There's House Seats to Be Won: The September Progressive Candidate Guide

[liskddksil]

These progressive candidates have already announced that they will be running in 2012. Significant fund raising help now will ensure that they can be competitive next year.

CA-2:

Policy-wonk and political activist Norman Solomon is running against incumbent Republican Wally Herger.

http://www.solomonforcongress.com/

CA-3:

Ami Bera, a medical doctor, ran for this seat against Dan Lundgren in 2010, and came up short. With the increased turnout generated by the presidential election, this race could be winnable this time.

http://www.beraforcongress.com

CT-5:

State house speaker Chris Donovan is running to replace Democratic Senate candidate Chris Murphy.

http://www.donovanforcongress.com

FL- 8:

No explanation necessary - he's back baby!

http://congressmanwithguts.com

FL-24:

Self-proclaimed "New Deal" Democrat Nicholas Ruiz III is running against tea-oarty Republican incumbent Sandy Adams.

http://intertheory.org/nriiiforcongress2010.html

Il-10:

Ilya Sheyman is a 25 year old community organizer running against incumbent GOP fresh-man Bob Dold.

http://www.ilyasheyman.com

MI-8:

Lance Enderle ran as a write-in after another Democrat dropped out against long-time incumbent Mike Rogers. With re-districting possibly shaking up many of these districts, and the unpopularity of Gov. Rick Snyder and buyer-remorse setting in, this people-powered Democrats has a great chance this cycle.

http://lanceenderleforcongress.com

NH-1:

Carol Shea-Porter represented this district from 2006 to 2010, when she lost to Congressman Frank Guinta. However, the dynamics will be completely different with 2012 being a presidential election, and the significant over-reaching by the GOP house, (Guinta like all but four Republicans has voted to privatize Medicare.)

http://www.sheaporter.com

NH-2:

Ann Mclane Kuster came up just short against Congressman Charlie Bass in 2010 during a bad year all-around. Kuster ran a progressive campaign last-time and beat Katrina Swett in the primary election, who attacked Kuster for being too liberal for the district.

http://www.kusterforcongress.com

NJ-7:

Ed Potosnak is a public school science teacher and small-business owner who is running against Republican incumbent Leonard Lance.

http://edpotosnak.com

NM-1:

Eric Griego is the first candidate this cycle to be endorsed by the Progressive Campaign Change Committee, due to his support for investments in infrastructure to create jobs. He is running to replace current representative Martin Heinrich who is running for Senate.

http://griegoforcongress.org

PA-6:

Iraq war veteran Manan Trivedi will seek a rematch of his 2010 fight to oust Republican incumbent Jim Gerlach.

http://www.trivediforcongress.com

WI-1:

Kenosha County Supervisor Rob Zerban has the potential to give Congressman Paul Ryan a serious challenge. Ryan's medicare gutting budget proposal, and his votes to continue oil company subsidies, will not play to well there.

http://www.robzerban.com

WI-7:

Former State Senator Pat Kreitlow will be running against, Paul Ryan and Scott Walker's lap-dog, Sean Duffy, one of the 2010 freshman. This is a prime pickup opportunity, with the ongoing progressive uprising in Wisconsin.

http://www.kreitlowforcongress.com

[liskddksil]

1. Feel free to add more, although I've tried to avoid seats

where there are competitive primaries.

[hfojvt]

2. knr

I like to see action based threads

My own list of possibly winnable districts from two years ago is here http://journals.democraticunderground.com/hfojvt/99

also, I often use the site www.politics1.com to see who is running in which district.

One person who has sent me a letter asking for money is Progressive Caucus member Tammy Baldwin who is running for the Senate seat in Wisconsin.

[liskddksil]

3. I'll start adding senate candidates on the next post. nt

[hfojvt]

4. might want to consider starting a journal and adding this post

sorta makes it easier to find and retrieve.

[JDPriestly]

5. Great. I will check this out again. Bookmarking.