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Home Front: Politix

Rep. Debbie Dingell in tears after learning she will have to MOVE because redistricting swiped her seat

2022-01-01

[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Democrat Rep. Debbie Dingell

...the blond, blue-eyed widow of John Dingell, who served in the House for Michigan districts for almost sixty years, having inherited his first seat from his father. No wonder she’s emotional about the latest family seat disappearing...

grew emotional on Wednesday night over having to leave her hometown of Dearborn, Michigan in order to keep serving in Congress after redistricting swiped her seat ahead of the 2022 midterm elections.For the first time in history, Michigan's new map was drawn by an independent commission rather than political operators. That saw the state's number of House seats drop from 14 to 13, and is forcing Dingell out of the 12th Congressional District she took over from her husband, late longtime Rep. John Dingell
...Octogenarian Dem representative-for-life from Michigan. He was first elected in the Upper Jurassic, when (D) stood for Dinosaur...
Members of her party are watching nervously as next year's races begin to take shape with 23 less Democrat incumbents -- all of whom are either retiring or seeking a different office.

At the same time, Republicans are riding on momentum created by their overwhelming performance during November's off-year elections that saw the GOP make gains in state legislatures, local roles and take over the governorship of Virginia. Recent polls have also shown voters increasingly favoring another Republican-majority Congress.

'Look I'm just starting to tear. So I'm trying not to let this get to me because Ann Arbor is a growing city too, and the fact of the matter is that most of the people I represent will be in this new district,' Dingell told Fox 2 bankrupt, increasingly impoverished, reliably Democrat, Detroit
... ruled by Democrats since 1962. A city whose Golden Age included the Purple Gang...
Her interviewer asked, 'I saw you wipe away a tear. Did you think you’d get this emotional talking about this?'

'No, I didn't,' Dingell answered. 'Because I, you know, I lived there with my husband for a long time. But I still have all the people that I love.'

Posted by:Fred

#11 I'm all for family dynasties being destroyed.

Posted by: DarthVader 2022-01-01 20:17

#10 If her new district has Ann Arbor, she'll get reelected -- college town. Unless, of course, she's challenged from the left.

Posted by: Rob Crawford 2022-01-01 15:50

#9 She's had a good run. Those are some impressive pearls. What's her net worth up to now?

Posted by: Merrick Ferret 2022-01-01 15:42

#8 I just looked it up: the lady is 68, a bit long in the tooth to start over seducing a new district’s voters. Interestingly, she was registered as a Republican until she married, but changing parties now would be a hard sell nonetheless.

Posted by: trailing wife 2022-01-01 15:17

#7 I can't understand all the fuss here. She'll rent an apartment in the new district and continue to dwell in her Dearborn mansion.

Posted by: Abu Uluque 2022-01-01 13:50

#6 It is always a sad day when a lucrative, long-running grift comes to an end. And as our Periwinkle Moderator points out, legislatin' been very very good to the Dingell clan for decades.

Debbie also might be sad because she knows her brand is not progressive enough for the hipsters in Ann Arbor.

Posted by: SteveS 2022-01-01 13:25

#5 She will just have to 'learn to code', right?

Posted by: magpie 2022-01-01 13:10

#4 Nothing so sad as a landless baroness.

Posted by: Harcourt Clavimp1202 2022-01-01 12:58

#3 "Tear" as in flow from tear duct or as in rip, tear asunder, rend one's ten thousand dollar Chanel designer robes?

Posted by: Merrick Ferret 2022-01-01 11:06

#2 'Look I'm just starting to tear.'

Tears of a clown...

Posted by: Raj 2022-01-01 06:51

#1 "Something, something doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result next time..."

Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-01-01 05:00

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