Tim Huelskamp
Congressman 1st
District, Kansas Republican
Elected 2010
Committees:
Agriculture
Budget
Veterans’ Affairs
Congressman bumped from Committee Assignments
Republican House Steering Committee has removed Congressman
Huelskamp from both the Budget and Agriculture Committees, announced on 3 December, 2012 . This is believed to be the Republican House
leaderships response to Tim Huelskamp’s
relatively frequent voting against Speaker John Boehner’s and committee
chairmen’s desires.
“No good deed goes unpunished. We were not notified about what might occur
but it confirms in my mind the deepest suspicions that most Americans have
about Washington D.C: it’s petty, it’s
vindictive, and if you have conservative principles you will be punished.
We've heard from multiple sources that someone walked in
with a list of votes and said if you didn't reach a particular scorecard of
what was considered the right vote, which by the way was not the conservative
position, then they were going to remove you from the committee.”
Tim Huelskamp
“The GOP leadership might think they have silenced
conservatives, but removing me and others from key committees only confirms our
conservative convictions.”
Tim Huelskamp
“It’s pretty disappointing, and it’s a way of relegating the
Republican Party to permanent minority status.
They like to say they’re conservative… but when you go to Washington
and you say, ‘You know what, that’s what we stand for,’ they punish those
voices.”
Tim Huelskamp
“Congressmen Schweikert, Huelskamp and Amash are now free of the last remnants of
establishment leverage against them. The
dirty little secret in Congress is that while refusing to kowtow to the wishes
of party leaders can sometimes cost you some perks in Washington ,
the taxpayers back home are grateful.”
Chris Chocola, President – Club for Growth
“My guess is my constituents are going to be mad as a hornet
about it. And they’re not gonna punish
me. They’re gonna say, ‘ We've had enough
of Washington .’
It’s not like the House of 20 years ago where the speaker
can tell you, ‘Sit down and shut up’ and you only had three outlets to counter that. There’s all kinds of things out there.”
Tim Huelskamp
Year Candidate Vote Campaign
Chest
2010 Tim
Huelskamp (R) 142,281 74% 1,185,350
Alan
Jilka (D) 44,068
23 162,130
Jack
Warner (Lib) 6,537
3
2010 primary Tim
Huelskamp (R) 34,819
35%
Jim
Barnett (R) 25,047
25
Tracey
Mann (R) 21,161
21
Rob
Wasinger (R) 9,296
9
Sue
Boldra (R) 7,892
8
Lib Libertarian
Party
Population 2010: 655,310
Change since 2000: down
2.5%
Urban: 52%
Rural: 48
Median Age: 39
years
Over 65: 16%
Under 18: 24
High School Graduate: 86%
College Graduate: 20
Graduate Degree: 6
Median Income: 43,017
Median Home Value: 84,100
Private Employment: 72%
Government Employment: 18
Self Employed: 10
Blue Collar: 27
White Collar: 53
White: 80%
Black: 2
Hispanic: 15
Asian 1
2008 Presidential Vote:
John McCain (R) - 184,501 69%
Barack Obama (D) - 79,638 30
2004 Presidential Vote:
George W. Bush (R) - 199,554 72%
John Kerry (D) - 73,309 27
Tim Huelskamp
Career: Farmer,
rancher
Elected Office: Kansas
Senate, 1997 – 2010
2005: authored state’s anti-gay marriage amendment
2003: removed from state Ways and Means Committee
-
ostensibly because would not work with leadership
College: Doctorate
in Political Science – focus on agriculture policy
