San Dimas Congressman David Dreier is stepping down because he cannot compete effectively in the newly-drawn Southern California Congressional Districts, which have diluted the Republican majority which carried him for thirty years. Unlike his Senate counterpart Olympia Snowe – also opting not to run for reelection -- Dreier demonstrated an admirable attachment by vote and by rote to the GOP party platform, especially fiscal conservatism, a consistent characteristic conspicuously absent from Snowe's claim record of accomplishments.
While Snowe was a meandering moderate, Dreier demonstrated a lean and mean libertarian legacy, one which no one should despise. His candor and consistency in the House of Representatives will be missed, and his attention to fiscal issues must instigate necessasry soul searching among California GOP operatives if they wish to remain viable.
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