For those not aware, her biggest challenge in this race will be overcoming Murtha's huge fundraising advantage. She doesn't need to match his money, but she needs to raise dough to get her message out and to show she's a viable candidate to the political players.
The part about Irey being young and attractive, whereas Murtha Is NOT, is quite funny. One of the reasons, HE'S GONNA BE OUT OF THE REP. BUSINESS!
Doubled my earlier contribution
Great post Coop.
ping
Good luck to Diana Irey!!!!
Another reason is that Murtha has become out of touch with his district and has been voting as a liberal instead of the conservative he claims back home to be. In particular:
Murtha voted against the Real ID Act, to establish and rapidly implement regulations for State driver's license and identification document security standards, to prevent terrorists from abusing the asylum laws of the United States, to unify terrorism-related grounds for inadmissibility and removal, and to ensure expeditious construction of the San Diego border fence.
Murtha was one of only 58 Representatives to vote against allowing federal courts to review the Terri Schiavo case while she was being starved to death.
Murtha voted to use taxpayer dollars to finance research that destroys embryos for their stem cells.
Murtha voted against the USA PATRIOT and Terrorism Prevention Reauthorization Act.
Murtha voted against the Gasoline for America's Security Act, to expedite the construction of new oil refineries in the United States and implement penalties to prevent gasoline suppliers from overcharging consumers.
There is no better defense than a good offense, and the best way to make sure that the GOP has a comfortable majority in the House of Representatives come next year is to make Democrat incumbents earn their reelection. A prime GOP takeover possibility is the PA-12, where the formerly conservative Democrat Jack Murtha has been making an ass of himself and has begun voting like Dennis Kucinich. Republican Diana Irey has an excellent chance of pulling off the upset in a district that gave Kerry only 51%, and she is deserving of our support. I already sent a donation her way; if every FReeper does the same, irrespective of the size of the donation, "Abscam Jack" Murtha will be sent home to Johnstown with his tail between his legs.
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The "Peace" Democrats are Back - It's a Dream Come True for Karl Rove
Wall Street Journal ^ | August 7, 2006 | MARTIN PERETZ
Posted on 08/07/2006 10:28:41 AM PDT by West Coast Conservative
We have been here before. Left-wing Democrats are once again fielding single-issue "peace candidates," and the one in Connecticut, like several in the 1970s, is a middle-aged patrician, seeking office de haut en bas, and almost entirely because he can. It's really quite remarkable how someone like Ned Lamont, from the stock of Morgan partner Thomas Lamont and that most high-born American Stalinist, Corliss Lamont, still sends a chill of "having arrived" up the spines of his suburban supporters simply by asking them to support him. Superficially, one may think of those who thought they were already middle class just by being enthusiasts of Franklin Roosevelt, who descended from the Hudson River Dutch aristocracy. But when FDR ran for, and was elected, president in 1932, he had already been a state senator, assistant secretary of the Navy and governor of New York. He had demonstrated abilities.
At least in this sense, Mr. Lamont comes to this campaign for the U.S. Senate from absolutely nowhere--and it shows in his pulpy statements on public issues. Here is a paradigmatic one: "We need to provide parents and communities the support they need to assure that children start their school day ready to learn." Of course, he also thinks that U.S. troops should be replaced by the U.N. in Iraq. Does he know anything at all about the history of the idea that he so foolishly rescues from the dust? So what we have in this candidacy is someone, with no public record to speak of but with perhaps a quarter of a billion dollars to his name, who wants to be a senator. Mr. Lamont has almost no experience in public life. He was a cable television entrepreneur, a run-of-the-mill contemporary commercant with unusually easy access to capital.
Excerpt. Use the link below to read the article:
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110008760
Give me a group of passionate volunteers and less money any day over big bucks and advertising budgets. When the "grassroots" catch on fire, it spreads like wildfire.
Fyi and ping lists.
We must help Diana Irey to defeat Murtha this November.
Please ping the list and hopefully a lot of freepers will contribute to her campaign fund.
If Murtha wins, it will only be because he's an entrenched politician.
Let me add
13. The 12th CD has lost much of its unionized industrial base over Murtha's tenure, and the old retired Democrats are rapidly achieving room temperature so that death is eating into the Democrats slender 04 margin there. Living democrats definitely vote more often than the dead ones.