Keith Rothfus

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Keith Rothfus (2013)

Keith James Rothfus (born April 25, 1962 in Endicott , New York ) is an American politician of the Republican Party . Since 2013 he has represented the west of the state of Pennsylvania in the United States House of Representatives .

Family, education and work

Keith Rothfus attended West Seneca West Senior High School and then Buffalo State College , also known as the State University of New York-Buffalo State , from which he graduated in 1984 with a Bachelor of Science in Information Systems. He then studied law at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana , where he obtained his Juris Doctor degree in 1990 . Since his admission in 1990 he has been working as a lawyer, interrupted by other activities. From 1993 to 1997 he was in science management at the Law School of Evangelical Regent University in Virginia and from 1999 to 2000 legal advisor at the software company Grant Street Group in Pittsburgh . Between 2006 and 2007 he worked for the Department of Homeland Security , where he was director of the Center for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives . Rothfus belonged to Edgeworth in Allegheny County a zoning commission.

The Catholic Rothfus lives in Sewickley with his wife Elsie . You have six children.

Political career

In the 2010 election he was barely defeated as a Republican candidate for the US House of Representatives to Jason Altmire , the Democratic holder of the 4th Congressional electoral district of Pennsylvania, geographically the precursor district of his current one. In the following election in 2012 , Rothfus was elected to the House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the 12th Congressional constituency of Pennsylvania , where he succeeded Democrat Mark Critz on January 3, 2013 , whom he had beaten with 52 to 48 percent of the vote. The constituency, which encompasses parts of the area around Pittsburgh in western Pennsylvania, was given a much more republican structure as a result of a redesign following the 2010 United States Census ( Cook Partisan Voting Index : R + 11). Rothfus was re-elected in 2014 and 2016, each with over 59 percent of the vote; his mandate runs until January 3, 2019. Rothfus was a member of the Committee on Homeland Security and the Justice Committee as well as a total of five sub-committees. He later became a member of the Finance Committee and two of its sub-committees.

After the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled in February 2018 that the previous constituency boundaries were politically unfair ( gerrymandering ), all congressional constituencies in the state were re-cut for the 2018 election . Rothfus' previous 12th became largely the 17th congressional electoral district. Instead of including the rural areas east of Pittsburgh to Johnstown as was previously the case , the new 17th district is concentrated on the countryside and suburbs west of Pittsburgh and has a more balanced electoral structure (Cook Partisan Voting Index: R + 3). Therefore, Rothfus is considered to be at risk in the election in which he faces the Democrat Conor Lamb . In March 2018, Lamb surprisingly won the by-election in the 18th congressional electoral district of Pennsylvania south of Pittsburgh, which Donald Trump won in 2016 by a 20 percent lead. The centrist Lamb also appeals to Republicans and leads against Rothfus by a double-digit margin, according to polls and observers. Political observers consider the race to be open; some saw a head start for the Democrats from July 2018. In mid-September 2018, Rothfus was the first Republican mandate holder in Congress in which the Republican election campaign organization in the House of Representatives canceled the booked election advertising.

Positions

Rothfus is considered a reliable conservative on the party line and a supporter of the tea party movement . He advocates a largely unrestricted right to gun ownership and is a clear supporter of the Republicans' tax reform passed in 2017, which primarily relieves higher incomes. Above all, Rothfus relies on economic growth to create jobs.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Keith Rothfus' Biography. In: Vote Smart.
  2. ↑ Rothfus, Keith. In: Our Campaigns. See the map of the district in its boundaries between 2005 and 2013 .
  3. ^ David Wasserman: New Pennsylvania Map Is a Major Boost for Democrats. In: Cook Political Report , February 20, 2018. See map up to 2018 compared to map from 2018 onwards .
  4. ↑ The Has Advantage in CD17. In: Monmouth.edu , July 24, 2018; 2018 Midterm Election Forecast: Pennsylvania 17th. In: FiveThirtyEight .
  5. ↑ Kyle Kondik: The House Tilts Toward the Democrats. In: Sabato's Crystal Ball , University of Virginia , July 24, 2018; David Wasserman: PA-17: Rothfus vs. Lamb Clash Moves From Toss Up to Lean Democratic. In: Cook Political Report , July 24, 2018.
  6. ↑ John L. Micek: Is Pa's Keith Rothfus on GOP's endangered species list? In: Penn Live , September 4, 2018; Alex Isenstadt: House GOP super PAC cuts off support for Bishop, Coffman. In: Politico , September 28, 2018.
  7. ^ An-Li Herring: A Study In Contrasts, The 17th Could See Tough Battle Between Incumbents Lamb And Rothfus. In: WESA.fm , April 13, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Rothfus, Keith
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rothfus, Keith James (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Endicott , New York