Blue Dog PAC

Blue Dog Co-Chair Marie Gluesenkamp Perez congratulated Jamie Ager tonight on his resounding primary win, propelling him forward to the general election in North Carolina’s 11th District where he will campaign focused on delivering real results for North Carolina families:

“Jamie’s an Honest-to-God farmer who’s loyal to his people and the land down to his bones. That’s why he won, and that’s why the good people of Western North Carolina are going to send him to Congress and get these swamp creatures straightened out. The sad truth is that Honest, hardworking candidates don’t always win – but tonight it worked, and we thank God for that.”

About the Blue Dogs:

The Blue Dog PAC is the campaign arm of the Blue Dog Coalition, an official caucus in the U.S. House of Representatives made up of fiscally responsible Democrats who are leading the way to find commonsense solutions. They are pragmatic Democrats, appealing to the mainstream values of the American public. The Blue Dogs are dedicated to pursuing fiscally-responsible policies, ensuring a strong national defense for our country, and transcending party lines to get things done for the American people.

From The Washington Post | By Marianna Sotomayor

Races in the Lone Star State are among those that will be key to determining which party controls the U.S. House.

From The New York Times | By Shane Goldmacher

Democrats are tapping candidates with unusual résumés — a Tejano recording star, a smokejumper and a fourth-generation farmer — to compete in areas long seen as inhospitable.

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Today, the Blue Dog PAC announced its endorsement of two stand-out South Texas candidates running for Congress – Bobby Pulido (TX 15) of the Rio Grande Valley and Johnny Garcia (TX-35) in San Antonio. Bobby is a two-time Latin Grammy winner, small business owner, and father who believes in practical solutions, honest leadership, and putting people ahead of party. Johnny Garcia, a law enforcement officer and former SWAT Crisis negotiator, has dedicated his life to serving his community and will bring that same level of commitment and essential de-escalation and mediation skills to Congress.

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From New York Times Opinion | By James Pogue

Mr. Pogue, a contributing Opinion writer, has been covering rural America and the West for 15 years.

This essay is the fifth installment in a series on the thinkers, upstarts and ideologues battling for control of the Democratic Party.

In July, Representative Marie Gluesenkamp Perez of Washington proposed an amendment to a bill, calling for an inquiry into what she described as a “plague in this country of headlight brightness.”

She introduced the provision in a short speech in which she lapsed into obscenity and suggested that blinding lights on American roads were part of the inexorable deterioration in basic quality of life so many people feel today, implicitly gibed her fellow members for their failures to respond to that feeling and seemed to acknowledge that many of her listeners had heard talk like this before. When a solitary colleague interrupted to clap, she turned and joked, “I’ll give you your $20 later.”

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