Long Time Blue Dog Pennsylvania congressman loses to Personal Injury lawyer in Primary

[Ichingcarpenter]

PITTSBURGH (AP) — U.S. Rep. Tim Holden, the longest-serving member of Pennsylvania's congressional delegation, has lost his re-election bid in a Democratic primary race in a newly redrawn district.

Personal injury attorney Matt Cartwright spent nearly $400,000 in the race against Holden, who was elected to Congress in 1992 and was one of its conservative, so-called Blue Dog Democrats.

Cartwright's campaign hit Holden with allegations that he was too conservative for the district's voters, citing his vote against President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.

Cartwright will face Scranton tea party activist Laureen Cummings in the fall.


http://www.newsmax.com/Politics/PennsylvaniaPrimary-Congress/2012/04/24/id/436962

Sorry about the newmax link:


Holden voted against Obamacare, voted for US invasion of Iraq
and with other republicans in many cases


I don't know about Cartwright but it is a conservative district.

[jerseyjack]

1. S'what if its a conservative district.

Etch-a-sketch isn't expensive.

[CanonRay]

2. Good riddance.

Don't let the door hit you on the way out.

[liskddksil]

3. It's now a bluer district thanks to re-districting.

Cartwright was well known in the new parts of the district, more-so than the incumbent.