Representative Brian Bilbray
Bilbray Stats
Party: Republican
Faction: Tea Party
Running for: Congress
District: 52 / #CA52
District Stats
Population: 702,905
County: San Diego
Cities: San Diego, Coronado, Poway
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What you need to know
Brian Bilbray has consistently sided with the most extreme elements of the House Republican leadership. A poster child Tea Party Republican, the former lobbyist has nonetheless voted to increase his own pay and voted to end Medicare while protecting tax breaks for billionaires and millionaires at the expense of the middle class. Now in a less conservative district, Bilbray is looking to reinvent himself as a moderate with the goal of surviving another term in office – likely hoping for another big pay increase.