Members of Congress abstain from pork
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Members of Congress who represent the Hudson Valley are big advocates of pork in terms of getting federal money to pay for local projects.But the number of congressional lawmakers who oppose political pork has grown nationally.
Sen. Barack Obama, who obtained money for Illinois as recently as last year, is now opposed to pork. Sen. John McCain of Arizona is a longtime critic of pork and has pledged to veto spending bills contain any of these so-called special projects for localities.
The Club for Growth, an advocacy group for low taxes, recently updated its list of lawmakers who have made a pledge to go pork-free.
Here’s the link:
http://www.clubforgrowth.org/2008/01/house_members_who_have_sworn_o.php
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That’s as good a reason as you’ll need to vote for Jim Russell for Congress in the 18th CD this year.
Jim Russell’s opponent, the incumbent who stepped aside for Hillary Clinton, has coasted for too many terms. The 18th is showing the effects of that nonchalance.
Jim Russell will concentrate on areas of government spending important to constituents: security, energy, education. He isn’t a tax-and-spend member of the CYA “incumbent always” party.
Ditto for Kieran Lalor in the 19th CD, who has pledged to oppose earmarks. John Hall is happy to go-along-to-get-along with the tax-and-spenders in Congress, and keep snarfing up all that pork.
Right-on, Sara. Russell and Lalor—two good, fresh faces, each of them worthy of our support. We have three months.
To borrow blatantly from Jim Buckley’s 1970 winning campaign for US Senate: “Isn’t it time WE had a congressman?”
An historical note: in 2000, Rep. Rick Lazio WON the 9th Judicial District (Westchester-Rockland-Putnam-Orange-Duchess) against our now-junior Senator, by some 70,000 votes—even as then-Gov. Bush was losing the same territory by 100,000 votes. That, as they say in poker, is a “tell.”