UPCOMING Special elections being held to replace Senators or Representatives
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The following special elections will be held to replace Senators or Representatives who died, resigned, or were otherwise removed from office in the 115th U.S. Congress:
House of Representatives
California's 34th congressional district: Xavier Becerra resigned to become the Attorney General of California.[1] A special election will be held on April 4, 2017.
At least 16 candidates are running for this seat.
Kansas's 4th congressional district: Mike Pompeo resigned January 23, 2017, to become Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.[3] A special election will be held on April 11, 2017.
James Thompson wins democratic nomination
Georgia's 6th congressional district: Tom Price resigned February 10, 2017, to become the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services.[5] A special election will be held on April 18, 2017.
Five Republicans, two Democrats and one independent have registered with Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp’s office to vie for District 6 representative.
South Carolina's 5th congressional district: Mick Mulvaney resigned February 16, 2017, to become the Director of the Office of Management and Budget. A special election will be held June 20, 2017.
Seven Republican candidates have already signaled their intentions to run; Democrats have been mum so far, although The State newspaper reports Sumter financial advisor Archie Parnell will announce his candidacy on Tuesday.
Montana's at-large congressional district: Ryan Zinke resigned March 1, 2017, to become the United States Secretary of the Interior.[7] A special election will be held on May 25.
Democrats from across Montana are converging in the capital Sunday to nominate a candidate to fill the state's only congressional seat, vacated by Republican Rep. Ryan Zinke to lead the U.S. Interior Department.
Between 150 and 180 delegates will choose a winner from at least eight candidates, including two legislators and several political newcomers.
Anyone working to help get a dem in these seats? Any possiblity of us gaining as a result of the Con pulling rethugs for the corrupt cabinet?
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If you've ever lived here and know about what our public lands mean to us, that's a big thing. they belong to all citizens of this country, not just those who live in the same state as the PL. These lands never belonged to the respective state where they are found, they were part of the federal US ever since they were stolen from the indigenous peoples.
Quist gets this and he is more welcomed by residents since he has been here all his life, grew up near a rez and gets that Indians are people and citizens too. He also is big on veterans' affairs and wants to get on the VA committee in the House when he gets there. We have a lot of undeserved vets in the state. One of the memes going around is that he's looking really good because he not a politician - even in a room full of Ds - but is well equipped to serve as our representative. What I saw upon first glance is a guy who wants to help protect our public lands, I see from his FB page someone linked to here (TY
), that he is talking about it a lot. He has all of the values that will be easy to bring Rs on board, especially as they wake up to the atrocity we now endure. Part of that would also be that he sees what's going on in DC and interested in correcting the errors being made by the current scoundrels in our halls of governance.
