Would you spend $100 to stop Pelosi?

No, not to defeat her for re-election, but to prevent her from becoming Speaker again. The way to do that is to help elect people who will not vote for her to be Speaker. There are 45 Democratic house seats in play for 2010. Each of these districts need $100,000 injected into an opponent's race against these incumbents to have any chance of success. That comes to 45,000 people willing to pony up $100 to stop Pelosi and the left wing juggernaut.

So why not just donate the $100 to the Republican House Campaign Committee? That committee will use part of the money to protect incumbent Republicans. If an incumbent Republican cannot win re-election in 2010, their cause is already hopeless. All that is required is to set up a Stop Pelosi Political Action Committee that is committed to spending its money in these 45 districts and nowhere else.

Of course, money alone will not do it. We need to recruit top notch candidates who can win and lots of volunteers to help them. Having been a congressional campaign manager a few times, I can assure you that offering a potential candidate $100,000 start up funds is one heck of an encouragement. Not only that, we can approach the Republican House Campaign Committee to match that $100,000 the minute the candidate files or wins any primary election as the case may be. They are willing to put money into campaigns that are going somewhere.

For an analysis of why these 45 districts are in play, see: http://www.marstonchronicles.info/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=85&Itemid=187. Look up your state and see if you can help win these districts. If you live in one of these and know a lot of people, consider running yourself. At least you can volunteer to help out a winning candidate. For some reason, the table is spaced way down the page.

State	District	Incumbent Democrat	2008 Margin	McCain Margin	Took Seat
Alabama	2	Bobby Bright	0.62%	26%	2008
Alabama	5	Parker Griffith	3.58%	23%	2008
Arizona	1	Ann Kirkpatrick	16.45%	10%	2008
Arizona	5	Harry Mitchell	9.58%	5%	2006
Arizona	8	Gabrielle Giffords	11.90%	6%	2006
Arkansas	1	Marion Berry	No Rep	21%	1996
Arkansas	2	Victor F. Snyder	No Rep	10%	1996
Arkansas	4	Mike Ross	No Rep	19%	2000
Colorado	4	Betsy Markey	12.39%	1%	2008
Connecticut	4	Jim Himes	3.97%	-20%	2008
Florida	4	Suzanne Kosmas	16.09%	2%	2008
Florida	8	Alan Grayson	4.03%	-5%	2008
Florida	22	Ron Klein	9.34%	-4%	2006
Georgia	8	Jim Marshall	14.49%	13%	2004
Idaho	1	Walt Minnick	1.21%	26%	2008
Indiana	9	Baron Hill	19.36%	2%	2006
Louisiana	3	Charles J. Melancon	No Rep	24%	2004
Maine	1	Chellie Pingree	9.80%	-23%	2008
Maryland	1	Frank M. Kratovil, Jr.	0.79%	18%	2008
Michigan	7	Mark Schauer	2.31%	-6%	2008
Michigan	9	Gary Peters	9.45%	-13%	2008
Mississippi	1	Travis W. Childers	10.59%	25%	2008
Nevada	1	Dina Titus	5.14%	-12%	2008
New Hampshire	1	Carol Shea-Porter	5.89%	-7%	2006
New Jersey	3	John Adler	3.31%	-5%	1984
New Mexico	2	Harry Teague	11.92%	1%	2008
New York	20	Scott Murphy	0.45%	-3%	2008
New York	24	Michael Arcuri	3.94%	-2%	2006
New York	29	Eric Massa	1.93%	2%	2008
Ohio	1	Steven L. Driehaus	4.94%	-11%	2008
Ohio	15	Mary Jo Kilroy	0.76%	-9%	2008
Ohio	16	John A. Boccieri	10.73%	2%	2008
Ohio	18	Zack Space	19.75%	8%	2006
Pennsylvania	3	Kathy Dahlkemper	2.47%	<1%	2008
Pennsylvania	4	Jason Altmire	11.72%	11%	2006
Pennsylvania	10	Christopher P. Carney	12.66%	9%	2006
Pennsylvania	11	Paul E. Kanjorski	3.25%	-15%	1984
Pennsylvania	12	John P. Murtha	15.70%	<1%	1974
Tennessee	8	John S. Tanner	No Rep	13%	1988
Texas	17	T. Chester Edwards	7.48%	35%	1990
Virginia	2	Glenn Nye	4.94%	-2%	2008
Virginia	5	Tom Perriello	0.23%	2%	2008
Virginia	9	Frederick C. Boucher	No Rep	19%	1982
West Virginia	1	Alan B. Mollohan	No Rep	15%	1982
Wisconsin	8	Steve Kagen	8.10%	-8%	2006