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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,035 posts)
Fri Oct 18, 2013, 09:00 PM Oct 2013

Will Dave Reichert get Koch blocked?

Today in As the Republicans Turn on Each Other: A Koch-funded group, Americans for Limited Government, slams Washington State Republican Congressman Dave Reichert via the following press release:

When it counted, Rep. Reichert was nowhere to be found in the fight to defund Obamacare. Just three weeks after taking a symbolic vote in favor of defunding, when it finally mattered Reichert turned around and voted to allow funding for the implementation of Obamacare to take effect. By voting to fund it, Reichert now owns Obamacare just as much as if it had been a vote to adopt it in the first place. There is no running away from that fact.

No running! Is this a signal that Reichert will have a Tea Party challenger when he's up for election next year.

http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2013/10/18/the-koch-brothers-vs-republican-dave-reichert

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Will Dave Reichert get Koch blocked? (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2013 OP
his district will not KT2000 Oct 2013 #1
Everyone in our state's delagation voted for the resolution. Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2013 #3
His district is a kind of a flip disctrict gopiscrap Oct 2013 #2
I don't think he KT2000 Oct 2013 #4
Have fun with that.... Wounded Bear Oct 2013 #5

KT2000

(20,583 posts)
1. his district will not
Fri Oct 18, 2013, 09:13 PM
Oct 2013

support a tea party challenger.
If he had not voted the way he did - he would have been out!

Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,035 posts)
3. Everyone in our state's delagation voted for the resolution.
Fri Oct 18, 2013, 11:52 PM
Oct 2013

Which is why I find the article absurd. The two Eastern Washington Republicans stand a greater chance of successfully being primaried.

gopiscrap

(23,761 posts)
2. His district is a kind of a flip disctrict
Fri Oct 18, 2013, 09:24 PM
Oct 2013

the thing I can't stand about him is that he got to this position by stepping on the graves of the Green River killer victims. And the weird thing about it is that it only took him 20 years to find the guy!!!!

KT2000

(20,583 posts)
4. I don't think he
Sat Oct 19, 2013, 01:50 AM
Oct 2013

is the brightest bulb. I think he got elected because of his looks and bland demeanor. I too didn't understand the hero worship over Green River. He missed a lot of clues over those 20 years.

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