Primary them all.
When Lucas was first elected at the time Billary pushed for nationalized “health care”, Lucas was considered a “real conservative”. I guess he fell off the wagon as time passed with so many demands from constituents for big spending. If this article is correct, he just couldn’t say “No”, like so many of his colleagues.
Good article. Thanks for posting. I wasn’t familiar with Lucas.
We’ve got to identify these Big Government Republicans well ahead of time to have any chance to take them out in the primaries. A guy like Lucas will no doubt have lots of campaign cash from Archer Daniels Midland and the usual Big Business/Big Government Industrial Complex. It would be great if a guy like Bridenstine would step forward and take him on.
Club for growth lists Frank Lucas as one of their ten to primary under “Primary my congressman”. Rick Crawford is one of the other ten.
Name: Frank Lucas
Congress: Oklahoma, District: 3, Republican
Cumulative Freedom Index Score: 60%
How incumbents stay in office is easy. First off people like they get elected in GOP districts. Second they spend a lot of time raising money. They use that money to support local candidates and buy their support. The more money they raise the easier it is to scare off any primary challengers.
If a local does not toe the line they withdraw support and maybe even finance a challenger. It s all about money!
The only thing missing about ‘ol Frank, or just about any other politician, to prove they aren’t just whores is that they usually aren’t lying down when they provide their paid for services. Crude? Yes. True statement? Yes. Prove me wrong.
They may start out on the right food but that is because they somehow got enough support to go national and get to the real money and power.
See where Frank gets his money? See how Frank votes? Frank votes to get more money from the same places he gets it now. Frank has learned to play ball.
Just for the record, there is no Sugar or Rice production in Oklahoma and yet these interests are where he gets a significant amount of his campaign money. Frank is being paid more by the donors than he is being paid by the taxpayer but he is getting money from both. Frank serves the ones who pay him the most and the ones he sees most often.
It took me all of about 10 seconds to google and find these three sets of damning information about who pays for Frank’s vote. Frank may not even know that this information is available to we peons. Frank probably doesn’t even care. His political consultants know that the peons don’t know about this information and don’t care if they did know so long as Frank keeps bringing home a little bacon for them. You see, most of the peons are whores just like Frank.
http://maplight.org/us-congress/legislator/347-frank-lucas
http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.php?cid=N00005559
http://influenceexplorer.com/politician/frank-d-lucas/ec605250c0cb40f3859a631d3e5645d1