Hoyer
announced first:
For the last four years, I have been honored to serve as your Whip, working on a daily basis with Nancy, Jim, John, Rahm, and all of the Members of our Caucus to bring us to this point. Together, our Caucus has achieved unprecedented unity - and our unity, I believe, proved to be instrumental to last night's tremendous Democratic victory. This was a team effort!
Today, as part of the leadership team that helped our Caucus regain the House Majority, I am writing to ask you to support my candidacy for the position of Majority Leader when the Caucus elects its leaders for the 110th Congress on November 16th. I would be honored to serve as your Majority Leader, and am grateful for the depth and broad range of commitments that have been given by Members for my candidacy. While my top priority has been helping our Caucus regain the Majority, I assure you that I have given a great deal of thought to the duties of this leadership position.
Then Murtha threw his hat in the ring:
Talk is cheap, which is why, up until Iraq forced me to, I didn't do a lot of it. But empty rhetoric is expensive. It has cost America three years in a failed war at nearly three thousand lives lost and will cost us a trillion dollars by the time we can extricate ourselves from it. Empty rhetoric has cost us years of lost time in finding a solution to our dependence on foreign oil, at a price tag that is nearly impossible to guess, but surely in the hundreds of billions.
I'm going to take a close look at both candidacies, and all of us should do the same.
One thing to note -- Hoyer has clashed repeatedly with Pelosi the past few years. Murtha is a Pelosi loyalist.
I don't feel like dealing with years of "divided Democrats" stories because a Majority Leader Hoyer is constantly undercutting Speaker Pelosi.
The election will be sometime next week.
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