Although U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-California, received votes from over three-quarters of her peers to lead House Democrats for another term, U.S. Rep. Ron Kind, D-Wisconsin, was not among her supporters.
Kind, a moderate Democrat, narrowly defeated his opponent state Sen. Dan Kapanke, R-La Crosse, in the midterm elections. Kapanke's campaign often attacked Kind for being too liberal, and in one statement accused the congressman of ""parroting the big spending ways of Nancy Pelosi and the liberal Congress.""
""It's time we have leaders in both parties who can come together, sit down and address the challenges our country is facing to get our country moving in the right direction again,"" Kind said in a statement to WisPolitics.com. ""I just don't see that ability or intention in either party right now.
Pelosi ran against U.S. Rep. Heath Shuler, D-North Carolina.
