According To Talking Points Memo Dems ask 25 east coast Republicans to stand by representative Cantor than all emergency funds should be offset with cuts

Hurricane Eric: Democrats See Opening In Cantor’s Disaster Aid Offset Talk

Evan McMorris-Santoro | September 2, 2011, 6:26AM

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA)

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor's requirement that new disaster relief spending be funded with spending cuts has left members of his party open to attack, Democrats say, and they don't plan to waste the opportunity.

This week, the DCCC called on 25 East Coast Republican members to either stand with Cantor's call for offset disaster spending or publicly oppose it. In areas still drying out from Hurricane Irene and repairing the damage from the East Coast earthquake that preceded it, Democrats think the suggestion that federal aid should be used as another budget cut bargaining chip will not sit well with voters.
"The best hard data [that such a line of attack will work] is the number of Republicans that are running away from it," a Democratic aid told TPM, pointing to statements by Republican governors of storm-damaged states that disagree with Cantor. "They wouldn't be running away from it if it wasn't a politically unsafe position."
The NRCC did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the DCCC campaign.

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