Pelosi booked into St. Louis for Russ Carnahan
Nancy Pelosi
WASHINGTON — Congress is busy indeed these days tending to big-ticket matters, none bigger than health-care reform.
But House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will make time on October’s first weekend to travel to St. Louis to help tend to the health of Rep. Russ Carnahan’s campaign fund.
Pelosi, D-Calif., is scheduled to appear on Carnahan’s behalf at a $250-a ticket dinner on the evening of Oct. 3 at the Chase Park Plaza, Carnahan’s office confirms.
Carnahan, a Democrat elected to Dick Gephardt’s 3d District seat in 2004, twice won re-election handily with 66 percent of the vote. But amid predictions of the GOP recouping some of its big losses in the last two cycles, many Democrats in Congress are taking pains to prepare themselves for anti-incumbent sentiments in next year’s mid-term election.
During her weekend trip, Pelosi will be campaigning on behalf of Democrats in several cities, according to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
Pelosi, 69, often is identified as a San Francisco liberal, but her political roots are in Baltimore, a blue-collar city much like St. Louis situated on the water (Chesapeake Bay) and full of baseball fanatics. Like Carnahan, Pelosi comes from a political family; her father was a congressman and both her father and brother served as mayors of Baltimore.
Also like Carnahan, Pelosi has been a lightning rod of late for anti-Congress sentiments stemming from the proposed health-care overhaul. Last month, she was met by protesters at a Denver homeless clinic on the same day of Carnahan’s raucus town hall meeting at Bernard Middle School in Mehlville.
Jennifer Crider, spokeswoman for the Democrats’ campaign committee, referred to many of the August protests around the country as “astroturf events” promoted by organizations supported by GOP opponents of health-care reform.
Crider said that Pelosi is accustomed to spirited gatherings. “She’s used to folks who have fierce and vocal opinions. She’s an activist and understands the fierce urgency of the moment,” Crider said.
Carnahan, who supports the so-called public option and other elements of the health reform proposals, observed that Pelosi will be playing a key role in the debate.
“I think she has her supporters and her detractors probably wherever she goes,” he said.
I am really starting to doubt my choice of party affiliation. Russ gets outed as incompetent and DC sends in Nancy Pelosi to help!
We should never have elected Russ to start with, and doubling down with Pelosi, doesn’t give me any more faith in our representation.
Maybe Van Jones will be dispatched to tell coalminers that President Obama didn’t really mean that thing about bankrupting us.
Randy,
It might be time to resurrect the Progressive Mine Workers. I think a lot of current unions are in someone’s pocket.
Your characterizaton of the Bernard Middle School town hall as “raucus” is typical of the slanted, inaccurate, biased reporting of the mainstream media …I was at the rally…were you?
If you were, you would have seen that those people (including about 20 pro-Obamacare people) who did not get into the auditorium stood around peacefully, talking, singing, displaying their signs. The only raucus behavior came from one woman, who claimed she worked for Carnahan, who ran around from person to person getting right up in their face with her camera and her insulting remarks..she obviously was trying to antagonize people, but was unsuccessful…and the only other “raucus” behavior occurred when at the very end of the evening the people in SEIU shirts, without provocation, beat up Kenneth Gladney.
You quote Ms. Crider as calling this an “astroturf event” put together by organizations supported by GOP opponents of health-care reform…this is another totally inaccurate mischaracterization of those in attendance…while we are organizing on a grassroots level to try and make our voices heard, unlike Acorn, SEIU and others, we receive no funding from any political party…like the other “grassroots” people in attendance, I traveled to the event at my own expense and no one paid me to attend.
–Is she bringing the dog and pony?
Perhaps the Speaker will help raise funds to pay a concerned Jefferson County roofing company.
http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/political-fix/political-fix/2009/02/russ-carnahan-sued-over-home-roof-repairs/all-comments/#comments
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BobZzzz.
The repairs on the roof have been corrected and the bill has been paid.
Try something else.
How many guns are you and your fleabaggers bringing to the Chase on Oct. 3?
pelosi is a far as you can go left wing idiot who wants to bring about more control over the people in this country.In my eyes she will only be making sure Carnahan won’t be elected mfor a 3rd term.I won’t vote for him if he’s in with Pelosi
–If this is a measure of Carnahan’s cognitive abilities, he’s toast, just like San Fran Nan…
CNN Poll: Pelosi facing Gingrich-like approval ratings
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WASHINGTON (CNN) — As Nancy Pelosi continues to face a firestorm over what she may have known about aggressive government interrogation techniques, and when, a new survey has more unpleasant news for the House Speaker. Nearly half of all Americans — 48 percent — disapprove of how the California Democrat she is handling her job as [...]
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Ah, jeez… GARRISON with the name calling. Again. And the made-up facts, too.
Just called the roofing company. They do not agree with you.
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Ohhh, Mr. Z -
You were talking about Mr. Garrison - and here I thought you were chastising Mr. Bill for name-calling and made-up facts…
Right?