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Wed Oct 10, 2018, 02:56 PM Oct 2018

New PA House District Map Forces GOPers To Battle For Their Political Life

By MARC LEVY
October 10, 2018 12:59 pm
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Scott Perry has won his conservative district by no fewer than 25 percentage points on his way to three terms in Congress, but a sweeping redraw of Pennsylvania’s House district boundaries has forced several Republican congressmen into newly competitive seats, Perry as much as anyone.

Now, Perry — a member of the Freedom Caucus, a particularly conservative group of House Republicans — is battling for his political life in conservative central Pennsylvania, and the state has emerged as a keystone for Democrats aiming to recapture a House majority.

George Scott, the Democrat challenging Perry, is a first-time candidate and Lutheran pastor who, like Perry, served with the Army in Iraq. Democrats like Scott’s chances enough that the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is dropping $260,000 into the race to attack Perry on TV.

On Saturday, Scott greeted canvassers at a suburban Harrisburg gathering where people buzzed about a poll showing a neck-and-neck race, then sped off for a pancake breakfast and a booth at a pumpkin festival.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/pennsylvania-house-map-redraw-republicans-competitive-seats

Hey Scott, your shit caucus, is funded by the fucking Koch's.....................that fucking says it all.
Your a libertarian asshole you shut down my government to bankrupt me and my family and my friends, you voted to do that asshole, what happened if there was an outbreak of an attack on this country.....................

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