[Alberta's Child]

The House Republican Conference chair position has become nothing more than a symbolic "diversity" post that the GOP reserves for women for purely political reasons. I went through a list of those who held that post over the last 30+ years, and found them to be a mix of prominent, inconsequential, and even completely unknown GOP reps.

Stefanik may not be around for a long time anyway. With New York losing one House seat after the 2020 census, the state's Democratic legislature may look to gerrymander her district out of existence.

[Fury]

Re: 23 - Agreed. It’s reasonable to conclude that Stefanik got the job because she was a female. There were plenty of other qualified candidates.

[chiller]

Stefanik is a NY republican by birth, but witnessed the vile tactics used against her party, so she’s moving right. She’ll be OK in this spot. Sharp, well spoken, and likable. She fits in a “big tent” R party, imho. Supports DjT.

The fascinating question is who NY Ds will gerrymander out of a job. Its more likely Schumer and Pelosi consider AOC much more of a pain in the ass and dangerous than 1 upstate R could ever be.

Each partisan vote in the house makes a difference in this session, (218D-215R as it is today) but Pelosi should realize she’ll lose 20-60 D seats in 18 months, so one lone R seat won’t make a difference.

Americans will not stand for Obie’s anti-American tyranny. 60 seats may be generous.

Elise is also considering a run for Guv., but in NY ?.....