As of 2:30 PM this afternoon we’ve had TPM readers contacting quite a few Republican members of congress about how they voted on the DeLay Rule. And it seems fair to say that aside from members of congress from tomato-red districts, a very large percentage of Republican representatives find one way or another of not answering their constituents when they ask how their rep. voted.
Whether it’s Pennsylvania’s Jim Gerlach, whose office won’t say how he voted, or Roscoe Bartlett in Maryland, who also won’t say, most just find some way to dodge the question or insist the answer is private.
Apparently there’s one Republican rep. from Florida who claims a vote never even took place. We’ll follow up on that and report back if we hear more.
More to follow shortly.
