It’s an age-old question: If elected (or appointed) to public office, is it your primary duty to vote your conscience, or vote the conscience of a majority of your constituents, even if the latter runs counter to the former? Framed another way: If you are convinced a certain vote is the right vote, will you cast that vote, even if it means you might be voted out of office at the electorate’s next opportunity to judge you?
For one senator, on one issue, the answer is clear. And even if you disagree with him, the honesty and brevity of that answer is refreshing, precisely because such answers seem so rare among a class of people known for obfuscation.