Analysis: Two Democrats from Pennsylvania exemplify the diversity of the freshman class
By Paul Kane Paul Kane Senior congressional correspondent and columnist Email Bio Follow May 15 at 6:20 PM GLENSIDE, Pa. — Reps. Chrissy Houlahan and Madeleine Dean often get lumped together. They’re both 50-something freshman Democrats from the Philadelphia suburbs, mothers of three grown children, and they helped turn this corner of Pennsylvania almost entirely blue behind a historic wave of female candidates.
Rep. Madeleine Dean , right, attends a House Judiciary Committee hearing in March. That two first-year Democrats with so many outward similarities, living 20 miles apart, can have such different experiences on Capitol Hill demonstrates the diversity of this massive freshman class. It’s the diversity not only of identity but also of experience, ideology and outlook.
“We’ve got a problem, but the problem needs to be solved in 2020 at the polls,” Houlahan recalled over coffee at Pour Richard’s in Devon, an affluent town in the onetime GOP stronghold of Chester County. “And we need to be practical about how we get there. And so it’s not about how fast can you get this guy out. It’s how can we make sure that we’re addressing the issues that we got elected on.”
She entered the race early against Rep. Ryan Costello, the second-term Republican who held the swing district, and immediately became a favorite of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. But the race ended before any real votes were cast when the state Supreme Court ruled the old district lines violated the state Constitution and drew maps with more contiguous county borders.
After winning a seat in the state House in 2012, she seemed stuck there — until last year’s new map left an open seat for most of Montgomery County.
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