By Alex Roarty
PoliticsPA Staff Writer
roarty@politicspa.com
State GOP Chairman Rob Gleason Jr. said Monday that Democratic congressmen and women would benefit politically if they scrapped President Obama’s health care bill and started with new, bipartisan legislation.
“It seems to me if they don’t support the bill and it goes away, and they work with Republicans, I think it would really be to their advantage,” the chairman said. “I don’t see a downside.”
Gleason joined Senate candidate Pat Toomey on an afternoon conference call to respond to President Obama’s visit to the state earlier Monday. The two men reiterated continually they think the Democrats’ health care bill is “guaranteed to destroy jobs” and has been rejected by a majority of Pennsylvania voters.
Gleason said he thinks some in-state congressional representatives, such as Chris Carney or Kathy Dahlkemper, might change their vote to oppose the health care legislation. If they don’t, Republicans plan to turn their support into a major campaign issue, the chairman said.
“They won’t hear the last of this if they vote in support of this,” he said. “We won’t let a day go by where we don’t remind the voters in their districts of this.”
Tags: Chris Carney health care, Kathy Dahlkemper health care, Rob Gleason
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