Holden has almost $700K

Now facing what could be his first competitive election cycle in years, Congressman Tim Holden (D-17) finished 2009 with about $675,000 in campaign cash on hand, according to …

January 30, 2010 at 4:28 pm | Comments (0)

Dow-Ford says Holden ‘has been a follower, not a leader’

For Sheila Dow-Ford, voting against health care reform was the last straw.

So when Congressman Tim Holden (D-17) became one of only two House Democrats in Pennsylvania to oppose the health care legislation that passed late last year, Dow-Ford, an education policy expert, decided to challenge the incumbent of her own party.

“His evasive, avoidance and cowardly manner on health care … was my determination to run,” Dow-Ford told pa2010.com in an interview this week. …

January 29, 2010 at 6:40 pm | Comments (2)

Holden gets a primary opponent

Congressman Tim Holden (D-17) is now being challenged on both flanks.

Sheila Dow-Ford, a public policy advocate, says she’ll soon declare he candidacy in the Democratic primary against Holden, who she says needs to be challenged on his “credentials as a Democrat.”

“I’ve thought long and hard about this,” Dow-Ford …

January 26, 2010 at 11:30 pm | Comments (2)

Holden may get challenge from his own party, too

For Republicans, the time is right to mount a challenge against incumbent Congressman Tim Holden (R-17), who they charge is “too liberal” to represent a district that went for John McCain in the 2008 presidential election.

Maybe. Or maybe not, considering that Democratic strategists hardly put Holden’s seat on the endangered list this fall.

But there could be a new twist for Holden. There’s been some serious grumbling that Holden, the Blue Dog Democrat who …

January 11, 2010 at 4:15 pm | Comments (0)