November 09, 2004
11/9 - Ocean Champions go 11 for 14 in the Elections
Ocean Champions, the new/first/only political action committee for the oceans, created by Dave Wilmot and Jack Sterne, went 11 for 14 in the congressional candidates they backed (wish I did that well on my football bets in Vegas last weekend).
THE WINNNERS: In da House, Rep. Sam Farr (D-17th Calif.), Rep. Wayne Gilchrest (R-1st Md.), Rep. Edward Markey (D-7th Mass.), Rep. Frank Pallone (D-6th N.J.), Rep. Jim Saxton (R-3rd N.J.), Rep. Hilda Solis (D-32nd Calif.), and Rep. Curt Weldon (R-7th Penn.). In the Senate, both Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.) won their re-election bids. Also, John Barrow (D-Georgia) and Connie Mack IV (R-FL) were both newly elected to the house.
NOT SO FORTUNATE were Tony Knowles (D-AK), Betty Castor (D-FL), and Inez Tanenbaum (D-SC).
And of course what is most interesting to note is that some of their candidates were Democrats ... and some of them weren't. That's what's called playing politics, which is what the ocean conservation movement has traditionally been not so good at. Ocean Champions is fixing that.
