This weekend is the Loudoun County Republican Committee Spring Country Jamboree. It’s a great event. Good food, good music, good people, and a good chance to connect with local Republican volunteers make it an important event for office holders and candidates. So we assume Representative Barbara Comstock will be in attendance. If she is there, then we encourage you to ask her a question regarding one of her recent votes.
Comstock voted for the omnibus spending nightmare that includes federal funding for Planned Parenthood. The spending bill is over 2,000 pages long and was passed in a rush with little time for members to read it and offer amendments. But don’t ask her why she voted for the spending bill. That’s too easy. We don’t want to answer for her, but we expect she’ll say something like it’s good for her district. She can probably list money for the Northern Virginia Transit Authority as an example. It’ll be too easy for her to skate by if you simply ask her why she voted for the spending bill.
And asking her why she voted to fund Planned Parenthood is not the right way to approach this either. She can easily avoid responsibility for that by saying something about how she doesn’t have line-item veto, or she wasn’t the one who negotiated that part, or something like that.
The question that needs to be asked is a little more complicated than just why did she vote for the omnibus spending nightmare that includes federal funding for Planned Parenthood. She needs to be asked the following:
Rep. Comstock, why did you vote for the rule to limit debate and restrict amendments to the omnibus spending bill when one of your colleagues wanted to submit an amendment to stop federal money from going to Planned Parenthood?
You see, before the vote on the spending bill there was a vote to limit debate and accept the bill as it came out of the Rules Committee. The omnibus included federal money to Planned Parenthood. An amendment to strike that portion of the bill could have prevented our tax dollars from going to Planned Parenthood. But Comstock voted for the Rule, as they call it. And voting for the Rule meant that our tax dollars that were set to go to Planned Parenthood would be in the bill. Even though a congressman had urged his colleagues to allow for an amendment to stop federal money from going to Planned Parenthood she voted for the Rule anyway. Why?
So Rep. Comstock, please tell us why. We’re listening.
And another question came up this afternoon during the Larry O’Connor Show on WMAL. O’Connor interviewed Comstock’s opponent in the Republican primary, veteran Shak Hill. At the end of the interview O’Connor offered to host a debate between the candidates. Will she or won’t she debate Hill? That’s another question you could ask her. We think a debate hosted by O’Connor on WMAL would be a great forum to clear up any confusion on Comstock’s voting record and highlight the contrasts between her and Hill. We wonder if that’ll happen.
Info on the Spring Jamboree is below. You will need a ticket so sign-up today.
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