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(PA State Treasurer) Hafer switches to Democratic Party
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ^
| December 30, 2003
| Associated Press Wire
Posted on 12/30/2003 1:34:22 PM PST by buzzyboop
HARRISBURG, Pa. -- After months of speculation that she would switch her party affiliation from Republican to Democrat, state Treasurer Barbara Hafer told The Associated Press today that she had officially changed her registration.
Hafer, who is in her second term as treasurer and previously served two terms as auditor general between 1988 and 1996, said she had completed the paperwork for making the switch and had it filed yesterday.
She said she made the switch simply because she felt her progressive stance on social issues, such as her support of abortion rights, no longer fit with the Republican Party.
"I decided to change to a party that's more in line with my thinking," she said in a telephone interview from her home in Saltsburg, Indiana County.
Hafer, whose current term expires in 2005, has been mentioned as a possible opponent to Republican U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum in 2006 if she did switch parties. She said that while the prospect of running against Santorum was "interesting," she had not decided on any future political plans.
"I'm not there yet. I haven't made up my mind. It's a very big issue, and it's a ways off," she said.
Hafer angered Republicans when she endorsed Democratic Gov. Ed Rendell in the 2002 election.
TOPICS: Front Page News; Politics/Elections; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: democrats; hafer; pennsylvania; rendell; seeya
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Good Riddance, this was the follow-through on the long "threatened" exodus of the twit Hafer.
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posted on
12/30/2003 1:34:23 PM PST
by
buzzyboop
To: buzzyboop
I'm Shocked .. / sarcasm>
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posted on
12/30/2003 1:36:11 PM PST
by
Mo1
(House Work, If you do it right , will kill you!)
To: buzzyboop
She said she made the switch simply because she felt her progressive stance on social issues, such as her support of abortion rights, no longer fit with the Republican Party.Doesn't "progressive" mean being silent in the face of mass murder?
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posted on
12/30/2003 1:36:13 PM PST
by
zarf
(..where lieth those little things with the sort of raffia work base that has an attachment?)
To: buzzyboop; martin_fierro
I hope she takes that leftist cow Elsie Hillman with her.
Burgh thing ping please.
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posted on
12/30/2003 1:36:48 PM PST
by
Petronski
(I'm not always cranky.)
To: buzzyboop
Don't let the door hit ya where God split ya!
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posted on
12/30/2003 1:36:58 PM PST
by
The G Man
(Wesley Clark is just Howard Dean in combat boots)
To: buzzyboop
Running into the burning house?
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posted on
12/30/2003 1:38:07 PM PST
by
Plutarch
To: buzzyboop
CYa. One giant leap forward for the PA GOP!
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posted on
12/30/2003 1:38:20 PM PST
by
JohnnyZ
(Abolish the food tax)
To: buzzyboop
Losing Hafer is kinda like losing that light-hitting utility infielder to free agency. You don't lose any sleep over it.
BTW, I wonder how many PA Dems will recall her calling the late Gov. Robert Casey a "Redneck blankety-blank"? Casey was probably the last prominent Democratic politician to be anti-abortion, too.
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posted on
12/30/2003 1:39:27 PM PST
by
Tallguy
(I can't think of anything to say -- John Entwistle in "The Kids are Alright")
To: buzzyboop
Sort of like leaping from a lifeboat back on to the Titanic.
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posted on
12/30/2003 1:40:45 PM PST
by
anoldafvet
(Democrats: Making the world safe for terrorists one lie at a time.)
To: buzzyboop
"I decided to change to a party that's more in line with my thinking,"GOOD THINKING...does PA have a communist party???
To: zarf
Ridiculous - there are way too
many pro-abortion Pubbies as it
is. Governors of NY & CA, not to
mention Senator Specter from her
own state. What's really going on?
To: Petronski
I hope she takes that leftist cow Elsie Hillman with her. Damn. I was gonna say that. Well, not the "cow" part, but the general sentiment.
SD
To: buzzyboop
"...such as her support of abortion rights, no longer fit with the Republican Party." When did the Republican party ever have a pro-abortion plank in the party platform?
To: zarf
I never understood that word 'progressive'.
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posted on
12/30/2003 1:45:41 PM PST
by
MarkeyD
(Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.)
To: buzzyboop
Hillary's lover
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posted on
12/30/2003 1:46:25 PM PST
by
evets
To: evets
Thank you, Mizzzzzzzzzzzz Hafer, for further proving my theory that the RATs are the party of ugly women......
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posted on
12/30/2003 1:50:08 PM PST
by
clintonh8r
(You know that KoolAid the RATs have been drinking? Well, I'm the guy who's been pissing in it.)
To: MarkeyD
Good Go and may GOD be with you. Your broom awaits
To: buzzyboop
She said she made the switch simply because she felt her progressive stance on social issues, such as her support of abortion rights, no longer fit with the Republican Party. How the hell is supporting/celebrating the murder of an unborn child "progressive"!!? Is murder a "social issue"? Good riddance to bad garbage. I wish that all pro-infanticide dirtbags would get their butts out of the Republican Party (and the U.S. for that matter).
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posted on
12/30/2003 1:56:27 PM PST
by
Spiff
(Have you committed a random act of thoughtcrime today?)
To: theriotcat
Huh?
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posted on
12/30/2003 1:57:12 PM PST
by
MarkeyD
(Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.)
To: buzzyboop
To liberal for Northeastern Republican Lite® even? Good riddance.
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