Nobody wants to work anymore.
Hidden in this funnier story is this little tidbit:
Clinging to a razor-thin majority, Johnson needed just one more Republican vote to defeat the measure. He kept the vote open for 22 awkward minutes while Democrats jeered and Capitol Police rushed Rep. Wesley Hunt (R-TX) from the airport to the Capitol to cast the deciding vote.
Hunt, who recently launched a primary challenge to Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), has missed 95 percent of roll-call votes since mid-December, showing up for just three of 58 votes.
Now, I’m sure you’re not going to learn this from me, but a representative’s only job—you had one job—is to vote. And, since the Republicans took back over Congress, they have to vote in person. That means showing up to work and doing your job, as they say (and they did).
And now he wants a promotion. He is currently challenging Sen. John Cornyn for the Republican nomination for Senate. According to the Houston Chronicle from January, nobody knows why. No wonder, since he doesn’t do anything.
How do his constituents feel about the guy they elected just sitting at home doing nothing and collecting a paycheck? Do they know? Has everybody told them? Is there a newspaper in suburban Houston? I guess there’s the aforementioned Houston Chronicle.
Looking through their archives, there is a mention of how he doesn’t show up for work, but it’s couched as an attack line from Sen. Cornyn. Honestly, that’s about all the coverage in total I have found of Hunt not doing his job from the Chronicle, or any other local news source for that matter.
In doing the research for this post I also learned about Grizzly’s Hood News, which, wow, I’m going to go walk into a lake.
