Barbara Comstock would stand comfortably in the muck and the mire of the corporate financed GOP Plutocracy, as those are her origins and background. Her votes and adherence to policies representing ALEC & Koch Industries in the Virginia House of Delegates have left Virginians struggling for jobs, fair wages, benefits and affordable healthcare.
She has voted no to bipartisan transportation bills as Frank Wolf before her has done. Barbara Comstock has voted no on funding for teacher pay raises and more in-state slots in Virginia's colleges and universities. She has voted no to expand healthcare to 250,000 Virginians who have none.
But it's not all no votes. Barbara Comstock has voted yes to banning many forms of common contraception. She's voted yes to mandatory transvaginal ultrasounds. Barbara has voted yes to allowing concealed weapons in bars. What could possibly go wrong with that? Don't we have a Constitutional right to get hammered with our friends and our guns?
As a ALEC and Koch Delegate, Barbara has also voted yes to reducing state employee retirement benefits, which amounts to a betrayal of promises made for their years of service.
It was completely unfair of Foust to claim Barbara hasn't had a real job. I'm certain that what John meant to say is that Barbara Comstock never had a job serving real people, but only jobs serving corporate and partisan interests. Her tenure as a senior aide to Frank Wolf was mostly spent frantically and voraciously researching the Clintons for anything that the republican party could use to discredit the first family. After that she tirelessly performed opposition research for the GW Bush presidential campaign.
Barbara's worked with National Right to Work pimp and political bag man, Dimitri Kesari, and the Workforce Fairness Institute to erode pay, worker's rights and benefits for America's wage earners. But it's not all negative research Barbara has worked on, she also spent time constructing the republican playbook defending numerous GW Bush appointees such as John Ashcroft. She also sprang to the aid of California's Jerry Lewis, named one of the 15 most corrupt members of Congress in his day, Lewis 'Scooter' Libby, and Texas Representative Tom Delay prior to the pair's convictions and sentencing to prison. Her Law/PR firm, Corallo Comstock, dedicated itself to defending Bush administration aides,where so much malfeasance came up, it was practically a cottage industry for the firm.
Her lobbying career is nearly as long and storied. Her firm lobbied for the same Indian casino that snared the felon, Jack Abramoff. Barbara also helped Carnival Cruise Lines pocket 236 million in federal funds to provide emergency housing for Hurricane Katrina victims left homeless by the disaster. Later it was found that Carnival, using half-empty vessels, charged four times the allowable rate.
Barbara Comstock's view of the world and the political landscape is precisely why the republican party does not have a dominant control over national politics and must resort to obstruction, shutdowns and legislative hostage taking to make their mark for their corporate handlers.
But don't get me wrong, I'm alright with Barbara Comstock working in Washington. I just don't think the work address should be on Capitol Hill.
