It’s worse than I thought–worse than Howard Dean as DNC chair. From Roll Coll:

Sick and tired of losing, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee seems to have adopted a new and very basic recruiting tactic for the 2006 elections: Simply call the Republican Member you are hoping to beat and ask him who the best candidate would be to run against him.
Think we’re joking?
Just ask Glenn Rushing, the DCCC’s national field director, who last week left an ill-advised message for Mike Brady, the chief of staff to National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Tom Reynolds (N.Y.).
“Congressman [Rahm] Emanuel asked me to give your boss a call to see if he knew of any potential candidates in New York 26,” says Rushing, according to a tape of the voicemail obtained by HOH.
No one knows why Rushing did what he did. One might assume that Rushing is a kid, but he’s not. He’s been at the DCCC since the start of the 2004 cycle, around the same time that Reynolds became chairman of the House GOP campaign committee. Reynolds has held the Buffalo-area 26th district since 1998.
Though the damage was done, Rushing babbled on in his voice mail message to reveal a bit more of the Democratic playbook.
“Right now we have one name on our list,” he said. “We are trying to get some additional names so that we can make sure we are getting the best candidate we can in the field.”
Then, before signing off, Rushing dug the hole even deeper: “Just for your information, Congresswoman Slaughter is also looking for us,” he said before providing his work number.
That would be Democratic Rep. Louise Slaughter, who represents a district to the north of Reynolds that includes Niagara Falls.

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