Posted on 11/10/2014 12:45:03 PM PST by Clintonfatigued
Assessing the candidates vying to represent Bucks County in Congress, it’s easy to get hung up on the residency issue. But it’s a mistake to do so.
Incumbent Republican Mike Fitzpatrick is a Bucks County native. He grew up here, went to school here, climbed the political ladder here, eventually serving as county commissioner and then as our congressman. It’s Fitzpatrick’s second run, having been unseated several years ago but reclaiming the seat and now making what he said would be his final bid to represent Bucks and a portion of Montgomery County in Washington, D.C.
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Fitzpatrick made a term limits pledge and is doing the honorable thing by keeping his word. This way, Republicans have plenty of time to find a successor.
In a related matter, Mike Crapo of Idaho won’t seen another term in the U.S. Senate.
Term limits for us but not for them is unilateral disarmament.
I would much rather have Congressman Fitzpatrick, one of the good guys in Congress and the most conservative congressman from Bucks County in decades, to have run for one more term and then run for either Senator or Governor in 2018, particularly since it will be easier for the GOP to hold that swing district (Romney carried it by 0.1%) in midterm 2018 than in presidential 2016.
Are you sure that Crapo won’t seek another term in the Senate? He announced three months ago that he would run for reelection: http://www.ktvb.com/story/news/politics/2014/08/17/mike-crapo-seeking-reelection/14203875/
Yeah, to hell with “honor”. I’d rather not have that seat open in a POTUS year.
Term limit pledges are dumb.
As for Crapo, I see no retirement news. I did hear he won’t be able to be a committee chair till the next congress.
Is he gonna be the next Roberts? Mark Levin gonna go off on him while John McCain is ignored? At least he’s done something bad, serving on Obama’s debt commission and voting for it’s report.
It appears that outgoing Lt. Gov. Jim Cawley may run for Fitzpatrick’s seat, so there’s a first-tier candidate for the GOP. It would’ve been curious to see if Cawley would’ve won reelection if he had been a stand-alone on the ballot. The bad news is that PA won’t have a single GOP statewide officeholder (excluding Senator & the state judiciary) for the first time since 1971-1979.
That stinks.
I do think it’s stupid though to have the LT elected separately.
IL Lt used to be separate until the 1970 constitution. Only once though was the winning Lt. from the other party during the 20th century. Scumbag Paul Simon (D) won narrowly in 1968 and served under a GOP Governor.
And, if you’ll remember, Simon (despite being from way downstate), was the Combine’s pick in 1972 to challenge Gov. Dick Ogilvie (who swiftly became very unpopular for pushing through the income tax - and destroying his viability for President or VP for 1976), only to have Dan Walker grab it out from under him (an unforgiveable sin - and Walker got “the treatment” usually reserved only for Conservative Republicans - even though he was a liberal Democrat). I almost felt sorry for the poor bastard.
Did you tell that when Walker was in prison he heard the guy in the next cell over getting shawshanked?
BTW have you ever heard of “Illinois Issues”, a political periodical with an archive online, I recently remember it, I first visited the site maybe 12 years ago.
http://www.lib.niu.edu/iilistyrs.html
Here’s their little article on the 1972 primary results.
http://www.lib.niu.edu/1976/ii760524.html
1976 results, rather. Unfortunately it only goes back to 1975.
I can’t remember where I saw it, but it may have been based on inaccurate information.
From what I understood, Walker’s stint in prison was largely unjustified (plus, unlike some of the other Guvs who ended up in the klink, his had nothing to do with when he served in office). I heard him speak on it, and it obviously traumatized him.
Yeah the charges don’t sound like much. He clearly pissed off a lot of powerful people.
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