With NC & MS candidate filings closing soon we need candidates

by BENAWU, Mon Feb 20, 2006 at 10:10:19 PM EST

From the diaries, jerome

First the good news:
With filings closed in 7 states we have filled all congressional districts except for 1 (Texas 11). 89 slots filled  - 56 GOPpers now have opponents filed in closed states, many with primaries even - GOOD JOB TEAM. And 7 of our 33 unopposed.

Nebraska - Filings close on 1st March - FULL SLATE OF CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATES (YAY)

Now the bad news:
North Carolina - Filings close on 28th Feb. - 3 Districts still to fill.
Mississippi - Filings close on 1st March. - 2 Districts still to fill.

Below the fold for more details............

NORTH CAROLINA
According to the NC SBOE site we have filed candidates in all districts except the 5th, 6th and 10th. (as of 5:00pm 17th Feb)

NC 5
District Map - http://nationalatlas.gov/printable/image s/pdf/congdist/NC05_109.pdf
Repub Incumbent - Virginia Foxx - http://www.house.gov/foxx/
2004 Vote - 59%
2004 Bush Vote - 66.87%
Potential Democratic candidates - Former State Senate President Ted Kaplan was sniffing around in Nov 2005 - http://www.mountaintimes.com/mtweekly/20 05/1110/democrats.php3
But not a peep out of him since then. No campaign website no candidate filing nothing.

Winston Salem Mayor Allen Joines - had a sniff around but baled out pre xmas. - http://blog.news-record.com/staff/offthe record/archives/2006/01/foxx_has_it_loc. html
http://www.bluenc.com/taxonomy/term/9

* ON A HAPPIER NOTE IT SEEMS THAT 2004 NOMINEE ROGER KIRKMAN IS SADDLING UP AGAIN: http://www.rogerkirkman.com/ *
Email him here: kirkman@telikon.com
And remind him to file J

NC 6
District Map - http://nationalatlas.gov/printable/image s/pdf/congdist/NC06_109.pdf
Repub Incumbent - Howard Coble - http://coble.house.gov/
2004 Vote - 73%
2004 Bush Vote - 66.96%
Potential Democratic candidates - NONE

NC 10
District Map - http://nationalatlas.gov/printable/image s/pdf/congdist/NC10_109.pdf
Repub Incumbent - Patrick McHenry - http://mchenry.house.gov/
2004 Vote - 64%
2004 Bush Vote - 66.73%
Potential Democratic candidates -:

  • RICHARD CARSNER
  • ANNE FISCHER
  • DANIEL PAPADOPOULOS
http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/ne ws/local/13858485.htm
http://www.hickoryrecord.com/servlet/Sat ellite?pagename=HDR/MGArticle/HDR_BasicA rticle&c=MGArticle&cid=112876943 0955&path=

Apparently these guys are awaiting decisions from each other with Carsner likely to be first in.
Do you know any of these guys kossacks. If so contact them and urge them to file NOW.  

*****

MISSISSIPPI
The Mississippi SOS site does not have a filed candidates listing and if you trawl around the links section of the MS Dems site you won't find a candidate for either district.

MS 1
District Map - http://nationalatlas.gov/printable/image s/pdf/congdist/MS01_109.pdf
Repub Incumbent - Roger Wicker - http://www.house.gov/wicker/
2004 Vote - 79%
2004 Bush Vote - 62.24%
Potential Democratic candidates - NONE - http://www.godesoto.com/modules.php?op=m odload&name=News&file=article&am p;sid=9408&mode=thread&order=0&a mp;thold=0

http://www.djournal.com/pages/story.asp? ID=212032&pub=1&div=News

MS 3
District Map - http://nationalatlas.gov/printable/image s/pdf/congdist/MS03_109.pdf
Repub Incumbent - Chip Pickering Jr - http://www.house.gov/pickering/
2004 Vote - NO DEM RUNNING
2004 Bush Vote - 65.16%
Potential Democratic candidates - NONE - http://www.djournal.com/pages/story.asp? ID=212032&pub=1&div=News

This is disgraceful in Mississippi not one potential candidate AND we have a primary in the second.

NOW WE KNOW THAT THESE AREN'T EXACTLY SWING DISTRICTS BUT WE MUST CONTEST EVERY ONE.

Is there someone that YOU know that could file.

Hints, tips and gossip away.




Tags: NC-05, NC-06, NC-10, MS-01, MS-03, HOUSE ELECTIONS 2006, HOUSE DISTRICTS, MS, NC, 2006, HOUSE 2006 (all tags)

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Re: With NC & MS candidate filings (none / 0)

We really need to be doing more of this sort of thing. No slot uncontested!!!


by blues on Mon Feb 20, 2006 at 10:07:58 PM EST

Re: (none / 0)

My guess is someone will file at the last minute for each seat. Witness the way we ended up with a full slate in Ohio even though up through filing day it looked like Hobson and Regula would go unopposed.


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by Ament Stone of California on Mon Feb 20, 2006 at 10:25:13 PM EST

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I don't know.  NC05 and NC06 are looking bad.  NC10 will be filled.


BlueNC - Progressive NC Politics
by Robert P on Mon Feb 20, 2006 at 10:57:02 PM EST
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Re: NC 5 (none / 0)

NC 5 will be ok the 2004 nominee is running again as per above.


by BENAWU on Tue Feb 21, 2006 at 02:39:34 AM EST
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Re: NC 5 (none / 0)

Yeah, I missed that somehow.  His site look interesting.  I hope the state and feds give him enough money to slam Foxx - she's a horrible winger.


BlueNC - Progressive NC Politics
by Robert P on Tue Feb 21, 2006 at 07:40:50 AM EST
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Re: NC 5 (none / 0)

On which sites are you finding this NC info?


by countryboy on Tue Feb 21, 2006 at 08:24:57 AM EST
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Re: NC 5 (none / 0)

There is no one site or group of sites.

You would be surprised that a lot of leads bob up in tangentially related diaries here and on kos


by BENAWU on Tue Feb 21, 2006 at 12:25:31 PM EST
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Re: NC 5 (none / 0)

He was not the nominee the 2004 nominee was Jim Harrell he is running for re-election instead of the house seat.


by THE MODERATE on Tue Feb 21, 2006 at 09:34:40 AM EST
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Good Work Benawu (none / 0)

California is coming up and we need 4, also Pennsylvania 9th and I am going to work on someone for that spot.

Barry Welsh IN 6th District Democratic Congressional Candidate


by Congressional Candidate Barry Welsh on Mon Feb 20, 2006 at 11:17:07 PM EST

I have to convince my father-in-law (3.00 / 0)

My father-in-law lives in the 5th District and is a life long Democrat.  I'll have to call him and tell him to run or get someone he knows to do it.


A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be a great democracy. - Teddy Roosevelt
by minvis on Mon Feb 20, 2006 at 11:18:07 PM EST

paperwork (none / 0)

What is the latest on that Ohio district where the Dem had some paperwork problems?


by BBigJ on Mon Feb 20, 2006 at 11:30:14 PM EST

Nebraska Democrats on the move (none / 0)

I'm very proud of my home state's Democratic party, who isn't just fielding a full slate: they're fielding a full slate of credible, energetic and serious competitiors in some of the reddest districts in the nation.  The headliner is probably Maxine Moul in CD 1, a former Lieutenant governor who has spent years since serving her state in various capacities (unfortunately she still has no website up) facing a rather irrelevant freshmen who drastically underperformed Bush in his district in 2004.  The Second District features Jim Esch, a member of the Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce who's website (www.jimesch.org) is a perfect demonstration of what is really turning out to be a very innovative and very dedicated campaign against ditto-head Lee Terry.  And the open seat in the third district is being challenged by Scott Kleeb, a ranch hand with a Master's in International Relations from Yale (and expecting a doctorate soon, having finished his dissertation on the history of cattle ranching).  Very in touch with the 3rd District, very bright and very much dedicated to his campaign.  You can check him out at www.scottkleeb.com/21.  

The Nebraska Democrats really deserve major kudos for what is turning out to be a wonderful comeback after the embarrasment of our statewide efforts in 2002.


by Ryan Anderson on Tue Feb 21, 2006 at 12:31:03 AM EST

NC06 (none / 0)

What's with NW Guilford county being completely dismembered from the rest of the district?  Nice gerrymander there....


How is John McCain different than John Edwards?
by The lurking ecologist on Tue Feb 21, 2006 at 01:29:51 AM EST

Re: NC06 (none / 0)

You should see Mel Watt's district, let  me find it.  Now, knowing Mel Watt heads the Congressional Black Caucus - what do you think the population of that snake have in common?


BlueNC - Progressive NC Politics
by Robert P on Tue Feb 21, 2006 at 07:43:09 AM EST
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Whoah, anaconda! (none / 0)

That is one seriously bleeped-up district. That's no gerrymander, that's a full-on New Year's dragon.  It looks like a topo of a riverbottom-- is it?

So does that kind of a gerrymander help black people or hurt them?


by ItsBeenCalmingForSomeTime on Tue Feb 21, 2006 at 10:31:29 AM EST
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Re: Whoah, anaconda! (none / 0)

It's definitely a river area.  

The 12th District was drawn, and then redrawn, to favor a black Democrat, Rep. Mel Watt. Five years ago, the court struck it down as a classic example of a racial gerrymander.

A majority of the district's voters were black, but this was accomplished by linking mostly black neighborhoods in Durham, Greensboro and Charlotte. As a result, Watt's district stretched 160 miles down the center of the state but sometimes was only as wide as Interstate 85. The state Legislature redrew it in 1997 to make it more compact. Currently, 46% of its voters--less than a majority--are black. Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, who voted earlier to strike down the district, switched sides Wednesday and joined the liberal coalition that upheld it. "This is very good news for state legislatures as they begin the complex process of redistricting," said former U.S. Solicitor General Walter Dellinger, who defended his home state of North Carolina in the case.


BlueNC - Progressive NC Politics
by Robert P on Tue Feb 21, 2006 at 04:14:03 PM EST
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Re: 7 states? (none / 0)

Pardon me if I missed a state. I've been trying to keep track of House races on my own and could only come up with six that have had their filing deadlines pass:

Illinois
Texas
West Virginia
Kentucky
Ohio
Indiana

What is the seventh state?  Again I apologize if someone listed it before, but I could not find it.


by Dave in MD on Tue Feb 21, 2006 at 11:10:49 AM EST

Re: 7 states? (none / 0)

Never mind.

I just stumbled across it - New Mexico is the state I missed.


by Dave in MD on Tue Feb 21, 2006 at 11:14:13 AM EST
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Re: NC 06 Not Happening (none / 0)

Sorry, I am on the ground in NC 06.  Although I am in NC 12, my county is split in the two disctricts.  I can tell you for sure, Coble is very popular, and nobody of any substance is will to take him on.  I would be very suprised if he had a challenger.

Sorry.

Ken Sunshine.


by likesun on Tue Feb 21, 2006 at 04:48:17 PM EST


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