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To: ellery
I was leaning toward Hunter, but after I saw that he was pro-pork, I reconsidered.

Perhaps you could share where you saw that. I can't find it, other than a few detractors saying it is so.

According to Citizens against Government Waste, 'pork' is defined as :

A "pork" project is a line-item in an appropriations bill that designates tax dollars for a specific purpose in circumvention of established budgetary procedures, according to Citizens Against Government Waste.

http://www.cagw.org/site/PageServer?pagename=reports_earmarks.

They don't list Hunter as a 'porker'(earmarks). Please show us, other than spending on military for this war, where you find that Hunter is a porker.

Here's the list from 2001 of the porkers of the month. Lots of R's and D's there, but no Duncan Hunter or House Armed Services Committe, which he headed . They do show as porkers: Tommy Thompson, Sen. Robert Bennett, Sen. Joe Lieberman , Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.), Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison , Rep. John Peterson (R-Pa.) , Sen. John Thune,Reps. Tom DeLay , Sens. Hillary Clinton , Sen. Larry Craig

http://www.cagw.org/site/PageServer?pagename=news_porkerofthemonth_hallofshame

124 posted on 03/16/2007 8:19:28 AM PDT by AuntB (" It takes more than walking across the border to be an American." Duncan Hunter)
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To: AuntB
In 2005, Hunter went 0 for 19 on the Flake anti-pork amendments.

Despite being a member of the Republican Study Committee, Hunter frequently votes NO on their fiscally conservative annual budgets.

And Hunter is also pro-entitlement expansion: Yes on No Child Left Behind, Yes on the Medicare Drug Benefit, Yes on the 2005 Highway bill.

He also voted Yes on McCain-Feingold.

Club for Growth gave him a 49% on their 2005 scorecard. That places him 187th within the House GOP conference, out of roughly 230 members.

http://www.clubforgrowth.org/2006/10/duncan_hunters_voting_record.php

In recent years, Hunter has gotten Cs in the National Taxpayers' Union ratings (until 2006, when he brought it up to a B).

http://www.ntu.org/main/components/ratescongress/details_all_years.php3?house_id=68

This to me is the record of a pro-spending, pro-federal-expansion candidate.

139 posted on 03/16/2007 2:12:32 PM PDT by ellery (The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts. - Edmund Burke)
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