Showing posts with label accountability. Show all posts
Showing posts with label accountability. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Consider Rep. Ted Yoho Of Florida

Accountability
Consider Rep. Ted Yoho (R-FL), a Tea Party freshman whose outspoken stupidity on a default’s potential benefits, such as an improved U.S. credit rating, has provided a bit of dark humor in these dark days. Yoho, a large-animal veterinarian, announced months ago that he would never vote to raise the debt ceiling. Like most Republican candidates, he had no problem raising contributions from business interests, notably including contractors, insurance companies, manufacturers and agricultural processors — all of which presumably share the horror of default expressed by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. But no doubt Yoho parroted the usual right-wing clichés about taxes, regulation, labor, and health care, so all the business guys wrote a check without caring that Yoho is an ignorant yobbo.......more

Wednesday, October 16, 2013

I Am Alen West

Accountability
Former Congressman Allen West has told the Shark Tank that he will be launching his new website, AllenBWest.com, sometime this upcoming week. West, who is currently a Fox News Contributor, has recently stated that he would be interested in running for the U.S. Senate in 2016, if a seat opens up........more

Tampa Bay Tea Party Members

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Fouling Florida's Environment

Here on the southeast coast, the Indian River Lagoon, the St. Lucie River and its estuary are being polluted like never before — perhaps irreversibly — by an algae slime that proliferates from excess manure, sewage and fertilizer released by municipalities and, of course, from Lake Okeechobee. Research clearly shows that most of the nutrients flowing into Lake Okeechobee come from tributaries in the northern Everglades. This is Big Sugar country, the Everglades Agricultural Area, where most of the nation's sugarcane is grown........more
Elected officials and others have known for more than 30 years about our nutrient-rich water problems, but they consistently have put business interests ahead of eliminating the sources of the pollution.

Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Tampa Bay Tea Party Members

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Accountability: Tea Party Traitors

In a piece written for Alternet last week, famed liberal economist Robert Reich turned his sights towards the Tea Party, attributing the backlash against their antics in Washington to the fact that the American people “don’t like traitors to our system of government.”.........more

I Am Gus Bilirakis

Accountability
Voters should remember that I voted  in favor of shutting the government down.

Saturday, October 12, 2013

I Am Bill “Big Oil” Young

Accountability
One of his staunchest allies, GOP Congressman Bill “Big Oil” Young just announced his retirement. This is BIG NEWS for three reasons:
  1. Congressman Young’s announcement comes just days after a new poll showing him LOSING his re-election race.
  2. This is a winnable race -- President Obama won this district just last year.
  3. Young’s not the only one -- there are 16 other House Republicans losing their races after the Republican government shutdown......here

Tampa Bay Tea Party Members

 
 
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