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Adenoid_Hynkel

(14,093 posts)
Tue Apr 30, 2013, 04:20 PM Apr 2013

Nick Casey launches 2014 US House run (WV-02)

Source: Charleston Daily Mail

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- For years Democrat Nick Casey helped others pursue political office.

The former chairman of the state party said Tuesday the time is right for his own run, announcing his candidacy for U.S. Congress.

"I'm running for Congress to be a problem solver. West Virginias want their leaders to get past the gridlock and partisanship and get things done," Casey said in a news release.

In late 2012, Rep. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., announced she is running for U.S. Senate. Shortly thereafter Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., said he would retire after his term ends in 2014. Rockefeller said the decision had nothing to do with Capito.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.com/News/statenews/201304300080



He's got the support of the big name Dems, and two prominent Republicans.

This will likely be a pickup for the Dems, since most of the announced and rumored Republicans are nonentities and perennial election losers.
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Nick Casey launches 2014 US House run (WV-02) (Original Post) Adenoid_Hynkel Apr 2013 OP
Manchin protege and lobbyist for the Chamber of Commerce. Lasher May 2013 #1
Got someone better? brooklynite May 2013 #2
No. Lasher May 2013 #3

Lasher

(27,500 posts)
1. Manchin protege and lobbyist for the Chamber of Commerce.
Wed May 1, 2013, 10:59 AM
May 2013
Sun Jun-12-05

Democratic leader’s affiliation with Chamber raises eyebrows

Nick Casey, chairman of the West Virginia Democratic Party, is a registered legislative and administrative lobbyist for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Institute for Legal Reform.

Some critics are questioning Casey’s association with a national group that routinely supports Republican candidates.

Last year, the state Chamber of Commerce and West Virginia Medical Association worked together to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on television advertisements attacking incumbent Democratic Supreme Court Justice Warren McGraw, who lost the election to Brent Benjamin.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1542577

Another DINO.
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