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

#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! 

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!