Todd Rokita - Indiana's Resident Jackass

Another day, another reason to think poorly of Representative Todd Rokita.

First, this, from Rep. Rokita's web site:

Representative Rokita is pro-life and believes that life begins at conception.  He strongly believes that to encourage a culture of life rather than one of death, tax dollars should not be spent on abortions or to fund organizations that encourage it. 

And this:

In 2017, he voted to pass the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act.  He was a cosponsor of this bill to prohibit abortions after 20 weeks of fetal age.  

He lists numerous "pro-life bona fides" on his web site. If you have a strong stomach, check it out for yourself. Of course, that is Rep. Rokita's public side. Today, the Ft. Wayne Journal Gazette provides us a glimpse behind the curtain:

a political action committee affiliated with Rokita has given $9,000 to the campaigns of a fellow Republican lawmaker who, years before his election, had approved of abortions for his future wife and a woman with whom he had an affair.

The Fund for American Exceptionalism has made four financial contributions since 2014 to the re-election campaigns of Tennessee Rep. Scott DesJarlais, according to campaign finance reports filed with the Federal Election Commission. 

Who is this Scott DeJarlais? Well, it's a good thing we have "the internet" so we can look him up:

 The anti-abortion, pro-family Tennessee congressman who pushed his patient and mistress to get an abortion also agreed that his wife should have two, according to court transcripts released Thursday.

Those documents, from GOP Rep. Scott DesJarlais’ 2000 divorce proceedings, paint a lurid picture of a doctor who had multiple affairs with coworkers and patients — at least one of whom he prescribed pain pills for — while he was chief of staff at a local hospital.

Or we could maybe find this out about Rokita's buddy:

A Tennessee congressman who supported his ex-wife’s decision to have two abortions, voted this week for a bill that would ban late-term abortions, according to news reports. 

We could go on and on about DeJarlais just as we could go on and on about Rokita.

Bottom line: everything I've heard about Rep. Rokita makes me a bit sick to my stomach. My parents used to tell me that I should be careful about who I hang out with, because "you're judged by the company you keep." Perhaps Rep. Rokita should think about that long and hard, though I suspect Rep. Rokita relies on his constituents not knowing or caring about his ongoing hypocrisy; I also suspect he is well aware that, short of hell freezing over, there is nothing he could ever do to get my vote.