The Democrats continue to advance in the other direction by reserving ad time for Rep. Heath Shuler, two-term Democrat of North Carolina.

Let’s make today’s candidate to help out the man who seeks to sack Heath Shuler, Jeff Miller.

Jeff Miller ran the family business, a laundry, for decades. He also apparently has a heart the size of this district. From his bio:

As a downtown businessman and lifelong resident, Jeff soon got involved in civic service, though not in a high-profile way. When a city police officer was shot, he led a campaign to raise money for bullet-proof vests. When the need arose for a place for teenagers, he helped start a youth club. He served on the Community Foundation, Chamber of Commerce and the Merchants Association.
“I think he’s probably given more time, money and energy than anybody in the community,” says Tom Apodaca, a state senator from Hendersonville and close friend.
A few weeks after the death of his mother, in January 2006, Jeff was sorting through his parents’ records and stumbled on a shared passion.
“I found out they were charter members of the World War II Memorial, and I didn’t know that. I was a charter member of the World War II Memorial, and I just thought it was unfortunate that they didn’t get to see it,” Jeff says.
“Dad served in the Navy in World War II. Mom lost her brother in World War II; he was a B-24 pilot, Harold B. Drake. I thought it would be really neat to honor them somehow, and I decided I’ll just try to take every World War II veteran in Henderson County that hadn’t seen it to the World War II Memorial.
“I pulled together two or three or my friends, and they agreed with me.”
Whether the veterans could afford to go didn’t matter. HonorAir would pay their way. Whether they could get around well on their own didn’t matter. Volunteer guardians would escort them. Everything would be taken care of.
The Hendersonville-based effort of Miller and his friends — merged with an earlier effort by Earl Morse of Enon, Ohio — grew into a nationwide organization known as the Honor Flight Network. HonorAir launched its first flights aboard chartered US Airways jets from Asheville Regional Airport the weekend of Sept. 23-24, 2006. Since then, the Honor Flight Network has expanded across America and flown nearly 40,000 veterans to the National World War II Memorial, all for free.

We know Heath Shuler. (Redskins fans yell out, “Not the way we do!”) He’s not the worst Democrat in Congress, but he represents a deeply conservative Western North Carolina district (R+6, Bush carried it 57–43 in 2004). He’s a classic Rahm Emanuel recruit; pick somebody with no voting record that can be used to identify him as a liberal. In Congress, Shuler has a lifetime ACU rating of 30.6, which would be nice in New Jersey or Massachusetts but is lousy for a rural part of a Southern state.

He voted for cap-and-trade, and of course, voted to make Pelosi the speaker. Twice.