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Snarkoleptic

(6,168 posts)
6. How about...
Wed Sep 24, 2014, 11:29 PM
Sep 2014

pointing out he's a showboat pol who is chatty but hates to vote...

From Jan 2009 to Sep 2014, Schock missed 220 of 4,416 roll call votes, which is 5.0%. This is worse than the median of 2.5% among the lifetime records of representatives currently serving. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

Meaning he's getting paid for not doing his job.
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/aaron_schock/412314

Plus his main campaign donor is the virulently anti-labor Caterpillar Corp. #2 is Nuke plant operator Exelon Corp-
http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.php?cycle=Career&type=I&cid=N00029273&newMem=N

You can cherry-pick your sister's anti-issues and present them based on info. here-
http://votesmart.org/candidate/33428/aaron-schock
or here-
http://ballotpedia.org/Aaron_Schock

And I know this if controversial, but I HATE self-loathing hypocritical Repugs who consistently vote for all the standard "anti" stuff.
The rumors that Aaron Schock, a young, handsome Republican congressman from Illinois who has a consistently anti-gay voting record, is gay himself has spurred debate over whether it’s appropriate to out the lawmaker.

The rumors, which have swirled online for years, picked up steam earlier in the month, when journalist Itay Hod posted on Facebook that a friend of his saw his roommate in the shower with Schock. Hod didn’t quite name the congressman, but the end of the message included a link to an americablog.com post titled “The 7 gayest Aaron Shock Instagram posts of 2013.” Schock quickly changed his Instagram account to private.

http://www.ibtimes.com/aaron-schock-gay-rumors-itay-hod-facebook-post-spurs-debate-outing-anti-gay-illinois-congressman

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