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Title: RINO Kingmakers Wipe Tea Party Seats Off Map
Source:
Newsmax
URL Source: http://www.newsmax.com/InsideCover/ ... eredseats/2011/04/23/id/393854
Published: Apr 23, 2011
Author: Charles J. Little
Post Date: 2011-04-23 17:44:41 by Happy Quanzaa
Keywords: RINOs, liberals, prog pubbies
Views: 2496
Comments: 2
House freshmen from several GOP-majority states are in danger of Tea Party,redistricting,House freshmen,endangered seats,Republican establishment,National Journallosing out in a political realignment that rewards more connected veteran representatives. It may be cold comfort to tea partyers that the hostile redistricting process proves their point: They really don’t belong to the political establishment. “They did not have ties with incumbents and weren’t afforded a seat at the table,” said political journalist Ed Feigenbaum. Rep. Jeffrey Landry, a tea party-backed winner last November in Louisiana, saw his seat vaporized under redistricting. Louisiana’s GOP power brokers also scattered Landry’s base of support across multiple congressional districts so that four-term Rep. Charles Boutsany can survive any potential 2012 primary challenge from Landry. Louisiana has to give up one congressional seat because of sluggish population growth over the ten-year period counted by the latest Census. But even in faster-growing states that will hold all their seats, or gain seats, Republicans are eating their young and moving to protect well-connected incumbents over tea partyers. Read more on Newsmax.com: GOP Kingmakers Wipe Tea Party Seats Off Map
GOP Kingmakers Wipe Tea Party Seats Off Map
Tea party lawmakers are being targeted for elimination by their own party, as old-guard Republicans use the Census-mandated redistricting process to erase seats won by last year’s upstarts, the National Journal reports.
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#1. To: Happy Quanzaa (#0)
This could easily backfire on the Republicans, with Tea Party candidate wins in adjacent districts.
I recall a re-run of MASH I saw where this uber right winger named Colonel Flagg... Ultimately, people who believe in liberty are going to have to abandon both political parties. It could start this year with an independent run by either Palin or Trump once it's clear that RINO Romney will win the GOP presidential nomination.
states that will hold all their seats, or gain seats, Republicans are eating their young and moving to protect well-connected incumbents over tea partyers
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
Godwinson posted on 2011-02-23 11:47:32 ET
http://libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=18011&Disp=46#C46
#2. To: Happy Quanzaa (#0)
"Everything that can be invented has been invented."-- Charles Duell, Commissioner of US Patent Office, 1899
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