WASHINGTON D.C. (WTAQ) – Wisconsin’s newest congressman says he’s already finding Congress to be “more chaotic” than the state Legislature.
Campbellsport Republican Glenn Grothman cast his first vote in the U.S. House Tuesday, when he helped re-elect John Boehner as speaker.
Conservative blogger Erick Erickson criticized Grothman’s vote, claiming that Grothman’s conservative bent is “all talk.” Erickson noted that when Grothman campaigned for the House last summer, he said he’d no problem finding an alternative to Boehner.
25 other Republicans voted against Boehner Tuesday.
Grothman said that if the party wanted to replace him, the time for that should have been right after the November elections.
As a state senator, Grothman was used to electing his party’s leaders in November — and when the sessions began in January, nobody ever tried removing them.
Grothman says he may have questioned Boehner’s conservative credentials in the past — but the Ohio lawmaker deserved some credit for leading the House to a successful election cycle for its majority Republicans.
216 GOP House members voted to re-elect Boehner, including all five from Wisconsin.
(Story courtesy of Wheeler News Service)
