Raging hypocrite Tim Murphy will not run for reelection.
UPDATE: Murphy resigning. Last day polluting Congress is Oct. 21.
Two Rethuglicans have expressed an interest in the seat, state Rep. Rick Saccone, who is a religious lunatic, and would be Pennsylvania's worst elected official, if not for the existence of Rep. Daryl "Nutcase" Metcalfe, The Shame of Butler County. Also expressing an interest is state Sen. Guy Reschenthaler, who is a well-dressed and careful speaking teabagger.
Democrats who might run are, according to the P-G former Allegheny County Councilman and teachers union official Mike Crossey, former Department of Veterans Affairs official Pam Iovino, and emergency physician Bob Solomon.
The district is strategically gerrymandered, and includes wealthy Republican communities like Upper St. Clair and Mt. Lebanon, distressed mill towns in the Mon Valley, and deep red farming/extraction industry communities along the SW corner of the state bordering West Virginia/Ohio.