The Slattery show

Jim Slattery wants a fight with Roberts. Here's my story from Monday on Slattery's campaign swing through Cowley. Here's a press release issued after the story by the Roberts campaign. They hit back fast ....




Slattery Says Missing Votes on Kansas Military, Education and Health Issues “Not Significant” to Kansans

TOPEKA, KS – Highlighting his own absenteeism as a congressman and his lack of commitment to the concerns of Kansans while seeking personal political gain, Jim Slattery said the votes he missed votes on military, agriculture, education and health issues are not significant to Kansans.

In Monday’s Winfield Daily Courier, Slattery acknowledged he missed more than half the votes in 1994 and said “none of those votes held major significance for Kansans.”(http://winfieldcourier.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=25736&TM=47408.94)

Slattery’s attendance while he was campaigning for his gubernatorial race was so poor that he ranked 433 out of 435 members of Congress in attendance in the House of Representatives that year. As a result, he skipped votes on the military, school nutrition programs, farm programs and education programs.

“Slattery put his personal political ambitions ahead of his elected responsibilities,” Molly Haase, Communications Director said. “Kansans deserve a strong and steady voice in Washington, and Slattery’s disregard for doing the work he was elected – and paid to do – for Kansas is simply unacceptable.”
The following is a sample of votes Slattery missed in 1994:
HR 4301- FY 1995 Defense Authorization - passage
HR 4506 - FY 1995 Energy and Water Appropriations - passage
HR 4554 - FY 1995 Agriculture Appropriations - passage
HR 4568 - FY 1994 Housing Supplemental Appropriations - passage
HR 8 - Federal Nutrition Programs Reauthorization
S 2182 - FY 1995 Defense Authorization Conference Report
H.R. 4603 - CJS Appropriations Conference Report
H.R. 4624 - FY 1995 VA/HUD Appropriations Conference Report
H.R. 4604 - FY 1995 Labor, HHS Appropriations Conference Report
H.R. 4554 - FY 1995 Agriculture Appropriations Conference Report
H.R. 4650 - FY 1995 Defense Appropriations Conference Report
S. 349 - Lobbying Disclosure Conference Report
HR 6 - Elementary and Secondary School Reauthorization Conference Report
H.R. 1520 - Petroleum Marketing Practices - Motion to suspend the rules and pass
“In contrast, Pat Roberts has run for statewide office three times and has never shirked his responsibility to the people who elected him,” said Haase. “The choice in this election is clear: a senator who never stops working for Kansas or a millionaire Washington lobbyist who didn’t even bother to show up.”
For more information, please visit www.robertsforsenate.com .