[cripplecreek]

I'm not sure we can take it but it should shape up to be an interesting race.

(Newsmacks)Deborah Dingell Faces Battle to Replace Retiring Husband

"But I'm not going to run," Steele told Newsmax Monday. "The major reason is we already have a very strong and good candidate in Terry Bowman, and I am proud to support Terry after all he has done."

A card-carrying member of the United Auto Workers who works at a plant in Ypsilanti, Bowman was a founder of Union Conservatives" and a mover and shaker behind "Freedom to Work" — the Michigan right-to-work law that was finally signed into law by Republican Gov. Rick Snyder in 2012. Bowman told reporters earlier this year he was prepared to run against either Dingell.

[Hieronymus]

The dynasty aspect could be used to make some interesting then-and-now comparisons. When John Dingell Senior was first elected to the house, the federal debt was approximately $21 billion, or $168 per capita. At $17.3 trillion, or $54,645 per capita it is time for a new deal.

Back in ‘94, Tom Foley, who was then speaker, went down to defeat at the hands of a younger opponent who was making contrasts between 1964 and 1994—the contrasts between 1932 and now are even bigger.