Transparency ignored

Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers’ record speaks loudly. She campaigned on liberty, but consistently votes opposite. She voted for HR 347, limiting freedom of assembly anywhere the Secret Service might be with politicians; for HR 3304 (National Defense Authorization Act), allowing indefinite detention without due process; and supported the “Freedom Act,” a newspeak law slightly less bad than the Patriot Act and its Fourth Amendment violations.

She voted to fast-track the Trans Pacific Partnership, a multi-thousand-page secret deal. Leaks reveal it strips consumers of rights to transparency, reduces imported food safety standards, exports jobs and gives international tribunal courts veto power over domestic consumer laws. Denying information about your food, she voted to eliminate country-of-origin labeling and avoids promoting independent tests for genetically modified organism (GMO) safety (she leaves that exclusively to their creators).

To top things off, last week she voted to block GMO labeling forever by passing HR 1599.

Exporting jobs and stripping free speech, privacy and the right to know what you eat is not liberty. Eastern Washington deserves a transparent representative who votes on the side of the people and who honors the Constitution in the spirit of its authors. It is time for change.

Ron Cully

Spokane