Meeting KY-6 District US House Rep Andy Barr

Tonight I met for the first time, My US House Representative Andy Barr. However, to properly tell this story, I must go back in time. I was excited in 2012 when someone I’ve never heard of named Andy Barr beat career politician and Nancy Pelosi momma boy Ben Chandler. It wasn’t even a close victory.

Little by little as time passed and I dug into the voting record of Andy Barr, I became discouraged because he had cast votes for legislation and spending bills that I felt violated my beliefs in limited government and fiscal conservativism. I felt that he had went against the tea party constitutional principles he had ran on. I felt compelled to even research all of the bills voted on by the US House in 2013 to compare his votes to KY-4 district Congressman Thomas Massie. What I found was that Barr had voted the same as Massie 77% of the time. For a long time after that, I had let the 23% compel me to post negative comments about him on social media like Twitter and Facebook. I never heard anything from Barr, no response of any kind. I chalked it up to another sell out congressman that really doesn’t care about their constituents. I even made an effort to gather support to challenge him for his seat.

Fast forward to tonight, as people were mingling with fellow conservatives and meeting with other elected republicans such as Kentucky Lt. Governor Hampton, and Kentucky Senator Rand Paul at a fundraiser for Republican for State House 81st district C. Wesley Morgan. I caught up to Congressman Barr and asked to take a selfie with him. After accepting, he immediately stated that he recognized me and my name from all the tweets regarding votes such as the “Cromnibus” or the Continuing Resolution Omnibus spending bill. He understood completely the frustrations I had with him and we spoke at length about why he voted the way he did. After meeting Congressman Barr, I can confidently say that I will still disagree with him on things, but tonight he earned my vote in November.

Congressman Andy Barr and I

#GOP's Political Suicide Attempts

Republicans nationwide had much to celebrate on November 5th of last year when the GOP retook majority of the US Senate and added more seats in control of the US House of Representatives.  It is generally understood that contributing factors to this change in control was due to the continued decline in support for President Obama and the Democrats.  It was also due to the promises made by many of the GOP republican candidates of attempting to repeal Obamacare, oppose amnesty for millions of illegal aliens, and to halt President Obama's agenda in general.  The victories were viewed as essentially the death nail in President Obama's administration.  Pundits for days after the elections were already proclaiming that President Obama would be a lame duck president for the rest of his second term.  THEY COULDN'T BE MORE WRONG!

It wasn't even two months after the elections that the nation witnessed US Speaker of the House John Boehner lead the GOP controlled House to passing HR 83 which was the massive Omnibus spending bill that funded most of the federal government and its operations thru September of 2015.  This bill included funding for what would become President Obama's illegal unconstitutional executive amnesty.  It would also include funding for many Big Government Liberal approved programs.  You can find more about it here.. http://heritageaction.com/key-votes/cromnibus-blank-check-amnesty-h-r-83-2/

This unfortunately would mark only the first of many acts by the GOP over the next few months that would lead one to believe that it is trying to kill itself,  The new year would come around and predictably the US Senate now controlled by Republicans would make Mitch McConnell its majority leader.  This is now being seen as the second act in the free for all that is now the GOP.  Mitch McConnell promised that the US Senate would get back to work for the people and promised that there would be debate on bills.  This was obviously a jab at former senate majority leader and Democrat Harry Reid who became notorious for not allowing votes on popular GOP passed bills coming from the US House in enacting what is known as the Nuclear Option.  It certainly did not take long before the US Senate would be tested.

The US House in its third act of defiance of the will of the People and of the Constitution was to pass thru its chamber the USA Freedom Act which lets be honest, its just a 2015 version of the Patriot Act which has provisions that shift bulk data collecting from the NSA to the Private Industry and changes nothing to keep the Government from placing the name "Verizon" on a search warrant to gain access to MILLIONS of innocent American's records. In the fourth act in the GOP's attempt at political suicide, Mitch McConnell declared that he didn't want the USA Freedom Act nor did he want the provisions in the Patriot Act to expire.  In other word, he was just fine with the Domestic Spy Program of the NSA's even though it is now generally accepted that the bulk data collecting of Metadata has not stopped a single Terrorist attack or even led to the capture of any terrorists.  US Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky spearheaded a 10.5 hour filibuster to force the sunset of certain provisions of the Patriot which expired on June 1st.  In the fifth act by the GOP to kill itself, the entire party abandoned Rand Paul during his filibuster, more Democrats came out to speak on behalf of Rand Paul than GOP Senators.. The GOP Senators that did show up and spoke did so in defiance of what Rand Paul was standing for.  They included the likes of Presidential Candidate and Teaparty's Benedict Arnold Senator Ted Cruz and Senator Mike Lee.  They both disagreed with Rand Paul and they touted the same fear mongering line of secret intelligence on terror threats and why the NSA still needs the ability to access the bulk collection of data.  In the GOP's sixth act, the US Senate not only voted to limit debate on the USA Freedom Act that the US House overwhelmingly passed, but then they passed the act themselves overwhelmingly.

The Seventh Act by the GOP to commit political suicide came in the form of what is known as Obamatrade or the TPP/TPA.  This is trade legislation which no one was allowed to read unless they signed a no disclosure agreement and culminated in Paul Ryan essentially pulling out the Nancy Pelosi card she pulled during Obamacare.  "We have to pass it in order to see what is in it."  It should also be noted that Senator Ted Cruz was among many who voted to pass this in the US Senate.  It now lay in the hands of the US House of Representatives which under the leadership of John Boehner is sure to inflict another act of political suicide.

Of course putting what the elected in the GOP has done this year, we must also account for what the GOP Candidates have done to inflict damage to the GOP.  We have Senator Ted Cruz, already mentioned above, has voted for the USA Freedom Act and the Fast Track TPA.  We have former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee telling people that he wished he could have claimed to be trans gendered to get into women's dressing rooms.  We have Dr. Ben Carson telling people that Prisons make people Gay.  We have Jeb Bush wanting to publicly shame unwed mothers, supporting Amnesty, and refusing to see the error with going into Iraq in 2003.  We have Senator Lindsey Graham who has said that there maybe a "rotating first lady" if he is elected.  I mean the list goes on and on and quite frankly too embarrassing to continue....

BAD NEWS IS.....Its just June of 2015..... Just how many more knives will Boehner/McConnell bury in the backs of conservative voters who put them in power in 2011, 2015 respectively?  How many more promises will they break especially as the Supreme Court is set to take on Obamacare once again?  Will the victories achieved on November 4th 2014 be all for nothing?

We Are Kentucky Conservative Radio Welcomes You to 2015

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Why #Representative #AndyBarr Needs Replacing

It came to no surprise to find out that the current KY-6 Rep to the US House of Representatives Andy Barr has a failing Liberty Score grade!  An F!! But what came as a surprise is that he has a LOWER score than Senator Mitch McConnell!  Only 2 points better than Speaker John Boehner!  This is precisely why I am aiming to challenge him in 2016 during the primary in Kentucky!  Please Help me!

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#AndyBarr vs #ThomasMassie vote analysis for 2013 Complete!

So I have taken the painstaking process of thumbing through 238 votes taken in the US House of Representatives in 2013 between KY-6 Rep Andy Barr and KY-4 Rep Thomas Massie.  I chose the comparison with Massie because he is considered a trusted Tea Party Republican and I wanted to see how Barr's Votes stacked up against each other.  The results were not surprising in the least.  22.69% of the time, Barr voted the opposite of Massie.  That was a total of 54 times that Barr differed with Massie.  This means about 77.31% of the time they voted the same.  This also means that 22.69% of the time, Barr voted against the tea party.  During this vote analysis, it became apparent that when ever a bill would only receive 2-5 no votes, that Massie and Michigan Representative Justin Amash would be together voting no!  Also only a handful of votes came up where Massie voted the opposite of Amash.  If the voting comparison between Barr and Massie were placed on an academic grading scale of 100, Andy Barr would receive a C grade for voting with the Tea Party!  To me this is simply unacceptable of a fiscal constitutional conservative in congress.  This is why I am wanting to wage a challenge to Andy Barr in 2016 because the sixth district of Kentucky deserves to have someone that will keep their word like Thomas Massie has as a fiscal constitutional conservative! 

#TreyGowdy Pummels #Gruber and I make a BIG #2016 Announcement!

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I officially declare a challenge against KY-6 US Rep #AndyBarr #Cromnibus #HR83

Unfortunately my US Rep from KY-6 district Andy Barr as voted YES on HR 83 aka the CRomnibus bill that passed tonight 12/11/14 and I tweeted him last night telling him that I would run against him in 2016 if he voted yes!  Well The graphic above shows that he voted YES, So I am going to officially run against him in hopes of drawing attention to his "conservative" hypocrisies and maybe even Primary him!  He Brought this on himself!