G.O.P. Leaders Draw Rare Re-election Challenge From the Ranks.
There is the Tea Party Patriots “Fire the Speaker” petition, which is not to be confused with the FreedomWorks “Fire the Speaker” petition, or the websites variously urging people to “Fire John Boehner” and “Pledge to Fire Boehner.”
A new one, “Replace the Speaker,” appeared last week after Speaker John A. Boehner, Republican of Ohio, allowed a vote on raising the country’s debt ceiling to move forward.
Katrina Pierson would sign them all, but she hardly needs to put her name on a petition to validate her anti-Boehner credentials. Ms. Pierson, a local Tea Party leader here who has never sought public office, is aggressively campaigning as an underdog to unseat one of the speaker’s top lieutenants in the House, Representative Pete Sessions, a nine-term Republican who is chairman of the influential Rules Committee.
“If we were to take out a sitting, two-decade member of the leadership, that’s massive,” she told about three dozen people who came to hear her speak in the living room of an elegant three-story colonial that belongs to one of her supporters in the exclusive University Park enclave.
Ms. Pierson, 37, is a personification of how growing unease among the most passionate and motivated conservatives is complicating the re-election campaigns of many of the highest-ranking Republican leaders in Washington. Across the country, candidates like Ms. Pierson are waging what is perhaps the most forceful challenge in generations that either political party has seen from within its own ranks.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/25/us/politics/gop-leaders-draw-rare-re-election-challenge-from-the-ranks.html?hp
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