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After the health care vote, Democratic lawmakers Bart Stupak of Michigan, Louise Slaughter of New York, and Tom Perriello of Virginia reported threats. Rep. Betsy Markey (D-CO) asked for police to watch her home. Republican leaders like House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) immediately condemned these threats, as did Tea Party groups...
...week, Pelosi spent chatting up wavering members, as she was Thursday, sitting with Rep. Zach Space, an Ohio Democrat, who voted for the House version in November but now says he's undecided. And she's seen a steady trickle of Yea votes being declared, including today Rep. Tom Perriello of Virginia, Rep. John Boccieri of Ohio and Rep. Chris Murphy of Connecticut. She smiles and nods and prods, but for the most part favors carrots over sticks. She has a near eidetic memory for peoples' names and faces; she can tell you the names of nearly every...
...world money system. And it's to make money for them." In an assessment of the candidates, Tea Party leaders note that Morton has "passion to loan." The same could be said of Nigel Coleman, chairman of the Danville Tea Party, who scrapped plans to burn effigies of Perriello and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi at a November rally after the idea garnered negative attention...
...push the Republican Party in a more conservative direction, and they were willing to do whatever it took," says Isaac Wood, a political analyst at the University of Virginia. "Now that they're getting involved in the political process, they may realize that Goal No. 1 is unseating Perriello, and nominating as conservative a person as possible is No. 2." The fervor could end up hurting them, Wood adds, if one of the Tea Party hopefuls decides to run as a third-party candidate. Some handicappers have suggested the race could follow the same trajectory as the special election...
Several Tea Partyers rejected the analogy, saying the crowded field attests to Perriello's flaws and the growing conviction that spendthrift politicians have brought the U.S. to the brink of ruin. But many hold both parties responsible. Several of the candidates griped about the local Republican leadership's decision to choose the party's nominee through a primary - which favors household names like Hurt - instead of a convention, which would level the playing field and curb costs. If Hurt is the nominee, says Feigel, the Tea Party Web designer, "I may stay home...