Voting complaints inconsistent

Well, another tirade by Pete Scobby (Letters, Dec. 31) complaining of the voting record of one of the Republican congresswomen. Never considering the negative voting records of Patty Murray or Maria Cantwell, who normally always vote according to party. Just look in the newspaper at how they voted. Murray and Cantwell nearly always vote with current administration. Murray is often seen close behind the president at press conferences and shown voting along party lines.

If our Republican congresswoman voted no on the new health care issue before Congress, bless her, more votes against it would be better for the majority of us. Scobby seems to think he knows how Congress should vote on all issues. Scobby claims the Republicans give him total opposition. Thank God they do. Scobby’s desires are not welcome across the board by any means.

Scobby hasn’t complained about the governor in Olympia. Her failure to give a cost-of-living increase on his pension should have qualified for a letter of complaint. Now she wants to increase taxes without a cost-of-living increase. She campaigned to provide health care for all Washington state residents in competition with the plans in the other Washington.

Les Carlyle

Spokane