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To: Darren McCarty; katiedidit1
That said, I see nothing wrong with this firing list. I'll give Snowe and Brown a small pass due to their states...

Brown may have been backed by the Tea Party in MA, but he never pretended to be a solid conservative. MA has over 50 % registered independents, 38 % rats and just 11 % GOP. Maine now has a GOP governor and legislature. Snowe should be primaried, IMHO. The result in the 2012 general election should determine whether Collins gets primaried in 2014, IMHO.

70 posted on 12/29/2010 1:44:12 PM PST by neverdem (Xin loi minh oi)
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To: neverdem

Snowe was not backed by the Tea Party and neither was Collins. Here is the list of TEA PARTY backed candidates..some did not vote for any and some did...A list of Tea Party Caucus members and their earmark requests in Fiscal Year 2010, courtesy of Citizens Against Government Waste’s Pig Book:

NAME EARMARKS AMOUNTAderholt (R-AL) 69 $78,263,000Akin (R-MO) 9 $14,709,000Alexander (R-LA) 41 $65,395,000Bachmann (R-MN) 0 0Barton (R-TX) 14 $12,269,400Bartlett (R-MD) 19 $43,060,650Bilirakis (R-FL) 14 $13,600,000R. Bishop (R-UT) 47 $93,980,000Burgess (R-TX) 15 $15,804,400Broun (R-GA) 0 0Burton (R-IN) 0 0Carter (R-TX) 26 $42,232,000Coble (R-NC) 19 $18,755,000Coffman (R-CO) 0 0Crenshaw (R-FL) 37 $54,424,000Culberson (R-TX) 22 $33,792,000Fleming (R-LA) 10 $31,489,000Franks (R-AZ) 8 $14,300,000Gingrey (R-GA) 19 $16,100,000Gohmert (R-TX) 15 $7,099,000S. Graves (R-MO) 11 $8,331,000R. Hall (R-TX) 16 $12,232,000Harper (R-MS) 25 $80,402,000Herger (R-CA) 5 $5,946,000Hoekstra (R-MI) 9 $6,392,000Jenkins (R-KS) 12 $24,628,000S. King (R-IA) 13 $6,650,000Lamborn (R-CO) 6 $16,020,000Luetkemeyer (R-MO) 0 0Lummis (R-WY) 0 0Marchant (R-TX) 0 0McClintock (R-CA) 0 0Gary Miller (R-CA) 15 $19,627,500Jerry Moran (R-KS) 22 $19,400,000Myrick (R-NC) 0 0Neugebauer (R-TX) 0 0Pence (R-IN) 0 0Poe (R-TX) 12 $7,913,000T. Price (R-GA) 0 0Rehberg (R-MT) 88 $100,514,200Roe (R-TN) 0 0Royce (R-CA) 7 $6,545,000Scalise (R-LA) 20 $17,388,000P. Sessions (R-TX) 0 0Shadegg (R-AZ) 0 0Adrian Smith (R-NE) 1 $350,000L. Smith (R-TX) 18 $14,078,000Stearns (R-FL) 17 $15,472,000Tiahrt (R-KS) 39 $63,400,000Wamp (R-TN) 14 $34,544,000Westmoreland (R-GA) 0 0Wilson (R-SC) 15 $23,334,000TOTAL 764 $1,049,783,150


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82 posted on 12/29/2010 2:11:35 PM PST by katiedidit1
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To: neverdem
The result in the 2012 general election should determine whether Collins gets primaried in 2014, IMHO.

Negative. The result of 2012 election won't matter for 2014 at all much like the result of the 2010 midterm won't really matter in 2012. The result of 2012 and 2014 will absolutely revolve around the perception of Congress, the economy and the President at the time. Nothing else will really matter in Maine and Massachusetts.
180 posted on 12/30/2010 8:54:09 AM PST by MikefromOhio (There is no truth to the rumor that Ted Kennedy was buried at sea.....)
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