Today, Deborah Pryce announced that she would not be running for re-election in 2008. A member of the House of Representatives in Ohio’s 15th District, where I live, Deborah Pryce had a reputation as someone who was personally tolerant and kind. But while she was awfully nice as a person and said nice things about tolerance and diversity as a member of Congress, Deborah Pryce had a different record behaviorally speaking — she lashed herself to Republican Party priorities as a member of the Republican House leadership, and perhaps as a consequence Pryce toed the line on Republican policy priorities, voting for the authoritarian Bush agenda over and over again.
I may miss her nice personal speeches in my district. But I’m happy to kiss her legislative record bye-bye.
In case you were wondering, Pryce only won her district by a hair in 2006, and that was on the strength of her incumbency. Look for Ohio’s 15th District to move away from the Republicans in 2008.
