House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy
Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy isn’t very well liked, even by Republicans in his own hometown in California, according to a report.
McCarthy, who made history when he was booted out of the speakership after a remarkably short period of time, recently announced that he was leaving his seat at the end of the month. That is among the reasons given by locals in McCarthy’s hometown of Bakersfield who say they have negative feelings about their outgoing representative.
“How much did McCarthy love Bakersfield, and how much did Bakersfield love him back? The responses were mixed then, and they remain mixed now,” according to the Guardian, which included a quote from Greg Perrone, president of the Greater Bakersfield Republican Assembly, which the outlet describes as “an activist group that hews to McCarthy’s right.”
“If you went through the wringer he went through, I suspect there’s a little humiliation, a little embarrassment. Maybe he’s licking his wounds and wants to go off into the sunset,” he said, according to the report. “Still, I’m a little disappointed that he didn’t finish the term that he was elected to serve. That’s not what we expect from our elected leaders.”
The report continues:
“The critical voices that fill the letters column of the local paper, the Bakersfield Californian, have been quite a bit blunter. ‘Don’t let the door hit you on the way out, Kevin,’two of them wrote last week. One added: ‘You haven’t represented us in a very long time.'”
The mayor apparently didn’t even have time to respond, according to the report.
“Bakersfield’s mayor, Karen Goh, who has been photographed with McCarthy onpassingly few occasions since she took office seven years ago, issued no statement. When invited to comment on ways in which McCarthy had helped the city in his 16 years in Washington, she told the Guardian she was too busy to respond.”
Read the article here.
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