The NRCC has put the spotlight on who they call “The Flip-Flop Five“ – Democrats who voted “no” in the fall and voted “yes” on the final bill: John Boccieri of Ohio, Allen Boyd of Florida, Suzanne Kosmas of Florida, Betsy Markey of Colorado, and Scott Murphy of New York.

Boccieri’s most likely opponent is former Wadsworth mayor James B. “Jim” Renacci.

The GOP field against the pair in Florida is messier: Seven Republicans are running in Boyd’s district and eleven Republicans are competing for the chance to knock off Kosmas.

Markey is likely to face one of two excellent Republicans: state representative Cory Gardner or state Board of Regents chair Tom Lucero.

In New York, Murphy is likely to face either Chris Gibson or Patrick Ziegler.

A bit on Gibson:

Over the course of his 24 year Army career Chris rose to the rank of Colonel and deployed 7 times; including 4 combat tours to Iraq, and separate deployments to Kosovo, the Southwestern US for a counter-drug operation, and most recently just prior to his retirement to Haiti where he commanded the 82nd Airborne Division’s 2nd Brigade Combat Team during the opening month of that humanitarian relief operation.

Ziegler is a former college financial-aid official, state coordinator for Huck PAC, and a committeeman with the Ballston Republican party.