Alex Sink, Federal Housing Finance Agency, North Carolina, President Obama, Rep. Adam Kinzinger, Rep. Bill Young, Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, Rep. Frank Wolf, Rep. Jim Gerlach, Rep. Jon Runyan, Rep. Mel Watt, Rep. Mike McIntyre, Rep. Tom Latham, Utah
In Election Analysis on January 10, 2014 at 11:29 am
Since Dec. 17, seven US House members in rapid-fire succession – three Republicans and four Democrats – announced their retirements or resigned from Congress in order to accept an Obama administration appointment. The cumulative effect of the moves changes the projections for Election 2014.
Right now, the House stands at 232 Republicans and 201 Democrats with two vacancies – one from each party. The newest mid-term resignation, from Rep. Mel Watt (D-NC-12) who is leaving his safely Democratic congressional seat for purposes of accepting an appointment to join President Obama’s administration as director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, will remain unoccupied until the November general election. The previous vacancy, that of the late Rep. Bill Young (R-FL-13), will be filled in a March 11 special election. The Florida seat appears headed toward consensus Democratic candidate Alex Sink, the former state chief financial officer and defeated 2010 gubernatorial Continue reading >
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Alma Adams, Beverly Earle, Curtis Osborne, Fairfax County, Federal Housing Finance Agency, George Battle III, James Mitchel, John Foust, Malcolm Graham, Marcus Brandon, Mitt Romney, NC-12, North Carolina, President Obama, Rep. Frank Wolf, Rep. Mel Watt, Rodney Moore, Virginia
In House on December 13, 2013 at 10:24 am
Veteran Virginia Rep. Frank Wolf (R), who is preparing to run for his 18th term in the House, has now drawn a potentially strong re-election opponent. Fairfax County Supervisor John Foust (D) announced earlier this week that he will challenge the veteran congressman. Though the 10th District is drawn as a discernible Republican seat, Democrats pin their hopes on the facts that Virginia is politically transitioning their way, and that President Obama only lost CD-10 to GOP nominee Mitt Romney by just one point, 49-50 percent. The president carried the state 51-47 percent.
Foust represents the County’s Dranesville District, which begins in the McLean area, runs through Great Falls, and then wraps around to annex the community of Herndon. Supervisor Foust was first elected to the local Board in 2007 and was re-elected with 61 percent of the vote in 2011. He is one of 10 members on the local panel, nine from districts in addition to one Board chairman who is elected county-wide. Foust’s district houses over 77,000 voters, but not all fall into the 10th Congressional Continue reading >
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