Source: www.dailykos.com - Thursday, January 29, 2015
That didn't take long. Turns out this kangaroo Congress isn't crazy enough for the tea party, which already has candidates chomping at the bit to take on Republicans at home. Here's the details from Alex Isenstadt . Since the new Congress kicked off Jan. 6, more than a half-dozen Republican congressmen and senators have drawn potential challengers from the right – an unusual level of intra-party electoral strife this early in the campaign season. Many of the incumbents have reputations as solid conservatives – lawmakers like North Carolina Rep. Renee Ellmers, who was elected on the tea party wave of 2010, and Kansas Sen. Jerry Moran, who oversaw the party’s Senate campaign arm in the midterms — but have nonetheless drawn the ire of tea party adversaries. One of the biggest threats is directed at North Carolina Rep. Renee Ellmers, who helped lead the revolt against the abortion ban bill, causing leadership to pull it from consideration at least temporarily. Ellmers is a pro-life conservative, but that's not good enough. Jim Duncan, chairman of the Chatham County Republican Party, is said to be considering challenging Ellmers following her successful push to stop the passage of an anti-abortion bill that she criticized as too stringent. It required a rape victim to report an assault to authorities in order to qualify for an exemption from the bill’s restrictions on abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy. This is what Republi
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That didn't take long. Turns out this kangaroo Congress isn't crazy enough for the tea party, which already has candidates chomping at the bit to take on Republicans at home. Here's the details from Alex Isenstadt . Since the new Congress kicked off Jan. 6, more than a half-dozen Republican congressmen and senators have drawn potential challengers from the right – an unusual level of intra-party electoral strife this early in the campaign season. Many of the incumbents have reputations as solid conservatives – lawmakers like North Carolina Rep. Renee Ellmers, who was elected on the tea party wave of 2010, and Kansas Sen. Jerry Moran, who oversaw the party’s Senate campaign arm in the midterms — but have nonetheless drawn the ire of tea party adversaries. One of the biggest threats is directed at North Carolina Rep. Renee Ellmers, who helped lead the revolt against the abortion ban bill, causing leadership to pull it from consideration at least temporarily. Ellmers is a pro-life conservative, but that's not good enough. Jim Duncan, chairman of the Chatham County Republican Party, is said to be considering challenging Ellmers following her successful push to stop the passage of an anti-abortion bill that she criticized as too stringent. It required a rape victim to report an assault to authorities in order to qualify for an exemption from the bill’s restrictions on abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy. This is what Republifrom Top News on RSS Feeds http://ift.tt/1z9uRNe
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