Pelosi a drag for many House Democrats

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The Hill:

A conservative House Democrat’s statement that he won’t support Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) for another term is ramping up pressure on other vulnerable incumbents who have been dodging the question.

Republicans have seized on the comments by freshman Rep. Bobby Bright (D-Ala.), who told a local television station on Thursday that neither Pelosi nor House Republican leader John Boehner (Ohio) would get his vote in January. While the defection is the first by an incumbent Democrat, it could complicate Pelosi’s bid to keep the Speaker’s gavel if her party retains a slim majority in the House after Election Day.

“It certainly puts pressure on other Democrats to follow suit,” said Andy Sere, a spokesman for the National Republican Congressional Committee. “Their excuse kind of evaporates when one of their colleagues takes the ball and runs with it.”

Sere added that Republicans aren’t letting Bright off the hook. “We don’t trust Bobby Bright to remain true to his word,” he said.

Republicans have hammered conservative House Democrats for their vote to make Pelosi the Speaker in January 2009, looking for campaign ammunition against opponents who voted against most of the Democratic legislative agenda. A number of Democrats, such as Bright, voted against healthcare reform, the stimulus and cap-and-trade legislation.

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This is an issue I have been pushing for sometime and many candidates appear to be using it against the more conservative Democrats including Chet Edwards who represents the Waco, Bryan-College Station area. I think voters recognize that health care law could not have been passed without Pelosi jury rigging the rules.
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  1. Maggie Thornton10:50 PM

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