Where Are Pompeo, Kelsey, Huelskamp, Barnett, Wasinger, etc. on the Supplemental?

Earlier this week, every Republican in the Kansas delegation to the United States House of Representatives joined every other Republican in the United States House of Representatives (save five brave souls) in voting against a $106 billion emergency supplemental appropriations bill to cover the costs of the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan- not because they want to see those wars ended, but because they didn't like one of the items in the bill that amounted to less than 5% of the total cost.

In other words, because they didn't support a tiny, tiny portion of the bill, the Republicans all voted against making sure our men and women on the battlefield have the tools they need to stay alive and fight the war until they are able to come home.

Think for a moment what would have happened if the Democrats had done that en masse when the Republicans were in the majority. They would have been called traitors, they would have been called unpatriotic, they would have been called un-American, and the Republicans would have been screaming from the rooftops about how awful it is for either party to play politics with the lives of hundreds of thousands of American service men and women.

Hypocrites, the lot of them.

With all of that said, two of the Kansas Republicans who voted against the wartime supplemental this week aren't going to seek re-election to the House. Because supplementals like these will continue to come up as long as we have men and women in Iraq and Afghanistan, we need to know whether the folk who have tossed their hats in the ring as of yet to replace both Representatives Todd Tiahrt and Jerry Moran would have towed their party's line and voted against the troops or if they would have bucked leadership and voted for the supplemental.

Unsurprisingly, none of the people running in either the KS-01 or the KS-04 have said publicly how they would have cast their votes. That cowardly, but they're Republicans, so who's surprised?

Because I like mobilizing activists, I'd like to encourage each and every person who reads this blog to call each and every one of the folk who have announced their running for Congress in the KS-01 and KS-04 and ask them how they would have fallen on the vote on the supplemental. Or, if you don't want to call them, call your local newspapers and ask them to make the call instead.

Web site and information for each announced candidate follows:

KS-01:
Jim Barnett (Barnett doesn't have a campaign web site yet, so call his home: 620-342-5387)
Tim Huelskamp (email: Huelskampforcongress@rurallink.net)
Rob Wasinger (email: media@robwasinger.com)
Tim Barker (no contact for this cat at all...not that it really matters...)
Sue Boldra (at least she has a contact page...)
Tracey Mann (OK, this dude has a phone number, 785-829-0055, and email for press inquiries: press@mannforcongress.com and a fax machine!)

KS-04:
Dick Kelsey (email: dick@dickkelseyforcongress.com or 316-771-7310)
Mike Pompeo (campaign-related phone number is: 316-680-7311)

Write them e-mails, call them on the phone, however you want to do it, but just ask them if they would have voted with their party to defund the wars in Iraq or Afghanistan while our troops are still in harms way or if they could have bucked their party leadership and voted with the Democrats and President Barack Obama on the president's supplemental war funding request.

If you do manage to get a response, post it in the comments here or e-mail it to me at kansasjackass-at-gmail.com so we can all get a little insight in who might represent us in Congress.

Where Are Pompeo, Kelsey, Huelskamp, Barnett, Wasinger, etc. on the Supplemental?