Some important ones I forgot August 5
Michigan
Brian Ellis over Paulistianian Justin Amash in MI-4
Dave Trott over electorally weak Ronulan Kerry Benvitolio in MI-11
Louisiana Open Primary in November Stop RINO Dan Claitor
The only rats in the race are penniless nobodies and one penniless disgrace, Edwin Edwards. Claitor will probably make the runoff and is the defacto rat nominee. Republicans Garret Graves and Paul Dietzel are the only other candidates to raise appreciable amounts of money.
Graves was part of the Jindal administration (chair of the Coastal Something Something Authority) his website appears to be nothing but a page asking for donations.
Paul Dietzel is a young businessman, 27 or so I think. Looks impressive at first glance. His namesake Grandpa was head coach at LSU. I can’t say for certain he’s not a Ronulan though, needs further investigating.
My thoughts on NH
CD-1 Gunita should win the nomination easily, but maybe better safe than sorry
CD-2 I think Garcia’s increased elecibitly over Lambert makes her worthy to support in the primary even if they are about the same on the issues.
TN-4 State Senator Jim Tracy is only viable challenger against DesJarlais , who is I think a conservative but a scumbag who’s embarrassed the party. The other candidates only serve to split the anti-DesJarlais vote. Tracy is far out-raising DesJarlais.
NY-4 Blakeman appears to have the CON and IND ballot lines and 3 times as much money as Scaturro. I can’t speak to either man’s conservatism but I’m not sure Scaturro can win the nomination or if he would have a chance in November, he’s a grumbling outsider type, opponent of the party machine which does suck I’m sure but will be needed to win the GE (which is an outside chance I’d say).
In 2012 he ran as write in for the Conservative party nomination and won it over Francis Becker who the CON leaders endorsed. Becker won the GOP primary however and Scaturro stayed in the race and split the vote, getting 6%. Scaturro also clearly edits his own wikipedia page.
NY 1- Demos has twice as much money as State Senator Lee Zeldin. But Zeldin has the Conservative Party. Pataki endorsed Demos. Zeldin put out a dishonest ad calling Demos a “Pelosi Republican” because Demos’ father in law gave money to Pelosi (and to Demos). Both appear to be conservative. I would guess Zeldin is a stronger GE candidate.
I don’t know about that one. I just hope the vote is not split in November.
I’ll comment on TN-4. Clearly, DesJarlais had some terrible problems from over a decade ago (most of which, were he a Democrat, would be “old news” or a non-story), and were exposed solely because of the former incumbent Democrat Rep. Lincoln Davis seeking to embarrass him.
In almost any instance, I’d have favored replacing him. However, as a sitting member of Congress, his voting record has been near-impeccable. He is NOT a part of the party establishment and is the most Conservative member of the delegation. Based on his voting record, I really would prefer he remain, warts and all (and I think he could still pull it off in a general), a bit along the lines of my Nick Rahall example in the 1990 race. His record for fundraising has been in line with some of the other members (almost $400,000).
State Sen. Jim Tracy isn’t a bad sort, but he is more an establishment guy and has raised upwards of $1.3 million. He had an opportunity to run back in 2010 when he could’ve had the nomination just for the asking, but didn’t want to run against the execrable Lincoln Davis. DesJarlais stepped up when he didn’t. I just have a problem with these politicians that when they’re needed under tough circumstances, they run from the challenge, but only come in when they’re guaranteed it will be “safe” for them. DesJarlais could easily step aside now, but won’t, because he’s proud of his record of accomplishment in DC in standing against the establishment types.
I was hoping the idea would be to prioritize and list people who would have a consensus on this site.
Perhaps Scutarro doesn’t fit as he hasn’t gotten Conservative support in his district. Same with Demos perhaps. Which means we drop those 2 primaries cuz defeating conservative grassroots guys is not our priority. Same with NH-2 ,,,, defeating Lambert is not an urgent matter. We’d hafta get more input one district at a time.