On Twitter, I asked this morning, “Does anyone doubt that if the Keystone Pipeline ran through must-win swing states for Obama, he would have instantly approved?”
The NRCC is going after Democrats like Ohio Rep. Betty Sutton , arguing that by supporting Obama’s hesitation on the Keystone XL Pipeline, he is betraying “labor unions like the teamsters and segments of the AFL –CIO.
Announcer: Remember when President Obama said this about passing new jobs legislation?
Obama: We can no longer wait.
Announcer: But now it’s President Obama who wants to wait, to create up to 130,000 jobs with the Keystone pipeline bringing oil from Canada to the US.Announcer: If Washington does it Obama’s way that oil and those jobs will go to China. Congress has a chance to pass the pipeline jobs law before Christmas. The law has support of labor unions like the teamsters and segments of the AFL –CIO. But Betty Sutton is on the fence. Tell Sutton to support new jobs instead of supporting Obama.
Ads and robocalls will run in the districts of Reps. Betty Sutton (D-Ohio), Collin Peterson (D-Minn.), Nick Rahall (D-W.Va.), Jason Altmire (D-Pa.) and Mark Critz (D-Pa.).
Here’s the full list of Democratic incumbents who the DCCC plans run ads in support of: Alabama Rep. Bobby Bright; Arizona Reps. Ann Kirkpatrick, Harry Mitchell, and Gabrielle Giffords; California Rep. Jerry McNerney; Colorado Rep. Betsy Markey; Florida Reps. Allen Boyd and Suzanne Kosmas; Iowa Rep. Leonard Boswell; Illinois Reps. Debbie Halvorson and Bill Foster; Indiana Rep. Joe Donnelly; Missouri Rep. Ike Skelton; Michigan Rep. Mark Schauer, Mississippi Rep. Travis Childers; North Carolina Rep. Larry Kissell; North Dakota Rep. Earl Pomeroy; New Mexico Rep. Harry Teague; Nevada Rep. Dina Titus; New York Reps. Bill Owens and Michael Arcuri; Ohio Reps. Steve Driehaus, Mary Jo Kilroy and John Boccieri; Pennsylvania Reps. Kathy Dahlkemper, Chris Carney, Paul Kanjorski and Mark Critz; South Carolina Rep. John Spratt; South Dakota Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin; Texas Reps. Chet Edwards and Ciro Rodriguez; Virginia Reps. Tom Perriello, Glenn Nye and Gerry Connolly; and Wisconsin Rep. Steve Kagen.
I went through my previous list of 99 to see who was not on the DCCC’s “help” list. (There are a few I would drop, like Frank Pallone in New Jersey and Dan Maffei of New York, barring some dramatic developments.) A lot, but not all, of these Democratic incumbents enjoy a healthy financial advantage over their GOP challengers. Among the names I’m most surprised to not see on the DCCC list: Frank Kratovil and Baron Hill.
Not on the list:
Mike Ross, Arkansas
Loretta Sanchez, California
Bob Filner, California
John Salazar, Colorado
Ed Perlmutter, Colorado
Jim Himes, Connecticut
Chris Murphy, Connecticut
Ron Klein, Florida
Alan Grayson, Florida
John Barrow, Georgia
Jim Marshall, Georgia
Melissa Bean, Illinois
Phil Hare, Illinois
Baron Hill, Indiana
Dave Loebsack, Iowa
Leonard Boswell, Iowa
Ben Chandler, Kentucky
Frank Kratovil, Maryland
Mark Schauer, Michigan
Gary Peters, Michigan
Gene Taylor, Mississippi
Shelley Berkeley, Nevada
Carol Shea-Porter, New Hampshire
John Adler, New Jersey
Rush Holt, New Jersey
Martin Heinrich, New Mexico
John Hall, New York
Bill Owens, New York
Mike McMahon, New York
Tim Bishop, New York
Mike McIntrye, North Carolina
Heath Shuler, North Carolina
Charlie Wilson, Ohio
Betty Sutton, Ohio
Dan Boren, Oklahoma
Kurt Schrader, Oregon
David Wu, Oregon
Jason Altmire, Pennsylvania
Patrick Murphy, Pennsylvania
Tim Holden, Pennsylvania
Lincoln Davis, Tennessee
Jim Matheson, Utah
Rick Boucher, Virginia
* The linked list from Politico is not complete, despite its claim; Betty Sutton of Ohio is indeed on the DCCC list, as is Zach Space. I originally thought she was a surprising omission. Thanks, Politico. This explains how Walt Minnick was on the list yesterday and wasn’t on the Politico list today.