Washington state Sen. Pam Roach likes guns—really big guns
via Pam Roach Report blog ::: One of the most right wing of several such Republican senators in the Washington state senate has been banned from participating in the GOP caucus. Sen. Pam Roach (R-31) will not be able to enter the party’s caucus room at the capitol or participate in any of the caucus’s offsite meeting, Seattle Times reports. A letter sent last week by the caucus to Roach says she has “demonstrated an ongoing pattern of treating your co-workers and employees with hostility and anger. As your fellow Senators, it is difficult to be in a room with you when you erupt in anger. For our employees it is unacceptable.” The letter recommends that Roach get anger-management therapy. Although it’s never been one of her primary issues, Roach—who was first elected in 1990—has always been a reliable anti-gay vote in the senate. She consistently received the lowest possible rating—0 out of 5—from a Seattle group that rated election candidates for their receptiveness to LGBT-rights issues. In 2007, Roach was one of nine Republicans and two Democrats who sponsored a bill calling for a constitutional amendment to redefine marriage as an exclusive right for opposite-sex couples. Roach told the Times Friday that senate GOP leadership “wants to persecute me”. In her blog, Roach celebrates Tea-Party members and cites as her main issues expansion of “gun rights” and attacks on the state’s Child Protective Services.
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