John Boozman Helps Secure Funding for Planned Parenthood

Statement

All Ted Cruz needed was a "sufficient second" to his motion. It is a routine courtesy in the Senate. His motion was simply that the vote on the issue before them be recorded. Just so the folks back home would know how "their" Senators voted. No big deal, right? Except the vote Cruz wanted recorded was the vote to approve a budget which funded Planned Parenthood. Republicans had already caved to President Obama on every other budget item. The grassroots were reduced to asking for only one thing: Stop giving our tax dollars to the nation's largest abortion provider.

To all but two of the Republican Senators, even that was too much to ask. To them, Obama had to get everything he wanted- even the demand for more taxpayer dollars for Planned Parenthood. Not only were the pleas from the folks back home denied, but the Senate (both parties) was about to pass the funding bill by an unrecorded voice vote. Without a record of the vote, none of them had to take responsibility for this disgrace. They could all go back home and brag about how "pro-life" they were.

Cruz's motion was not even about the funding. It was just a motion to record the vote so the folks back home could know who voted for it and who was against it. For his motion to pass, ten senators had to agree to it. Only one, Mike Lee of Utah, did. By this simple fact you may know that the pro-life people of Arkansas should vote for someone other than Senator John Boozman this November. He could have supported Cruz's motion, but he didn't. Even that tiny crumb of accountability was just too much for him to give people. To insiders, protecting the other insiders is more important than serving the people who voted them into office.

It is crystal clear that neither Boozman nor his Democrat opponent will do anything to end federal funding for Planned Parenthood. Voters who want to see that done will have to support the only truly pro-life candidate in this race, Frank Gilbert, in the U. S. Senate election this November. He's not a Democrat, not a Republican, and not For Sale. "I believe people have a right to know how their senators vote on key issues. I would have stood with Ted Cruz and Mike Lee on that motion" said Gilbert, "and I am the only candidate in this race who would have." Gilbert also said, "If we keep voting the way we have always voted we'll keep getting the same thing. If you want something better, vote for Frank Gilbert."

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