Posted on 12/11/2001 10:07:00 AM PST by KLT
We are taking nominations for our first-ever RINO (Republican in Name Only) of the year award. This award will recognize a Republican who has advanced egregious anti-growth, anti-freedom or anti-free-market policies. The "winner" may be a member of Congress or any other state or local elected official. (Sorry, our economically challenged Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill is not an elected official, so he is ineligible.)
Here are some front-runners who have already been nominated:
Governor Don Sundquist of Tennessee for repeatedly trying to enact a State income tax.
Rep. Greg Ganske (Iowa), a Republican sponsor of the Democratic bill to federalize 30,000 airport workers.
Sen. Mike Enzi, for co-sponsoring the Internet tax bill.
Sen. John McCain, for voting for a key amendment by Democratic Leader Tom Daschle and for offering his own amendment that would have gutted the Bush tax cut.
California Assemblyman Mike Briggs, for making it possible for Gov. Gray Davis to pass his tax increase budget this year.
Please fax (202-955-9466) or e-mail your nominations by 12/19/2001. You should include a few sentences about your nominee's anti-growth efforts in 2001. If you have particularly dumb quotes from the nominee that attempt to explain his actions, please include this information. We will then have a poll of our members and our Board will make the selection from the finalists.
Thank you for your nominations.
Stephen Moore
President
Club for Growth
1776 K St. NW, Suite 300
Washington, DC 20006
SteveMoore@clubforgrowth.org
202-955-5500
202-955-9466 fax
BUMP that thought! You are right Bette!
He sucks. Does anyone else think he looks like the comedian Jackie Mason. Actually I think Mason is a certified Clinton despiser. Heard an interview with him and Boortz.
For signing the GESTAPO ACT of 2001.
For taking taxpayer money to reward biotech companies dealing in human embryo research.
For failing to defend our borders and softening up to let illegals in. (in a holding pattern now)
For partnering up with Ted Kennedy to increase the funding and power of the unConstitutional Department of Education.
For failure to pursue the treason against our country committed by the Sink Emperor and his flunkies.
For his executive order landgrabs.
For his complacency in the fedgov's role in the Klamath Basin.
For his expansion of unConstitutional powers over local water quality.
And the list goes on and on. Has he done one single conservative thing since he's been in office? Has he shrunk the power of one single agency?
Buck up, little Freeper...McCain's a Navy brat...he came to your state, not from it.
That said, he's my hands-down choice...carpet-bagging piece of crap, shilling for gun control in OR and CO
To Democrats: $337,000 (91.5% of total)
To Republicans: $28,500 (8.5% of total)
These are not the usual donations that businessmen make to try to ensure access to lawmakers, either. The DNC got $80,000; $59,000 went to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, and $100,000 to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. His individual contributions read like a "Ten Most Wanted" list.
McStain's already a friggin' joke to anyone who knows a thing about Conservatism!!
FReegards...MUD
Couldn't agree more...MUD
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