Representative Flake: Family Over Politics
"Republican U.S. Rep. Jeff Flake is catching flak from conservatives for missing a key vote Friday on a "cap-and-trade" climate-change bill that is strongly opposed by the GOP. Flake also opposed the bill but said he had to skip the vote to be with his daughter, who was competing in the 2009 Junior Miss pageant in Mobile, Ala
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"Obviously it was a tough decision to miss voting against the cap-andtrade bill," the District 6 representative said in a statement. "But I've let my daughter down enough over the years, and I felt I just couldn't let her down again."
No flak will come from me. Family must always comes before politics, business, charity, or religion. It is too easy to justify ever increasing sacrifices to your family in the name of "the people's business" or "humanity" or "God." However noble these ends are, the ends do not justify the means if those means involve the subordination of family to achieve those ends. Family comes first.
Jeff Flake did the right thing and he set a good example for all of us.
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"Obviously it was a tough decision to miss voting against the cap-andtrade bill," the District 6 representative said in a statement. "But I've let my daughter down enough over the years, and I felt I just couldn't let her down again."
No flak will come from me. Family must always comes before politics, business, charity, or religion. It is too easy to justify ever increasing sacrifices to your family in the name of "the people's business" or "humanity" or "God." However noble these ends are, the ends do not justify the means if those means involve the subordination of family to achieve those ends. Family comes first.
Jeff Flake did the right thing and he set a good example for all of us.
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