DCCC Dropping $1.28 Million in Two Alabama House Districts
The big financial advantage that the DCCC is pressing is coming to Alabama. The Fix reports that the DCCC is spending $18 million in media buys in 20 more House Districts. This includes $598,000 in AL-02 where Bobby Bright is the Democratic nominee, and $678,000 in AL-05 where Parker Griffith is the nominee. With the $35 million announced last week to be spent in 31 districts, this brings their total announced expenditures in competitive districts to $53 million.
Not only are Republicans generally finding themselves at a financial disadvantage, but the Republican candidates in AL-02 spent millions just to get through the GOP primary. The GOP field raised an eye-opening $3 million plus for that race. Jay Love raised over $1 million, including $650,000 of his own money, in claiming the nomination. His runoff opponent Harri Anne Smith raised almost $900,000, almost $400k of it was her own.
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The fifth and the third are districts that should go blue. Once the dccc takes notice of the segall campaign, democrats in alabama are in for a huge swing
Comment by brucé — July 21, 2008 @ 6:59 pm
The game is chess, not checkers.
Comment by Anonymous — July 21, 2008 @ 7:00 pm
that explains why I feel like a pawn
Comment by walt moffett — July 21, 2008 @ 8:26 pm
Hmm, who leads the DCCC? Oh, I forgot, that’s Nancy Pelosi, Murtha, Rangle,et al. Are Alabamians really going to be bamboozled by those neo-Bolsheviks?
Comment by Thomas Jefferson — July 21, 2008 @ 8:42 pm
You are incorrect Tom Jefferson….Chris Van Hollen is chair of DCCC.
Comment by JJ — July 21, 2008 @ 8:49 pm
Evidently Mississippi and Louisiana did. Evidently about 2/3 of the US of A did because the D’s now contol Congress and it’s the same old sterotype hypocritical BS that the Republican leadership here in Alabama is now throwing out there that brought us (R’S) to where we are now. It’s not like we need a new message, we just need new messengers. The brilliance of Dennist Hastert somehow slipped by me. Where have all of our solid - down to earth, conservative, keep your pants zipped, and briefcases in your own toilet stall leaders gone??? I don’t see J Love, Mike Rogers, or any of the current R’s leading the charge except for the fact they will work their hind ends off for the special interest business folks who oppose immigration reform, a fair tax system, and health care benefits to our seniors.. What a legacy…….
Comment by anynamonous — July 21, 2008 @ 9:53 pm
You should not expect the wealthy to be taxed at a high rate. If you tax the business owners, the businesses will move out of Alabama, and out of the United States. Everything should be done to cater to small businesses, and to an extent, larger corporations. To oppose their growth is extremely short sighted and narrow minded. Businesses and business owners should not be expected to care or pay for workers to such an extreme. Who wants to start a business if it won’t be profitable. These people are the risk takers, the people that work for them are important, no doubt, but you can not expect to have a job for long without someone willing to be a boss.
Seniors also need Health Care, but everyone knows that once you quit working your benefits decline. Therefore people should take responsibility while they are working to save money..I know this is a novel concept for many on the left, but it is not the government’s responsibility to care for you.
Ronald Reagan quoted Rev. William Boetcker, who said it best:
You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong
You cannot help the poor man by destroying the rich.
You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.
You cannot build character and courage by taking away man’s initiative and independence.
You cannot help small men by tearing down big men.
You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income.
You cannot establish security on borrowed money.
You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they will not do for themselves.
This is what Republicans stand for.
Comment by anonymous — July 22, 2008 @ 1:04 am
#4 Neo-Bolsheviks might be as appropriate as calling the GOP Neo-Mensheviks. But it is improper to denigrate only the Democratics. Modern Republicans surely should be called Neo-Cons or Neo-Conservatives because they are anything but conservative. Both parties are Marxist oriented and have been for a long time. The European (Jewish) Revolutions of 1848 led by Karl Marx (nee Moses Levi Mordecai) failed and several Communist leaders fled for the USA, later appearing in the Union army and Lincoln’s administrations. A case can be made that the GOP has been Marxist since before Woodrow Wilson made it a part of national Democratic policy.
http://www.kevinmacdonald.net/Blog.htm
has a review of the latest book exposing Neo-Conservatism for what it is.
I claim no allegiance to either of party of the two-headed monster, but I know that Bobby Bright is far more conservative in the traditional sense than is Jay Love. Love is a pawn for the AEA or Paul Hubbert.
True believers of the two-party system are useful idiots for the profiteers of Freudo-Marxism (the Israel lobby, Zionist and their Noahide subjects Christian Zionists).
Deo Vindice
Comment by Anon E. Moose — July 22, 2008 @ 3:17 am
To summarize number 7 above. The rich are good. The rest of us are useless dregs on society.
Comment by Pecan Jim — July 22, 2008 @ 7:10 am
nope, Pcan, to summarize 7: get off your a$$ and help yourself, Government does not exist to support you.
Comment by Anonymous — July 22, 2008 @ 7:23 am
I have a shiny new quarter that says #10 was born in a county hospital, to a family with one state, city or county worker, and went to public schools.
The sooner we all realize that some public investment is good - roads, schools, health departments - and stop trying to split ourselves among what we now call class lines, but all know are still race lines, the better this entire region will be.
Comment by Wiregrass Republican — July 22, 2008 @ 8:14 am
#11 is a corporate welfare republican. farm-to-market roads are a benefit, not the excessive number of super highways, including that dividing Atzlan from the former USofA. schools run by state boards and influenced by commie NEA, USDofE, etc., are bad, bad, bad. health departments can be phased out or sharply reduced when Americans get wise and begin exporting about 150 million invaders or immigrants that benefited from the adverse policies instituted by Teddy Kennedy in the early 1960s. The Neo-Con Reagan granted amnesty to millions of invaders and they and their offspring should be hunted down and expelled, too. Return Cubans to Cuba, Jamaicans to Jamaica, Jews to New York, etc., and reclaim Florida as an American state. Anybody in denial as to the existence of race and inherent differences, as #11 apparently is, should be forced to live in LA, Philly, Atlanta for a few days. Reality sets in once one is thrust into it.
Comment by Anonymous — July 22, 2008 @ 8:25 am
Amen! #11 that is my assessment of the whole situation.WE need to get down to what helps us instead of beating each other down.To me some folks on here talk like kids.Times are just going to get worse if we don’t.
Comment by sheshes — July 22, 2008 @ 8:37 am
The democrats could spend 5 million on the district 2 race and it would not make a difference. The Republican nominee will be the next congressman!
Comment by LD — July 22, 2008 @ 8:58 am
I wouldn’t be so sure of that, LD. The tide is a-turnin’! Especially with all this cash influx from the DCCC. That will allow Bright to stay positive while THEY can put up negative ads against Love.
Comment by BrightFan — July 22, 2008 @ 9:28 am
Bright is making serious headway in Love territory. I saw him at a Veteran’s event on Saturday, and heard many people say “I never vote Democrat, but I’m voting Bright - the best man for the job.”
People want a tough independent minded congressman, not someone who will tow any party’s line. Thankfully in this race, they have Bobby Bright.
Comment by Wiregrass Republican — July 22, 2008 @ 11:08 am
Griffith, Bright, and Segall all have excellent chances to win their races. There is an enthusiasm gap right now between Republicans and Democrats. Democrats are excited, Republicans are not. In 2004, there was also an enthusiasm gap. No Democrat I knew was excited about John Kerry; their only motivation was to get Bush out. That same year, I talked to plenty of die hard evangelical conservatives who loved Bush and thought he would go down as the greatest president in American history.
No one I know (and the vast majority of people I know are Republicans) thinks John McCain will be a great president. Plenty are voting for him anyway, some have decided to back Obama, and plenty more are not voting at all. I know a few who really enthusiastically hate Obama, but they almost all still believe he is a Muslim, no matter how many facts show otherwise. Most of them voted for Huckabee in the primary, but since he has been spurned they don’t see anyone really speaking for them on either side. If Dem House candidates allay their fears about God, guns, and life (I don’t think gays are as big an issue anymore), many of these folks will vote for them because they have zero faith in the alternative. Combine this with the enormous enthusiasm among African-Americans, young voters, and our small Alabama contingent of liberals over the presidential election and you have the makings of a major wave that could very well include AL 2, AL 3, and AL 5.
Comment by SamfordDem — July 22, 2008 @ 12:07 pm
I’m voting for Bobby Bright because he said he will protect a woman’s right to choose and will finally be someone who will vote to roll back the Bush tax cuts. Go Bobby!
Comment by Wiregrass Democrat — July 22, 2008 @ 1:59 pm
I would not vote for Bobby “LIBERAL” Bright if he were running for Dog Catcher! And I’m a real Wiregrass Republican! Jay Love will Blow Bobby out in the Wiregrass!
Comment by LD — July 22, 2008 @ 2:35 pm
Wiregrass “Democrat” - if you know anything at all about Bobby Bright - which you may and are being deliberately dishonest (my guess) you will know he has been avidly pro-life his entire life. Don’t lie about his stance - although I would bet you are lying about 1) being a demo and 2) being in the Wiregrass.
Comment by Anonymous — July 22, 2008 @ 3:42 pm
I don’t vote republican because I like it- it’s simply better than voting democrat. Politics in 2008 is about choosing the lesser of two evils. Say what you will about the Republican party, but at least they campaign on less government and less taxes with more freedom. the socialist democratic party won’t bs you- they’ll tell you outright they’ll raise your taxes. If Ron Paul was running here I’d vote for him. But I don’t live in Texas, and so I have to make do. The lack of logic in the democrat party and their many corporate contributers boggles my mind. why would corporations support marxists? to limit competition? possibly- then they ought to get voted out. why do republicans spend so much when they said they’d do otherwise? I don’t know- they got voted out in 2006 after renegging on the Contract w/America. So far, Jay has made promises I want to believe he will keep, so I will vote for him. Bobby Bright’s candidacy today in 2008 with the current realities of the modern democrat party is paradoxical. he claims to be a conservative, but the blue dog caucus he wants to become a new leader in is defunct, made a veritable pariah in the bolshevik party of the rodina. I call the democrats bolsheviks because that’s what they are, or at least are made to be by the party leadership. Marxist radicals. Some republicans are no better, supporting corporate welfare, increased spending, and in some cases fascism. forget the origins of the republican party- it was originally formed to negate state’s rights and abet corporate welfare. the new realities of the two parties post Reagan paint a more starkly divided picture- bad apples in the Republican party sometimes spoil the proverbial barrel, but the core values should still be valued and campaigned on, followed up by fiscal conservatism in washington. that’s what Jay is campaigning on. Bright is campaigning on a dying platform of fiscal conservatism in the democratic party, of which there is none. look at the records of the blue dogs- there is nothing even but half “fiscally conservative” about them. if he wanted to campaign regardless on wiregrass values, he might as well run as a reform or populist candidate.
Comment by Thomas Jefferson — July 22, 2008 @ 3:49 pm
I see your point ,but I also think the wisest thing to do in this election is to Look at the candidate, fine out how he believes and if he believes the way you think he should, vote for him.I have lived long enough to know this is the best way to go.I can remember my father years ago saying “Children A Republican president can’t do anything with a democratic congress ,or a democrate president can’t get anything done with a republican congress.” I’ve noticed that, that is true in alot of ways.
I think in this election we will need some people that know how to get things done.
Comment by sheshes — July 24, 2008 @ 5:00 pm