Republican Squires Want Democrat Congresswoman — Not a dime’s worth of difference. Say it once then say it twice, the establishment is fighting for its bowl of rice.
And party labels are meaningless as the eternally tax-filled rice bowl is happily shared by the squire set.
Three former Chester County GOP chairman — Alan Novak, Joseph “Skip” Brion and William Lamb — have endorsed Democrat incumbent Congresswoman Chrissy Houlahan in her 6th District race against Guy Ciarrocchi.
The district includes almost all of Pennsylvania’s Chester County and a part of Berks County.
The endorsement comes despite Chrissy calling Republicans “diseased” and voting 100 percent with Nancy Pelosi.
“I get that she votes with her leadership when she has to,” said Novak but he explained that she votes with Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick (R-1), too.
For the math challenged, this means that Fitzpatrick, who is part of the establishment, votes with Pelosi at times.
Linda Stein has an excellent story on the matter for the Delaware Valley Journal.
If you want change vote for those the establishment oppose.
Once again, Bill, you hit the nail on the head. For those who may not know, many of us remember this contingent of R “elites” as friends of Val DiGirogio (Chesco politics never seems to rid itself of flotsam of any kind). Times must be hard considering those who once elicited bowing-and-scraping among Chesco’s ill-equipped but politically hungry R office seekers now find themselves in the “bread line” for the other party (Houlahan is, at best, a political back-bencher, even amongst her own). It would be sad except that there is always a danger in keeping the self-seeking around, albeit in the wings. Beware Dr. Turzian, you have a few of their former (?) friends on your Executive Co)mmittee. Conservative voters know this is a critical year to vote all Republican if we are to retain any semblance of democracy, but the presence of wolves among us supports caution and impedes full trust–after the election, we will be watching.
Bill, great story, thanks for covering it.
The story mentions one of these political traitors (they are fungible, so why bother saying which one) as saying that the reason he supports “Chrissy” is that she doesn’t vote lockstep with the Democrats. And another one supports her because she votes with Brian Fitzpatrick. But as you point out, the truth is “Chrissy” votes 100 percent of the time with Nancy Pelosi. So the claimed “justifications” are just baloney.
The real reason they support her is that they earn money lobbying and appearing before government entities (it also helps that they don’t really care about any issues and never have –their “service” as party chairs was just about feathering their own nests). And they know that: (a) “Chrissy” will probably win and be there to play ball with them; and (b) that they can get things for themselves and their money-paying customers from “Chrissy.” So why rock the boat and support a Republican.