Posted on 10/30/2010 11:40:42 AM PDT by raccoonradio
If you can strip away Niki Tsongas' lockstep voting record with Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, it's easier to rationalize her bid to be returned to Washington as our Fifth Congressional District representative.
She's held dozens of Town Hall meetings and "Congress on Your Corner" get-togethers, and brought home $29.6 million in federal aid for transportation, education, health care and defense-related projects.
If you think that is what a federal lawmaker should do, vote for Niki Tsongas.
But if you believe there must be another dimension to the enormous responsibility and power held by the person representing the Fifth Congressional District in the nation's capital, vote for Jon Golnik.
We can't ignore Tsongas' voting record and, quite frankly, it flies in the face of a majority of the district's 639,000 residents.
From Lowell to Maynard to Lawrence to Haverhill, people have real feelings and fears about the future of Massachusetts and America. Hard as we may try to separate it, the two are inextricably linked.
Tsongas has aided and abetted Pelosi's liberal agenda while setting aside the wishes of the people who elected her.
For all the Town Hall meetings, why didn't she listen and learn that most people did not want Obamacare -- an unproven, unpracticed law that could add hidden costs to Massachusetts' first-in-the-nation health-care program.
Nor did small business owners and employees want a jobs-killing Cap and Advertisement Trade or a $787 billion stimulus that picked Wall Street winners and losers and handed us the bailout bill.
Financial overhaul regulations? Sure, they're fine if all Wall Street is treated equally. But why did Democrats ignore the biggest culprit in the housing-market collapse -- campaign-donation friendly Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac?
Nearly 11 months ago, Scott Brown's stunning U.S. Senate victory was testimony to what was changing around here. A Republican, Brown swept crucial Democratic strongholds in winning 20 of the district's 29 communities. His message of independence and bipartisanship resonated with voters who were sick and tired of the arrogance coming from both sides of the political aisle.
So how did Tsongas interpret Brown's cataclysmic win? She listened more closely to Pelosi than to her constituents.
She voted to pile up the national debt and put the financial futures of our children and our children's children under China's thumb.
The notion that we can spend our way to prosperity is ridiculous. Yet that has been the basis for every Democrat solution to date.
Massachusetts needs more Scott Browns in the Bay State's congressional delegation, federal lawmakers who will read legislation, question what's in it, and demand changes in the best interests of all Americans. The person who comes closest to being the next Scott Brown is not Niki Tsongas; it's Jon Golnik.
Golnik's got the fire in the belly to make change and be an independent Republican voice. He makes no qualms that if he doesn't do the job in two years, the people of the Fifth District have every right to take the seat back and give it to someone else. Golnik says he'll take his orders from the people, rather than wait for someone on high to tell him how to order the people around. We're putting our trust in Golnik and so should you.
The Sun endorses Jon Golnik for the Fifth Congressional District seat.
Hello voters my old friends I'll give my speech to you again The message in it is so boring I just begin it and you're snoring 'Bout how we can deal with spending in the current fiscal years What you hear Is the sound...of Tsongas Wonder why you've never seen My face on People magazine etc
(not sure about one of those lines)
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Brown may have done well in district; also sometimes people leave a Sun lying around at work and a lot of the letters and “hotline” calls (kind of like chumpline, you call and state your piece & they print it) are conservative, throw-the-bums-out views.
Kudos to the Sun. My former employer (ahem) deserves credit for being more conservative that most New England newspapers, though anybody would be more conservative than the Globe.
I would be deeeeelighted to see Niki the Dunce bounced from office. The Lowell Sun got it right about her not listening to her constituents, and voting in lockstep with Nancy Pelosi.
Twice I sent her office emails, instructing her to vote against the stimulus and then against cap-n-trade. Both times her staff sent me back a long statement (canned, of course) describing how wonderful the program would be and how many wonderful benefits would accrue to her wonderful district. In other words, she didn’t listen to a single word. I’ve since given up writing to her.
Speaking of challengers, I just bought some mums from Jim Ogonowski the other day and told him I wish to hell he was running against Niki the Dunce again! He said he wishes he was too, but it’s too expensive.
Godspeed, Jon Golnick!
(Saw a bumper sticker on the back of a pickup truck that read “Tsongas Tsucks” the other day. I love it!)
This is the district I live in and I am seeing similar energy and excitement with the Golnik campaign that I saw with the Scott Brown campaign earlier this year. Golnik may be outspent by Tsongas in this race but he's way ahead on enthusiasm and that counts for a lot. Somehow his campaign has plastered the area with thousands and thousands of Golnik signs. I ordered a lawn sign through his website and they were at my house with it less than an hour later and while they where there, they were knocking on nearby doors seeing if they wanted signs as well.
There was a debate between Golnick and Tsongas just a couple miles from my house and please watch this amusing video so you can gauge the enthusiasm gap for yourself.
Golnick is going to be my next congressman!
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