July 24, 2010
Oliverio Snubbed By National Party In Tv Ad Buy
Once an Inside-the Beltway Darling, He’s not Getting the Cash
By Huntingtonnews.net Staff
Wheeling - Despite a designation by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee that Michael Oliverio was among its 26 most important candidates in this year’s midterm elections, a DCCC $28 million television buy to aid its nominees in 40 seats across the country conspicuously leaves Oliverio in the lurch.
Politico reports http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=FC1563B4-18FE-70B2-A8464CA50A6FB006 that among the 40 congressional districts where the DCCC is buying time, the one open seat where it has committed resources is in Kansas, not West Virginia’s First District.
“The national party in Washington clearly delivered lip service to Oliverio when it claimed to have embraced his candidacy,” said Steve Cohen with the David McKinley for Congress campaign. “With a hundred days to go until the election Washington is obviously aware that voters here know David McKinley will stand up to Obama and Nancy Pelosi who want even higher taxes, more reckless spending and fewer jobs.”
The Politico story comes just hours after The Rothenberg Report, a widely respected nonpartisan political handicapper in the nation’s capital, put the Democratic-held First District seat on its list of 16 “pure toss up” races, making it vulnerable to flip to Republican control. Rothenberg called McKinley a “credible nominee.”
The snub of Oliverio comes weeks after the National Republican Congressional Committee placed McKinley in its top tier of races for the U.S. House to get priority support. NRCC chairman, U.S. Rep Pete Sessions (R-Tex.), plans a visit to West Virginia with McKinley in early September. House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Oh.) campaigned with McKinley in Oliverio’s backyard, Morgantown, last month.
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Oliverio Snubbed By National Party In Tv Ad Buy
Once an Inside-the Beltway Darling, He’s not Getting the Cash
By Huntingtonnews.net Staff
Wheeling - Despite a designation by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee that Michael Oliverio was among its 26 most important candidates in this year’s midterm elections, a DCCC $28 million television buy to aid its nominees in 40 seats across the country conspicuously leaves Oliverio in the lurch.
Politico reports http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=FC1563B4-18FE-70B2-A8464CA50A6FB006 that among the 40 congressional districts where the DCCC is buying time, the one open seat where it has committed resources is in Kansas, not West Virginia’s First District.
“The national party in Washington clearly delivered lip service to Oliverio when it claimed to have embraced his candidacy,” said Steve Cohen with the David McKinley for Congress campaign. “With a hundred days to go until the election Washington is obviously aware that voters here know David McKinley will stand up to Obama and Nancy Pelosi who want even higher taxes, more reckless spending and fewer jobs.”
The Politico story comes just hours after The Rothenberg Report, a widely respected nonpartisan political handicapper in the nation’s capital, put the Democratic-held First District seat on its list of 16 “pure toss up” races, making it vulnerable to flip to Republican control. Rothenberg called McKinley a “credible nominee.”
The snub of Oliverio comes weeks after the National Republican Congressional Committee placed McKinley in its top tier of races for the U.S. House to get priority support. NRCC chairman, U.S. Rep Pete Sessions (R-Tex.), plans a visit to West Virginia with McKinley in early September. House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Oh.) campaigned with McKinley in Oliverio’s backyard, Morgantown, last month.
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