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| Contributor | ArmyDem |
| Last Edited | ArmyDem Jan 27, 2006 09:20pm |
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| Media | Weekly News Magazine - TIME Magazine |
| News Date | Saturday, January 28, 2006 03:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | As heads of their party's campaign committees, Chuck Schumer and Rahm Emanuel are direct and demanding -- just what the Democrats might need to help regain control of Congress in November
By PERRY BACON JR./WASHINGTON
Posted Friday, Jan. 27, 2006
Congressman Rahm Emanuel boasts that “patience ain’t a virtue in my book,” and that's especially clear when the feisty Democrat from Illinois is trying to recruit candidates to run in November's mid-term elections. Last summer, for instance, when Emanuel tried to convince Heath Shuler, former star quarterback at the University of Tennessee, to run for Congress from his native North Carolina, he had to make a hard sell. Shuler said he was worried he wouldn’t get enough time with his two young children if he was constantly shuttling back and forth from Capitol Hill, so Emanuel had more than a dozen congressional Democrats with kids call Shuler. Then he barraged Shuler himself with more than 40 calls over two weeks, just to prove it was possible to serve in Congress and still see your children. “Heath, Rahm, I’m at the pool with my kids,” he said, and then quickly hung up. Another time, “Heath, I”m driving my kids to school.” Later, “Heath, we’re getting ready for soccer practice.”
He was tireless, perhaps even annoying, and wouldn't take no for an answer - just the kind of qualities that might be required to rally the Democratic troops gearing up for the best chance the party has to take back Congress since the GOP won both the House and Senate in 1994. |
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