[Ligeia]

“it’s very unusual.”

This is an understatement. Outrageous is more like it. Davis should be removed from his leadership position. One thing we don't need is people like Tom Davis in charge of the RNC purse strings on Capitol Hill. I hope the Republicans on the Hill vote him out. Like now.

[rightwing2]

This is an understatement. Outrageous is more like it. Davis should be removed from his leadership position. One thing we don't need is people like Tom Davis in charge of the RNC purse strings on Capitol Hill. I hope the Republicans on the Hill vote him out. Like now.

I agree with you completely. A leftwinger like Davis should never have been appointed to chair an important committee like the HRCC. Moderate GOP Congressman John Linder did a much better job, but was unfairly blamed for the GOP electoral debacle in 1998. We should all call Speaker Hastert, Dick Armey, and Tom DeLay to express our anger at Davis' financial support of Democrap candidates.

[Rensselaer]

I think folks need to learn a bit more and think a bit more before going off on Davis like he's the anti-Christ. Judy Smith is a black woman state legislator who endorsed Republican Jay Dickey in a very close race, even though she had been his opponent just two years earlier. Doing so probably ruined her career - at least in the Democratic party. Moreover, she did it on her own, with no promises or pleas from Republicans. She was left with campaign debt, and the traditional Dem sources won't give her a dime now. Davis wants to demonstrate that black Democrats (or any Democrats) who stray from their party's orthodoxy won't be left out in the cold if they fail. It's good, smart, outreach politics.