Here's my question: Is Irey picking up support from social conservatives? Pro-life groups? Is there a place where I could Murtha's voting record on partial birth abortion and other hot button issues? Seems to me we got to keep hammering Murtha as a traitorous fool, but we also need to shine a big spotlight on his San Francisco values. I'll post a campaign ad idea later that'll show you what I mean.
In regards to that idea Red. Yesterday when we went to Mass at our local church, there was an insert in the church bulletin from the "Prince William and Manassas Family Alliance." This is the first time I've seen that done. It outlined candidates views, side by side, on the "family" issues like the "Marriage Ammendment" and "legislation to protect unborn from the moment of conception", etc.
Looking forward to it Red, you've come up with many good ideas.
Murtha on the issues:
Voting record
http://www.vote-smart.org/voting_category.php?can_id=H3460103
On the issues:
http://www.ontheissues.org/PA/John_Murtha.htm
The Washington Post actually has a pretty good data base on this sort of thing.
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/m001120/
What is realy interesting is the "Interest Group Ratings."
http://www.vote-smart.org/issue_rating_category.php?can_id=H3460103
You'll see some groups who think highly of him...
He's not very good on taxes or business, though. La Raza thinks he's pretty good. Not very good on conservative issues. Mixed reviews on education.
He gets a 'D' on immigration... http://grades.betterimmigration.com/testgrades.php3?District=PA&VIPID=703
Here's the one's to look at, imo. Almost all of them have connections to CAIR, the UFPJ, International ANSWER, CODE PINK, ACORN, NION, etc., and so on...
Foreign Aid and Policy Issues
2006 In 2006 Citizens for Global Solutions gave Representative Murtha a rating of B-.
2006 In 2006, The Genocide Intervention Network--Darfur Scores assigned Representative Murtha a grade of C based on voting records, bill sponsorship and other activities related to ending the genocide in Darfur.
2005 In 2005 Citizens for Global Solutions gave Representative Murtha a rating of B.
2005 Representative Murtha supported the interests of the Council on American-Islamic Relations 100 percent in 2005.
2005 Representative Murtha supported the interests of the Peace Action 50 percent in 2005.
2005 Representative Murtha supported the interests of the Latin America Working Group 50 percent in 2005.
2005 Representative Murtha supported the interests of the PeacePAC 69 percent in 2005.
2004 Representative Murtha supported the interests of the Peace Action 20 percent in 2004.
2004 On the votes that the Center for International Policy considered to be the most important in 2004, Representative Murtha voted their preferred position 100 percent of the time.
2004 Representative Murtha supported the interests of the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs (WRMEA) 100 percent in 2004.
2004 Representative Murtha supported the interests of the Armenian National Committee of America 8 percent in 2004.
2004 Representative Murtha supported the interests of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation 33 percent in 2004.
2004 Representative Murtha supported the interests of the Latin America Working Group 29 percent in 2004.
2003-2004 Based on a point system, with points assigned for actions in support of or in opposition to Jews for Peace in Palestine and Israel's position, Representative Murtha received a rating of -2.
2003-2004 Based on a point system, with points assigned for actions in support of or in opposition to American Muslims for Jerusalem's position, Representative Murtha received a rating of -6.
2003-2004 Based on a point system, with points assigned for actions in support of or in opposition to U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation's position, Representative Murtha received a rating of -2.
2003-2004 Representative Murtha supported the interests of the PeacePAC 45 percent in 2003-2004.
2003-2004 Representative Murtha supported the interests of the Friends Committee on National Legislation 47 percent in 2003-2004.
For further research:
FEC Reports and Influence Tracking
http://www.fec.gov/disclosure.shtml
http://www.publicintegrity.org/tools.aspx
http://www.opensecrets.org/
http://www.omdurman.org/taxpayer/
http://malaysia.usembassy.gov/wf/wf0225_pac.html
http://www.vpap.org/donors/results_level2.cfm?key=ORP000228637&Year=2005&Cand
Filter=A
http://www.uspolicy.be/Article.asp?ID=82ECD9C1-A17C-4855-800C-65322ECE131E
http://usinfo.state.gov/dhr/Archive/2004/Sep/03-181769.html
http://www.arabmedia.com/nashraissue.php?IssueId=54
http://www.ndpac.org/news-events.html
http://legistorm.com/
http://www.tray.com/fecinfo/
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=SourceWatch
(I R also a reasonably good researcher, when I wanna be...and if I have enough coffee to keep me goin' fer a bit...)