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Kaleka said he wants to bring accountability and transparency back to Washington. He blamed the government shutdown on Ryan, who's the House Budget Committee chairman, and his GOP colleagues. He said citizens are tired of career politicians who care more about staying in power than serving the people.
"There's a fever in the nation, and specifically in this district, for our leaders to stop playing politics and do their jobs," Kaleka said. "All I want to do is bring democracy — a government of, for and by the people — back to America."
Kaleka's father, Satwant Singh Kaleka, was a small-business owner who founded the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin in suburban Milwaukee. On Aug. 5, 2012, a white supremacist walked into the temple and opened fire, killing Kaleka and five others before taking his own life. The FBI was unable to determine a motive.
I think this sentiment is going to dominate in 2014, Republicans were counting on 2014...It just might be their undoing this next election cycle...
"unable to do their jobs"
These guy got a bit to comfy in their seats, as if it is a lifetime guaranteed fraternity membership. The gerrymandering made them way to secure and other than the die hard conservative/Tea Party voters, hopefully other voters have had enough.
I particularly dislike Ryan, to put it mildly, for his blatant hypocrisy as someone that fed at the government trough to get his education, but wants to deny benefits to others and his decrying the stimulus and secretly (snake that he is) begging for the money for his state.
Not a chance in hell that he wins. Democrats there like Paul Ryan. They are not guilty white liberals like you'll find in the Northeast and west coast. They put stock in their candidates and make no apologies for being a lily-white electorate. A moderate like Paul suits their interests just fine.
Not a chance in hell that he wins. Democrats there like Paul Ryan. They are not guilty white liberals like you'll find in the Northeast and west coast. They put stock in their candidates and make no apologies for being a lily-white electorate. A moderate like Paul suits their interests just fine.
I don't think he has a chance, unless the likes of Bloomberg backs him.
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Kaleka knows he'd be taking on a formidable candidate. Ryan has so much political clout that he raised $1.7 million in the first six months of the year, nearly three times more than any other member of Wisconsin's congressional delegation.
Kaleka hopes to counter in part by tapping into the wealthy Indian and Arabic communities that he said encouraged him to run in the first place. If he can demonstrate his fundraising chops he expects the national Democratic Party, which he said supports his candidacy, to step in with another $1 million to $2 million.
Ryan, an eight-term congressman, has been popular in his district that covers the southeastern corner of the state. But his support declined last year.
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