I think the freshmen are wise to start fundraising immediately. The Dems are going to hit many of these districts hard in 2012.
Raising money is a necessary part of the game.
How about doing what most of them promised during their campaigns? If they vote the way their constituents want them to, they won't need all of that money to stay in office.
If you are relying on loads of cash to run glitzy ads, then you become beholden to the big donors... not your constituents. Who do you think is going to get their calls to your Congressperson answered? The normal voter, or the $2500 attendee to these kinds of parties?
First, I believe in term limits. I want a congressional representative that goes to Washington to represent me and my neighbors. I dont want one who thinks his job is "getting re-elected!"
USS Alaska wrote:
It is a fact and if we want our guys re-elected, then they have to raise multiple millions, and they cannot get it all from a website.
Furhtermore, I'll vote mine out in two years if he plays the game as though "getting re-elected" is his main job.
In short, if this is necessary, we've lost our country already. These freshmen need to think about why they ran for the position of Congressional Representative. And their constituents need to be burning up the phones and faxes and emails tomorrow asking this question.
The issue I have with this is, they should be raising funds from in their districts.
Padams wrote:
I think the freshmen are wise to start fundraising immediately. The Dems are going to hit many of these districts hard in 2012.
Raising money is a necessary part of the game.
There's a tendency to represent your donors. What Scott Desjarlais of Tennessee, Steve Southerland of Florida and Renee Ellmers of North Carolina are telling the people of their district is that they intend to represent the intrests of Washington power brokers and insiders. They are saying the people they alegedly represent don't matter.
If my new (RINO leaning, though I hope for the best) Republican Congress Critter is involve in this, I'll be making a large contribution of both my time and and whatever funds I can spare to a primary opponent.
Washington PACS, and Washington fund raisers are symptoms of the tone deafness of the Congress. It's a shame that some of the freshmen are starting out this way.