In RepScottPerry's district, stridency against GOPLeader Kevin McCarthy is falling flat, writes Salena Zito.
HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania — Charlie Gerow, a Harrisburg-based media consultant and vice chairman of CPAC, has voted for Rep. Scott Perry numerous times. However, like numerous central Pennsylvania voters who live in Perry’s 10th Congressional District, Gerow said he found himself profoundly at odds with Perry's decision to oppose Rep. Kevin McCarthy for speaker.
Perry, who has veered hard right in recent years, has become the face of the strident opposition preventing McCarthy from becoming House speaker, a move voters in his district say makes him seem as power-hungry and out of touch as Perry claims McCarthy is and proves Perry has no interest in governing, the entire reason voters sent him and Republicans into office.
A 49-year-old suburban mother who was getting ready to take her teenage boys to after-school sports said she has voted for Perry every time he has run."I am a longtime Republican — like a longtime Republican — probably one of the people who bailed his behind out every time he has had a close election,” she said.
“What he has done has been an embarrassment — just an embarrassment. There are so many important reasons why we sent him to Congress — work on the border crisis, the inflation — none of this gets done because of him. I am deeply disappointed,” he said.
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