This comes from an unexpected direction. Terry McCormick is a Republican running for a second time in a contested primary for the nomination in Wisconsin's 8th Congressional District, seeking to face off against Steve Kagen.
Republican blogger PartyofKNOW breaks McCormick's notes from a meeting between with 5th District Congressman James Sensenbrenner last October, in which Sensenbrenner tells her she'll get no support from the NRCC, even if she wins the Primary, retaliation for her refusing to clear the field 4 years ago for John Gard, the insiders' favorite.
YOU...YOU...have left scar tissue that has left residual by running in the primary against John Gard in 2006 with the NRCC.
"This is a problem YOU created, YOU will never get the support of the NRCC in any primary, and if you should win the primary... YOU will never get support from the NRCC in any General.
WE HAD TO SPEND ALL THAT MONEY TO BEAT YOU IN THE PRIMARY, and COULDN'T WIN IN THE GENERAL.
Read the whole thing, it's hilarious.
Now in my opinion, McCormick would have won that open Republican Gerrymandered seat in 2006, Gard, who'd been Assembly Majority Leader was the most hated pol in the State at the time, while McCormick was a widely respected moderate in the Assembly. (Disclaimer: I liked her as a co-sponsor of our medical marijuana bill which Gard had buried.)
The Ethics issue
Dem blogger Cognitive Dissidence notices that per McCormick's account, the meeting took place in Sensenbrenner's taxpayer funded District Office, a clear violation of laws prohibiting use of Government resources for explicitly partisan activity.
In other Sensenbrenner news
I've just created a Facebook page, Want Marijuana legal? Dump James Sensenbrenner.