Texas Rep. Pete Sessions, the chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, has drawn a challenger in the 2010 Republican primary in the state's Dallas-area 32nd District.

David Smith, a corporate financial analyst, said that he is readying a campaign that will focus on accountability, fiscal responsibility and the economy. He plans an official campaign kickoff event on Monday.

Smith, who recently moved to Dallas from Denton County north of the city, opposed Sessions' votes in 2008 for a $700 billion program to stabilize the financial markets. He said the party hasn't adhered to fiscally conservative principles outlined in GOP platforms.

Rep. Pete Sessions, R-Texas, and the National Republican Congressional Committee are going all in to help former Rep. Steve Pearce take back New Mexico's 2nd District.

The NRCC, which is bullish about Pearce's prospects of unseating freshman Democrat Harry Teague, gave Pearce $5,000 in the second quarter and Sessions chipped in another $5,000 from his political action committee and $2,000 from his personal campaign committee, helping push the Republican past $500,000 for the period.

Pearce raised $452,000 from individuals and another $55,000 from PACs and party committees to reach that huge total. Other House Republicans, including Minority Leader John A. Boehner of Ohio, Lamar Smith of Texas, Spencer Bachus of Alabama, John Kline of Minnesota and John L. Mica of Florida, also chipped in to Pearce's campaign.

New York Assemblyman Greg Ball became the 15th candidate to join the National Republican Congressional Committee's "Young Guns" program Monday.

Ball, who is taking on second-term Democratic Rep. John Hall in New York's 19th District, was added to the first tier of the party program for GOP candidate recruits, known as "On the Radar," part of a three-step process toward earning the label "Young Gun." The program began in 2007 as a counterweight to a similar system used by Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee to groom their top crop of challengers, called "Red to Blue."

"By achieving 'On the Radar' status, Ball has already proven his ability to build a successful campaign structure and achieve important fundraising goals," the NRCC said in a release.

To move up, candidates are expected to meet certain outreach and fundraising benchmarks.

Florida Democratic Rep. Alan Grayson, whose 8th District is a GOP target for 2010, sought to attract fundraising dollars Thursday by launching an attack on National Republican Congressional Commitee (NRCC) Chairman Pete Sessions.

Freshman Grayson called Sessions, a Texas congressman, "crazy, "a lunatic," "demented," and "paranoid" in a fundraising e-mail to supporters.

Grayson attacked Sessions for stating that President Obama wishes to "inflict damage and hardship on the free enterprise system" and for the national party's attempts to blame Grayson personally for the national debt.