Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee

Former Vice President Walter Mondale sent out a fundraising appeal Tuesday on behalf of 6th Congressional District challenger Tarryl Clark. An additional money pitch was dispatched by Patty Wetterling, who unsuccessfully ran against Michele Bachmann for an open House seat in 2006.

Democrats are once again salivating at the prospect of taking on Rep. Michele Bachmann in 2010. But the flamboyant legislator has proven a redoubtable opponent in a congressional district that skews heavily Republican.

False political smears involving Las Vegas? You’d think U.S. Rep. Erik Paulsen wouldn’t want to go there after being on the receiving end of a Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee ad last year that took a tortured, six-degrees-of-Kevin-Bacon route to link him to a Vegas strip club.
Yet in a new report titled “GOP Stimulus Myths,“ FactCheck.org singles out Paulsen [...]

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has so far spent $42 million this election cycle on House contests, compared to just $8 million doled out by the National Republican Congressional Committee, according to a new study by the Campaign Finance Institute. The huge financial edge is translating to a much greater presence on the television airwaves for Democratic candidates. [...]

Elwyn Tinklenberg has been added to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s Red to Blue list of targeted House races. The DCCC list now includes 63 candidates across the country, including Third Congressional District challenger Ashwin Madia.

“El Tinklenberg has worked hard to make his race competitive, and he’s moving into position to win,” said DCCC chairman Chris Van Hollen in a statement announcing the decision. “With a solid campaign organization and strong momentum in the district, El Tinklenberg has proven that he has what it takes to defeat Rep. Michele Bachmann.”

Steve Sarvi first met Rep. John Kline in 2004, at Camp Bondsteel in southern Kosovo. The staff seargent was serving with the Minnesota National Guard, patrolling the border with Macedonia for smugglers. The then-freshman congressman was on a fact-finding mission and stopped by to visit with troops and gauge morale.

What Kline heard from the [...]