so did richie robb break with the electors and vote against bush or not?

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

i never heard one way or the other

[Paradise]

1. so, i guess, neither has anyone else. n/t

[Petrushka]

2. He voted for Bush, according to local TV report at 6 p.m. (EOM)

[Wabbajack]

3. See article

http://washingtontimes.com/national/20041214-121125-6813r.htm



"Only one Republican electoral member had threatened not to vote for Mr. Bush. Richie Robb, a Republican elector from West Virginia, said he thinks Mr. Bush invaded Iraq prematurely and disagrees with the Bush economic policy.
But yesterday, Mr. Robb joined the rest of his state's Republican electors and cast his vote for Mr. Bush, noting that "his margin of victory in West Virginia was decisive to the extent that to do otherwise would have been slapping the voters in the face." "

[WildClarySage]

4. In other words,

chickened out.

[Hubert Flottz]

5. Poultry in motion!

What did you expect out of a Republican? The truth? Courage under fire? His credibility went AWOL when the rubber met the road! Mayor "Rob the Poor" is a true GOPer!

South Charleston is a speed trap, with stoplights rigged with a two second caution signal and a prowl car hiding round the corner, like a spider waiting for a fly! I don't even drive through the place anymore!

South Charleston is almost a city without jobs now, so the city makes it's money on traffic tickets! FMC...Gone, Dow Chemical/non-Union Carbide...Massive layoffs, Auto Parts stamping plant...laying off and soon to be history!

About the only positive gain under Mayor "Rob the Poor" is the liver cancer rate from the vinyl chloride plant, that is now moving away and leaving South Charleston even more of a toxic wasteland, than FMC left it when it pulled out! The ground water in South Charleston will rust a nail over night, it's so full of chemicals! The fish in the river downstream of South Charleston have bleeding sores and tumors all over them!

When the chemical companies move out and outsource the jobs to plants overseas, in places without any EPA oversight on the toxins they release, dump and bury, the problem with the clean up is, now the tax payer's burden alone! Bush changed the "Super Fund" clean up laws, so that the tax payer's pay 100% of the cost! Before Bush did that, the companies were made to pay a major part of the cost! Now those firms simply tear down, move out and leave the toxic cess-pools behind, for the generations to come!

Mayor "Rob The Poor" has watched as Bush let Dow and FMC sneak out, knowing full well that the people were to be left holding the toxic bag! The "Good Mayor" knows that Bush is a crook and a total tool of the chemical industry! The Robber barons who have shafted his little town of South Charleston made the money and ran! Yet "The Mayor" lacks the courage to do the right thing for his town!

The "Mayor" has failed his people, his town and his state! It's about what you'd expect, out of a life long GOPer! All the Good "Mayor" wanted was to get his name on local and national TV IMO! I never believed for a second, that the man didn't support Bush! The Mayor wants to be Governor, PERIOD!