIZONA
1 Rick Renzi
2 Trent Franks
3 John B. Shadegg
4 Ed Pastor
5 J. D. Hayworth
6 Jeff Flake
7 Raúl M. Grijalva
8 Jim Kolbe

ARKANSAS
1 Marion Berry
2 Vic Snyder
3 John Boozman
4 Mike Ross

CALIFORNIA
1 Mike Thompson
2 Wally Herger
3 Daniel E. Lungren
4 John T. Doolittle
5 Doris O. Matsui
6 Lynn C. Woolsey
7 George Miller
8 Nancy Pelosi
9 Barbara Lee
10 Ellen O. Tauscher
11 Richard W. Pombo
12 Tom Lantos
13 Fortney Pete Stark
14 Anna G. Eshoo
15 Michael M. Honda
16 Zoe Lofgren
17 Sam Farr
18 Dennis A. Cardoza
19 George Radanovich
20 Jim Costa
21 Devin Nunes
22 William M. Thomas
23 Lois Capps
24 Elton Gallegly
25 Howard P. ``Buck'' McKeon
26 David Dreier
27 Brad Sherman
28 Howard L. Berman
29 Adam B. Schiff
30 Henry A. Waxman
31 Xavier Becerra
32 Hilda L. Solis
33 Diane E. Watson
34 Lucille Roybal-Allard
35 Maxine Waters
36 Jane Harman
37 Juanita Millender-McDonald
38 Grace F. Napolitano
39 Linda T. Sánchez
40 Edward R. Royce
41 Jerry Lewis
42 Gary G. Miller
43 Joe Baca
44 Ken Calvert
45 Mary Bono
46 Dana Rohrabacher
47 Loretta Sanchez
48 Christopher Cox
49 Darrell E. Issa
50 Randy ``Duke'' Cunningham
51 Bob Filner
52 Duncan Hunter
53 Susan A. Davis

COLORADO
1 Diana DeGette
2 Mark Udall
3 John T. Salazar
4 Marilyn N. Musgrave
5 Joel Hefley
6 Thomas G. Tancredo
7 Bob Beauprez

CONNECTICUT
1 John B. Larson
2 Rob Simmons
3 Rosa L. DeLauro
4 Christopher Shays
5 Nancy L. Johnson

DELAWARE
At Large, Michael N. Castle

FLORIDA
1 Jeff Miller
2 Allen Boyd
3 Corrine Brown
4 Ander Crenshaw
5 Ginny Brown-Waite
6 Cliff Stearns
7 John L. Mica
8 Ric Keller
9 Michael Bilirakis
10 C. W. Bill Young
11 Jim Davis
12 Adam H. Putnam
13 Katherine Harris
14 Connie Mack
15 Dave Weldon
16 Mark Foley
17 Kendrick B. Meek
18 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
19 Robert Wexler
20 Debbie Wasserman Schultz
21 Lincoln Diaz-Balart
22 E. Clay Shaw Jr.
23 Alcee L. Hastings
24 Tom Feeney
25 Mario Diaz-Balart

GEORGIA
1 Jack Kingston
2 Sanford D. Bishop, Jr.
3 Jim Marshall
4 Cynthia McKinney
5 John Lewis
6 Tom Price
7 John Linder
8 Lynn A. Westmoreland
9 Charlie Norwood
10 Nathan Deal
11 Phil Gingrey
12 John Barrow
13 David Scott

HAWAII
1 Neil Abercrombie
2 Ed Case

IDAHO
1 C. L. ``Butch'' Otter
2 Michael K. Simpson

ILLINOIS
1 Bobby L. Rush
2 Jesse L. Jackson, Jr.
3 Daniel Lipinski
4 Luis V. Gutierrez
5 Rahm Emanuel
6 Henry J. Hyde
7 Danny K. Davis
8 Melissa L. Bean
9 Janice D. Schakowsky
10 Mark Steven Kirk
11 Jerry Weller
12 Jerry F. Costello
13 Judy Biggert
14 J. Dennis Hastert
15 Timothy V. Johnson
16 Donald A. Manzullo
17 Lane Evans
18 Ray LaHood
19 John Shimkus

INDIANA
1 Peter J. Visclosky
2 Chris Chocola
3 Mark E. Souder
4 Steve Buyer
5 Dan Burton
6 Mike Pence
7 Julia Carson
8 John N. Hostettler
9 Michael E. Sodrel

IOWA
1 Jim Nussle
2 James A. Leach
3 Leonard L. Boswell
4 Tom Latham
5 Steve King

KANSAS
1 Jerry Moran
2 Jim Ryun
3 Dennis Moore
4 Todd Tiahrt

KENTUCKY
1 Ed Whitfield
2 Ron Lewis
3 Anne M. Northup
4 Geoff Davis
5 Harold Rogers
6 Ben Chandler

LOUISIANA
1 Bobby Jindal
2 William J. Jefferson
3 Charlie Melancon
4 Jim McCrery
5 Rodney Alexander
6 Richard H. Baker
7 Charles W. Boustany, Jr.

MAINE
1 Thomas H. Allen
2 Michael H. Michaud

MARYLAND
1 Wayne T. Gilchrest
2 C. A. Dutch Ruppersberger
3 Benjamin L. Cardin
4 Albert Russell Wynn
5 Steny H. Hoyer
6 Roscoe G. Bartlett
7 Elijah E. Cummings
8 Chrls Van Hollen

MASSACHUSETTS
1 John W. Olver
2 Richard E. Neal
3 James P. McGovern
4 Barney Frank
5 Martin T. Meehan
6 John F. Tierney
7 Edward J. Markey
8 Michael E. Capuano
9 Stephen F. Lynch
10 William D. Delahunt

MICHIGAN
1 Bart Stupak
2 Peter Hoekstra
3 Vernon J. Ehlers
4 Dave Camp
5 Dale E. Kildee
6 Fred Upton
7 John J. H. ``Joe'' Schwarz
8 Mike Rogers
9 Joe Knollenberg
10 Candice S. Miller
11 Thaddeus G. McCotter
12 Sander M. Levin
13 Carolyn C. Kilpatrick
14 John Conyers, Jr.
15 John D. Dingell

MINNESOTA
1 Gil Gutknecht
2 John Kline
3 Jim Ramstad
4 Betty McCollum
5 Martin Olav Sabo
6 Mark R. Kennedy
7 Collin C. Peterson
8 James L. Oberstar

MISSISSIPPI
1 Roger F. Wicker
2 Bennie G. Thomson
3 Charles W. ``Chip'' Pickering
4 Gene Taylor

MISSOURI
1 Wm. Lacy Clay
2 W. Todd Akin
3 Russ Carnahan
4 Ike Skelton
5 Emanuel Cleaver
6 Sam Graves
7 Roy Blunt
8 Jo Ann Emerson
9 Kenny C. Hulshof

MONTANA
At Large, Dennis R. Rehberg

NEBRASKA
1 Jeff Fortenberry
2 Lee Terry
3 Tom Osborne

NEVADA
1 Shelley Berkley
2 Jim Gibbons
3 Jon C. Porter

NEW HAMPSHIRE
1 Jeb Bradley
2 Charles F. Bass

NEW JERSEY
1 Robert E. Andrews
2 Frank A. LoBiondo
3 Jim Saxton
4 Christopher H. Smith
5 Scott Garrett
6 Frank Pallone, Jr.
7 Mike Ferguson
8 Bill Pascrell, Jr.
9 Steven R. Rothman
10 Donald M. Payne
11 Rodney P. Frelinghuysen
12 Rush D. Holt
13 Robert Menendez

NEW MEXICO
1 Heather Wilson
2 Stevan Pearce
3 Tom Udall

NEW YORK
1 Timothy H. Bishop
2 Steve Israel
3 Peter T. King
4 Carolyn McCarthy
5 Gary L. Ackerman
6 Gregory W. Meeks
7 Joseph Crowley
8 Jerrold Nadler
9 Anthony D. Weiner
10 Edolphus Towns
11 Major R. Owens
12 Nydia M. Velázquez
13 Vito Fossella
14 Carolyn B. Maloney
15 Charles B. Rangel
16 José E. Serrano
17 Eliot L. Engel
18 Nita M. Lowey
19 Sue W. Kelly
20 John E. Sweeney
21 Michael R. McNulty
22 Maurice D. Hinchey
23 John M. McHugh
24 Sherwood Boehlert
25 James T. Walsh
26 Thomas M. Reynolds
27 Brian Higgins
28 Louise McIntosh Slaughter
29 John R. ``Randy'' Kuhl, Jr.

NORTH CAROLINA
1 G. K. Butterfield
2 Bob Etheridge
3 Walter B. Jones
4 David E. Price
5 Virginia Foxx
6 Howard Coble
7 Mike McIntyre
8 Robin Hayes
9 Sue Wilkins Myrick
10 Patrick T. McHenry
11 Charles H. Taylor
12 Melvin L. Watt
13 Brad Miller

NORTH DAKOTA
At Large, Earl Pomeroy

OHIO
1 Steve Chabot
2 Rob Portman
3 Michael R. Turner
4 Michael G. Oxley
5 Paul E. Gillmor
6 Ted Strickland
7 David L. Hobson
8 John A. Boehner
9 Marcy Kaptur
10 Dennis J. Kucinich
11 Stephanie Tubbs Jones
12 Patrick J. Tiberi
13 Sherrod Brown
14 Steven C. LaTourette
15 Deborah Pryce
16 Ralph Regula
17 Tim Ryan
18 Robert W. Ney

OKLAHOMA
1 John Sullivan
2 Dan Boren
3 Frank D. Lucas
4 Tom Cole
5 Ernest J. Istook, Jr.

OREGON
1 David Wu
2 Greg Walden
3 Earl Blumenauer
4 Peter A. DeFazio
5 Darlene Hooley

PENNSYLVANIA
1 Robert A. Brady
2 Chaka Fattah
3 Phil English
4 Melissa A. Hart
5 John E. Peterson
6 Jim Gerlach
7 Curt Weldon
8 Michael G. Fitzpatrick
9 Bill Shuster
10 Don Sherwood
11 Paul E. Kanjorski
12 John P. Murtha
13 Allyson Y. Schwartz
14 Michael F. Doyle
15 Charles W. Dent
16 Joseph R. Pitts
17 Tim Holden
18 Tim Murphy
19 Todd Russell Platts

RHODE ISLAND
1 Patrick J. Kennedy
2 James R. Langevin

SOUTH CAROLINA
1 Henry E. Brown, Jr.
2 Joe Wilson
3 J. Gresham Barrett
4 Bob Inglis
5 John M. Spratt, Jr.
6 James E. Clyburn

SOUTH DAKOTA
At Large, Stephanie Herseth

TENNESSEE
1 William L. Jenkins
2 John J. Duncan, Jr.
3 Zach Wamp
4 Lincoln Davis
5 Jim Cooper
6 Bart Gordon
7 Marsha Blackburn
8 John S. Tanner
9 Harold E. Ford, Jr.

TEXAS
1 Louie Gohmert
2 Ted Poe
3 Sam Johnson
4 Ralph M. Hall
5 Jeb Hensarling
6 Joe Barton
7 John Abney Culberson
8 Kevin Brady
9 Al Green
10 Michael T. McCaul
11 K. Michael Conaway
12 Kay Granger
13 Mac Thornberry
14 Ron Paul
15 Rubén Hinojosa
16 Silvestre Reyes
17 Chet Edwards
18 Sheila Jackson-Lee
19 Randy Neugebauer
20 Charles A. Gonzalez
21 Lamar S. Smith
22 Tom Delay
23 Henry Bonilla
24 Kenny Marchant
25 Lloyd Doggett
26 Michael C. Burgess
27 Solomon P. Ortiz
28 Henry Cuellar
29 Gene Green
30 Eddie Bernice Johnson
31 John R. Carter
32 Pete Sessions

UTAH
1 Rob Bishop
2 Jim Matheson
3 Chris Cannon

VERMONT
At Large, Bernard Sanders

VIRGINIA
1 Jo Ann Davis
2 Thelma D. Drake
3 Robert C. Scott
4 J. Randy Forbes
5 Virgil H. Goode Jr.
6 Bob Goodlatte
7 Eric Cantor
8 James P. Moran
9 Rick Boucher
10 Frank R. Wolf
11 Tom Davis

WASHINGTON
1 Jay Inslee
2 Rick Larsen
3 Brian Baird
4 Doc Hastings
5 Cathy McMorris
6 Norman D. Dicks
7 Jim McDermott
8 David G. Reichert
9 Adam Smith

WEST VIRGINIA
1 Alan B. Mollohan
2 Shelley Moore Capito
3 Nick J. Rahall II

WISCONSIN
1 Paul Ryan
2 Tammy Baldwin
3 Ron Kind
4 Gwen Moore
5 F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr.
6 Thomas E. Petri
7 David R. Obey
8 Mark Green

WYOMING
At Large, Barbara Cubin

PUERTO RICO
Resident Commissioner, Luis G. Fortun 6o

AMERICAN SAMOA
Delegate, Eni F. H. Faleomavaega

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Delegate, Eleanor Holmes Norton

GUAM
Deleqate, Madeleine Z. Bordallo

VIRGIN ISLANDS
Delegate, Donna M. Christensen

[leyton]

3. How do we do this financially?

I'm not trying to be a killjoy, but it's not a one-way street. If we force the Republicans to spread their money around 435 races, that's nice, but then we also have to spread our money around.

[Vincardog]

4. you pick the one you want to help, or the repug you want to hurt

sent your money where you want to make an impact. I am starting with OHIO. Show them we support real Candidates.+ Do what you can.

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6. It doesn't need to be a well funded, top tier campaign

with ALL the bells and whistles.

In fact, most of the funding can come from the local grass roots (EVERY district has SOME Democratic Grass roots).

Even a LOCAL campaign will get some Media Time. Use that time to Make the Republicans Defend their Record!!!. Then simply say, There is another way.

Of Course, it WOULD help if the Democratic party could point to a UNIFIED record against CAFTA, Bankruptcy Bill, Tort Reform, Deadline for Iraq, Universal healthCare, etc.

Even HOMEMADE signs in a Congressional District will start people talking, and force Republicans to defend budget deficits, taking money from schools to fight useless wars, Halliburton, DSM, Rovegate, etd.

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5. kick

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7. Kick for those who missed it!