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Youngest Woman Elected to Congress Seeks Middle Ground
WSJ via Google ^ | January 2, 2015 | Mara Gay

Posted on 01/03/2015 8:43:55 AM PST by Maceman

WATERTOWN, N.Y.— Elise Stefanik, the youngest woman ever elected to Congress, has never held elected office, but her résumé looks more like that of a Beltway insider than a political newcomer.

By the time she won her seat representing a swath of upstate New York in the November election, she had served as a domestic policy aide for former President George W. Bush , a policy director for former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty ’s 2012 presidential campaign and head of debate preparation for vice-presidential nominee Rep. Paul Ryan .

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Minnesota; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 114th; elisestefanik; millennials; minnesota; newyork; paulryan; stefanik; timpawlenty; women
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To: CodeToad
She is a coward that will not state her positions. That means she will waffle based on what it will take to stay elected. We need representatives with an adult sense of backbone, not another spineless wimp whose only position is that to get re-elected.

Yes, it IS cowardice not to state her positions on the real HOT issues,that is, same-sex unions. She will either learn or leave Congress.

YOU sound heavily laced with backbone. You ought to think about running for office yourself.

41 posted on 01/03/2015 9:51:40 AM PST by cloudmountain
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To: Maceman

WHEN will we STOP qualifying every. single. thing.

Oldest. Youngest. First black this. First woman that. First openly homosexual.

I hope that someday before I die our country will not make an issue over race/gender/etc.

The politics of division at its finest.


42 posted on 01/03/2015 9:55:19 AM PST by Reddy (B.O. stinks)
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To: Reddy
If she doesn't know where the boundaries are, how can she say she is “middle of the road”? She hasn't yet got her feet wet in the mess we call congress.She needs to pick a side a represent that side. Something tells me she is in for a great educating process.
43 posted on 01/03/2015 10:04:11 AM PST by DaveA37
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To: Reddy
If she doesn't know where the boundaries are, how can she say she is “middle of the road”? She hasn't yet got her feet wet in the mess we call congress.She needs to pick a side a represent that side. Something tells me she is in for a great educating process.
44 posted on 01/03/2015 10:04:11 AM PST by DaveA37
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Republican, 31 years old, elected in New York, hasn’t been sworn in yet, but it’s *obvious* she’s what’s wrong in Washington. /s


45 posted on 01/03/2015 10:09:39 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: dmz

“I favor posting ad hominems on anonymous Internet forums about folks not in the discussion.”

Then maybe you and your delicate sensibilities need to leave the Internet completely least they make you cry.


46 posted on 01/03/2015 10:17:10 AM PST by CodeToad (Islam should be outlawed and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: Reddy

“WHEN will we STOP qualifying every. single. thing.”

Dittos! She is an elected representative in the US Congress and we need to hold her to that. THAT position outweighs every single other property of her existence. I couldn’t care less about what or who she is, I care about what she represents in our Congress.


47 posted on 01/03/2015 10:19:16 AM PST by CodeToad (Islam should be outlawed and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: cloudmountain

“Personally insulting people is a SURE-FIRE way for making SURE that they will NOT change and WILL dig in...just to spite YOUR nastiness. “

BS. THAT position has led to this Dr. Spock non-accountability that has ruined this country. No one has to fear personal losses because no one has to face so much as a harsh word.

This non-accountability viewpoint means they don’t have to listen to your idiotic viewpoints because they know you don’t have the backbone to hold them accountable. You are afraid to so much as upset them with an unkind word.

You are no doubt someone that won’t spank a child for fear that your intellectual reasoning with a screaming 2 year old will be compromised and an angry child who just got spanked won’t listen. Guess what, that isn’t how it actually works in the real world.

To bring Christianity into this is your arrogance and Pride that very un-Christian. Being pious is not Christian.


48 posted on 01/03/2015 10:24:20 AM PST by CodeToad (Islam should be outlawed and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: Maceman

Well, she probably knows where the ladies room is anyway.


49 posted on 01/03/2015 10:29:46 AM PST by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: SunkenCiv

“Republican, 31 years old, elected in New York, hasn’t been sworn in yet, but it’s *obvious* she’s what’s wrong in Washington. /s”

What does her age have to do with how she is held accountable as a congressional representative? She asked for the job, she was elected for the job, she will be held accountable for that job. She is not a 2 year old, she is an adult.

Second, we don’t have to wait to be screwed to know the positions she is holding will screw us. I don’t need someone holding a gun to my head to actually pull the trigger and blow my brains out to know I need to action first.

She refuses to state her positions, is propped up by the likes of Bonehead, and has no real world experience outside of DC. Do I really need to wait to see how she might act to know what she will most likely do? How many years of screwing us over do we have top wait before holding judgment? We can judge her by what she has already presented. If she doesn’t like our judgment then it is her responsibility to present a differing set of facts.

Just how old does she need to be before you stop quoting her age in some retarded reasoning that we shouldn’t judge her? 50 years old? 75 years old? Her age is of no consequence in this matter. Only the mere fact that she is a representative matters.


50 posted on 01/03/2015 10:29:54 AM PST by CodeToad (Islam should be outlawed and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: all the best
Middle Ground:

Ignore half of all voters.

Abort half of all pregnancies.

Confiscate half of all guns.

Limit half of all speech.

Tax (at least) half of all income.

Lose half of all wars.

While:

Making no waves.

Offending no senior colleagues.

Opposing no major donors.

Deporting no illegals.

Cutting no spending.

Eliminating no programs.

Do nothing, never, ever, no-ways to change the ways and means of Washington except to further its cancerous growth.

51 posted on 01/03/2015 10:33:22 AM PST by Fightin Whitey
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To: CodeToad

Speaking of Boneheads, pick a better strawman.

Her age is her age, its only pertinence is that she doesn’t have much history, political or otherwise.

Since you say she refuses to state her positions — and I’m giving you the benefit of the doubt on that — and yet, psychic-call-line-style, you claim that “the positions she is holding will screw us.”


52 posted on 01/03/2015 10:35:24 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Popman; 9YearLurker; cloudmountain; Steamburg; rabidralph; real saxophonist; Safetgiver; dmz

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3243164/posts?page=52#52


53 posted on 01/03/2015 10:43:09 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: CodeToad
Prediction:

This nice woman, this well-connected RINO Dealmaker, will be in Congress for another 50 years.

(a)Watertown is fairly safe Republican Territory, IIRC. Great old town with lots of money, and a mercifully low non-white population to worry about. Leave-it-to-Beaverville.
(b) She will ALWAYS have the female vote
(c) The ladies love this "Middle of the Road, Play together Nicely, Share, Spend more on "Education," Gun Control" crap. That's why they love RINO's. In fact, IMNVHO, the Ladies' Vote is one of the main reasons RINOs are alive and well!

Relax, Watertown. You elected a Boehner Bimbo. District should see a lot of goodies!

54 posted on 01/03/2015 11:01:16 AM PST by Kenny Bunk (The fate of the Republic rests in the hands of the '15 -16 Congress. God help us.)
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To: all the best

Confucius say” “Man (or woman) who sit on fence deserve stick up the a$$.”


55 posted on 01/03/2015 11:15:08 AM PST by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners. And to the NSA trolls, FU)
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To: Maceman

Her resume sounds like she’s been around politicians far too long for one so young. We’ll be “middle-grounding” our way into a dismal, collectivist state if this keeps up.


56 posted on 01/03/2015 12:09:11 PM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: Maceman

Ties to George W., Paul Ryan, and Pawlenty.

Any wonder why she’s a RINO?


57 posted on 01/03/2015 12:54:57 PM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (Everytime the cash register rings in a gun store, a Founding Father gets his wings.)
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To: Maceman

RINO’s come in both sexes


58 posted on 01/03/2015 1:24:31 PM PST by RnMomof7 (Ga 4:16)
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To: SunkenCiv

“Since you say she refuses to state her positions — and I’m giving you the benefit of the doubt on that — and yet, psychic-call-line-style, you claim that “the positions she is holding will screw us.””

When someone is not willing to talk about their positions then we know from history that their positions will not be based on ethics but on politics and that ALWAYS screw us.


59 posted on 01/03/2015 1:42:44 PM PST by CodeToad (Islam should be outlawed and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: Kenny Bunk

“will be in Congress for another 50 years.”

You got it. She’ll be great at playing the game but not at representing the people.


60 posted on 01/03/2015 1:43:22 PM PST by CodeToad (Islam should be outlawed and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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