Paper gives two good reasons to dump Cubin
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Oct 11, 2007 Posted by Bill Luckett
Two must-read pieces this week in the Casper Star-Tribune almost perfectly capture the essence of why we need to get rid of Barbara Cubin.
The first piece, an editorial called "Cubin should help override Bush veto," reveals a picture of a representative who votes with the extremist fringe of her party, while the good people of Wyoming suffer. The SCHIP program would provide health insurance for more low-income children across the state. When faced with a choice of what is best for Wyoming, and what the far right wing leadership of the Republican Party tells her to do, Cubin ALWAYS caters to the far right. Never mind that she didn't vote on the bill; the editorial explains that she has expressed support for Bush's veto.
About that missed vote, the paper also ran a news article, "Cubin misses nearly half of votes," which tells us that Cubin now had the poorest attendance record of every living member of Congress. She is our state's only representative in the U.S. House, but during a large part of Cubin's tenure, Wyoming has had no representation in the House. We all know her husband has been ill. And most of the people in Wyoming probably support her decision to spend time with her sick husband. But she should not claim she is also doing her job, because she isn't. No one in Wyoming would be allowed to keep their job if they skipped work 45 percent of the time. And Cubin would get a healthy pension if she retired from the House.
Wyoming deserves better representation in Congress, period. I know one guy who will provide that better representation (click here to contribute to Gary Trauner), if he jumps into the race and the people of Wyoming are smart enough to elect him. Let's make that happen in this upcoming election year.