Posted on 06/12/2014 10:41:28 AM PDT by cotton1706
Less than nine months after being kicked off the House GOP whip team, Rep. Marlin Stutzman (R-Ind.) has thrown his hat into the race for Majority Whip. The GOP’s top whip post opened up as soon as current whip Rep. Kevin McCarthy made it clear he wants the newly open job of House Majority Leader.
Outgoing majority leader Rep. Eric Cantor was dealt a stinging rebuke by voters on Tuesday when they elected the solidly conservative professor David Brat to be the GOP nominee in Virginia’s 7th District.
Stutzman’s entrance into the whip race makes it a three-way battle now. Rep. Peter Roskam, a moderate Republican from Illinois, and Rep. Steve Scalise of Louisiana – the current chairman of the Republican Study Committee – were already vying for the slot.
In September of last year, Stutzman was removed from the House GOP whip team for daring to oppose the so-called farm bill. A farmer himself, Stutzman and his family have accepted federal farm subsidies, but while running for Congress in 2010, Stutzman said he hated the practice and wanted to end it.
The farm bill pushed by House GOP leadership last year ultimately expanded federal subsidies to farmers and massively expanded welfare through the food stamp program.
Stutzman has a 93% lifetime rating from the Club for Growth, and he has a Heritage Action score of 84% for the 113th Congress. That makes him the highest scoring member of Congress from Indiana on both indexes.
Roskam, by comparison, scores a 74% lifetime rating from Club for Growth and an even worse 52% from Heritage Action for this Congress. The average House GOP member scores 62% on the Heritage Action scale, making Roskam’s score below average.
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His name comes up when conservatives do something. Lets back him. The hour is late.
So they don't even vote now? Would love to see the House actually vote their conscience like they did first time with TARP but I guess they were brought in-line then for once and for all. ;-(
The Corporatists in the GOP will do everything they can to keep their power and if they lose it, they will scorch the earth on their way out.
His name comes up when conservatives do something. Lets back him. The hour is late.
Hopefully, not too late. What can we do? Other than call our Pubbie Reps - which I’ve done.
Hensarling has said he’s not interested...so, how do We the People get Rep Marlin Stutzman front and center?
How did he vote on the actual spending bill?
Isn’t this the dunce who was duped by Bohner to get the Cromnibus bill out of committee?
“Isn’t this the dunce who was duped by Bohner to get the Cromnibus bill out of committee?”
Yup, that’s him. However, I am happy to see somebody challenging Scalise, who’s been pretty much useless.
Oh, never mind. I thought this was a new story.
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