MLK Day Round-up

Let's take a look back at some of the stories that fell though the cracks over the past week or so:

CT-4: The beneficiary of a Swing State Project co-sponsored blograiser, Jim Himes is stretching every last dollar in his campaign against Chris Shays. In other news from the district, it appears that Shays' congressional staffers are jumping ship before it goes under.

FL-10: Confronting retirement rumors, Bill Young, the longest-serving Republican in Congress told local reporters, “Unless I tell you something different, just assume that I am running.”

FL-24: Democratic challenger Suzanne Kosmas has raised over $350,000 in her bid to unseat Rep. Tom Feeney, an amount the Kosmas campaign claims “outpaced Feeney's best fundraising quarter of his Congressional career on record.”

KY-Sen: Businessman Greg Fischer joins the Democratic race to ditch Mitch McConnell.

OH-10: Cleveland mayor Frank Jackson endorsed one of Special K's primary opponents, councilman Joe Cimperman.

TX-22: Republican Dean Hrbacek, running against incumbent Nick Lampson, sent out a direct mail piece featuring a “computerized composite of Hrbacek's face and someone else's slimmer figure, in suit and tie, from neck to kneecaps.”

VA-House:  With Democrats taking a majority in the Virginia state senate, the party firmly has a seat at the redistricting table. Seeking to avoid a stalemate with the GOP-controlled state house, Gov. Tim Kaine is pushing a plan for nonpartisan redistricting.