Letter Published in Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal Sunday, August 3, 2008

One Voice….Two Messages….
Congressman Travis Childers, sent out to the households of the First Congressional District a Special Report on Energy. In this report Congressman Childers claims that he is “working to provide immediate relief from high gas prices and long-term solutions to our energy crisis.” In this flier Childers lays out his Six Point Plan, two immediate Relief bullet points and four Long-term Solutions to our energy crisis.
Congressman Childers’s no doubt gave much time and effort to put together his Six Point Energy Plan and at tax payer expense, have that plan sent to each of our households. However, his voting record doesn’t back up what he claims to be stand for. Nine times there have been votes in the House of Representatives dealing with energy and energy exploration. And 9 times, Congressman Childers has voted against those energy bills. The most recent coming on July 25th when he voted against the American Energy Act of 2008, a bill he claims to have co-sponsored in the mail out his constituents received. Now I am no Congressman, but if I were claiming to those who elected me that I co-sponsored a bill that would help ease their burden at the pump, I think I would make sure I voted in favor of that bill.
I have nothing personal against Congressman Childers, he won by a majority of the votes cast and that makes him the Congressman for every soul in the First Congressional District, but what I do expect and you should expect as well is for our newly elected Congressman to act like the “conservative” he ran as. I expect him to side with the people of the First District not the Democrat Leadership in Washington. Or perhaps he believes that Nancy Pelosi is going to cast enough votes herself to get him re-elected come November?