{"id":3710,"date":"2007-10-01T22:36:42","date_gmt":"2007-10-02T04:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/impeach_bush_blog\/?p=3710"},"modified":"2017-05-21T03:47:51","modified_gmt":"2017-05-21T09:47:51","slug":"impeachment-cosigners-being-punished-by-democratic-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/2007\/10\/impeachment-cosigners-being-punished-by-democratic-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Impeachment cosigners being punished by Democratic Party?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"070424_kucinich_hmed_4phmedium.jpg\"<\/a>[Congressional Quarterly lists five Democratic House members “facing serious primary challenges”. Is it a coincidence that three out of these five are consigners onto H. Res. 333 to impeach Vice President Cheney and a fourth is its author, Dennis Kucinich of Ohio? Is the Democratic Party nationally conspiring with Republicans to keep Cheney and Bush from facing justice?]
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\nCQ TODAY MIDDAY UPDATE [daliy e-mail subscribed to by IFP]
\nMonday, Oct. 1, 2007
\nFIVE HOUSE DEMOCRATS FACE SERIOUS PRIMARY CHALLENGES
\n
\n Despite public criticism of Congress as a whole, few incumbents are
\ndefeated in general elections, and even fewer lose primary races against
\nmembers of their own party.<\/p>\n

But primary contests can be the only meaningful outlet for voter
\ndiscontent in congressional districts that are gerrymandered, as so many
\nare these days, to ensure that one party or the other will always win the
\ngeneral election.<\/p>\n

Such lopsided districts dominate the list of 16 across the nation
\nidentified by CQPolitics.com as featuring contests for 2008 in which U.S.
\nHouse incumbents face unusually vigorous primary challenges. <\/p>\n

There are five Democratic incumbents facing serious primary challenges.<\/p>\n

Rep. Daniel Lipinski, D-Ill., has not one but three primary challengers in
\nthe 3rd District, which includes chunks of Chicago and its Cook County
\nsuburbs to the west: Palos Hills Mayor Jerry Bennett, Cook County
\nprosecutor Mark Pera and local attorney and Army reservist Jim Capparelli. <\/p>\n

Rep. Albert R. Wynn, D-Md., is in a 4th District rematch against lawyer
\nand political activist Donna Edwards, who took 46 percent of the vote
\nagainst him in 2006 in a black-majority Democratic stronghold just outside
\nWashington, D.C. There is a third candidate in the race as well: real
\nestate broker George E. Mitchell. Last year, a different third candidate
\ntook just under 4 percent of the vote.<\/p>\n

Rep. Edolphus Towns, D-N.Y., who represents the Brooklyn-based 10th
\nDistrict, could face a challenge from Kevin Powell, who filed a statement
\nof organization with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) in early August
\nbut has not officially announced as a candidate. Powell identifies himself
\nas “a political activist, poet, journalist, essayist, hip-hop historian,
\npublic speaker, and entrepreneur,” and was a cast member on the first
\nseason of the MTV reality-television show Real World.<\/p>\n

Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich, D-Ohio, who is making his second longshot
\npresidential bid, faces a contest closer to home in the 10th District,
\nwhich encompasses west side Cleveland and its suburbs. Challenger Rosemary
\nPalmer says Kucinich has missed too many important votes in his quixotic
\nbid for the White House effort. <\/p>\n

Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., is in a faceoff with airline executive Nikki
\nTinker, who came in second in the crowded, 15-person 2006 primary contest
\nin the Memphis-based 9th District. Cohen is white, while the district is
\nmajority black. Although Cohen has liberal views and a history of
\nreceiving support from African-American voters dating to his long state
\nSenate tenure, some black activists argue that black representation should
\nbe restored to the 9th District, which Harold E. Ford Jr. held before his
\nunsuccessful bid for the Senate last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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