Lucas, the importance of having a Democratic president name the next Supreme
Court justice cannot be overstated, so if Senate Republicans won't
allow a nomination through this year, then it’s up to us to make
them pay the price and install a new Democratic majority come 2017.
Daily Kos is adding Patty Judge to our endorsement slate of Democratic
candidates challenging at-risk GOP senators. She'll face off against
longtime GOP Sen. Chuck Grassley this fall.
Can you chip in $3 to to Democrat Patty Judge to beat Chuck Grassley and
elect a Democratic Senate majority?
Chuck Grassley is no mere foot soldier in the GOP’s war on the Supreme
Court: As chair of the Judiciary Committee, he’s Mitch McConnell’s
top lieutenant in promoting the total blockade of any nominee Barack Obama
might name to replace Antonin Scalia on the bench.
But Grassley, forced to defend the indefensible, is not holding up well
under the glare of the spotlight. And that’s a serious problem for
him, since he just earned his most formidable opponent in decades, former
Lt. Gov. Patty Judge.
Grassley’s been accustomed to winning by wide margins every six
years, but his outlook could be very different in 2016. A new PPP poll
finds his job approval rating falling to a middling 47 percent positive/44
percent negative, a considerable drop from his 52-30 score just two months
ago. What’s more, PPP’s survey also finds that Iowans want
to see the Supreme Court vacancy filled this year, rather than kept open
until next year, by a 56-40 margin—and all of this comes before
a single attack ad has aired.
Judge, a farmer and a nurse who won two terms as state agriculture secretary
before getting elected lieutenant governor in 2006, has already made it
clear that she plans to go right at Grassley for advocating Washington
dysfunction.
Please donate $3 to help Patty Judge make Chuck Grassley pay a price for
the GOP’s war on the Supreme Court.
Thank you,
David Nir
Political Director, Daily Kos