Etheridge is a YES!! (D-NC 2nd District)

[supernova]

U.S. Rep. Bob Etheridge, D-N.C., announced Friday that he will support health care reform, saying he believes it will "save lives and save money."
"The working families of the 2nd District need solutions, not more fear, neither the real fears of rising cost nor the false fears spread by special interests. We cannot continue to allow the current system to kill jobs and bust the budgets of our families and our nation," he said in a statement on his Web site.
Twenty-two Democrats have already said they plan to vote against the reform bill, including three from North Carolina – 7th District Congressman Mike McIntyre, 8th District Congressman Larry Kissell and 11th District Congressman Heath Shuler.
"This is the best chance we have to reduce sky-rocketing health care cost for North Carolina families," Etheridge said.

more: http://www.wral.com/news/local/politics/story/7267603/

I thought Shuler was gonna be a "no" regardless?

[gateley]

1. Good! They keep trickling in! Obama, Pelosi and the others are probably

hoarse!

[fugop]

2. Was he a yes or no? NT

[bluestateguy]

3. He was a yes, so it's a hold

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2009/roll887.xml

[Drunken Irishman]

4. He was a yes last time.

So we're holding the yeses mostly and picking off a good number of former nos.

[DURHAM D]

5. I thought Kissell was a YES. nt

[supernova]

7. Clerk still has Kissell at No officially

[Cha]

6. And, my blue dog in New York won't vote yes.

Is Etheridge in a swing District?

I've read Shuler is a No.

[supernova]

8. Not really

He's pretty safe, though it can be a conservadem district.

http://etheridge.house.gov/District/map.htm

[Cha]

9. My blue dog is in a swing District so he's going with the republicons

and might lose anyway in November 2010..

"Arcuri to face third party challenge"


"New York's Working Families Party, which has outsized influence in state politics and its own ballot line, is actively recruiting a candidate to run against Upstate Rep. Mike Arcuri, who says he'll vote against health care legislation.

"If Rep. Arcuri sides with the insurance companies against the middle-class and working-class voters of his district, they'll go elsewhere, and we are in active conversation with several people who we think would make excellent third-line challengers in this race," WFP executive director Dan Cantor told me.


The party prides itself on not playing the spoiler, but "this is a fault-line moment," Cantor said. "This is the most important vote he will cast in his career in Congress."

Arcuri won his seat by nearly 10,000 votes, and won more than 9,000 of them on the Working Families line, so just denying him the line — much less running a serious challenge — could cost him his seat.

And the challenge will draw national attention.

"Over 8000 MoveOn members are asking the same question today: If Mike Arcuri wasn't willing to stand with them on this historic vote, can the depend on him to represent him in the future. Seems like the answer is no," said MoveOn communications director Ilyse Hogue.

Greg Sargent reports that SEIU will also support a challenger."


http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0310/34693.html#ixzz0ifcSUZ9n