Repub: I never voted against gas extraction tax (he just voted 4 times to prevent a vote on it)

http://www.mcall.com/news/local/mc-beyer-simmons-forum-20141017-story.html

One of the hotter PA. State House races is in southern Lehigh County. A young incumbent teabagger named Justin Simmons is running against Dem. Michael Beyer.

At a debate Beyer challenged Simmons for blocking a natural gas extraction tax that would have helped adequately fund public schools. Simmons said he never voted against the tax, pretending that he might actually be for it. Actually, that was because Simmons voted 4 times to prevent the gas extraction tax matter from ever being allowed to come up for a vote in the House.

(Beyer is the son of a former Republican legislator who was defeated by Simmons in a particularly nasty primary a few years ago. He castigated her for having cast the deciding vote for a compromise during the Rendell years that ended a state budget stand-off.)

Simmons is also running an attack ad against Beyer that attacks him for not having voted by absentee ballot once when he was away at Law School at U. of Pittsburgh. Oh, the horrors.