Rep. Mary Bono Mack (R-CA), a key supporter of the 1998 Copyright Term Extension Act dedicated to her late husband, lost her seat in Tuesday's election.
When the new Congress takes office in January, Hollywood will have lost at least four staunch allies in the House of Representatives. Three co-sponsors of the Stop Online Piracy Act lost their seats in Tuesday's election. A fourth declined to run for another term.
According to Congress' official legislative website THOMAS, the Stop Online Piracy Act received a total of 31 co-sponsors. Eight of these representatives withdrew their support after January's historic protest against the legislation, leaving 23 members of Congress who stood by Hollywood in the face of an intense public backlash. Of those 23, three members of Congress, all from Hollywood's backyard in Southern California, lost in Tuesday's election.
The boundaries between Congressional districts were redrawn in 2012, a once-a-decade process. As a result, a number of incumbents who had traditionally enjoyed safe seats suddenly found themselves in competitive races with voters who had never voted for them before. In some cases, incumbents were forced to compete against each other.
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