This vote in Committee was about killing or advancing to the Arkansas House floor for debate a bill that provided some aspects of limited protection of people's rights to make their own decisions regarding buying healthcare insurance. The democrats that controlled this committee feared that public debate and vote on the floor. The vote was 12-7 to "not pass" the bill out of committee. The vote split down party line with all democrats, except three, voted NO and supporting big government. Two democrats voted Yes and the Chair refused to vote.
This vote is a clear indication of the importance of getting "real" conservatives elected to the Arkansas State House and Senate. It is important for Arkansans to stop trusting in electing democrats who claim to be "Democrat Conservatives." We need to ignore the few morsels tossed on the floor for public consumption. No more "damned morsels." We need people elected who allow us to both earn and keep our own "bread." Arkansas government is "too big" and it continues to prey on its citizens by continued expansion while finding itself entangled and controlled by Washington elites.
The political party that is elected to control local and state government in Arkansas matters! The members of a political party that are in the majority sets the agenda, control the numbers and members assigned to committees, the chairs of the committees, the committees to which bills are sent, and the general influence on the outcome of the votes. Independents and 3rd Parties have little if any voice. The vote below is a clear delineation that while the majority of the other States in the Union oppose Obamacare, Arkansas democrats love or are resigned to accepting this big government progressive program.
As an aside, it is very duplicitous that a majority Arkansas democratic politicians will vote to support progressive policies like Obamacare and other Washington's controls or interference in Arkansas education, health and human services, land and resource rights, and even now mandating how we spend our own money. And, yet these same democratic politicians hide behind the curtain of private conversation and proceed to "demean" President Obama and others in Washington. While the other-hand, the majority of the representatives in the Arkansas Republican Party remain focused on the defeat or roll-back of big government and progressive socialism that is strangling Arkansans.
The vote today in the Arkansas House Committee on Public Health, Welfare and Labor was just another example of Plantation Politics being played out in Arkansas. While conservatives look toward 2012 in hopes of further gains in the number of elected officials, I both encourage and commend all to continue to hold our Arkansas elected officials publicly accountable.
Below is a list of members on the committee and their votes on Arkansas House Bill 1053:
| FOR BIG GOVERNMENT Tyler, Linda S. (D-45) - Chair Abstained From Voting Allen, Fred (D-33) - Member NO Gaskill, Billy (D-78) - Member NO Hall, Clark (D-13) - Member NO Hyde, Barry (D-40) - Member NO Leding, Greg (D-92) - Member NO Lovell, Buddy (D-56) - Member NO Pennartz, Tracy (D-65) - Member NO Perry, Mark (D-44) - Member NO Smith, Garry L. (D-7) - Member NO Wagner, Charolette (D-77) - Member NO Wilkins, Butch (D-74) - Member NO Word, James L. (D-16) - Member NO | FOR INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM Woods, Jon (R-93) - Vice Chair YES King, Bryan B. (R-91) - Member YES Lampkin, Sheilla E. (D-10) - Member YES Lea, Andrea (R-68) - Member YES Malone, Stephanie (R-64) - Member YES Mayberry, Andy (R-27) - Member YES Wardlaw, Jeff (D-8) - Member YES |
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