Month: July 2012

Some good news in the new CD-25: challenger Maggie Brooks has outraised incumbent Congresswoman Louise Slughter.  The latest Cook Political Report says the new district leans Democrat, but if Brooks is raking in the cash it’s a good sign the race will be competitive.

Slaughter is extremely antigun, being one of the lucky few to get some modest campaign contributions from the Brady Campaign over the years.  She’s older than dirt and could do a walk-on roll on the Walking Dead as herself.  Brooks would be a big improvement.

From Roll Call:

“… By now, Republican laments that presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney is not the most inspiring figure to ever run for president are well-known … at a June 30 fundraiser in Wheeling, W.Va., Speaker John Boehner offered a surprisingly frank assessment of the dynamic that surprised some in the audience. Aside from Romney’s “friends, relatives and fellow Mormons,” Boehner said, most people will be motivated to vote for him in opposition to Obama …”

It’s good that he admitted this because Romney’s campaign is not exactly setting the country on fire.  Gun owners certainly are not that enthused about him.

NRA should follow suit and acknowledge Romney is probably the better of the two choices and not try and portray him as something he’s not, like they did with John McCain back in ’08.

The Wall Street Journal notes that several Congressional races will be rematches from ’10 including Carolyn McCarthy in District 4:

“…  Democrat Carolyn McCarthy, who was elected in 1996 on a gun-control platform after her husband was killed and son wounded in the 1993 Long Island Rail Road massacre, is again facing Republican Nassau County Legislator Francis Becker. Although he lost in 2010 by nearly 13,000 votes, he is pinning his hopes on a redrawn district map that now includes more Republican neighborhoods … Becker, whose grandfather once served in Congress, notes the new 4th district in Nassau County now includes an area that strongly supported Rep. Peter King, currently the only Republican in the House from Long Island …”

That’s the good news.   McCarthy has been going hard Left in her fundraising e-mails so hopefully her new district will be less supportive of her, although King himself has only floated between a C/D rating over the years.

The bad news is that Becker is as antigun as McCarthy.  While in the county legislature he first voted to jack up the pistol license fees then ban colored handguns at the request of Mayor Mike.

Nobody will shed a tear is McCarthy looses and nobody will cheer if Becker wins.