I had no idea she once ran an abortion clinic.
I don’t know what kind of district she will end up with. We’ve tended to run pro-choicers against her though.
The PA-13 currently includes (i) Dem areas in NE Philly, (ii) marginal or Republican areas in NE Philly, (iii) Dem areas in Montco, and (iv) marginal or Republican areas in Montco, for a district that will not give a GOP presidential candidate more thna 42% and will see GOP House candidates fall short no matter how good a fit they are for the district and how bad a fit the Democrat is.
When the GOP drew it for 2002, it dreamed of pro-life Dem Bob Borski being nominated on the strength of the Philly votes and having a Montco RINO beat him in the general; of course, Borski retired, suburban Dem Congressman Joe Hoeffel won the nomination, and the Montco RINO (Melissa Brown) fel la bit short in 2002 and way short in 2004. The GOP got greedy by trying to draw a “winnable” PA-13, and it made other SE PA GOP districts vulnerable: had they drawn a more heavily Dem PA-13 that excised GOP and marginal precincts but took in heavily Dem areas in Bucks County and white areas in PA-01, it would have helped shore up the PA-08, PA-15, PA-06 and PA-07, two of which went Democrat in 2006 and the other two where we were extremely lucky to hold.
The GOP should draw three über-Democrat CDs in SE Philly and make the surrounding districts GOP-leaning. If this results in the execrable Schwartz getting reelected, then so be it. But if the GOP gets creative and draws two black-majority CDs in Philly and shifts white precincts in PA-01 and PA-02 to the new PA-13, maybe Bob Brady will run there and take out Schwartz.