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2. Because those types of (R)s ONLY have a few issues where they will buck their party

Reply to pnwmom (Reply #1)

Wed Jan 28, 2026, 05:53 AM

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while they CONTINUE to support EVERY OTHER DRACONIAN GOP POLICY.

Fitzpatrick's district is SWING and has voted (D) for most of the presidential elections. He is there mainly due to family ties (his brother had the seat earlier, with a (D) (Patrick Murphy), who had won the seat during the 2006 (D) comeback (after 12 years out of the House majority) and was reelected in 2008 (being there in between Fitzpatricks), but he got wiped out with the teabagger 2010 avalanche.

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