Republicans cheer Davis’s defection to GOP
Originally published in The Washington Post
Written by Rosalind S. Helderman, this article first appeared in The Washington Post on May 30, 2012.
Republicans on Wednesday were celebrating the defection to the GOP this week of a former Democratic congressman and close ally of President Obama, saying that it underscored their argument that the president has led the country on a march to the left.
Former Alabama congressman Artur Davis, once a rising star in the Democratic Party and the man who helped put Obama’s name in nomination for the presidency in 2008, announced his intention to switch parties and said that he will vote for Mitt Romney in November.
