Pelosi to Tap Van Hollen for DCCC Chairmanship, to succeed Emanuel

[jefferson_dem]

Pelosi to Tap Van Hollen for DCCC Chairmanship
By Susan Davis
Roll Call Staff
Tuesday, Dec. 19; 8:56 am

Incoming Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) will tap Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) to chair the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee for the 2008 campaign cycle, according to a knowledgeable House source.

http://www.rollcall.com/issues/1_1/breakingnews/16358-1.html

[underpants]

1. AND THE CRADLE...WILL ROCK OH YES THE CRADLE THE CRADLE WILL ROCK

AND I SAY ROCK ON!!!

I love Van Halen

[jefferson_dem]

2. Indeed! Rock-ON! But they totally sucked after David Lee Roth left!

:headbang:

[Virginia Dare]

7. Eddie wants David Lee back!!!!

I posted on this last week, we'll see, those guys are more fickle than Richard Burton and Liz Taylor!

[Dr.Phool]

3. Does anybody know anything about him?

I never heard of him.

[Freddie Stubbs]

9. He deafeated a Kennedy relative and and an incumbent to win his seat in Congress in 2002

[kentuck]

4. I have heard him speak a couple of times...

And he is very knowledgeable and adept at handling the issues. He comes across as very moderate and believable, but he knows the issues very well.

[hijinx87]

5. wow. interesting stuff.

and more complicated than I would have thought. sounds like a very
sound decision, though.

http://www.thehill.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/120606/contenders.html

[KingFlorez]

6. I remember when he defeated Connie Morella

A moderate Republican who was unbeatable, so if he could do that then he should be good at running the DCCC.

[DaveinMD]

8. even more impressive

was his defeat of Mark Shriver in that primary.

[Bukowski Fan]

10. Exactly

That race was my first campaign and it was to this day the most thrilling one I have worked on. Van Hollen managed to beat Shriver despite being heavily outspent. He ran his campaign based entirely on grassroots support and an "anti-developer" platform. In Montgomery County, which is where most of the 8th district lies, development was getting out of control and local politicians were giving huge amounts of tax breaks in these quid pro quo deals. Van Hollen pledged to put an end to it and garnered heavy popular support for that.

His defeat of Morella was to be expected for a couple reasons. One, redistricting. Two, Morella didn't seem too interested in retaining her seat due to the fact that the GOP has been consistently shutting her out of the committee assignments she wanted and had relegated her to backbench status despite her seniority.

This is a HUGE win for us here at the DU. Chris Van Hollen represents the people over power grassroots approach we have all been clamoring for.