In our latest Frank Burns delusion, we see him claiming that the DCCC might have walked away from Dan Seals:
But something has happened — it looks like the DCCC is walking away from Dan Seals.
Yesterday, as the Politico reported, Chris Van Hollen welcomed the DCCC’s top 50 candidates for change on to the stage with him at the Democratic National Convention. Dan Seals wasn’t there and wasn’t mentioned (though Debbie Halverson was mentioned and Bill Foster got a shout-out in Van Hollen’s speech). In fact, the Daily Herald even reported live from the Illinois delegation breakfast in Denver — and while the article mentions the Kirk-Seals race, there’s no mention of Dan being at the convention and getting any love from the DCCC.
Dan didn’t go to the convention because he wanted to spend the time in the District–at the advice of some senior Democrats. DCCC still sees IL-10 as one of their best pick-up opportunities.
I don’t begrudge someone for taking shots at someone they don’t like, but trying to get even a few facts straight woud be nice whether it be about how many children are in an ad or where Seals was for the convention is standard practice for most ethical bloggers.
dan seals got mentioned by virtually every single congress person who spoke at the illinois delegation breakfasts. i know when i talked to chris, he asked about seals’ campaign. there is no indication i know of that the d-trip is walking away from seals.
in fact, it seems like kirk’s campaign is so clueless that they are re-running their 2006 campaign. trying to minimize seals and make it seem like he’s got no national support was central to kirk’s 2006 campaign, and a key, i think, to why he was surprised by seals’ returns…
Apparently, the Wookie Defense was an entire semester long course at whatever sham law school TeamAm went to.
If not, he’s doing a disservice to his fellow alumni.