Tag Archives: U.S. House

SAN DIEGO: Rep. Scott Peters Takes Vote Count Lead Over Homocon Carl DeMaio

Via NBC San Diego: An updated tally puts U.S. Rep. Scott Peters ahead of challenger Carl DeMaio by 861 votes in the tight race for the 52nd Congressional District. A final, certified winner will not be announced until Monday. After Election Night Tuesday, candidate Carl DeMaio led by fewer than a 1,000 votes, but both said they were optimistic about …

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Carl DeMaio: Race Was Exhausting, So What’s A Few More Days Of Counting?

Scandal-plagued homocon US House candidate Carl DeMaio held a press conference this morning where he declined to declared victory on his 752-vote lead. As about 180,000 provisional, absentee, and mail-in ballots remain to be counted statewide, DeMaio said, “It’s been a really exhausting campaign, what’s a few more days?” Despite no winner having been declared, multiple right wing sites are …

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Still No Winner In DeMaio/Peters Race

Via NBC San Diego: Marked by attack ads, sexual harassment allegations and a campaign headquarters break-in scandal, one of the nation’s most contentious and closely watched races comes to an end as 52nd Congressional District residents cast their ballots for Democrat incumbent Congressman Scott Peters or Republican challenger Carl DeMaio. With 100 percent of local precincts reporting, DeMaio has a …

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RE-ELECTED: All LGBT House Members

The 2014 midterms were not a total disaster, at least for the six openly LGBT members of the US House. Rep. Mark Takano (D-CA), Rep. Jared Polis* (D-CO), Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-NY), Rep Mark Pocan (D-WI), Rep David Cicilline (D-RI), and Rep. Kysten Sinema (D-AZ) all retained their seats today.  Openly gay US House candidates who lost their bids …

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LOUISIANA: Teabagger Duck Dynasty Kin Zach Dasher Loses Bid For US House

Dasher, whose campaign slogan was “My platform begins with God,” was seeking to unseat sanctity of marriage champion GOP Rep. Vince McAllister, who was busted cheating on his wife earlier this year. Both finished behind Democrat Jamie Mayo and Republican Ralph Abraham, who will now proceed to a December runoff. McAllister spent less than a year in the House after …

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MASSACHUSETTS: Gay GOP Candidate Richard Tisei Loses To Seth Moulton

Iraq War veteran Seth Moulton, who has never held elected office, beat nine-term Democratic Rep. John Tierney in the primary. Massachusetts has not elected a House Republican since 1996. Tisei was one of two gay GOP House candidates, the other is freak show Carl DeMaio in California. NOM campaigned for both Moulton and DeMaio’s opponent, Rep. Scott Peters.

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NORTH CAROLINA: Clay Aiken Loses

Incumbent Rep. Renee Ellmers first won election in the Tea Party wave of 2010 with an endorsement from Sarah Palin. Ellmers voted to fund the GOP effort to defend DOMA.

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Election Night Open Thread

I’ll do separate posts as results for key races come in, but let’s make this the main room to share news and opinions.

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Retweeted By Carl DeMaio

DeMaio has been blocking some writers and reporters on Twitter, but this one he likes.

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Tweet Of The Day

(Via Scott Wooledge)

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Carl DeMaio Burns Inside

From the California GOP, which notes that DeMaio has won the endorsement of the San Diego U-T, whose owner was a major backer of Prop 8.

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Headline Of The Day

The scandals never stop for homocon US House candidate Carl DeMaio: On Thursday, July 10, Harper said, he returned to DeMaio’s Miramar campaign office in the afternoon following a day of walking neighborhoods and knocking on doors for the campaign. He said there had been a news conference at the headquarters, so DeMaio and other staffers were still in the …

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New From Rep. Scott Peters

Here’s the latest campaign ad from Rep. Scott Peters (D-CA), who has been endorsed by NOM because the only thing worse than another pro-LGBT Democrat would be gay Republican Carl DeMaio. Despite an avalanche of DeMaio scandals, the race remains locked in a dead heat.

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New Zach Dasher Ads: Bibles And Guns Brought Us Here & They’ll Keep Us Here

In three new campaign ads, the US House bid of Louisiana’s Zach “My Platform Begins With God” Dasher is endorsed by Phil Robertson (Dasher’s uncle), and Sen. Ted Cruz, who’s apparently OK with vertical cellphone video ads. Via NOLA.com: Fifth Congressional District candidate Zach Dasher’s new ad says he believes in guns, and he’s just unloaded the biggest gun he …

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Brian Brown Robocalls In San Diego: Carl DeMaio Could Do Damage For Decades!

Via JMG reader Patrick, here’s the call he got this weekend from Brian Brown, who urges San Diego voters not to vote for homocon US House candidate Carl DeMaio. “Consider voting for Democrat Scott Peters. Peters is wrong on the issues but at least we can defeat him in two years. If DeMaio is elected, he may hold office and …

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#DeMaioTrainWreck

San Diego CityBeat is blowing up all of homocon Carl DeMaio’s lies. It really IS a train wreck.

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Yet Another Carl DeMaio Scandal

Another day, another scandal for homocon US House candidate Carl DeMaio, whose campaign is now being accused of secretly authoring a UT San Diego editorial that slammed his opponent, Democratic Rep. Scott Peters. Controversial and highly disputed emails provided to NBC 7 Investigates include statements from Congressional candidate Carl DeMaio where he appears to be bragging about his campaign writing …

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SAN DIEGO: New Poll Shows Carl DeMaio And Rep. Scott Peters In Dead Heat

Via the San Diego Fox affliliate: The race for a San Diego-area congressional seat held by Rep. Scott Peters, D-San Diego, is a dead heat, according to results of a poll released Tuesday. The survey conducted on behalf of 10News and U-T San Diego found former Councilman Carl DeMaio — a Republican — with a 46-45 lead over the incumbent …

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SAN DIEGO: Carl DeMaio’s Accuser To Sue For Sexual Harassment & Retaliation

Via the San Diego CBS affiliate: Republican congressional hopeful Carl DeMaio’s legal troubles may not be over. The DA’s office says there’s not enough evidence to charge DeMaio or the former aide accused of breaking into his campaign office. But the attorney for DeMaio’s accuser, Todd Bosnich, now says he plans to sue. “We knew Todd had nothing to do …

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The Carl DeMaio Scandal Timeline

If you’re not up to speed on all the bizarre developments that have hit homocon Carl DeMaio’s campaign for the US House over the last six months, the Voice Of San Diego has a timeline. Plagiarism, trashed offices, inside job theories, accused staffer, sexual harassment allegations, a stolen campaign playbook, and on and on and on. It’s the most scandal-plagued …

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