Post Date January 18, 2012

Category In the news

Share

January 18, 2012:

DCCC CHAIRMAN STEVE ISRAEL ANNOUNCES FIRST ROUND OF RED TO BLUE RACES

DCCC Chairman Steve Israel today announced the 36 races that have qualified for the first slate of the highly competitive Red to Blue program as the latest in the DCCC’s ‘Drive for 25’ campaign to win the House. This is the earliest in the cycle that the Red to Blue program has been announced. These races have earned a spot on Red to Blue by surpassing demanding fundraising, organization and infrastructure …

Post Date January 14, 2012

Category In the news

Share

Published on January 1 2012:

Blue America Endorses Annie Kuster for Congress

On election night 2010, when progressives around the country were pummeled and defeated, one race kept us all up late, hoping against hope that we’d have a memorable victory among the defeats. As it turned out New Hampshire’s 2nd congressional district candidate Ann McLane Kuster lost to Charlie Bass that night by only a few votes, but showed that even in a GOP tsunami she had what it took to compete as a progressive. So …

Post Date January 12, 2012

Category In the news

Share

Published 12 January 2012:

Kuster to Report $325,000 4th-Quarter Haul

CONCORD, N.H. — Ann McLane Kuster, who is challenging Rep. Charlie Bass (R) in New Hampshire’s heavily targeted 2nd district, will report raising $325,000 in the fourth quarter of 2011 to close the year with “well over” $800,000 in cash on hand, according to the Democrat’s campaign.

Kuster, who came up short against Bass in an open-seat race in 2010, has raised more than $1 million from at least 11,000 individual donors since kicking off her campaign on …

Post Date September 28, 2011

Category In the news

Share

Released September 28, 2011:

Council for a Livable World Announces First House of Representatives Endorsements for 2012

Washington D.C.-Council for a Livable World’s PeacePAC announced its first three endorsements in elections for the U.S. House of Representatives today.

Anne McClane Kuster (D) in New Hampshire 1
Norman Solomon (D) in California 25
Rob Zerban (D) in Wisconsin 1

Two of the endorsements, Anne McClane Kuster and Rob Zerban, are challenger candidates running to unseat Republican incumbents.

Guy Stevens, PeacePAC Director, said “While the political outlook for 2012 is murky, one thing that …

Post Date August 12, 2011

Category In the news

Share

Released on August 12, 2011:

Five women move from ‘On The List’ to Recommended

Today EMILY’s List announced that it is moving five women currently “On the List” to a full recommendation. These five women are the first 2012 House challengers to move from “On the List” to a full endorsement.

“Tammy Duckworth, Lois Frankel, Annie Kuster, Ann Kirkpatrick and Christie Vilsack represent five key districts to winning back the House next November,” said EMILY’s List president Stephanie Schriock. “These five strong Democratic women are running fantastic campaigns, …