Daily Kos: Duckworth and Cegalis both stellar. both can win the seat

[Douglas Carpenter]

I hope this article makes everyone happy

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Daily Kos a neutral position by kos- link:

http://www.dailykos.com/


"By all accounts, she is a great person (Tammy Duckworth) and would make a great congresswoman to represent the district. But, to put it bluntly, the way Emmanuel got her into the race was simply bullshit. People from me to Howard Dean have preached the power of people taking charge of their political futures and organizing locally. Yet here in this district, Rahm decided what was best for the locals. And the ham-handed way he did this ensured a great deal of unecessary local bitterness toward both the Democratic Party and to Tammy Duckworth."

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"In 2004, this district was a lost cause, a lean-Republican district with an incumbent, Henry Hyde, that had served for about 7,000 years. Christine Cegelis took up the hopeless cause with no party backing and no local party infrastructure of note. Yet with little money, Cegelis scored 44% percent of the vote and helped kickstart local progressive activism. "

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"I am nuetral in this race, though I have a great interest in the outcome. This district is my old stomping grounds. At 17, I was a precinct captain for the local GOP and worked to get Henry Hyde reelected in 1988. I'm still atoning for that "youthful indiscretion", and so I'll be extra motivated to recapture this seat for the Dems. And that'll be on behalf of whoever the district's Democrats decide should represent them in November."



Tammy Duckworth's positions on issues:

http://www.duckworthforcongress.com/community_issues.html

Christine Cegalis' positions on issues:

http://www.cegelisforcongress.com/issues

[IndyOp]

1. I thought Kos and Sam did a good job dealing with this last night -

on Majority Report. Kos dived in and made his first question about whether Duckworth had entered the race because Rahm had hand picked her even though Cegelis already had a great grassroots movement on the ground from the last election - a grassroots group that kept on working even after their close "loss" (given our current state of elections I feel compelled to put "win" and "lose" in quotes always).

[acmejack]

2. Kos attempting to CYOA after his appearance on Majority Report last PM

There is no way to contact Majority Report via Email. I was furious, they have really screwed Cegalis. Nothing against Duckworth, but she doesn't live there and has no business running for this seat and Mr Emanuel and his DLC buddies can go get screwed!

ON edit: Apparently we were listening to different shows!