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:
As promised, President Bush this week vetoed legislation that would expand a program that provides health insurance to poor children. He defended the veto in his weekly radio address today, arguing that Congress sent him a “deeply flawed bill” that would move beyond the original purpose of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program.
“Under their plan, one out of every three children who moves onto government coverage would drop private insurance,” Bush said. “In other words, millions of children would move out of private health insurance and onto a government program. Congress’s plan would also transform a program for poor children into one that covers children in some households with incomes up to $83,000.
“Congress’ plan would raise taxes on working people. And Congress’ plan does not even fully fund all the new spending. If their plan becomes law, five years from now Congress would have to choose between throwing people off SCHIP — or raising taxes a second time.”
Democrats also revisited the S-CHIP debate in their radio address. A week after letting a 12-year-old make the case for the legislation, Democrats gave the microphone to a more traditional spokesman: House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md.
Hoyer said Bush is wrong to argue that the bill would lead to a “government takeover of health insurance”; instead, he said it would give 10 million low-income children the health care they need. Hoyer noted that the legislation has bipartisan support and that House Democrats will work to persuade a handful of Republicans to change their S-CHIP votes in order to override Bush’s veto.
“[T]oday, the only thing standing between millions of American children and the health insurance they need and deserve is one person,” Hoyer said. “The president is saying ‘no’ to these children he promised to help. This is a defining moment for this Congress.”
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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