Background on McMorris-Rodgers from a couple of people in Eastern WA
Some truths about Cathy McMorris Rodgers
http://m.dailykos.com/story/2014/01/28/1273163/-Some-truths-about-Cathy-McMorris-Rodgers
Cathy McMorris Rodgers has run her campaigns on her background as an all-American girl, growing up on an eastern Washington orchard and making her way through college on the proceeds of her 4H projects. She states this every campaign cycle in the Washington State voter’s pamphlet, which is a candidate’s job application to the voters of Washington State. The facts are she did not grow up on an orchard in Washington State. In fact, she really did not grow up in America at all.
When Cathy was a toddler, her parents left Oregon with Cathy and her brother and settled in Hazelton in Northern British Columbia, Canada. There they lived in a cabin without indoor plumbing or electricity. After a while, the family drifted around Northern BC, home schooling Cathy and her brother, until Cathy was the age of a junior in high School student and it was then her family finally returned to the United States. Her father found a small orchard to rent in Kettle Falls and Cathy stayed for a year and then chose to attend the fundamentalist Pensacola Christian College, in Florida. While Cathy attended, it was unaccredited and only became accredited in 2013. The student handbook reads like something you would almost expect from the Taliban.
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During the fundamentalist education and grooming of Cathy McMorris Rodgers, the Republicans never noticed or did not care that Cathy was ‘dumb as a bag of rocks’, because their ideal woman is obedient and cannot think for herself.
The McMorris family was forced into admitting their flight into Canada and staying until Cathy was a junior in high school, in the October 17th 2004 edition of the Spokesman Review. However, Cathy preferred the fiction of growing up on an America orchard and decided to stick with it. During her congressional campaign, her brother and she decided to add something else to the family history and decided they were descended from Oregon Trail pioneers.
Meet Cathy McMorris, a Right Wing Extremist In Washington, Expert In Covering Up For Republican Sexual Predators
http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2006/10/meet-cathy-mcmorris-right-wing.html
Congresswoman Cathy McMorris, who represents Washington's 5th District, is an old hand at the pedophile protection racket, having worked closely with Jim West for 20 years in the Legislature. Cathy also has one of the most disgusting voting records in Congress. She has spent her entire life in the pocket of her father and his corrupt political cronies, and they have led her down a sorry path.
That seems to be the case more often than not when Republicans indulge in what they like to think of as mentoring, counseling, helping, guiding, advising. And who is more deserving of this kind of special attention than young people? Just last week it came out that Sheriff Hairspray, aka "Congressman Frank Drebin" of the 8th District, had taken time off from his relentless pursuit of the Green River killer to bring a teenage prostitute into his home so that he might "have a positive effect" on her.
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Congresswoman Says She Supports Equal Pay Laws, Voted Against Them Four Times
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2014/01/30/3227971/mcmorris-rodgers-equal-pay/
Just last week it came out that Sheriff Hairspray, aka "Congressman Frank Drebin" of the 8th District, had taken time off from his relentless pursuit of the Green River killer to bring a teenage prostitute into his home so that he might "have a positive effect" on her.
The subject of this quote, whose real name is Dave ("Third"
Reichert, is, sadly, the Congresscritter from my district, and I've never seen or heard any such story, nor am I having any luck with a cursory Google search.