Clark: "Support Eric Massa for Congress"

[Clarkie1]

"Massa, a former aide to General Wesley Clark and a 24-year veteran of the Navy, is running against a right-wing Republican named Randy Kuhl, who recently opposed a bipartisan amendment to provide full access to TRICARE - the military health program - to all members of the Guard and Reserves and their families.

What’s interesting about Massa, besides his biography as a veteran and a cancer survivor (after doctors there told him he had only four months to live) is that he used to be a Republican staffer on the House Armed Services Committee. Key phrase: “used to be.” However, Massa reportedly was “forced to resign…after he was spotted outside an event for his former boss and good friend, Democratic presidential candidate Wesley Clark.” Massa says point blank, 'My loyalty and friendship to and with Wes Clark got between me and the Republican Party.'


According to Roll Call, “Massa…is a self-described ‘Blue Dog Democrat’” who is “opposed to the legalization of gay marriage but also the proposed constitutional amendment to ban it.” In general, Massa has said that “he doesn’t plan to emphasize ‘hot button’ social issues in the campaign, instead choosing to focus on health care, the deficit, and ‘the unrelenting exportation of living- wage jobs to China.’” this is the kind of Democrat who can win in rural, “red” parts of the country."

More here:

http://www.raisingkaine.com/blog/?p=414

Clark asks for your support of Massa:

http://homepage.mac.com/poolec/WesVideo/FileSharing14.html

[Tweed]

1. Sure, but where is this?

[Clarkie1]

2. New York - 29th District. n/t

[FrenchieCat]

3. He is going up against a Republican Incumbent

New York State's 29th District = the poor, southwestern, Appalachian Mountains part of the state.

Massa, is going up against against right-wing Republican
Randy Kuhl. This is an incumbent asshole who recently opposed a bipartisan amendment to provide full access to TRICARE - the military health program - to all members of the Guard and Reserves and their families.

Yeah....We should support him!

[KingFlorez]

4. I'll support him

These are the kind of people we need to win the House back.

[FrenchieCat]

5. That's right!

we can certainly win the house back....

But we must really go on the offensive against these Republican incumbents. They are the hardest ones to defeat....

But their defeat is the key!

We can do this.....!

[ClarkUSA]

6. Has this been posted in NY State Group?

Eric Massa deserves Democratic Party support!

Every Congressional seat counts in 2006.