His first diary was in April 2006: NC-08: I'm Larry Kissell and You CAN Make a Difference!

NC-08: I'm Larry Kissell and You CAN Make a Difference!

by Larry Kissell [Subscribe] Thu Apr 27, 2006 at 06:32:22 AM PDT I'm Larry Kissell, and I'm running for Congress. It may be corny, but I really do believe that one person can make a difference -- and that is why I'm running.

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SEIU is fighting the good fight here:

"These families are looking for leaders who are going to stand side-by-side with them and fight for their interests," Lori Lodes, a SEIU spokeswoman, said in a statement. "And that's what this effort is about — giving North Carolinians a choice to vote for someone who understands where they are coming from and can take their voice to Congress." snip The support of an independent candidate against Kissell shows the labor movement is not backing down from challenging Democrats this year, despite seeing Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) fend off a union-backed challenger this week.

The Hill

More from David Dayden (DDay):

SEIU has drafted Fant for this, but there is no wall of separation between the two. Fant has been aware of the draft effort and hasn’t discouraged it. As he is not a current candidate, SEIU can support the draft effort without running into any contribution limits for signature gathering. Once Fant decides to become a candidate – and he must affirmatively make that decision by filing the petitions – then it becomes a more traditional campaign. "I don’t know what his decision will be, but we have created the conditions where he has more than enough signatures to be a candidate and if he wants to, we will have successfully drafted him into the race," said SEIU’s Matt Browner-Hamlin.

SEIU Drafting Former Kissell Staffer to Run Against Him in General Election

Meanwhile Kissell has lowered himself to filing an ethics complaint against Fant for using a government computer TO FILE A VETERANS ADMINSTRATION CLAIM!

In a letter to the chair of the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, Kissell said Fant had broken House rules by using his official title and government computer to work on his own Veterans Administration case.

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/...

As DDay says:

As for the ethics complaint, the more you think about it, "using a government-issued computer" for filing a VA claim is about the weakest complaint I’ve ever seen. Let he who has never used a work computer for anything but work activities cast the first stone.

SEIU Drafting Former Kissell Staffer to Run Against Him in General Election

Kissell neeeds to lose. Period. When the Fant camapign has a Act Blue page up, I'll be there to contribute.

It's time to send this blue dog back home.

Update I: As Marcus Graly points out in the comments, Kissell is not a formal member of the Blue Dog group in the house. He votes like one, though.