KS-2: Nancy 'Slacker' Boyda?
By Stay Red Kansas Posted in Kansas | KS-02 | Targets — Comments (3) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
Earlier this year, www.stayredkansas.com discussed Nancy Boyda’s ‘refusal’ of the national Democratic Party’s ‘frontline’ aid, designed at protecting vulnerable freshmen incumbents.
Shortly after Boyda ceremoniously proclaimed her rejection of the aid, it became known to Stay Red that Nancy actually wasn’t even considered for the assistance – her name was left off of the list of targeted incumbents!
In the time since, Stay Red has tried to piece together exactly why Nancy Boyda was not included in the D.C.C.C.’s front-line program. After reviewing a memo from Democratic Congressman Chris Van Hollen, we’ve discovered exactly why.
Read on . . .
According to the program, Democratic freshmen are supposed to have $650,000 raised by June 30 to be considered. Even with lots of help from liberal buddies in New York and California (which bankrolled the bulk of her most recent financial report), Boyda managed to raise a measly $137,000 – barely covering the massive campaign debt still attached to her name.
It’s quite apparent, at least at this point, that Nancy Boyda will not meet the mandated financial requirements. That said, Stay Red wondered how she was holding up on the other end of the ‘frontline’ grade card, concerning the recruitment and implementation of new volunteer and grassroots strategies.
According to the memo, members are supposed to have enlisted the help of an additional 1,000 volunteers – far surpassing the measly totals shown by Boyda in her recent campaign.
While much of these issues will not be resolved until June 30 when new filings are made, Stay Red Kansas remains relatively certain that, barring some miraculous groundswell of support within her district, Nancy Boyda will fall short of the financial and volunteer mandates of the D.C.C.C.’ s frontline aid program. What does this mean?
We’ll let Democratic Congressman Chris Van Hollen’s comments in the aforementioned memo speak for themselves – ‘If they don’t have at least $650,000 cash-on-hand by June 30, these incumbents will be considered slackers.’ Nancy Boyda – a slacker? Thanks, Chris, but you’re not telling us anything we don’t already know!
Remember the story about Rove's office creating a powerpoint that had a hitlist of the 20 top targets in 2008. It's the presentation that went before the GSA and other government agencies. Well, Boyda is No. 8.
That means, Karl and the boys are a comin' for her.
She already has two announced challengers. Would it be possible to get RightRoots up and running again quickly, as contributions now are worth much more than they are in the closing months of the election? Supplying early money would make the effort more effective and influential.
If we can flip enough of these 1st-term Dem seats back, we can regain the House at least in 2008. Even better, we can demoralize them, get them to thinking that while they might be able to retake the House for one Congress with conservative Dems (or conservative-sounding ones, at least), they won't be able to hold it, so they should just push liberalism that much harder instead. That kind of fight we can win, and win strong.
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