THE EPILOGUE IN CD 13 CONTINUES... DAVID JOLLY SWORN-IN... The Houses newest congressman struck a note of collegiality on Thursday after a bitter campaign to fill the seat. Republican David Jolly declared the hard-fought race over moments after Speaker John Boehner administered the oath. Jolly edged out Democrat Alex Sink on Tuesday in a special election that Republicans cast as a referendum on President Barack Obama and his unpopular health care law. Receiving a standing ovation and applause from Republicans and Democrats, Jolly said in his initial remarks that he believes in this institution, the peoples house. ... I believe in civility. He stood in the well of the House, surrounded by members of Floridas congressional delegation. Jolly said the fight is for the country, not a fight against each other. Jolly, 41, fills the open seat that had been held for decades by Republican C.W. Bill Young, who died in October. Jolly has long experience in Washington, first as an aide to Young and then as a lobbyist. He mentioned his work for a man who left an indelible legacy in the House. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the dean of the delegation, highlighted Jollys progression from congressional staffer to lawmaker and said he would ensure that Youngs legacy continues. Rep. Corrine Brown, D-Fla., said Jolly had big shoes to fill. Despite Jollys comments, the next campaign is just eight months away as he will run for the full two-year term. DEMOCRAT REACTION FROM DCCC... Now the newest face of this Republican Congress is special interest lobbyist David Jolly, who made a career out of stacking the deck for big corporations and millionaires, said Josh Schwerin of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. Jolly will fit right in with the Medicare-dismantling, health care-repealing, big oil-subsidizing, insurance company-coddling Congressional Republicans who bend over backward for special interests at the expense of middle class families. JOLLYS WIN SHOWS THAT OPPOSITION TO OBAMACARE ALONE WONT BE ENOUGH IN NOVEMBER... Jolly put Obamacare in a larger frame, urging voters to elect someone to be a check and balance for Mr. Obama, rather than blindly support him. This cut well with independents, according to some private polls by outside groups. Mr. Jollys success depended upon convincing them he would go to Washington to make things work, not to blow it up. NEW DIGITAL TOOLS THE GOP USED IN THE FLORIDA SPECIAL TO BOOST THEIR CAMPAIGN... * Canvassing app: The RNC has developed multiple smartphone and tablet apps for field staff to use to input data about prospective voters. The data is uploaded to the RNCs main database in real time and is immediately available to the committee, the campaign and approved vendors, allowing them to make quick decisions on how to apply resources and whether to make strategic adjustments. * Application programming interface: This is the fancy term the RNC is using to describe how it shares voter data with campaigns and approved vendors - and vice versa. Now each entity can share and synthesize its data through the interface, increasing its accuracy and ensuring that the RNC, the candidates campaign team and outside strategists are making decisions based on the same voter information. * The email list: For the first time, the RNC was able to synthesize its list of email contacts with its voter file. It sounds simple, but an inability to do this previously had significantly reduced the number of prospective voters the committee was able to contact. * Voter scoring: The more a party knows about prospective voters, the more efficient and effective its voter targeting. The committee now ranks prospective voters on a complex scale of one to 100, with each data point representing a piece of information about a voter that helps determine how best to talk to him or her and motivate him or her to vote. * Dashboard: For the first time, all of the data gathered by the RNC minute to minute was available to view on-demand via computer. TWEET, TWEET: @TheRickWilson: One of the real lessons of #FL13 is that were taking all kinds of new tools out of beta and into the field... Source: Sunburn Fri. March 14th, Yahoo News, Wall Street Journal, Washington Examiner, DCCC...
Posted on: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 07:54:57 +0000
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