Pennsylvania USA Today Network Editorial Board
Should politicians vote their conscience or vote the will of the people who elected them?
Our editorial board wrestled with that question this week in the wake of Washington County Republican Party chairman Dave Ball's blunt response to Senator Pat Toomey's vote to convict former President Donald Trump in his second impeachment trial.
Ball told a Pittsburgh-area TV station "We did not send (Toomey) there to vote his conscience. We did not send him there to do the right thing or whatever he said he was doing. We sent him there to represent us."