Anti-Incumbent Article by Politico

by Ron Davis on November 30, 2009

Recently I did an interview with Politico about the recently-launched FireSenator.com site.  The article that was for went online today, so I thought I’d share it with those of you here.  Hater Sites Take Flight

From the article:

Then there is the recently launched FireSenator.com, a site that hopes to create individual blogs aimed at the nearly 60 incumbent senators who voted for Congress’s initial $700 billion bailout package last year.

Ron Davis, a 32-year-old IT administrator from Georgia who is behind the effort, has already recruited one grass-roots blogger to run the blogs aimed at Virginia Democratic Sens. Jim Webb and Mark Warner.

“I did this out of frustration,� said Davis, a self-described “apolitical� who initially launched FireSaxby.com last year after Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) voted for the bailout. “I thought there was no way possible [that] conservatives would keep supporting him after voting for something that fiscally irresponsible. I was always what you’d call an uninformed, straight-ticket Republican. But that vote woke me up.�

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