Minnesota Rep. Tom Emmer’s first few weeks leading the GOP’s House campaign arm are sure off to a great start. Last week, New York Rep. Elise Stefanik, pointing out that she would be just one of 13 Republican women serving in the House, announced that she was leaving her leadership post at the NRCC and building her own operation to recruit Republican women to run. Emmer responded to this by telling a reporter that Stefanik’s plan to help women in primaries was “a mistake,” a comment that Politico reports immediately caused a firestorm in the GOP caucus.Emmer quickly tried to clarify that he only meant that it was a “mistake” for the committee to get involved in primaries in the first place, but that didn’t stop several Republican House members from publicly rebuking him. Stefanik herself tweeted out Emmer’s “mistake” comments with her own caption: “NEWSFLASH I wasn’t asking for permission.” - Daily Kos
Wednesday, December 12, 2018
MN-06: Emmer stumbles badly out of the gate
Someone seems to be in over his head. And, no, he won’t learn. Not his style.
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Key votes thus far
ReplyDeleteHR21 open the full government (a NO vote means supporting the TrumpShutdown)
Stefanik YES Emmer NO
HR 265 Fund Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies
HR 266 Fund Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2019
HR 267 Fund Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2019
Stefanik YES Emmer NO
Key bills sponsored thus far
Emmer
H.R. 38 - Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2019
H.R. 74 - To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to require mandatory detention of any alien who is unlawfully present in the United States
H.R. 155 - To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to remove silencers from the definition of firearms, and for other purposes.
H.R. 219 - To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to impose Federal taxes on bonds used to provide facilities owned by abortion providers.
H.R. 296 - To amend title X of the Public Health Service Act to prohibit family planning grants from being awarded to any entity that performs abortions, and for other purposes.
H.R. 369 - To provide for a moratorium on Federal funding to Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc.
H.R. 490 — to prohibit abortion in cases where a fetal heartbeat is detectable.
H.J.Res.22 - Proposing a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
Stefanik
H.R. 38 - Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2019
H.R. 95 - Homeless Veteran Families Act
H.R. 141 - The Social Security Fairness Act (supported by NEA teachers)
H.R. 188 - SALT Deductibility Act (to correct last sessions Tax Cut and Jobs Act)
H.R. 220 - To provide for a national strategy to address and overcome Lyme disease and other tick-borne diseases,
H.R. 299 - Blue Water Vietnam Veterans Act
H.R. 301 - Providing Pay for Essential Employees Act
Hmmmm .... so Emmer is focused on gun rights, deporting aliens, and abortion; while Stefanik is focused on gun rights, veterans, healthcare, pensions, correcting Paulsen's tax bill and getting federal employees paid.
Maybe it isn't that Emmer has a gender preference, but instead that he does not want a moderate Republican in his Party-Of-Trump caucus.
ReplyDeleteICYMI, Pete Stauber has joined Stefanik as a co-sponsor of H.R. 141 - The Social Security Fairness Act (this proposal has been around for a while ... the 2017 version garnered the support of Betty McCollum and Colin Peterson as they did in 2015; the 2013 version was sponsored by McCollum and Tim Walz;) Actually, in the 2007, this proposal garnered the support of all eight Members of the Minnesota delegation (then represented by Michele Bachmann) ... yet has never been given a floor vote ... and has never been sponsored by Tom Emmer.
But not to worry, Tom Emmer has just announced that he is authoring (again) the Travel Trailer and Camper Tax Parity Act ... which is Emmer being responsive to over 400 RV businesses and 85 RV dealerships in Minnesota who want a tax cut (hmmm ... how does that pair with his desire for a balanced budget with more tax cuts?)