Updated: Super PAC Targeting Incumbents Gets First Win
Updated, March 8, 2:47 p.m.: The Campaign for Primary Accountability got its first big win this week, when Ohio incumbent Rep. Jean Schmidt lost the Republican primary to opponent Brad Wenstrum. It was a surprise defeat for Schmidt, who has been in office for seven years. Wenstrum, a podiatrist and Iraq War veteran, has never held political office. In an article this morning, The New York Times credited the Super PAC with "increasing Congress' sense of insecurity."
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Houston construction mogul Leo Linbeck III, the self-described "conservative communitarian" who has led a national effort to shift control ...
Comments (12)
Merryl Redding via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Get informed, people!! Pay attention, learn what the candidates really do- not what they say. Pay attention to the issues. We voted on 10 issues last Nov & less than 10% of REGISTERED voters turned out. So now we have MORE gov't....
Mac Mcclure via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Thanks for the information. I went to the web site and donated.
Rudy Gonzales
Such an insight into the workings of elitist TEA-GOP-Republican workings. Now we know who's going to be lying about the state of the economy and what needs to be done to get America back to work. We can't cut and slash our way into growth, just like less taxes will grow jobs. Both are pure falseness on steroids. The president has tried for going on four years the need to equalized the tax pain. The repeated comments that he is vulnerable is pure hogwash as the nation knows the House numbers are lower than the president. They also remember the repeated five occasions where the TEA-GOP-Republican leadership have held the economy hostage.
Samdavis
So few people vote, especially in the primaries, that a few votes can go a long way. Get out to vote every chance you have and drag all your friends and family. Vote early.
We can't beat these people with money, only with votes. We've got to hurt them as often as we can. If you can boycott or badmouth their business, Perry Homes for example, do it. Make sure everyone you know has heard about people like Linbeck, Perry, Weekley trying to buy elections and destroy individual rights. Generally the more high sounding a PAC is, the slimier its intent and contributors.
RICHARD PRICE
They could just buy them outright for a lot less.
Harvey Keitel
really, the poor 16 year incumbent whose family lives off his campaign contributions and has raised over 300,000 in PAC money this cycle? Really, victim card is a little pathetic. Oh my, he might end up with a fair fight... ha ha
gypsy314 ne
We must remove all democrats from office to save America.
Anyone BUT Obama and democrats!
Karen Spivey-Cummings via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Not another idiot.
Karen Spivey-Cummings via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Vote all GOP idiots out of office and Obama/Biden 2010. Women's rights!
Patrick Hagger via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Rinos must go
Bill Eaves via Texas Tribune on Facebook
The do nothing congress will be replaced!!
Merryl Redding via Texas Tribune on Facebook
This Congress is doing a lot, ask Harry Reid how many bills he's sitting on...