The online activist group MoveOn.org has had enough of Rep. Albert Wynn. The group is backing his rival, Donna Edwards, in the Feb. 12 Democratic primary in Maryland and putting its ad money where it’s mouth is.
MoveOn the second independent group to advertise against Wynn. The Service Employees International Union also is not a fan of his.
House races in Maryland are drawing quite a bit of independent ads. As noted last week, The Club For Growth also is making the case against Rep. Wayne Gilchrest in the Republican primary race for his seat.
Rep. Wayne Gilchrest is a tax hiker from way back, a lover of pork-barrel projects, a public official determined to line his own pockets with pay raises, and a liberal who votes like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.
Well, at least that is Gilchrest’s biography according to The Club For Growth, which is no fan of the Maryland Republican and wants to see him defeated in the GOP primary Feb. 12. It’s a message that Andy Harris, the conservative rival to Gilchrest, is sending himself. Here are ads by the club and Harris
The presidential race is the big news in politics, but congressional skirmishes are being wages off the radar. One of the more interesting is the rematch between Rep. Albert Wynn and challenger Donna Edwards to represent Maryland in the 4th District.
Democrats will decide that race Feb. 12, and the Service Employees International Union has cast its lot against Wynn. The labor group is running this advertisement in the district:
Majority Whip Roy Blunt, R-Mo., is confident about Republican prospects for retaking control of on the House in the 2008 election for two reasons: 1) Republicans are “learning from the time we’re spending in the penalty box here that we need to be more of who we’re supposed to be, and 2) “the American people are being reminded of who the Democrats are.”
Blunt noted in an interview on Heading Right Radio that Democrats currently occupy seats in 61 districts that President Bush carried in both 2000 and 2004, and if Republicans win as few as 16 of those contests next fall, they can regain the majority in the House.
Blunt also talked about tax cuts and other issues, and he said Sen. Hillary Clinton of New York is the “likely nominee” for Democrats. “I do think if Mrs. Clinton’s their nominee, that mobilizes conservatives and Republicans in the country quicker than anything else would,” Blunt said.
After years of debate over the best way to curb bankruptcies, Congress passed a new law in 2005. But now that more people are beginning to lose their homes because they can’t make the payments on high-risk loans approved in recent years, the bankruptcy law is coming under fire.
It’s already a political issue in the primary between Rep. Albert Wynn in Maryland’s 4th District and his Democratic opponent, Donna Edwards. In an interview with the blog Open Left, Edwards, who lost to Wynn in the 2006 primary, blasted Wynn for supporting “a bankruptcy bill that just rewards banks and credit card companies at the expense of consumers.” She said the “bad legislation” is keeping people protecting their homes when they have to file for bankruptcy.
Edwards also talked about the broader problem of people in her district being impacted by “subprime” mortgages that are now hitting them with house payments they cannot afford to make.
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