The group expects to be especially active ahead of upcoming elections in Virginia, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, according to preliminary plans shared with The Associated Press this week.
Gallego travels to Pennsylvania’s First Congressional District and will be joined by Bucks County Commissioner Bob Harvie, who is running against Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, “to engage the constituents Fitzpatrick is ignoring as he backs his party’s reckless budget resolution.”
“We should be expanding access, not taking it away. Every child deserves a fair and equitable start, and I’ll fight in Congress to protect programs like Head Start that make that possible,” said Bucks County Commissioner Bob Harvie, a Democratic candidate for Congress in PA-01.
“If there are $880 billion dollars of Medicaid cuts being proposed, you would not have had to ask me to sign onto the letter, I would have written it myself,” said his Democratic challenger Bob Harvie.
More than 100 voters gathered outside the Republican Congressman’s office hoping he will have the courage to actually stand up for what’s best for his constituents.
This bill will disenfranchise millions of voters, especially rural voters, voters of color, and married women who have chosen to change their last names, as numerous nonpartisan organizations have pointed out. But for Fitzpatrick it just didn’t matter.
Congressional Republicans hope those rules would save more than $109 billion over a decade.
“The reason I win tough races is simple – I listen to people and I fight for them,” Harvie said.
We need a representative in Congress who engages not in sophistry, but in truth-telling, and one who has the courage to have in-person town halls open to all their constituents, writes Newtown’s Steve Cickay.
Fitzpatrick has been avoiding town halls for years before it became so popular with the rest of the Republican Party.
At the very least, these Republicans ought to stop hiding and host public town halls to explain their positions.
More than 1 million Pennsylvanians could lose their health insurance, including 350,000 children.
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The Center for American Progress projects Fitzpatrick’s First Congressional District could see $1.31 billion in funding loss for Medicaid and CHIP over 9 years, while 25,000 of his constituents could have their coverage eliminated.
Participants of Indivisible Bucks County’s action delivered a unified message to the elusive congressman who doesn’t hold public in-person town halls: “You’re our representative. Get to work and fix this.”
The Republican Congressman owes his constituents an explanation about where he stands on this divisive issue. And why aren’t local newspapers chasing this story?
The Louisiana Republican’s hold on the House speaker’s gavel and his position as second in line to the presidency will be tested Friday when a new Congress convenes.
The events of this past week are more than just a preview of the dysfunction to come — they are a stark reminder of what happens when chaos is mistaken for governance, writes Bucks County’s Colin Coyle.
