FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 23, 2010
CONTACT: Levi Russell at (509) 979-6615 or via email at: [email protected]

TEA PARTY EXPRESS IS PROUD TO RELEASE PART I
OF OUR NATIONAL ENDORSEMENT LIST FOR CONGRESS
PART I: Western United States

The Tea Party Express (website: http://www.TeaPartyExpress.org) is proud to release the following list of endorsed candidates for the House & Senate as Part I of our three-part national endorsement list.

The Tea Party Express will be directing its 400,000+ supporters to not only vote for these candidates, but volunteer on their campaigns in the days leading up to the November 2nd election.

Also, the Tea Party Express will also be making sizable financial contributions to a number of these campaigns in addition to sizable independent expenditure efforts on behalf of a number of these candidates.

The endorsement list can be viewed online here:

http://www.teapartyexpress.org/endorse/

WESTERN UNITED STATES

ALASKA
U.S. Senate: Joe Miller to defeat Lisa Murkowski (I) and Scott McAdams (D)

ARIZONA
AZ-1 Paul Gosar to defeat Ann Kirkpatrick
AZ-3 Ben Quayle to defeat Jon Hulburd
AZ-4 Janet Contreras to defeat Ed Pastor
AZ-5 David Schweikert to defeat Harry Mitchell
AZ-7 Ruth McClung to defeat Raul Grijalva
AZ-8 Jesse Kelly to defeat Gabrielle Giffords

CALIFORNIA
U.S. Senate: Carly Fiorina to defeat Barbara Boxer

CA-1 Loren Hanks to defeat Mike Thompson
CA-2 Wally Herger to defeat Jim Reed
CA-3 Dan Lungren to defeat Ami Bera
CA-4 Tom McClintock to defeat Clint Curtis
CA-11 David Harmer to defeat Jerry McNerney
CA-18 Mike Berryhill to defeat Dennis Cardoza
CA-20 Andy Vidak to defeat Jim Costa
CA-21 Devin Nunes – unopposed
CA-22 Kevin McCarthy – unopposed
CA-23 Tom Watson to defeat Lois Capps
CA-24 Elton Gallegly to defeat Tim Allison
CA-25 Buck McKeon to defeat Jackie Conaway
CA-29 John Colbert to defeat Adam Schiff
CA-39 Star Parker to defeat Laura Richardson
CA-40 Ed Royce to defeat Christina Avalos
CA-41 Jerry Lewis to defeat Pat Meagher
CA-42 Gary Miller to defeat Michael Williamson
CA-44 Ken Calvert to defeat Bill Hendrick
CA-46 Dana Rohrabacher to defeat Ken Arnold
CA-47 Van Tran to defeat Loretta Sanchez
CA-48 John Campbell to defeat Beth Krom
CA-50 Brian Bilbray to defeat Francine Busby
CA-51 Nick Popaditch to defeat Bob Filner
CA-52 Duncan Hunter to defeat Ray Lutz

COLORADO
U.S. Senate: Ken Buck to defeat Michael Bennet

CO-1 Dr. Mike Fallon to defeat Diana DeGette
CO-2 Stephen Bailey to defeat Jared Polis
CO-3 Scott Tipton to defeat John Salazar
CO-4 Cory Gardner to defeat Betsy Markey
CO-5 Doug Lamborn to defeat Kevin Bradley
CO-6 Mike Coffman to defeat John Flerlage
CO-7 Ryan Frazier to defeat Ed Perlmutter

HAWAII
HI-1: Charles Djou to defeat Colleen Hanabusa

IDAHO
U.S. Senate: Mike Crapo to defeat Tom Sullivan

ID-1 Raul Labrador to defeat Walt Minnick
ID-2 Michael Simpson to defeat Mike Crawford

MONTANA
MT-AL Denny Rehberg to defeat Dennis McDonald

NEVADA
U.S. Senate: Sharron Angle to defeat Harry Reid

NV-2 Dean Heller to defeat Nancy Price
NV-3 Joe Heck to defeat Dina Titus

NEW MEXICO
NM-1 Jon Barela to defeat Martin Heinrich
NM-2 Steve Pearce to defeat Harry Teague
NM-3 Tom Mullins to defeat Ben Ray Lujan

OREGON
OR-1 Rob Cornilles to defeat David Wu
OR-2 Greg Walden to defeat Joyce Segers
OR-4 Art Robinson to defeat Peter DeFazio
OR-5 Scott Bruun to defeat Kurt Schrader

UTAH
U.S. Senate: Mike Lee to defeat Sam Granato

UT-1 Rob Bishop to defeat Morgan Bowen
UT-2 Morgan Philpot to defeat Jim Matheson
UT-3 Jason Chaffetz to defeat Karen Hyer

WASHINGTON
U.S. Senate: Dino Rossi to defeat Patty Murray

WA-1 James Watkins to defeat Jay Inslee
WA-2 John Koster to defeat Rick Larsen
WA-3 Jaime Herrara to defeat Danny Heck
WA-4 Doc Hastings to defeat Jay Clough
WA-5 Cathy McMorris Rodgers to defeat Daryl Romeyn
WA-6 Doug Cloud to defeat Norm Dicks
WA-9 Dick Muri to defeat Adam Smith

WYOMING
WY-AL Cynthia Lummis to defeat David Wendt