Democrats are not challening two repub congressmen in PA.

[Renew Deal]

A Look At House Recruiting
by Chris Bowers, Wed Mar 08, 2006 at 03:15:08 PM EST

It looks like TX-28 wasn't the only thing we lost yesterday. In Pennsylvania, at least according to the unofficial candidate list from the secretary of state, we didn't file in either PA-09 or PA-15. Overall, this lowers our maximum number of challenged seats to 431. For shame, Pennsylvania, for shame. Any failure to challenge is bad, but PA-15 is particularly pathetic. Unless I am mistaken it received a Tier 1B challenge from the DCCC in 2004, and according to Barry Welsh, two candidates were trying to file for the seat. I suppose a thousand signatures are not easy to come by, come to not challenge the 50-50 PA-15 is ridiculous and highly damaging to the chances of Democrats running statewide in Pennsylvania in 2006. The Pennsylvania Democratic Party is surely one of the worst Democratic Parties in the country. For crying out loud, I am on the ballot in Pennsylvania, and it only took me two hours (granted, I only needed ten signatures). My friend Ann Dicker is on the ballot for State Legislator, and she didn't decide to run until after the filing period had already began.
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http://mydd.com/story/2006/3/8/15158/31152

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[Ignacio Upton]

1. This shows us that we still have a lot of work to do

On rebuilding state and local parties. But still, if we don't even have a candidate for a 50-50 Congressional district, then I have to question how we are going to do nationally with this bullshit.

[savemefromdumbya]

2. This can't happen again