One of the hackiest of hack Congressmen, Republican Pat Meehan of PA-07 will be noticeably absent when Trump comes back to collar counties of Philadelphia in his district to try to bamboozle the well educated suburban women with a phony child care plan.
Trump is doing very poorly in the collar counties of PA and that accounts for his losing this state.
So Pat “Profile in Courage” Meehan will be nowhere to be seen. You see Pat is a loyal foot soldier for Paul Ryan. He votes for the privatizing of Medicare, huge tax cuts for the rich, a totally anti-choice record, etc. But he plays a “moderate” to win his district. Pat is such a fraud, he even gave the response to President Obama’s address once saying he agreed that we needed more infrastructure spending, and then voted for the Ryan budget to eliminate it. The press has allowed Meehan to get away with this fraud for years, because he is a master of hiding and steers away from any but the most banal of public statements.
Pat is also in one of the most horrendously gerrymandered districts in the country. The map above doesn’t even tell the whole story. The same data firms that have been ruled by the courts in NC to have systematically tried to dilute African-American voters in the great gerrymander of 2010 drew the above monstrosity in the suburbs of Philadelphia. It is amazing the twists and turns that were taken to make sure Pat didn’t face too many black voters. The city of Chester was cut out of his district, just by chance I am sure….
I am old enough to remember the Bantustans in Union of South Africa drawn by the Nationalist Party to keep Whites in power. This district looks like the exact same thing. If this was another country we would be considering sanctions.
The press that has given Pat Meehan a pass for so long has to ask him and he should answer this one question?
“How can you Pat Meehan represent a district that was specifically designed to dilute black voters?”
Do you have any sense of honor, decency, morality? Or is being on the gravy train as a GOP hack just too good?
If you had any honor you would resign.
Contribute to his opponent Mary Ellen Balchunis to put an end to this kind of politics.
Act Blue PA-07