Today’s installment of campaign-related news items that wouldn’t generate a post of their own, but may be of interest to political observers:<\/p>\n
* MoveOn.org has become a target<\/a> for intense Republican criticism, but that hasn’t stopped its political efforts in the slightest. MoveOn.org’s political action committee reported<\/a> in its latest FEC filing that it raised nearly $4.6 million and spent almost $5.6 million in the first six months of 2005. The report showed that the PAC’s efforts netted $834,000 in contributions earmarked for Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.), $161,000 for Pennsylvania Treasurer and Senate challenger Bob Casey Jr. (D), $157,000 for the campaign of former Rep. Nick Lampson (D-Texas), and $151,000 for Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.).<\/p>\n * Don Goldwater, the late former Sen. Barry Goldwater’s nephew, will be a candidate<\/a> for governor of Arizona next year. The 50-year-old Goldwater has no government experience and is best known for being a Republican Party activist. His formal announcement is scheduled for tomorrow.<\/p>\n * Speaking of Arizona’s gubernatorial race, State Senate President Ken Bennett (R) is considering a plan to serve in his current capacity next year while also running for governor<\/a>.<\/p>\n * Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack (D) is fueling speculation about his presidential bid by scheduling his first trip<\/a> to New Hampshire. At the invitation of New Hampshire Gov. John Lynch (D), Vilsack will be in Hampton Falls, N.H., for a Labor Day picnic.<\/p>\n * Freshman Rep. Charlie Melancon (D) of Louisiana is considered a top GOP target in 2006, but a recent Anzalone-Liszt poll showed the rookie lawmaker with a big lead over his likely Republican opponent. Melancon led state Sen. Craig Romero 51% to 27%<\/a>, while 52% of voters said they favored Melancon’s re-election. Romero came in third in last year’s all-party primary, barely missing a runoff spot. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today’s installment of campaign-related news items that wouldn’t generate a post of their own, but may be of interest to political observers: * MoveOn.org has become a target for intense Republican criticism, but that hasn’t stopped its political efforts in the slightest. MoveOn.org’s political action committee reported in its latest FEC filing that it raised […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}