MO Fourth District and, unfortunately, my rep. She beat Ike Skelton by running on a campaign of how he was out to "get" the veterans, wanting to cut their benefits, close bases, etc. The farmers and the right wingers ate it up with a sugar coated spoon. Who didn't vote for her? Active duty personnel at Whiteman AFB and at Fort Leonard Wood. They tend to vote for conservatives but they even knew she was full of crap, especially since Ike was well-loved by the military around here.
She needs to be taken out of office. Even Roy Blunt can't understand her and that's saying something.
But Hartzler insisted that the bigger threat to the United States’ credit rating is the deficit itself. She said it’s an issue that could only be resolved through the kind of hard and fast spending limits proposed in the House bill.
“(Bond rating services are) not saying we’re going to downgrade your credit rating because you don’t raise the debt limit and borrow more,” Hartzler said. “They’re saying that the real threat to our economy and our credit rating is because congress has not passed something like the cut, cap and balance plan.”
http://www.firedupmissouri.com/content/scary-quote-day-wednesday-editionResponding to a question, Blunt said he had no explanation as to why some of his fellow Republicans feel that way.
"I do think there will be problems if we don't change the debt limit and I do think there will be problems if we change the debt limit and don't change behavior," he said.
http://firedupmissouri.com/category/topics/vicky-hartzlerHere's a few other things she's said:
Addressing a conference of college students at the Eagle Forum Collegians Summit in Washington D.C. on June 9, 2011, Hartzler said that if same-sex marriages were allowed, it would lead to paedophiles and polygamists also being allowed to marry <6>
Hartzler is an evangelical Christian and staunch opponent of gay marriage. She is also a spokesman for the Coalition to Protect Marriage in Missouri, which successfully campaigned to ban same-sex marriage in the state.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicky_HartzlerHer congressional site:
http://hartzler.house.gov/We really need her gone. She's done a rotten job and even the more conservative papers in this area have been less than pleased with her performance.