2020 General Election
At the end of August, 2018, I encouraged people to support Cynthia Axne. She was running for Congress in November, 2018. And won.
The Des Moines Register endorsed Cynthia Axne https://cindyaxneforcongress.com/ for the Democratic nomination for Congress:
“It’s not policy, but problem-solving that makes Axne stand out.” The Register wrote about her intervention into school board policy when her son was rejected for full day kindergarten. The intervention was not for her son, about whom the decision was already made, but for policy – to insist that all children in the future be eligible for full day kindergarten.
The Register quoted her as saying: ‘I’ve got pretty sharp elbows when it comes to doing what’s right.”
Those sharp elbows may be why Cynthia Axne was fired from her job in the Iowa Department of Natural Resources. She had worked for nine years in state government. She worked in the Department of Administrative Services and later the Department of Management under two Democratic administrations. The Republicans at the Department of Natural Resources fired her and her sharp elbows.
Cynthia Axne was a back of the house person. She focused on budgets, personnel management, technology — unglamorous work. “It’s not policy, it’s problem solving.”
How is she solving problems in Congress? She has gotten herself good committee assignments. I bet something other than sharp elbows got her those assignments.
She is on the Committee on Financial Services. The very first thing you see on that Committee’s website is a statement about the Equifax Security Breach. Every one of her constituents deals with banks and credit cards. This is a good committee to be on.
She is on two subcommittees: 1) Investor Protection, Entrepreneurship, and Capital Markets. 2) Housing Community Development, and Insurance.
She is on the Committee on Agriculture. Would a Member of Congress from Iowa want to be on the Agriculture Committee? The first statement you would see on the Agriculture Committee’s website is about ethanol. She joined the committee after Steve King was removed from all his committee posts due white supremacist statements. She is Iowa’s only member on the Agriculture Committee.
She is on two subcommittees 1) Commodity Exchanges, Energy, and Credit 2) Conservation and Forestry.
The caucuses that Members of Congress belong to define where they are on the political spectrum. Cynthia Axne belongs to only one political caucus — the New Democratic Coalition. Moderate. Moderate fiscally. Not deeply conservative like the Blue Dogs. Not so heavily influenced by corporations as the bi-partisan Problem Solvers Caucus. Cynthia Axne https://cindyaxneforcongress.com/ is clear about her political home. Help her keep that home. Help her make Iowa Democratic while keeping a Democratic majority in Congress. She is among the vulnerable and deserves support.
People who need our help now for 2020.
The most vulnerable Democrat in the US Senate is Doug Jones of Alabama. Political Note #189
Two Members of Congress won by less than 1,000 votes in 2018:
- TJ Cox CA 21 Political Note #192
- Ben McAdams UT 04 Political Note #190
Six Members of Congress won by less than 4,000 votes in 2018
Eight Members of Congress won by less than 5,000 votes in 2018
- Anthony Brindisi NY 22 Political Note #200
- Joe Cunningham SC 01 Political Note #199
- Jared Golden ME 02 Political Note #196
- Kendra Horn OK 05 Political Note #193
- Andy Kim NJ 03 Political Note #194
- Lucy McBath GA 06 Political Note #191
- Debbie Mucarsel-Powell Political Note #201
- Xochitl Torres Small NM 03 Political Note #195
Three more won be a margin of more than 5,000 but less than 10,000.
- Cynthia Axne IA 03 Political Note #204
- Cil Cisneros CA 39 Political Note #203
- Elaine Luria VA 02 Political Note #202
