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Congressman Fitzpatrick Decries “Back of Paycheck” Signers; Doesn’t Want to be Part of a Club That Would Have Him as a Member

With the dust left unsettled on Mitt Romney’s 47% fiasco, Congressman Mike Fitzpatrick is defending similar remarks he made at a Doylestown Tea Party brunch last Sunday. The Morning Call reported that Congressman Fitzpatrick was secretly recorded stating, "We need to support people who have a history and know what it is like to sign the front of a paycheck, not the back of a paycheck…"

Congressman Fitzpatrick is long-time government employee who has spent most of his career signing the backs of paychecks provided by taxpayers.

“It shouldn’t matter whether you sign the front or the back of a check, all working people contribute to society. Congressman Fitzpatrick signs the back of a paycheck himself and should not be so quick to judge,” said Mary Downing, PA Working Families supporter.

“I signed the back of a paycheck for 40 years. I worked hard my whole life and deserve a congressperson who represents me, regardless of which side of the paycheck I sign,” said Bill Rittler, PA Working Families supporter.

“Congressman Fitzpatrick is right about business owners taking big risks. But all working people take risks and deserve to be represented in Washington,” said Budd Heinz, PA Working Families supporter. “I’m a cancer survivor who has gone without health insurance. If Congressman Fitzpatrick wants to support Bucks County residents who have taken risks, he could start with the uninsured.”

Agnes

4:49 pm on Monday, October 1, 2012

Tea party mike part of the problem not the solution

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Rebecca Abernethy Schwindeman

10:32 am on Tuesday, October 2, 2012

demócratas están sin Dios
Democrats are Godless.
They denied God 3 times at their convention.
How bizarre.

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Susan Gibbons

8:40 am on Saturday, October 13, 2012

Dear Elle...
There is nothing bizarre about people who uphold the Constitution and the Bill of Rights...while republicans chant about freedom they are the ones invoking all kinds of rules they would like that are very repressive, rules to invade the privacy of private lives, rules that would control womens health decisions and rules to impose religious doctrine of their choosing on others. All enumerated in the Declaration of Independence which was the document that declared separation from Royal rule. How many people do you want to die in a religious fight? Look to Ireland, a God loving country to see how Catholics and Protestants murdered each other. Love your God, do not believe you have a right to tell the rest of us we must too.

Susan Gibbons

12:21 pm on Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Dear Rebecca...
GOD is not in the Constitution. The democrats did not deny GOD. They denied a place in the platform, a place in government. GOD in government was part of the impetus for the Declaration of Independence. GOD belongs in the hearts of men and women, and that is where we know it is denied in the hearts of the republicans and the tea party members.

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Annie

3:52 pm on Tuesday, October 2, 2012

So very beautifully state, Susan.

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NS

2:27 pm on Monday, October 15, 2012

You are seriously delusional and part of the problem that divides this country.

Susan Gibbons

12:26 pm on Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Henry Ford understood the worker was the buyer of his product. Without the consumer the business owner would not have a business. Fitzpatrick does not represent all of his constituents. He made that clear. He is trying to spin his words...but no, they are spoken and cannot be taken back.

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Susan Gibbons

3:03 pm on Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Dear Rebecca,
How long have you been fighting mental health? I don't want you to shut up. I want you to keep raging and raving. It was Jesus who warned us against the screamers, it was Jesus who warned us. It was Jesus who said God knows what is in our hearts. The word of Jesus is the word of God.

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NS

2:28 pm on Monday, October 15, 2012

You sound like you are crazy, did your husband ever tell you that?

Susan Gibbons

3:33 pm on Tuesday, October 2, 2012

This is for you Rebecca.
The word of God.
"And when you pray, you shall not be like the hypocrites. For they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward. But you, when you pray, go into your room, and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father who is in the secret place; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly. And when you pray, do not use vain repetitions as the heathen do. For they think that they will be heard for their many words.
"Therefore do not be like them. For your Father knows the things you have need of before you ask Him.

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Annie

3:56 pm on Tuesday, October 2, 2012

The discussion on this page just shows how far American has fallen, that it is not possible to even have a logical discussion of the issues. Once you embrace the Tea Party, you have embraced an extreme point of view that is based on largely false assumptions that are not backed up by facts. False assumptions such as voter fraud exists (FALSE, less than 3000 over 10 years nation-wide, until the latest Republican hi jinks) or the 47% who don't pay income tax are spongers (tell that to active duty military and retirees!)

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Susan Gibbons

6:14 pm on Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Annie thank your for your kind words. As you can see Rebecca is hysterical and illogical and irrational. Voter fraud was not an issue before the last election when all the tea party candidates and republican governors got elected. If fraud was so rampant perhaps fraud is how they got elected. But since then voter anger and regret has risen to a high crescendo and that is why there is such a push to create an obstacle for those who are the most likely to vote out republicans. We all know that. Be that as it may, the law is not dead, just put off till the next election which gives the state the time to create a means by which people will be able to comply.
Rebecca throws out a lot of numbers but does not address the news that republican attempts at fraud have been in the paper for days especially in Florida, a swing state.
As for religion in government, how many heads on spikes would it take to remind her of the persecutions and murders that took place under the crown in the name of God? God is not mentioned in the Constitution, for valid reason, and should not be in the platform of any political party seeking to control the legislation of the country. It belongs in the hearts of those who make the laws. We have lost 7000 American sons and daughters trying to free people from religious government. We must defend and protect the First Amendment.

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NS

2:31 pm on Monday, October 15, 2012

Your divisive hateful rhetoric is reminiscent of that of a young convict during the 30's in Germany......

Mike Braun

8:06 pm on Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Instead of employees empowerment we are going to enslave. Small limited government is extreme. Come on.

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Annie

8:51 pm on Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Small, limited government? The kind that legislates that you have to have an ultrasound? The kind that legislates that you can't have access to birth control? The kind that legislates that you're pregnant before you've even ovulated??? No thank you. Let that crap stay in Arizona. We don't need it here.

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Susan Gibbons

8:06 am on Wednesday, October 3, 2012

For all the call for "small limited government" clearly the republican tea hats have been calling for all kinds of limitations on the rights of women and calling for all kinds of nutty laws including trans vaginal ultra sounds for women who present for abortions. It was outrageous for any legislator to redefine rape for the purpose of medical care and even more for Fitzpatrick to agree. “Small limited government “ can be a disaster with tyrants running it. I don’t think Fitzpatrick would like any of his daughters to be subjected to that kind of interrogation in an emergency room if one of them is raped. A fertilized egg can take 3 days to implant, taking a hormone to prevent implant is not an abortion. As for birth control the crazy law in Arizona would have required women to reveal their most private medical business to their employers. NO ONE should know the medical business of any one. It should be between the woman and her doctor. If a doctor writes a script for a woman NO employer, or legislator or nosy neighbor should have any right to know or to give approval. This goes against all the precepts of freedom and privacy. Clearly the legislators are clueless about womens reproductive system. Not Annie.
Rebecca does not want to pay for anyones birth control, we should not have to pay for her shock treatments.

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Cherylann Klatt

9:57 am on Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Well said Susan. Fitzpatrick = Todd Akin and republican male control on women. Thank you Fitzpatrick for also voting (4) times against equal pay, plus a watered down version of Violence Protection Act bill against women to side with the abuser. It's a male thing.

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NS

2:33 pm on Monday, October 15, 2012

When did all Republicans become Tea Party advocates? I guess I am next as an Independent......

Susan Gibbons

8:07 am on Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Where did I say Maryland was a swing state? Rebecca is hysterical, and has no comprehension.

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Cherylann Klatt

9:51 am on Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Since Fitzpatrick signs the back of our paycheck while passing bills against us, he needs to return our tax dollars for a bad job evaluation.

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Annie

10:48 am on Wednesday, October 3, 2012

This "signing the back of the paycheck" remark of Fitzpatrick's reveals how he really feels about those who work for a living: Wealthy business owners are entitled to all kinds of breaks - tax and regulatory - to help them build their wealth on the backs of those who do the work. Last night I watched Sheila Bair, former head of the FDIC, talk about her book "Taking the Bull by the Horns" on Tavis Smiley.. She made it very clear that it is this attitude of "entitlement" by the super-wealthy was a major factor in the collapse of our economy. Let's not go BACKWARDS to that kind of thinking. Kathy Bookvar is strong, fresh, new, smart, and will work to solve problems in a way that will benefit ALL of her constituents.

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Pennsbury Mom

11:40 am on Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Kathy Bookvar? I read about her defending a terrorist. There is a Facebook page "Who is Kathy Bookvar" that reveals who she is, most in her own words.
Forcing banks to make loans to people who could not afford them was part of the reason for the collapse of the housing industry.
Read the book "Reckless Endangerment."

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Nick

12:15 pm on Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Pennsbury Mom, please stop spewing right wing falsehoods.

Let me tell you a few things - just because "there is a Facebook" page about something doesn't really mean you are getting the truth. I know, it is a shocker.

"Forcing banks to make loans to people who could not afford them was part of the reason for the collapse of the housing industry. " -- no statement typifies the right's refusal to take responsibility for ANYTHING. Bank deregulation and bank fraud caused the financial crisis. We were flat out robbed by Wall Street.

Susan Gibbons

12:54 pm on Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Again, Rebecca, Faithwalk/ Pennsburymom is irrational and putting words in my mouth. PAY ATTENTION. I did not say voter fraud was fabricated. I said it was not an issue in the previous election. The very election where all the nut cases got elected. I also said if it was so prevalent maybe that is how the nut cases got elected.
Go back and read what I said. I also asked why there is no concern on your part for the news the last few days about attempts at voter fraud by republicans most especially in Florida. I never said anything about Maryland being swing state, I referred to Florida.

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Pennsbury Mom

4:35 pm on Wednesday, October 3, 2012

The democratic candidate was from Maryland. I said Maryland is not a swing state because I misread what you said. You actually said that there has been Republican attempts at voter fraud in Florida because it is a swing state. I think you are referring to the ONE PERSON who was hired by Strategic Allied Consulting and was subsequently fired. I guess they thought it was Acorn, now OFA. OFA sent a person with green hair to register people near me at festivals and another to a high school football game but only talking to African Americans. I have a photo of the green hair actually. It is almost 5 I guess you will be leaving your government job now. Read up for tomorrow.

Susan Gibbons

1:03 pm on Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Rebecca/Faithwalk/Pennsburymom
refers to the facebook page "Who is Kathy Boockvar" and says the words there are Kathy's. Well they are not. That is a republican page designed to explain who she is but it is all bigoted rhetoric. Words written by republican committeeman. There is another page that is called "Radical Kathy" which also was created by republican operatives and attempted to make it appear that Kathy was writing the comments. They dared to call it "satire". It was not satire when they wrote about her fund raiser at a club in New Hope implying particular sex acts were part of it, and people should vote for her because she has "no gag reflex". That caused a firestorm, and it was taken down but our fine upstanding congressman would not say it was wrong. I submit Rebecca is not capable of critical thinking and cannot comprehend what she reads. And if she moved out of the state as she claimed on Phllyburbs why does she care what happens in Pa?

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Susan Gibbons

1:08 pm on Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Lastly, Boockvar never defended a terrorist. She was a kid when his trial took place. The fitzpatrick campaign tried to tie her to a cop killer but failed because she had nothing to do with him or his appeals and neither did her husband. Accusations proven false. In fact, today she saId if he had been exedcuted she would have considered it justice. People like Rebecca are like the old washer women who gossiped about other people adding to the false stories until they caused great harm. She should be ashamed to believe what she reads without fact checking.

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Pennsbury Mom

5:07 pm on Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Wow I would have thought that saying that someone is mentally incompetent and has shock treatments would be inappropriate.

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Pennsbury Mom

5:07 pm on Wednesday, October 3, 2012

The links are on Facebook, links to the news stories, not undocumented comments of course. I leave you with a message from Franklin Graham: "After watching the political conventions of both parties last month, it’s clear that America is quickly hurtling down a road toward God’s judgment. One party affirms a belief in the sanctity of life. The other party does not. One party supports the traditional, biblical definition of marriage between one man and one woman. The other party enthusiastically endorses and promotes same-sex marriage. " Continued

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Cherylann Klatt

6:10 pm on Wednesday, October 3, 2012

It is not for you to judge and make decisions for other people and stick your nose in other people's business. I don't care what other people do with their life that makes them happy when god made people the way they are by genes, color, weight and personality. Why should you? Are you one of the people who criticizes people all week and attends church on Sunday to make yourself feel better? Do you not have mirrors in your house while throwing stones living in a glass house?

Why don't you criticize rape of priests, Oh, I guess your catholic.

Cherylann Klatt

5:49 pm on Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Vote out the tea party and conservative male dictatorship on women. Vote out Fitzpatrick! Women shouldn't have to be voted on. We live in the USA, How awful to force a woman to have a rapist's baby, even from incest & lust, question birth control, saying no to equal pay, and unprotecting a women from her abuser by the watered down Violence Protection Act. Thank you Obama for signing an executive order on it for us. As a senior and a woman, I'm Voting for Kathy Boockvar for women's rights, protection of medicare, unions for fair wage to all workers, jobs, and the middle class. I am the 99% and will Occupy and castrate the republican Party at the polls by voting for Obama and straight Democratic Party for a blue takeover.

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Annie

6:36 pm on Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Pennsbury Mom - Religion is only mentioned once in the Constitution - Article 6 at the end of the third clause says: "[N]o religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States." The Bill of Rights guarantees that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." RELIGION HAS NO PLACE IN GOVERNMENT. The Taliban is what results when the two combine. The founding fathers of the US were explicitly clear about this. I guarantee you that there as many Christian Democrats as there are Republicans, and more of the Democrats will actually be living the way Christ calls us to live.

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Rebecca Abernethy Schwindeman

6:55 pm on Wednesday, October 3, 2012

"It is time for Christians to have the faith and courage to refuse to associate with a political party that has over the years become anti-Christian, anti-church, anti-bible, anti-life, anti-family, and anti-God." Bishop EW Jackson urging Christians to flee the democratic party-Exodus now!

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Susan Gibbons

7:01 pm on Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Well said Annie.
And once again Pennsburymom doesn't get it. Her judgmental gossip and proselytizing is inappropriate. Links to accusations are not facts. The source is a republican committeman who gets a paycheck to slime Boockvar. Christs call to a way to live can be found in the Sermon on the Mount, the Beatitudes, not in the republican play book. Franklin Graham is not God, not even close.

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Susan Gibbons

7:07 pm on Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Its time to end the tax exempt status of self absorbed preachers like EW Jackson who are hateful and want to divide people. A true man of God would be trying to reconcile and reform...not condemn.

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Rebecca Abernethy Schwindeman

7:18 pm on Wednesday, October 3, 2012

I think you mean Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Lewis Farrakon, and Rev. Jesse Jackson.

Susan Gibbons

7:55 pm on Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Jesse Jackson was not a divider...he headed the Rainbow Coalition....
I was referring to the "bishop" you named...a shill for the conservatives enjoying tax exempt status.
You can have the last word, as far as I am concerned this conversation is over, I cannot continue to waste my time you. Isn't there any body in NC you can harass?

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NS

2:38 pm on Monday, October 15, 2012

Jackson preaches hate, if you can't recognize that then you are blind. I can't understand how at times you appear to be logical and deliver well thought out statements and then you descend into crazed liberal diatribe. If you think Obama cares about your relatives on active duty........you are having a senior moment.

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Susan Gibbons

3:27 pm on Monday, October 15, 2012

For NS
Jesse Jackson did not preach hate..he called it out...you have him confused with someone else...only those who resent being called out would call him a hater. I hear from those on active duty who appreciate the pay raise and the respect given to those who died ..their return home was no longer done in the dark in secret.

Susan Gibbons

12:18 pm on Saturday, October 13, 2012

Why yes I am elle. I am in my 7th decade. After paying into social security for 45 years I am receiving my retirement benefit on which I pay income tax so I am still contributing to the support of the program and the country I love and which my grandsons are proudly serving in the military. Any more questions?

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Cherylann Klatt

5:06 pm on Saturday, October 13, 2012

Tea Party, Mike Fitzpatrick needs to GO!

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Susan Gibbons

6:47 pm on Saturday, October 13, 2012

Fitzpatrick cannot be trusted to keep his word.

elle

2:58 pm on Monday, October 15, 2012

@Susan Gibbons I know how I feel inside and you are entitled to feel how you feel as well ! I am old enough to be you child so out of respect for someone who worked long enough to receive social security and with Grandsons in the Military all I can say to you is God Bless and enjoy your well deserved retirement and God Bless your Grandson's and may they come home safely to their families .

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elle

3:27 pm on Monday, October 15, 2012

@Susan , you are welcome Take care
Peace
Elle

Susan Gibbons

3:59 pm on Monday, October 15, 2012

@Elle.....And Peace be with you. S.

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