Congressman Herger and the DeLay Rule
Published by katster November 18th, 2004 in US PoliticsLiving in RedStateVille (Redding, CA), I happen to be represented by Congressman Wally Herger, a Republican who represents the Second Congressional District of California. So, being a consitiuent of Congressman Herger I’m in a uniquely neat place.
Joshua Micah Marshall, of Talking Points Memo asked us to pose the question about how they voted on the DeLay Rule to our representatives.
Being an informed and concerned citizen, I called Congressman Herger’s office. And I got the following response. “Caucus votes are kept secret.” In other words, the man on the phone could not tell me how Congressman Herger voted on such a thing, and he told me quite honestly that this rule change brought them in line with the Democrats, which makes me suspect that Congressman Herger did indeed vote for the DeLay rule.
And then he asked me how I felt about it. And I said, “Well, it seems to me that we would want to be better than the Democrats.”
He said, “That’s a valid point of view, ma’am.”
In the end, Congressman Herger chose to give his constituents a no-response. Why? What’s he got to hide?
[UPDATE 10:52 PM — The Daily DeLay is keeping a scorecard here. So if your rep is on the list of those who haven’t been contacted, how about playing along? Just call your representative’s Washington office, and ask the question “Did Congressperson such-and-such support the DeLay Rule in the GOP caucus meeting on Wednesday?” Report back here or on the thread for the Daily DeLay and let me know what happens.]
[UPDATE Friday 11:08 AM — Called Congressman Herger’s office again. This time, they took my contact information and promised to send me a letter. Hmmm. We’ll see if we get anything back from that. Also called Congressman Ose and Congressman Doolittle (CA-3 and CA-4 respectively) who are from districts nearby, they couldn’t tell me if Ose was there, and Doolittle said that votes are private and confidential and wanted to know why I was calling.]