Late yesterday, I received the first of what will probably be many e-mails asking me to contribute to a fund designed to defeat Bart Stupak in the next election. that certainly did not take long. The upshot of the e-mail is that Stupak flipped his healthcare vote and those of the few Dems who followed him in exchange for federal grants to three Upper Peninsula airports. The story, if true, is reason enough for the Stupak's Michigan constituents to vote him out of office. Imagine! Mary Landrieu and Ben Nelson each got hundreds of millions of dollars for their votes. Even Chris Dodd got 100 million dollars for Connecticut and his vote was never in doubt. All Stupak could manage was three quarters of a million dollars. What a piker!
In choosing a Congressman, many people, myself included, want a person of honesty and morality who will stand for the principles on which he or she campaigned. Clearly, Stupak who voted for the first bill with federal funding of abortion to pass in 40 years, is not holding to his purported pro-life principles. ON the other hand, if you do not get a principled man, then at least you want someone who is good at getting things for the district. Here Stupak fails the test again. Stupak had the deciding votes that would determine whether or not Obamacare would pass. And he sold them for a few tiny airport grants in Michigan. He is a total failure. He needs to be replaced.
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