Democrats are working hard to unseat the GOP majority in the U.S. House, but this piece in TIME suggests it’s not clear which members of the opposition party would end up running the show in the lower chamber.
Of particular interest to North Carolina voters are passages involving 11th Congressional District challenger Health Shuler. Writers Mike Allen and Perry Bacon Jr. suggest Illinois Rep. Rahm Emanuel nagged Shuler incessantly to enter the race:
Heath Shuler, an ex-NFL quarterback who lives in North Carolina, resisted Emanuel’s entreaties because, Shuler said, he was worried that a race would stop him from spending time with his family. Emanuel started barraging Shuler with several phone calls a day last summer, leaving messages like, “Heath, Rahm. I’m taking my kids to day care.” The implication: You can do it too.
And the nagging continues.
Shuler, the quarterback who had never run for office, hears from Emanuel as often as once a week. “So how much money have you raised today?” Emanuel asks, often barely greeting Shuler before getting to the question. “We don’t need pronouns, adjectives or verbs,” says Emanuel. “They know why we’re calling.”
