Don't know if it will help but it can't hurt. Contact your congressperson to say you support Murtha for Majority Speaker.
http://www.house.gov/...
Murtha had twice been the campaign manager for Nancy Pelosi in her bids against Steny Hoyer in the past. So it is clear they get along and he can support her.
You may want to read David Sirota's piece from December 2005 about Hoyer undercutting Pelosi in the past.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
From my understanding the Majority leader is the public face when Pelosi is not available. The public face of a no-nonsense take no crap former marine seems like a better move than a fundraising Steny Hoyer. The personal votes of the Majority leader are less relevant than their public face and ability to round up votes and count them for Pelosi.
From the Sirota piece
You don't need to look very far to see how Hoyer is doing everything he can to self-servingly undermine his party as a way to hurt Pelosi. In today's Washington Post, for instance, the paper reported that according to congressional sources, Hoyer "told colleagues that Pelosi's recent endorsement of a speedy withdrawal [from Iraq] combined with her claim that more than half of House Democrats support her position, could backfire on the party." You might recall that last week it was Hoyer who, after Pelosi came out in support of Jack Murtha's plan for an exit strategy, was quoted in the Post saying withdrawal "could lead to disaster" - a statement only a Washington politician wholly out of touch with ordinary Americans could make, considering a disaster has long been unfolding in Iraq, and considering most Americans now support an exit strategy.
Then, while Pelosi works to resist the influence of corporate interests as she goes after the GOP's "culture of corruption," it is Hoyer who is deliberately landing stories in newspapers about his efforts to formalize his own system of legalized bribery - putting his own campaign wallet ahead of Democrats' efforts to develop a message of reform. Today in Roll Call, for instance, it was Hoyer who placed the story that details his efforts to "woo K Street" (aka. the corporate lobbying community).
I know Murtha has his problems too, but Hoyer is a "blue dog democrat" in the house that includes some pretty enabling democrats on the list. The clincher for me was hearing Newt Gingrich on Hannity yesterday say that the Republicans should try to work with the blue dog democrats.
We need real change and a strong public perception. Murtha can do it. The fact that he is conservative on issues has no meaningful affect on his role as Majority Leader. Pelosi will determine what's on the agenda.
Yesterday's poll results:
Poll
Who should be Majority Leader?
1.. John Murtha
83%
2.. Steny Hoyer
16%
Votes: 234
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