Maybe Rep. Suzanne Kosmas is interested in signing on for Pelosi’s Suicide Squad; at the very least, it doesn’t seem unfair to wonder about how badly she wants to be reelected when she’s botching some of the basics in representing her Florida constituents.

A primary challenger to U.S. Rep. Suzanne Kosmas is taking aim at the freshman legislator today, accusing the Democrat from New Smyrna Beach of ignoring aerospace workers after she skipped a Saturday rally for those who could lose their jobs when the space shuttle is retired.
“[T]he absence of the incumbent is one more indication of the lack of representation we have endured for too long,” wrote Paul Partyka, former Winter Springs mayor, in a statement. “Americans are fed up with representatives who go off to Washington and forget who elected them and why.”
Partyka says he attended the rally near Brevard Community College with hundreds of workers with ties to Kennedy Space Center or the businesses that depend on the NASA facility. An estimated 7,000 KSC workers are expected to lose their jobs when the shuttle flies its final four missions this year.
But Partyka said Kosmas was a no show.

Looks like this rally was a big deal in the region. If you’re a busy member of Congress, perhaps you can’t be there, but you would think she would at least send a staffer, no? Or call in and have someone put her on a speakerphone/megaphone/what have you. How do several thousand soon-to-be-laid-off workers get together in a congresswoman’s district, with no notice or acknowledgment on the part of that representative?