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[ID-01] NRCC still shying away from Labrador
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| Contributor | Monsieur |
| Last Edited | Monsieur Jun 03, 2010 08:01pm |
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| Author | Josh Kraushaar |
| News Date | Friday, June 4, 2010 02:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | State Rep. Raul Labrador is fresh off an upset victory in the Idaho election against Rep. Walt Minnick (D-Idaho), but he still has some fence-mending to do with the National Republican Congressional Committee before winning their support.
The NRCC doesn’t have any immediate plans to add Labrador to its expansive list of 110 favored Young Gun recruits, according to several sources familiar with their thinking, even though he’s the newly-minted nominee in one of the most conservative districts held by a Democrat – a seat that was once one of the GOP’s leading targets.
Labrador will be visiting Washington next Wednesday, when he will be meeting with NRCC Chairman Pete Sessions and top committee staff to keep committee officials abreast of his general election strategy, and inform them of plans to raise enough money to run a competitive race. But committee officials say that meeting is unlikely to yield inclusion in the program, until he starts putting together a first-tier campaign infrastructure.
Labrador starts the general election without much of the staff that helped him prevail in the primary, and begins the general election virtually out of campaign cash, with less than $35,000 in the bank. |
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