Pelosi’s Future: A count of Dems who will support her and those who will not

Democrats who WON’T back Pelosi:

•    Ala. Rep. Bobby Bright: “I am not going to vote for Nancy Pelosi as speaker of the House. Neither the leader of the minority party, John Boehner, nor the present speaker, will get my vote. I will vote for someone, a centrist, who is much more like me.”
•    Ga. Rep. Jim Marshall: “My candidate’s going to be somebody who’s a centrist, preferably somebody who’s going to be speaker of the entire House”
•    Miss. Rep. Gene Taylor: “I will not be voting for her again.”
•    N.C. Rep. Mike McIntyre: “From what we’re hearing, she’s probably not going to run for speaker again. And if she does, I’m confident she’s going to have opposition, and I look forward to supporting that opposition.”
•    Pa. Rep. Jason Altmire: Next Congress would “certainly necessitate new leadership in the Speaker’s position.”

{mosads}Candidates:
•    (Ala.-05) Steve Raby supports Rep. Allen Boyd for House Speaker.
•    (La-03) Ravi Sangisetty: “I believe Washington is broken, and it’s time for new blood.”
•    (Mich.-03) Patrick Miles: “It’s time to have a leader of the House of Representatives who can heal the partisan divide… Nancy Pelosi is not the person to do that.”
•     (Mo.-07) Scott Eckersley will not support Pelosi or Boehner. “Frankly anyone who wants to raise the age on Social Security I’m not in favor of.”
•    (S.C.-02) Rob Miller: “We all know Washington is broken, and I hold Nancy Pelosi accountable for that”
•    (Tenn.-06) Brett Carter: “Voters in my district believe that you [Pelosi] do not represent their values”
•    (Tenn.-08) Roy Herron: “Roy would not be supporting either Nancy Pelosi or John Boehner for Speaker of the House. Neither of them are in the common sense center.”
•    (Utah-03) Karen Hyer: “I think it’s time for new leadership in Washington.”

Democrats who say they MIGHT not back Pelosi:

•    Ark. Rep. Mike Ross: “No candidates for leadership positions, including Speaker of the House, have announced for the 112th Session of Congress.”
•    Ga. Rep. John Barrow: “November is a long way off. Congressman Barrow doesn’t even know who’s running.”
•    Idaho Rep. Walt Minnick: “I’m going to have to see who’s running.”
•    Ill. Rep. Bill Foster
•    Ind. Rep. Baron Hill says he wants to wait to see who is running.
•    Ind. Rep. Joe Donnelly didn’t want to make any “pre-judgments.”
•    Md. Rep. Frank Kratovil: “I do think that leadership-wise the Democratic party would be better if in some of the leadership positions there were some more moderate people.”
•    Miss. Rep. Travis Childers: “I’d like to see somebody more moderate in that role. I’d like to see a Blue Dog, quite frankly, because I agree with them on most of the issues.”
•    Mo. Rep. Ike Skelton: Declined to say if he would support her. “I’m not associated with her. She’s the speaker, but I’m an independent voice.”
•    N.C. Rep. Heath Shuler: Told constituents perhaps jokingly he might consider running for speaker himself.
•    N.Y. Rep. Mike McMahon: “It’s hard to answer a hypothetical question when you don’t know who the candidates are, you don’t know if she’s running again.”
•    N.Y. Rep. Scott Murphy: “We’ll see. We’ll see what happens when the election’s over and we’ll look at the leadership.”
•    Ohio Rep. Zack Space: “It’s inappropriate to commit because we don’t know who’s going to be running, whether she’s going to be running, whether she’s going to have opposition.”
•    Ore. Rep. Peter DeFazio: “any time you suffer big losses in business or politics, you need to step back and ask if we need to make some changes.”
•    Pa. Rep. Mark Critz: “I’ve never voted for Nancy Pelosi before, but I’m concentrating on my race.”
•    S.D. Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin: “I don’t know who will be running,” she said. “I haven’t made any commitments.”
•    Texas Rep. Chet Edwards: “No commitments.”
•    Utah Rep. Jim Matheson: “If someone challenges her within the caucus that is more moderate in their views, that is someone I would take a serious look at.”

Candidates:
•    (Ark.-01) Chad Causey: “No one has my vote for speaker, and quite frankly, voters are talking to me about jobs and our economy here in Arkansas.”
•    (Ark.-02) Joyce Elliot: “I don’t know; it depends on who’s running and I keep hearing rumors that other folks may run.”
•    (N.H.-02) Annie Kuster: “The answer is that I don’t know, honestly at this point… I may very well vote for her.”
•     (Ind.-03) Tom Hayhurst: “There will be at least a couple hundred potential candidates for that position. I’m going to look at all of them.”
•    (Utah-01) Morgan Bowen: “I’d have to wait and see who’s running for speaker.”
•    (W.V.-01) Mike Oliviero: “I never once said I would support Nancy Pelosi.”

Democrats who WILL support Pelosi:

•    Ca. Rep. Mike Thompson “believes that the Speaker should retain her position”
•    Ky. Rep. John Yarmuth
•    Minn. Rep. Collin C. Peterson
•    N.Y. Rep. John Hall: “I would vote for Nancy Pelosi for Speaker again.”
•    Texas Rep. Henry Cuellar
•    Wa. Rep. Rick Larsen: “When I am re-elected and Nancy Pelosi is re-elected, I will be voting for her for Speaker.”