Wednesday, September 28, 2011

BREAKING: National Democrats Are Targeting MD Rep. Roscoe Bartlett

Maryland Juice has been foreshadowing this moment for a few weeks now, but the Baltimore Sun is reporting that national Democrats are turning their attention to GOP Rep. Roscoe Bartlett in the 6th Congressional District:
The campaign arm of House Democrats has for months been focused almost exclusively on one person in Maryland: Rep. Andy Harris, the first-term Baltimore County Republican. But on Wednesday the group added a new target – Rep. Roscoe G. Bartlett – and the timing is not likely a coincidence.

In a press release Wednesday, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee tried to link the Western Maryland Republican with House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, questioning whether Bartlett would support a health care plan Ryan unveiled this week. 

Because the group tends to send out the same release to dozens of districts -- only changing the name of the target -- the issue raised is far less important than the fact that Bartlett’s name appears at all....
Most Maryland politicos should know by now that Democrats can target only one of the two GOP House members: Andy Harris in CD1 or Roscoe Bartlett in CD6. There had been much rumbling about a CD6 option over the summer, and this month a leaked map made the possibility seem more real. Today's complaints by Rep. Donna Edwards' MoCo fans about the CD6 plan, as well as this new movement from the DCCC make a CD6-target now seem inevitable.

2 comments:

  1. "Most Maryland politicos should know by now that Democrats can target only one of the two GOP House members: Andy Harris in CD1 or Roscoe Bartlett in CD6."


    It doesn't have to be one or the other. Maps exist that can make Maryland 8-0 (or at least 7-0-1), though the districts wouldn't be compact at all.

    http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/09/28/1020851/-Yet-Another-Democratic-Maryland-mander

    One such map along with links to other 8-0 versions.

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  2. Those maps will give Red Maryland a heart attack. Hahaha. If they can pass those maps, more power to them....

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