Posted on 08/22/2011 11:01:29 AM PDT by misharu
Last week, the arm of the Republican Party charged with maintaining a majority in Congress targeted U.S. Rep. Russ Carnahan with a round of robocalls to his constituents.
The calls, as the blog PoliticsMO puts it, were programmed to do something that Carnahan is not — run in his Third Congressional district.
That district, of course, was eliminated this spring when Republican lawmakers in Jefferson City redrew the state's Congressional map.
Since then, Carnahan has indulged in a Summer of Indecision, raising tens of thousands of dollars for a campaign without a destination.
Carnahan has insisted he wants to stay on Capitol Hill, but has been coy about whether he will (A) challenge fellow St. Louis Democratic Congressman Lacy Clay in a primary or (B) take his chances in the newly configured district next door.
Republicans clearly think he will take option B, hence the automated calls from the National Republican Congressional Committee.
Read more: http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/political-fix/article_0a44dc0e-ccd6-11e0-b74d-0019bb30f31a.html#ixzz1VmWyVIHJ
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Considering the Carnahan name is known throughout the state, it can’t hurt but it does make more sense to do it until he declares which race he will run in.
I can tell the staff of the St. Louis Post Dispatch is really concerned that the GOP might be wasting its money.
Whenever the MO GOP needs political advice, it turns to the Post Dispatch (snort.)
SoCo isn’t primarily DIM anymore either. Jeffco and South STL city kept this buffoon in DC all these years...
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There are fewer bulbs dimmer than Russ Carnahan..
Carnahan barley won reelection in 2010. So they knocked out the most democrat leaning areas and put them in Clays district.Them they added republican leaning areas to the new 3rd district.
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