AR-03: Father Of Missing Soldier Went To Womack For Help, Got The Cold Shoulder

http://bluearkansasblog.com/
Long title, but a big wow! Both that this soldier just went missing in Utah without any searching, but the Congressman Womack's (R) response is horrifying!

On May 8th of this year, a young soldier stationed at a base in Utah named Joseph Bushling went missing. Since then, all that has been found was his vehicle and his baseball cap, both found out in the desert. Since then, his father Kevin Bushling, has been doing everything he could to find his son or his remains. However, the military has been less than helpful, listing his son as AWOL, making apparently little effort to find him in the first place, and even going so far as to stonewall information that could help out volunteer search teams. Mr. Bushling says that he even had to fight to get his son’s personal belongings back. So he turned to his congressman, Steve Womack, for help. Womack however blew Mr. Bushling off, and now he’s telling this story in a video posted on youtube:
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After being assured that an event being held at the Russellville high school was open to the public and that there shouldn’t be a problem with him handing out political pamphlets, Mr. Bushling showed up and distributed the pamphlets, only to be told by the police that he had to leave. So much for free speech. Not wanting to be arrested, Mr. Bushling did so, and bumped into Congressman Womack on his way out the door. In a phone conversation, Mr. Bushling informed me that Womack didn’t even recognize his name and asked him who he represented. When he reminded him of his son Womack hastily said that he couldn’t help him and when Mr. Bushling expressed his irritation at that told him he was off base. Then he proceeded to walk away and began his speech in which he had the audacity to say that in the army you learn to never leave a man behind.

Read the whole article. This is of course, the Family Values, Proud Patriot, Fiscal Conservative party that only uses the words to fit their agenda of grabbing up as much money as they can while doing the least they can get away with.


Steve Womack has produced only one piece of legislation as far as I can tell and it was an amendment to ban teleprompters for President Obama.