In California Rep. Kevin McCarthy's hometown of Bakersfield, supporters cursed the scorched-earth politics in Washington that cost him his job as speaker of the House.
Minutes before the vote that cost California’s Rep. Kevin McCarthy his job as speaker of the House, three Republican voters lunching in his hometown cursed the scorched-earth politics in Washington. The conservative women said McCarthy had been left with two bad choices in the days before his ouster: Risk a revolt from the hard right and cut a deal with Democrats to pass a funding bill, or acquiesce to the hard-liners and shut down the federal government, wrecking the economy.
“He grew up in Kern County, and he knows every corner of it,” said Greg Perrone, president of the Greater Bakersfield Republican Assembly, a conservative group. “He didn’t go to some Ivy League school and then come back and try and fix things. He isn’t a transplant.” Perrone said he had mixed feelings about McCarthy’s tenure as the 55th speaker of the House.
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