I'm from FL-12.  I really, really hope someone runs against Putnam.  He's now in the #5 spot in Rep leadership.  He's young and can do a lot of damage for a long time.  We need someone!  It frustrates me because I'm in college and not home able to go to meetings and convince someone.

Sigh.

I hope someone steps up!

Roy Blunt's district.  He raises a lot of money for other Repubs, so it is crucial that someone tie him to his own ground.  Besides, this is good place to work on ridding Washington of the culture of corruption.

I've not kept up with the paperwork, and haven't seen the point dealt with anywhere:

What happens if SCOTUS rules the TX redistricting as unconstitutional? Presumably, the court-devised scheme snaps back into place.

But the decision is likely to come after the primaries (including any run-offs) have been concluded (April 11).

Presumably, if the decision applies to the 06 elections and strikes down the GOP plan, there must be new primaries for the old districts.

Does that mean (here I get to the point!) the filing deadline for TX will be reopened? They surely couldn't say that only those who filed within the original deadline can run in elections based on the court-devised districting plan?

(I'm pretty sure that there's a ready answer to this. Just that I don't have one!)

I read this recently, Bill Durston has filed to run against Dan Lungren in CA-03. Add another fighting Dem to the list if this is true. I did see he has filed with the SOS office.

Should read OK-01 and OK-04 I think. OK-03 does have a challenger, OK-04 is lacking.

Pennsylvania, 3/7. Unsure: PA-05, PA-09

If John Peterson in PA-05 has a challenger, it will be his first.  Ever.  

So how about it, Chris?  I know State College is a ways outside Philadelphia, but there isn't a district residency requirement to run for congress.

How about setting an example here?  Saying "I've got better things to do" doesn't cut it, because everyone has better things to do than embark on a suicide run against an entrenched incumbent.

Sweet Buddha chained to a wheel and rolled down a hill!

That district covers Staten Island and part of Brooklyn, and is home to good ol' Vito Fossella, an heavily anti-union congressman in the district with the highest percentage of union households in the country.

I worked for the Dem running against Fossella in 2004, and despite a chronic lack of funding and some of the most incompetant consultants on the face of the planet ("Hey, our constituents are a bunch of blue collar, socially conservative union members who care about things like the minimum wage and outsourcing! So let's make one of the main themes of our campaign... GUN CONTROL!"), we still managed to hit 40%.

A well funded candidate could really give Vito a run for his money, especially with both Spitzer and Hillary essentially running unopposed (which is bound to drive down Republican turnout.)

And yet, in the heart of one of the most liberal cities in the country, there's no candidate. No wonder the local Dems keep getting their tuchas' handed to them in the mayoral races...

CA-42 is Gary Miller. You'll need a atomic blast to remove him and the party is nearly non-existent.

While my own Insurgent Campaign preaches just this kind of district to use to rebuild the Party the time and labor commmitments are just awful when faced with these odds. Money is non-existent just because most know it is such a lost cause...and the rest have to be convinced there is enough value in contesting the race, and therefore building party structure and size, to make it worthwhile.

A true 435 contested map is not only unrealistic but undesirable if the people filing to run don't know how to do it. It turns into just another Democratic cluster-whatever....

Or so I see it...and I live in the District. All three you mention in CA fit the same description. It would be a three cycle (6 year) effort just to put together a real Party that could make a real challenge.

Anyone know how they compare to us so far?

Alabama's 6th District hasn't had a Democratic candidate for the last two elections. And getting someone to run who has little chance in a heavily Republican district is not enhanced by the $3,200 filing fee the state party charges. The fee is based on a percentage of the first-year salary of the office being sought.

But I guess the Alabama party would rather have no one running.

This is one of those frustrating districts. On paper, it leans Republican but looks like we should be competitive. In practice, we had strong candidates the last two cycles and didn't even come close. The incumbent, Tom Latham, is a total Republican clone and has been since his election in 1994. He is never in the media. When interviewed by the Des Moines Register in 2004, he was asked to give an example of an issue on which he voted differently from the Republican leadership in the House. He couldn't think of a single one!

Latham keeps his head down and does what he is told, and for some reason the voters of the 4th district reward him for it. As I said, it's a tough district for Dems but shouldn't be out of reach if we had the right candidate in a tidal wave year. Frustrating that no one has filed yet. We have a candidate in IA-05, which is a ridiculously Republican district where we would never, ever have a chance.

Joe Forsythe announced he was running in MS-01 last weekend.

If the Supreme Court declares the Texas redistricting scheme unconstitutional, filing deadlines would have to be reopened no matter what scheme is adopted. TX-11 might have a Democratic challenger after all.

Texans, keep looking for a candidate.

If someone will let me crash with them in the district, I'll run. I'm only a few miles outside of it. Joe Wilson is a big name here and I have essentially zero chance in the SC Bible Belt (yes, even more conservative than the standard issue conservatives around here), but hey, I've got nothing else going on.

Jack Davis is running again, and this time he's doing it right.  He's reached out to the local Party, he just hired a top-notch campaign manager, and he's prepared to spend serious bucks ($2 mill plus) to knock off Reynolds.  Given that he took 44% last time running a seat-of-the-pants campaign, this could be a fun sleeper race.

Don Hilliard is running in the 5th.  He's listed on politicspa.com and I've spoken to him as well.  He has votehilliard.com (but it's just s placeholder right now... hopefully he's busy gathering ballot signatures).

The DCCC has two dems running in the 9th, Paul Politis and Stanley Hetz.  I spoke with Paul last summer and he said he wasnt running, but maybe he's changed his mind.

In other words... by this time next week we hope to see a full Congressional slate confirmed for the November ballot!

Eric Loeb
GoodWorks-PAC.org