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October 17, 2012

Focus On The House: David Rouzer (NC-07)
— DrewM

Introduction (from his website):

David Rouzer currently owns and operates a business consulting firm providing strategic advice to businesses on a wide range of issues. He also owns and operates a distributorship marketing environmentally friendly products.
Prior to starting his own consulting and distributorship businesses, David had been involved in public policy development and implementation, public relations, and legislative strategy for more than a decade through his work in the Legislative and Executive branches of the Federal government as well as through his work for NC State University.

Opponent:
8 term incumbent Democrat Mike McIntyre is another Â“Blue DogÂ” Democrat. While he might have a reasonable claim to the title on votes in the House, his work in committees and his seeming chumminess with unions raises questions.

In the end, if heÂ’s reelected, heÂ’ll vote to make Nancy Pelosi Speaker.

The District:
ItÂ’s a district that was trending Republican before redistricting and has gotten more conservative following the redrawing of the lines.

"We're the underdog in this battle because they drew a seat to predetermine the outcome of the election," McIntyre, who has been in Congress since 1997, said this week.
McIntyre was referring to new district lines drafted by the state's Republican-dominated legislature last year that cut out heavily Democratic precincts in central Wilmington and McIntyre's hometown of Lumberton.
Rouzer, 40, voted for those new lines as a two-term state senator and is a resident of Republican-leaning Johnston County, which was added to the district.
Even before the changes, the district was trending Republican, voting to re-elect President George W. Bush in 2004 and for GOP nominee John McCain in 2008. McIntyre narrowly survived the Tea Party wave of 2010, which swamped many of the remaining rural Democrats in Congress.

The Race:
I canÂ’t find any polling on this race but RCP calls it a Â“toss upÂ” district. Still given RomneyÂ’s growing lead in NC, the districts rightward lean and the fact that the GOP is still spending money there itÂ’s clearly a prime potential pickup seat.

If youÂ’re in the area and can volunteer or want to donate, visit the campaignÂ’s website.

Previous Â“Focus On The HouseÂ” Posts:
Vernon Parker(AZ-9)
Lee Anderson (GA-12)

Posted by: DrewM at 06:12 AM | Comments (57)
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1 Finish him!

Posted by: That Guy at October 17, 2012 06:20 AM (BrQrN)

2 I love the smell of redistricting in the morning.

Posted by: Lurking Canuck at October 17, 2012 06:21 AM (BrQrN)

3 Rasmussen Nevada Obama 50-47

Posted by: VBJonny at October 17, 2012 06:22 AM (bypVu)

4 Romney receiving death threats on Twitter

http://tinyurl.com/br7epdk

Posted by: Jones in CO at October 17, 2012 06:23 AM (8sCoq)

5 ... o.k. let's move on.

Posted by: Hamhock in a pantsuit at October 17, 2012 06:23 AM (38ReL)

Romney receiving death threats on Twitter

"The death threats are being made by both black and white people,"

Celebrate diversity!

Posted by: Lurking Canuck at October 17, 2012 06:25 AM (BrQrN)

7 4 Romney receiving death threats on Twitter http://tinyurl.com/br7epdk Posted by: Jones in CO at October 17, 2012 10:23 AM (8sCoq) Those aren't death threats, those are civil discourse.

Posted by: cajun carrot at October 17, 2012 06:26 AM (UZQM8)

8 NC-07 GOP fucked up by not getting Pantano in the race instead of Rouzer.

Posted by: Country Singer (likes teh ginger ladies) at October 17, 2012 06:26 AM (L8r/r)

9 4 What else is new? Libs are all muscle in anonymity but quake like jello when face to face. I say pour some more salt on these slugs Romney!

Posted by: kawfytawk at October 17, 2012 06:27 AM (JWLqy)

10 Barack Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable tyrant.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at October 17, 2012 06:27 AM (8y9MW)

11 Pantano had his chance and fucked up.

Posted by: NewBrunswicker at October 17, 2012 06:27 AM (vOeqs)

12 I forgot that Brian Dennehy gets shot at the end of Silverado

I am so bummed

Posted by: Jones in CO at October 17, 2012 06:28 AM (8sCoq)

13 11 Pantano had his chance and fucked up. Posted by: NewBrunswicker at October 17, 2012 10:27 AM (vOeqs) How in the hell do you figure that?

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Wonders what Dagny thinks at October 17, 2012 06:28 AM (kc2b9)

14 Completely OT: Am I the only one who finds myself wanting to decorate emails w. twitter-style hash tags?

I just had to send a corrected email (grabbed an incorrect attachment on the first attempt) and had to stop myself from adding #attachmentfail to the end...

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at October 17, 2012 06:29 AM (8y9MW)

15 You know Romney won last night because Comcast on its Leftie home page is headlining its lame 'fact checking' rather than proclaiming any sort of Hussein win

Comcast more or less owns NBC; they're partners in crime...

Posted by: Isaac Davis White at October 17, 2012 06:29 AM (Dll6b)

Link should read Vernon Parker for AZ-9

Previous Â“Focus On The HouseÂ” Posts:
Vernon Davis (AZ-9)

Posted by: Sunny at October 17, 2012 06:31 AM (dFI1g)

17 I broke the rules last night at the debate. Sue me serfs! Fo' mo' years!

Posted by: Michelle O at October 17, 2012 06:33 AM (OiC7K)

18 13: he lost by seven points in a GOP wave year.

Posted by: NewBrunswicker at October 17, 2012 06:33 AM (vOeqs)

19 O/T .... but has rcp gotten the memo about the Romney +4 national PPP poll? Funny, because they seem to have the Obama +4 Ohio PPP poll covered.

Posted by: Dante at October 17, 2012 06:35 AM (NWLVJ)

20 Just a heads up: lots of scam PAC's are trolling for careless dollars. If you want to donate to a candidate, go to the official campaign website first.

(Alternately, just send your money to enbytotallyhasyourbackonthisone.com and I'll see that it goes to the "right" person. Yeah, that's the ticket.)

Posted by: Enby at October 17, 2012 06:35 AM (ptlfZ)

21 (Alternately, just send your money to enbytotallyhasyourbackonthisone.com and I'll see that it goes to the "right" person. Yeah, that's the ticket.)

Make sure you keep good records, Mr. Enby.

Posted by: IRS audit team at October 17, 2012 06:37 AM (YEelc)

22 Michelle 'f'n" Bachmann! Jeez, she's on the ropes and she was 100% right about the Muslim Bro'hood and Houma. For her troubles, she's being shunned by our own party establishment. I would love to see her win and rub it in Boehner's face. And I would LOOOVE if she had even a chance at becoming speaker. Yeah, yeah, I know. But jeez, we have got to support her.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at October 17, 2012 06:38 AM (+tqYo)

23 i'm voting for vernon parker.....i never heard of vernon davis.....might want to correct that wrong name.....

Posted by: phoenixgirl, team dagny, ROMNEY/RYAN 2012 at October 17, 2012 06:39 AM (Ho2rs)

24 Moochelle is Lot's wife. She will turn back to see the smoking ruins of Sodom D.C. and turn into the thing she craves... SALT. http://cheezburger.com/3009200896

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at October 17, 2012 06:40 AM (+tqYo)

i'm voting for vernon parker.....i never heard of vernon davis.....might want to correct that wrong name.....

Vernon Davis is a TE for the 49ers, so yeah, he might want to get on that.

Posted by: Ghost of Lee Atwater at October 17, 2012 06:41 AM (JxMoP)

26 drew, fix vernon PARKER's name

Posted by: phoenixgirl, team dagny, ROMNEY/RYAN 2012 at October 17, 2012 06:41 AM (Ho2rs)

27 I've known David Rouzer since college, and he has always been a hardworking, serious, humble and kind guy. Thank you for posting this info about him. I live in a different NC district, but I hope he can pull this off!

Posted by: NC Citizen at October 17, 2012 06:41 AM (W5c4e)

28 Well, here in NYC, at least we have Bob Turner. For a little while longer until he's redistricted.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at October 17, 2012 06:43 AM (+tqYo)

29 thanks drew!

Posted by: phoenixgirl, team dagny, ROMNEY/RYAN 2012 at October 17, 2012 06:44 AM (Ho2rs)

30 21
Here's a good record - Harry Nilsson "Jump Into the Fire"
http://tinyurl.com/yegcqgn

Posted by: Enby at October 17, 2012 06:46 AM (ptlfZ)

We drove through this district about a week and a half ago on the way to visit my cousin on the coast.

There are tons of Rouzer signs everywhere - and not just at intersections. I think I saw one or two McIntyre signs at a stop sign. Driving through, it wasn't even apparent who Rouzer's opponent was, until I saw those two signs.

Incidentally, I also saw a lot of Romney-Ryan signs in front of houses, but not a single Obama sign on a residential plot.

Posted by: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus at October 17, 2012 06:47 AM (+inic)

32 We can always check that Weather Vane of Absurdity AKA Paul Krugman, his opinion always blows the wrong way.

Posted by: Clemenza at October 17, 2012 06:48 AM (afx6B)

33 Some ppl just will never understand how gov't works and will keep electing a dem to congress just coz he says he conservative. I see countless yard signs all over town here for jim cooper and Romney... arghhh I doubt most ppl in this district in TN even know who the repub is..but that might be coz the Republican party in this part of the state sux

Posted by: lee at October 17, 2012 06:50 AM (SIzdY)

34 18 13: he lost by seven points in a GOP wave year. Posted by: NewBrunswicker at October 17, 2012 10:33 AM (vOeqs) I'd rather shine a light than curse your darkness. You fucking Idiots in Brunswick County elcted Bill Rabon for Senator. The Cabal of Rabon, Goolsby, and Berger and the gang of twelve starring Justice and tillis Decided to cash in on Rouzers rich ass family. The damn redistricting plan was sitting in a drawer for over a year. This was all planned to screw the old 7th district voters. They split Pender County, and New hanover County, Pantano strongholds and gave the controlling number of votes to Johnston County that is nowhere near here. Rouzers rich ass ag families home zone. My dog could have pissed on a map and drawn a better district. Oh Yeah, and your Asshole Rabon after fucking over Pantano has now endoresed the Democrat. You want to blame someone, start in your backyard.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Wonders what Dagny thinks at October 17, 2012 06:50 AM (kc2b9)

35 Completely OT: Am I the only one who finds myself wanting to decorate emails w. twitter-style hash tags? I find myself triple spacing just to make sure that there are actually spaces between paragraphs. Let's not mention being amazed and stunned that there are actually spaces between words. I actually used an ampersand yesterday and nearly wept from joy. Stop! Soapbox time! I wish people would remember that business emails are the equivalent of business correspondence and thus every email should be written with an eye towards how it will sound when it's provided in discovery and then read out loud in court in the worst possible tone of voice. Just because emails are, more or less, immediate doesn't mean they are any less formal. Yes, Virginia, your email to your co-workers about how omfg you cannot believe that Tammye said that thing to the boss about that guy, what the hell is wrong with her, will become everyone else's business. If you need to say something private, pick up the damn phone and say it. If you don't want the entire internet to find out, by the insanity of cthulhu, do not put it in an email. I cannot begin to address the new trend of texting people with business information without my eye twitching. LOL wtf o rly are not acceptable in business communications. *clambers down* *sticks landing*

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. A righteous dude. at October 17, 2012 06:51 AM (VtjlW)

36 We finally got settled after the big move and here I am in Deltona , Fl. I have time to register to vote here if I choose but I can make the trip home to vote in Winston Salem. Seeing as how both Fl and NC are swing states, where do yall think my vote would be better cast? I know it's just 1 vote, but...

Posted by: middleagedhousewife at October 17, 2012 06:51 AM (af5Zq)

Did you see where Crowley was interviewing Sen McCain a couple of weeks ago and asked him why it took the White House 17 days before they gave a somewhat definitive answer that this was a pre planned terror attack?

Also that Michelle Obama clapped during the Benghazi exchange shows how fucked up these people are.

Posted by: polynikes at October 17, 2012 06:53 AM (m2CN7)

38 36
FL. We got NC sewed up tight. Plus, less gas.

Posted by: Enby at October 17, 2012 06:54 AM (ptlfZ)

39 34 calm down, sparky. I live in the *province* of New Brunswick. Conservative government federal and provincial, here. Holy shit, dude.

Posted by: NewBrunswicker at October 17, 2012 06:54 AM (vOeqs)

40 35 My sides are hurting...Thanks ATC

Posted by: kawfytawk at October 17, 2012 06:55 AM (JWLqy)

41 39 34 calm down, sparky. I live in the *province* of New Brunswick. Conservative government federal and provincial, here. Holy shit, dude. Posted by: NewBrunswicker at October 17, 2012 10:54 AM (vOeqs) Then hold your fire when it comes to disparaging a fine man like Ilario Pantano.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Wonders what Dagny thinks at October 17, 2012 06:55 AM (kc2b9)

42 No polls on RCP, probably because there was a GOP run-off that just ended. but I'm hoping the Georgia 2nd race is winnable. Normally it would be a lock for the D's to win with Sanford Bishop, who has been a loyal Dem in Congress (and the CBC) since 1993. But he had been winning by 65% to 35% consistently since at least 2002, then in 2010 he won 52% - 48%. He also had a minor (because he's a Dem) scandal involving scholarship funds this past term.

Posted by: Lincolntf at October 17, 2012 06:57 AM (HethX)

I find myself triple spacing just to make sure that there are actually spaces between paragraphs. Let's not mention being amazed and stunned that there are actually spaces between words. I actually used an ampersand yesterday and nearly wept from joy.

AoSHQ teaches agirl to appreciate the little things.

Posted by: garrett at October 17, 2012 06:59 AM (L2DAB)

44 not disparaging but the dude lost badly. Rouzer can win and you feel the urge to get pissy over a dead redistricting battle? This is why we lose year after year. Pantano was not the target of NC redistricting, that's just paranoid. If he won in 2010 he's have a safe seat now.

Posted by: NewBrunswicker at October 17, 2012 06:59 AM (vOeqs)

45 "*clambers down* *sticks landing* Posted by: alexthechick"

Thank you so much for that. That drives me absolutely f*cking insane.

Posted by: Hobbitopoly at October 17, 2012 07:03 AM (EYEC1)

46 I wish people would remember that business emails are the equivalent of business correspondence and thus every email should be written with an eye towards how it will sound when it's provided in discovery and then read out loud in court in the worst possible tone of voice.

Attachments, too.

I hope the jury likes Business Cat.

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs a beer at October 17, 2012 07:07 AM (/kI1Q)

47 44 not disparaging but the dude lost badly. Rouzer can win and you feel the urge to get pissy over a dead redistricting battle? This is why we lose year after year. Pantano was not the target of NC redistricting, that's just paranoid. If he won in 2010 he's have a safe seat now. Posted by: NewBrunswicker at October 17, 2012 10:59 AM (vOeqs) Rouzer is not going to win because all the work Pantano and his supporters did setting him up for 2012 was made for not by an establishment state GOP whose biggest reason for not supporting him was "He aint from here." The New Hanover, Pender and New brunswick county GOP spent an assfull of time trying to crack the tough nut that is Mike Mcintyre. Do you have any Idea how hard it is to convince old school Dems that it's OK to vote for a republican? The people liked Pantano, not the GOP. Then the state GOP decides to shove this Mommas boy rich kid Rouzer up everyones ass? They fucked it all up. All of those Dems are going back to mike, Rouzer will lose and the state GOP has no one to blame but themselves.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Wonders what Dagny thinks at October 17, 2012 07:08 AM (kc2b9)

48 Attachments, too. I hope the jury likes Business Cat. Oh. Oh the stories I could tell about attachments and getting them in discovery. A part of this is trying to explain email systems to the people involved. Let's just say that most lawyers and most judges are not highly technologically advanced. I've had more than one who's on first conversations where I say "you didn't give us all the stuff from the emails" and I get "we gave you all the emails!" Me "Where are the attachments?" "But we printed out all the emails." "With no attachments." "You don't know there are attachments, you're just fishing now." "Well, since this email says see attached and there's the notation on the email referring to the attachment by the file name of the attachment but there's no attachment, you didn't give me the attachment." "But we printed out all the emails!" And round and round and round. My other favorite variant is "You didn't request the attachments!" Oh. Okay. So the discovery request that said "Provide a copy of all emails including any and all attachments to the emails with the attachment in the original file format of the attachment" meant something else instead.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. A righteous dude. at October 17, 2012 07:15 AM (VtjlW)

49 It's too late to register to vote in Florida in time to vote Nov 6th

Early voting is Oct 27 - Nov 3, Saturday through Saturday.

Posted by: Isaac Davis White at October 17, 2012 07:17 AM (Dll6b)

50 The DNCC has been running some pretty brutal ads against Rouzer in the RDU area. If the RNC wants this seat, they need to step up their game and support him.

Posted by: Opinionator at October 17, 2012 07:19 AM (H14Av)

51 50 The DNCC has been running some pretty brutal ads against Rouzer in the RDU area. If the RNC wants this seat, they need to step up their game and support him. Posted by: Opinionator at October 17, 2012 11:19 AM (H14Av) Aint gonna happen. Internals are not close enough.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Wonders what Dagny thinks at October 17, 2012 07:23 AM (kc2b9)

Adding most of Johnston Co to the 7th (it was mostly in the 2nd where Renee Ellmers beat Bob "the mauler" Etheridge in 2010) should seal the deal. After the 2010 election there wasn't a single county wide elected democrat in Johnston County.

Posted by: Adobe_Walls at October 17, 2012 07:58 AM (lqCRt)

53 Uh, you know what owning a "business consulting firm" means, right?

Posted by: Gerry at October 17, 2012 08:16 AM (LGVKI)

54 Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable failure.

Posted by: steevy at October 17, 2012 10:08 AM (6o4Fb)

55 Adding most of Johnston Co to the 7th (it was mostly in the 2nd where Renee Ellmers beat Bob "the mauler" Etheridge in 2010) should seal the deal. After the 2010 election there wasn't a single county wide elected democrat in Johnston County.Posted by: Adobe_Walls at October 17, 2012 11:58 AM (lqCRt) That was the point. How convenient that they added Johnston County as a whole to a coastal district. Because the outskirts of Raleigh have so much in common with Cape Fear. The Rucho, Berger, Tillis, Cantor cabal drew the district for Rouzer because he was their buddy. Then Berger "persuaded" all of the sitting freshman State Senators (Goolsby, Rabon - POS, et al) to endorse him 35 nanoseconds after Rouzer announced. There are plenty of folks in Pender, New Hanover, and Brunswick Counties that have not forgotten the backstabbing. The Johnston GOP refused to let Pantano have any platform - they banned him and his supporters from their FB page, they moved meetings and times when they found out Pantano would attend, they wouldn't let him say anything at their county convention and they used their Lincoln-Reagan dinner as a Rouzer platform by having him be their keynote speaker. Pantano won Cape Fear, but the splitting of New Hanover and Pender ensured that Johnston would bring it home for their favored son. Rouzer has a tough battle against McIntyre because he's a pussy. He is uninspiring and lacks energy. Even The Hill said he has a total lack of charisma. He always looks and talks like Obama in the first debate. Pantano would have won. But the "smart" people were pulling the freaking carpetbagger card every ten minutes. I still think McIntyre will win. And even though I will vote for Rouzer. I hope he loses.

Posted by: Wife of Oldsailors Poet, Wonders what Dagny thinks at October 17, 2012 10:55 AM (kc2b9)

56 Oh, and Renee Ellmers? Dennis-Freaking-Kucinich has a better constitutional voting record than she does. At best, she is only voting with the Constitution 50% of the time. She either went native as soon as she crossed into the DC alternate universe or she isn't bright enough to know what conservative principles are. I think it is both.

Posted by: Wife of Oldsailors Poet, Wonders what Dagny thinks at October 17, 2012 10:59 AM (kc2b9)

57 "While he might have a reasonable claim to the title on votes in the House,..."

Never, EVER, give a Democrat the benefit of the doubt.

Posted by: Blacque Jacques Shellacque at October 17, 2012 11:04 AM (vd7A8)

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