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Minnick Hyper-Critical Of Congressional Spending On Perks: Then Spends More Than His Counterparts (Video)
By Bill Hurst, Minnick, posing as a conservative, has a history of criticizing during campaigns then turns around and does what he is critical of!
Let’s explore Minnick’s criticism of congressional spending on travel and franking privileges (the right of Senators and Representatives to send job-related mail without paying postage.)
In 2009 Minnick has spent almost $102,000.00 in travel related expenses. While Idaho’s other Representative has spent about $67,000 on travel. While campaigning for his run to represent Idaho’s 1st Congressional District, Minnick had concerns over the lack of accountability and transparency in the Federal Government.
From Minnick’s website
I believe our nation’s budgets should be balance, but am gravely concerned about the lack of fiscal accountability and responsibility in Washington D.C. We must go back to paying for what we spend, for the sake of our children and grandchildren.
Minnick states that we are all required to demand accountably for our tax dollars so that every penny is spent in the most cost-effective way. He went on to say that wasteful spending is the wrong approach to spending taxpayer dollars
Yes Walt, Let’s Stop The Spending For Our Children Sake!
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It seems like Minnick has taken his cue from Obama and his platform of openness and transparency in government. Well it was fine to say it to get elected, but the follow through lacks any semblance of reality. As a matter of fact it has gotten worse.
Here is what I said about Obama’s and the Democrats so-called transparency in my blog titled:
Pelosi’s Power Over So Called “Blue Dog” Democrats:Predicts Dems To Retain Control (video)
The Republicans have asked about transparency that Obama has promised to protect us from the evils of government. While spreading the rhetoric, Obama has let Pelosi work behind the proverbial “Oz Curtain.” This allows Pelosi’s Congress to have the control over the committee chairman to concoct an array of free-enterprise busting bills behind the cloaked curtain. The new bill will be ceremoniously presented to the House floor and passed without the benefit of thought-provoking debate. This newly passed bill will be moved on down the street with haste and the “transparency” President Obama will put his rubber stamp on the new piece of liberal-socialistic law. This was undoubtedly what the endorsers of Obama’s “hope and change” were expecting.
I won’t go into a lot of detail myself about the franking privileges that Minnick has taken advantage of and will let the article from the IDAHOREPORTER.com speak to
Minnick used $150,000 in franking dollars in his first 15 months in office
that subject. I will however, comment on Minnick’s mailing on August 3rd of this year, Minnick used the congressional “franking” privilege to send 100,000 mailers to registered voters at a cost of $59,000. The postcard is headlined “Idaho Voting Laws Have Changed.” The 2010 Legislature passed a law, effective July 1, requiring voters to produce photo ID at the polls.
Minnick took the task on, to inform Idaho voters of something the State enacted. It appears that Minnick does not think that the media, county clerks, Secretary of States Office, the local political parties, will do an adequate job of informing local voters of the new ID requirement for voting!
In 1996 when then-citizen Walt Minnick ran to unseat then-Sen. Larry Craig, Minnick took exception with Craig running as a “fiscal conservative” while using the congressional franking privileges to send out more than $132,000 worth of taxpayer-funded mailings to constituents. Minnick, during his first year in Congress, has used more than $150,000 for taxpayer dollars to frank, though his campaign spokesman points out that he has used that money for more direct forms of communication as well, such as telephone town hall meetings. Staffers for Minnick’s electoral opponent, Republican Raul Labrador, say that Minnick is using the franking privilege for political purposes.
Read More Here Minnick criticized Craig in 1996 for franking privileges he now uses:
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Idaho Feedom Foundation: Franking Privilege Comes With A Cost
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Also Visit: Out Of Control Government Spending
Walt Minnick is right there with all the other big spenders [HQ]
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What Others Are Saying About Minnick’s Attack Ads & Possible Motives Behind Them (Video)
By Bill Hurst, Does Walt Minnick, posing as a conservative, with the front man John Foster, want to “foster” bigotry; or are the attach ads to give Minnick a place to hide his airbrushed version of his past and his Congressional voting record ?
In previous articles I have demonstrated flaws in Minick’s version of his real past and voting history during his tenure in Congress. He has conveniently manipulated the truth about both of these seemingly controversial subjects in his authentic life history and his first term in Congress, representing Idaho’s 1st Congressional District. This article attempts to reveal a few of his “airbrushed” versions of himself and the more exact account, which is not widely known by both political parties and chiefly by the constituency that he represents; Read Here: Will The Real Walt Minnick Stand Up!(Click Here for Full Story)
Let’s Take A Look At His History (video)
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Politicalgame:
The Walt Minnick You Don’t Know
In the glossy version, Walt worked in the Nixon White House on drug policy and he did—with a budget that, under his watch, ballooned to over 13 times what it was when he began. But even though he requested and received a letter from the Watergate Special Prosecutor confirming he was never a target of the investigation, multiple sources place Minnick, at least temporarily, in the Special Investigations Unit. Known as the “Plumbers,” this brainchild of Nixon was tasked with preventing leaks of classified information and carrying out covert operations against his political enemies. Led by Minnick’s boss, Egil Krogh, who would eventually plead guilty and spend time in prison, the Plumbers were the nucleus of illegal activity that would ultimately lead to the downfall of the administration.—In the postcard version, Walt “resigned in protest” after the Saturday Night Massacre (when Nixon fired Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox). It’s not clear when Minnick actually decided to resign, let alone whether he “resigned in protest,” but if he was protesting, it wasn’t very loudly. He stuck around for at least three months after that October Saturday of 1973. The truth doesn’t fit as nicely on an airbrushed postcard but to understand Walt Minnick’s grainy past you have to start at the beginning.
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Walt Minnick & John Foster’s Attack Ads:
A response to Minnick’s First Ad
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Minnick-Foster’s Fabricated Second Ad:
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Bloggers Calling Minnick’s Ad Bigoted :
(mine was first!)
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What Others Think:
Washington Post:
It isn’t every day that Democrats target Latino challengers with nasty anti-immigrant ads, but these are apparently desperate times for certain embattled Dems.
Check out this remarkably vicious new ad from Blue Dog Dem Walt Minnick of Idaho, claiming that illegal immigration is “good business” for his Republican challenger, Raul Labrador,
Washington Post: When The Dems Take The Low Road
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Election 2010: Rep. Walt Minnick’s ad slams Raul Labrador’s work in immigration law Read more:
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Idaho politics: Statehouse adversary sides with Labrador on immigration | Voices.IdahoStatesman.com
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What the far liberal left says (Click Here)
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Is Walt Running Away From Debating Labrador? Austin Hill’s Open Letter
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The MountainGoat Report: ‘Shameful’ Indeed
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Statement From: Ralph D. Perez(R) Candidate for Idaho’s District 16 State Representative.
The national democrats have been told by their strategists that the only chance they have of win in November is to make the elections as local as possible by going personally negative and doing so very aggressively. For someone who claims to be so “independent”, seems like he is taking his marching orders right from the Pelosi machine.
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Richert: Tough Minnick attack ad goes over the line Read more: idahostatesman.com
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John Foster: Walt Minnick’s Liberal Spokesman or Just an Annoying Yapping Little Dog? 
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Raul Labrador Has A Clear & Precise Stance On Immigration (video) « The “Troublesome” Conservative
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Pelosi’s Power Over So Called “Blue Dog” Democrats:Predicts Dems To Retain Control (video)
By Bill Hurst, Pelosi plans to control and gain power over the most conservative lawmakers so where will that land the mythical “Blue Dog” Democrats?
The Blue Dogs will vansih into thin air..,
Pelosi’s power trip will leave the “Blue Dogs” with bark and no bite, actually it will leave them whimpering like whipped puppies. We all know that the so-called blue dogs are a mythical group that is a scheme devised and promoted by the Democrat party; to get their party faithful elected in conservative districts.
So where does Walt Minnick fit in?
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Terresa Monroe-Hamilton’s article “Shes The Boss”:
Pelosi came from a family that bears a striking resemblance to organized crime. She will ruthlessly use and discard any one in her way or who will forward her agenda. She rules the House with an iron grip and she is simultaneously feared and hated by most politicians. Those who claim to support and adore her are sycophants that are in the DC game for money, power and prestige. Her minions are made all the more dangerous due to Pelosi’s powerful reach and thuggish policies. No radical agenda is too outrageous if she deems it worthy. Pelosi’s hypocrisy knows no bounds and she feels no shame.
An elitist’s elitist, Pelosi is cunning in the extreme. Her entire political career has been virtually choreographed and painstakingly planned. You won’t hear apologies from her and most likely, you’ll never see the attack coming if you are in her sites
Terresa Monroe-Hamilton’s article “Shes The Boss” read entire article here
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Milton Friedman: Socialism Is Force
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Politico Comments:
House Democrats are poised to approve new rules that will significantly increase their authority while taking the bullets out of the few legislative weapons Republicans have in the lower chamber.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has approved the changes from the last Congress, when House GOP members frustrated their Democratic counterparts by winning over two dozen amendment battles on the floor.
Pelosi’s move has set up a divisive mood on the first day of the 111th Congress, which Republicans say runs counter to the tone set by President-elect Obama.
Republican leaders intend to fight the rules changes, which would curtail their ability to delay legislation by forcing Democrats to take politically difficult votes.
“This is not the kind of openness and transparency that President-elect Obama promised,” the GOP leaders wrote Monday in a letter to Pelosi.
Republican leadership aides say the changes will make it easier for the Speaker to run the House and protect vulnerable House Democrats.
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CQ Politics states:
Democratic leaders are taking a hard look at preventing the minority party from scoring easy political points with motions to recommit a bill to committee with instructions to make contentious language changes and then report it back to the House “promptly.” In the outgoing Congress, “promptly’’ has meant an indefinite hold, because committees were not willing to adopt poison-pill amendments sponsored by the minority.
Most motions to recommit require instead that an amended bill be returned to the floor “forthwith,” which means within minutes.
GOP aides complain that the possible limit motions to recommit would take away the minority’s ability to attack tax increases in must-pass bills. That’s because the pay-as-you-go budget rule, which is likely to be renewed, does not allow amendments or motions to recommit forthwith that would remove any of the offsets it requires in legislation.
The pay-as-you-go rule requires that all new entitlement spending or new tax cuts be offset with equivalent spending cuts or tax increases elsewhere.
Pelosi will continue to stop term-limits for committee chairmen. This will give the chairman control and domination over the minority party. This maneuver will halt the Republican minority from any influence to “recommit a motion” back to any committee in the House.
The Republicans have asked about transparency that Obama has promised to protect us from the evils of government. While spreading the rhetoric, Obama has let Pelosi work behind the proverbial “Oz Curtain.” This allows Pelosi’s Congress to have the control over the committee chairman to concoct an array of free-enterprise busting bills behind the cloaked curtain. The new bill will be ceremoniously presented to the House floor and passed without the benefit of thought-provoking debate. This newly passed bill will be moved on down the street with haste and the “transparency” President Obama will put his rubber stamp on the new piece of liberal-socialistic law. This was undoubtedly what the endorsers of Obama’s “hope and change” were expecting.
Pelosi’s confidence of retaining power:
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was elated with the Tea Party victories in Tuesday September 14th, Republican primaries, saying the results were “very positive” for Democrats.
Pelosi still in the “Power Trip” mode states “What happened for Democrats last night was very positive,” she continued, “We were very pleased with the candidates that we drew, and they offer a great contrast in the election as to the clarity of the choice.”
Walt Minnick‘s buddy, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said after the conservative wins that the Tea Party’s primary successes point to a deep division in the GOP, as Tea Party candidates have run to the right of establishment Republicans. This brings up the Minnick question again, “Who and What is He?”
Hoyer stated:
The bottom line is they’re a deeply divided party,” Hoyer told reporters, adding that the division “is going to hurt them.
That is a hilarious statement coming on the heals of most Democrats running away from the leadership of that party.
Minnick's DC Friends: The Liberal Leadership
Hoyer’s ties with lobbyist
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Minnick and Hoyer Connection
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Let’s take a look at the Democrats scrambling from their leaders:
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Minnick’s Ad Running from the Dem leadership(click here to see his personal ad)
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Will The Real Walt Minnick Stand Up! (video)
By Bill Hurst, Voters In Idaho’s 1st Congressional District are Asking: Who and What is Walt Minnick?
Minnick, while posing as a conservative, with his campaign staff have set about to misrepresent his ideology to those he is supposed to represent. His “merry” band of liberals from Idaho and the DNC portray him as a “conservative maverick” in the Democrat Party. This is simply absurd given that Minnick scored a dismal 44% from the American Conservative Union, despite his much touted opposition to Obama’s big agenda items. Any congressman from Idaho should score nothing less than 90% to 100% conservative.
Minnick is ultra-liberal when voting on social issues. Minnick voted to keep government-funded abortion provision in ObamaCare, received $5,000 in lobbying funds from Planned Parenthood in 2008 and Representative Minnick supported the interests of NARAL Pro-Choice America 100 percent in 2009 Video Minnick & Abortion. Minnick has voted for legislation that has added billions of dollars to the national debt and more government regulations.
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Minnick Posing As A Conservative:Votes For The Liberals
Minnick Posing As A Conservative:Votes For The Liberals
If you have conservative values; how can you trust Walt Minnick? If you stand for the truth; how can you trust Minnick? Minnick has not done or said anything that can be classified as creditable or believable in his campaign. Even the Idaho Democrats can’t figure him out! This would give him a trust factor of zero with the voters of Idaho’s 1st Congressional District. Among the various human factors are relied upon making a decision in an uncertain environment, risk and trust are surely crucial ones. In summing these together; are you willing to risk your vote and future on someone whose trust factor is in a questionable state?
Minnick Misleading: Backed Up By Liberals Responding
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Politicalgame:
The Walt Minnick You Don’t Know
In the glossy version, Walt worked in the Nixon White House on drug policy and he did—with a budget that, under his watch, ballooned to over 13 times what it was when he began. But even though he requested and received a letter from the Watergate Special Prosecutor confirming he was never a target of the investigation, multiple sources place Minnick, at least temporarily, in the Special Investigations Unit. Known as the “Plumbers,” this brainchild of Nixon was tasked with preventing leaks of classified information and carrying out covert operations against his political enemies. Led by Minnick’s boss, Egil Krogh, who would eventually plead guilty and spend time in prison, the Plumbers were the nucleus of illegal activity that would ultimately lead to the downfall of the administration.—In the postcard version, Walt “resigned in protest” after the Saturday Night Massacre (when Nixon fired Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox). It’s not clear when Minnick actually decided to resign, let alone whether he “resigned in protest,” but if he was protesting, it wasn’t very loudly. He stuck around for at least three months after that October Saturday of 1973. The truth doesn’t fit as nicely on an airbrushed postcard but to understand Walt Minnick’s grainy past you have to start at the beginning.
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Club for Truth accused Minnick of being soft on illegal immigration, his spokesman responded:
“Walt’s position on immigration has been consistent from the beginning, and it’s that we need to secure the borders, send troops to the borders if necessary. Everyone who’s failed a background check needs to be deported immediately, the remainder needs to pay a fine and move to the back of the line for legal immigration”
This position mirrors President Obama’s current stance that if you are here illegally, you don’t need to be deported as long as you pass a background check and pay a fine. After doing this, you will receive one form of amnesty or another. This is the progressive stance on illegal immigration.
Minnick has compared the border fence being built along the Southern Border to the Berlin Wall. He also called for a path to normalization for illegal immigrants which is basically amnesty.
Minnick Wrong On His Own Voting Record! (video)
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From: The Mountain Goat Reporter, The Walt Minnick You Don’t Know:
Like anyone would, there are things in Walt Minnick’s past that he frequently highlights, things he would rather forget and things he just doesn’t talk about. Depending on the audience, those things vary. However, some of those things he highlights have been distorted or are downright false and most of what you think you know about Walt Minnick, you don’t. Somewhere beneath Walt’s glossy, airbrushed, postcard version of the past is the grainy, less glamorous, washed-out truth.
In the airbrushed version, Walt spent two years in the Army and even, as his campaign Facebook page reads, “serving his country in Vietnam.” This assertion is repeated in other biographies, including the executive search site “Boardroom Insiders” and The Committee for a Liveable Future (LivPAC), the political action committee founded by Congressman Earl Blumenaur (D-OR). Actually a young Walter Minnick was desperately looking for a way to avoid the draft, and did so successfully. While scores of men his age, most with less means, spent their tours of duty in the jungles of Southeast Asia, Walt spent his time as an analyst in the Pentagon, with at least the last six months of his two-year obligation spent in the White House.
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Minnick said two years ago he knew how to create jobs!
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Fast forward Minnick was asked “Where are the Jobs Congressman?” he would not answer:
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More on Minnick’s Won’t Say or No Comment Strategy:
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What Others Are Saying About Minnick’s & Dems Attach Ads: Possible Motives Behind Them (Video)
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Minnick Was For A Middle Class Tax Increase Before He Was Against it- KIDO
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A Video Response to Walt Minnick’s First Ad
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Walt Minnick: Political Opportunist Extraordinaire and the Tale of Two Homes
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Contestant One Two Or Three Could Be He!
Could He Be The Man Behind The Mask?
The Democrats Think He Is This Contestant!
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Leno Takes A Stab At Keynesian Economics
Keynesian economics ( Keynesian Economics Defined (video) ) has failed the country in thirties during the “Great Depression” and is worsening the current fragile economy, that the country is experiencing at this present time. This liberal administration, with Minnick’s votes, are either going to keep raising the national debt by borrowing and eventually will have to raise taxes to pay down the debt. Don’t be fooled, this is why the Democrats are bringing back the so-called “Death Tax” or the Estate Tax at the highest rates. This tax is “invisible” to the average taxpayer. Taxpayers are not involved with tax on an annual basis however, this tax brings in billions to the U.S. Treasury. Those tax rates will have consequences even a medium-sized farming operations or a small businesses. This will put a heavy tax burden (which is due, in cash, within 9 months of death) on the owner’s, families and business associates. More on Minnick’s hand in the economic decline at: Minnick-Democrats F In Economics: Edujobs Stimulus Fix Blows-up In Their Faces (Video)
Minnick Supported Obama & Pelosi:Gingrich Explains Why Democrats Are Dodging (Video)
By Bill Hurst, Can you really trust Walt Minnick, to represent your conservative values, and hopes for a better business climate?
The vote for Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House on the Democrat side, it appeared that Pelosi would lose. She was able to hold the vote open and began calling in her markers to pull her over the top.
It was found that Idaho’s own Walt Minnick was among those who owed favors to Nancy Pelosi. Minnick caved-in like a house of cards and voted for Pelosi during the Democrat caucus and voted for Pelosi in the final against Republican front-runner John Boehner, that vote was 255 Pelosi to 174 Boehner.
Minnick has frequently and intentionally casts votes to deceive his conservative voting constituency. Those votes are called “throw-away” votes that were not needed at that time to push forward the liberal agenda of Pelosi, Reid, Hoyer, Obama, just to name a few of Minnick’s friends in Washington D.C. Casting a “nay” vote on the high-profile liberal-socialist legislation, would give vulnerable so-called “Blue dog” Democrats like Minnick a false appearance of being “conservative” for the folks back home.
As I have previously stated, this is simply absurd given that Minnick scored a dismal 44% from the American Conservative Union, despite his much touted opposition to Obama’s big agenda items. Any congressman from Idaho should score nothing less than 100% conservative.
In summery, how many “markers” does Walt Minnick have floating around out there in the world of liberal politics? How many quid pro quo deals does he have with the Unions, lobbyist, and liberal-socialist groups, Idaho’s stealth liberal hangs out with? I guess then the main questions Idaho’s 1st Congressional voters have to ask themselves; does Walt Minnick really have my conservative values? Can Walt Minnick effectively represent my hopes and dreams for the future?
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What Has Walt Minnick Done, While Posing As A Conservative, NOT Much, But Here Are a Few Things To Consider:
Pelosi organized a fundraiser event for Minnick, used her mansion in San Fransisco as the venue.
Where Have All The Liberals Gone…It’s Election Time! (Video)
Minnick Shows His Progressive Colors… By John Anderson, Tea Party Boise, Inc.Minnick Voted For “The Financial Stability Act”…Huge Government Take Over
Minnick Voted For “The Financial Stability Act”…Huge Government Take OverMinnick Vague On Answers To Tough Questions
Minnick Wrong On His Own Voting Record! (video)
Minnick Vague On Answers To Tough Questions
Minnick Won’t Even Say He’s A Democrat!
Minnick Support Of Failed Stimulus Bills
Gingrich Explains Why Democrats Are Running For Cover
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Democrats Fleeing Obama,
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Minnick Wrong On His Own Voting Record! (video)
By Bill Hurst, Will the gimmick for Minnick and other Democrats work? Or Minnick must have had amnesia the last two years!
Minnick, posing as a conservative, is running this ridiculous ad right along with other Democrats calling themselves “Independent Conservatives” and not even mentioning the Democrat Party by name. Minnick is straining so hard to pander to conservatives in Idaho’s 1st Congressional District you wonder why he didn’t join in on the Republican primary bid so he could run on both tickets! He won a narrow victory over his Republican opponent narrowly defeating Bill Sali, taking 50.6 percent of the vote to Sali’s 49.4 percent. Minnick carried only seven of the district’s 18 counties during the biggest liberal shift ever in the history of the country. How can Minnick distance himself from Pelosi when he accepted her invitation to use her home in San Francisco California for a fundraiser venue?Story here
BAYH AND THE BLUE DOGS ‘HAVE NO AGENDA’….
Sen. Evan Bayh (D-Ind.) is also unhappy with the friendly fire. Bayh announced last week that a group of centrist Democrats had come together to negotiate as a bloc with the White House and party leaders on major legislation. He promptly found himself targeted by an ad accusing him of “standing in the way of President Obama’s reforms.”
“We literally have no agenda,” Bayh shot back. “How can they be threatened by a group that has taken no policy positions?”
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Minnick And The Blue Dog Myth Read Article Here
You’ve heard about them. Now find out what they stand for. (P.S. It’s not much.):
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Some of Minnick’s voting history and political positions:
Minnick knows how to spend taxpayer money and how to artificially stimulate the economy. He is also in favor of Price Controls.
Minnick voted for the “The Financial Stability Act” Adds To The Deficit Plus 6 Billion Pork Barrel For Liberal Congressional Caucuses.
Minnick dos not want to repeal ObamaCare.
Minnick Voted For Edujobs Blows-up In Democrats Faces Adds To Deficit
Minnick Runs With The Liberals
Minnick’s Gimmick: Posing As A Conservative, While Supporting The Liberals! (video) See Minnick Cheering On Obama.
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Statement from Republican Raul Labrador, Idaho’s 1st Congressional District:
Walt Minnick’s TV ad claims he said ‘no’ to the Wall Street bailout—but he wasn’t even a member of Congress when that vote took place. He also says he said ‘no’ to more government spending, but voted for Cash for Clunkers, Cash for Caulk and another $26 billion new stimulus bill this summer. This ad was designed to deceive both the Idaho public and the media,”
Read Labrador’s Full Press Release Here
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God Bless, Ralph Smeed A True American Hero! (Video)
Ralph Smeed A True American Hero!
In Memory Of Our Friend Ralph Smeed….
Smeed, 88, co-founded the Center for the Study of Market Alternatives in Caldwell in the 1970s. He’s spent decades proselytizing about thinkers including 18th-century Scottish economist Adam Smith and 19th-century French economist Frederic Bastiat.
He’s most famous for his electronic readerboard in Caldwell, near his FarmCity Agri-Business Park, which features pungent commentary on current events under the heading, “Making Statism Unpopular.”
In addition to Otter, Smeed played a leading role in the careers of former U.S. Sen. Steve Symms, R-Idaho, and U.S. Rep. Helen Chenoweth Hage, R-Idaho.
Ralph Smeed Making Statism Unpopular!
I will add my name to the list of people Ralph played a role in shaping their political views and the fight for conservative values and making statism unpopular. I am a fourth generation Caldwellite-Canyon County resident My Grandfather, Father and I have known Ralph collectively for all his life. My father and Ralph worked together on Steve Symms first campaign, running for Idaho’s First Congressional District. During the last several months I was privileged to have several wit-exchanging conservations with Ralph. A few years ago I started calling him professor Smeed…I know he liked it, but he would reply by saying “Quit calling me names!”-I will miss Ralph “Professor Smeed” in deed!
Vodpod videos no longer available.Raul Labrador Has A Clear & Precise Stance On Immigration (video)
By Bill Hurst, Misconceptions of some on Raul Labrador’s stance on immigration; this is an attempt to help you get clarification.
Some will say that Raul Labrador, Congressional candidate for Idaho’s 1st district, because he is Hispanic and that he is an immigration attorney, he does not and will not have a strong stance on immigration and will not want to protect our most southern border. That is as ludicrous of a statement as; Bill Hurst is a Caucasian tax accountant and if he were to go to Washington D.C. as a tax reformer he would not want the U.S. Tax Code simplified. Simply put, this is ridicules thinking, Zig Zigler would call it “stinkin‘ thinkin’”, and he would tell you to stop it!
Labrador is for strengthening our immigration laws, enforcement and securing our boarders. As Mr. Labrador stated, on the Austin Hill show on KIDO 580am, he is for a “guest worker program” only if the program does not give a path to citizenship. Raul Labrador knows immigration yes, this will put him at a huge advantage with the other law makers, when it comes to immigration reform, which only makes clear sense to have an expert at the forefront of changes in immigration laws. As it would be logical to have someone who is versed on the complexities of the tax code and the taxation process, to reform tax laws.
Please share this article with friends, family, neighbors, co-workers, and anyone else that may have a mistaken belief Raul Labrador does not have a stolid stance on immigration.
Raul’s statements on immigration:
News Release from Labrador Campaign:
LABRADOR BACKS OTTER’S DECISION TO SUPPORT ARIZONA’S ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION COURT BATTLE AGAINST THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
“I am in complete agreement with Gov. Otter’s decision. It is a travesty the Obama administration is spending money fighting Arizona in court when it should be spending money fighting illegal immigration” says Raul Labrador
September 4, Boise. Republican congressional candidate Raul Labrador today signaled his support of Idaho Governor Butch Otter and Idaho Attorney General Lawrence Wasden’s decision to file a ‘friend of the court’ brief with the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in support of Arizona’s laws intended to fight illegal immigration in that state. Idaho now joins 10 other states which have also filed briefs in support of Governor Jan Brewer and the Arizona Legislature.
In explaining his decision, Labrador said,
“I am in complete agreement with Gov. Otter and Attorney General Wasden’s decision. We have a growing problem of illegal immigration in this country that Congress and President Obama cannot continue to ignore. The solution to this problem is not filing suit against states that attempt to enforce existing federal laws regarding the identification and arrest of illegal immigrants and the solution is not amnesty.”
“When elected to Congress I will push for enhanced border security through barriers, technology and the deployment of troops. The solution to this problem from the incumbent Democrat, Walt Minnick is amnesty. The people of Idaho deserve leadership on this issue in Washington and when elected to Congress I will be a part of the solution and not part of the problem.”
Labrador concluded,
“It is a travesty the Obama administration is spending money fighting Arizona in court when it should be spending money to fight illegal immigration. It is just another example of how out of touch the president and the Democrat Congress are with the American people.”
Raul Labrador in his own words from his official web-page:
The Arizona law has forced the illegal immigration problem onto center stage.
First – let’s talk about the building national crisis. The Arizona state government took decisive action to protect its state and people from an onslaught of violence. It is also facing a crisis because its social service systems and institutions are being overwhelmed by the presence of some 500,000 illegal immigrants.
Of course Arizona had to act. Now we see demonstrations and cries of ‘racism’ and calls for boycotts against the state of Arizona. That is wrong.
The anger and criticism is misplaced. It should be directed at the federal government – which has played games with this major problem instead of finding solutions.
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AZ Sheriff To Obama & Holder: Stop “Kicking Us In The Chops?”:
Holder admits not reading the bill
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Janet Napolitano – Admits she hasn’t read the Arizona Law!
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Labrador Is A True Conservative-Minnick Won’t Even Say He’s A Democrat!
By Bill Hurst, Simply put, there is no such thing as a conservative or a “Blue Dog” Democrat, it is a myth.
Minnick, while posing as a conservative, with his buddies from Idaho’s mostly liberal press corps have done such a great job of representing Minnick as a “conservative maverick” in the Democrat Party, one may wonder why the heck he is a Democrat. This is simply absurd given that Minnick scored a dismal 44% from the American Conservative Union, despite his much touted opposition to Obama’s big agenda items. Any congressman from Idaho should score nothing less than 100% conservative.
Minnick paints himself as this; I will do what Idahoans want, type of guy, it is very obvious that is not the case as I have pointed out in many articles on this blog site. Minnick has a hidden agenda, which is to support the liberal mantra of the Democrat Party, if he is elected to a second term. Even though Minnick will never mention his party affiliation, we need to remind every one in Idaho’s 1st Congressional District, every day that he is a Pelosi puppy. The “Blue Dog” myth is going to vanish for those Democrats that tout this banner. Simply put, there is no such thing as a conservative Democrat in the 21st century. Minnick associates with the liberal crowd.
Idaho's Liberal Congressman Minnick, Posing As A Conservative
An important fallacy about these “conservative” Democrats that the spot-light needs to shine on, is that each one of them voted for Nancy Pelosi as Speaker. These so-called “Blue Dog” the most or “fictitious” conservative Democrats handed control of the committees to extremists like Henry Waxman, John Conyers, and Barney Frank. By single handily granting Pelosi a governing majority, the Blue Dog Coalition grants the Democrats full control of the Rules Committee, which completely manipulates the legislative process for the leadership. This effectively assures the passage of any legislation that is supported by Pelosi and her liberal buddies. This is exactly how we got ObamaCare.
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Let’s do a little comparison:
Raul Labrador will be a major player in immigration reform because of his background and experience with immigration laws. He is not for immigration amnesty
Minnick is for amnesty for aliens that are in the U.S. illegally.
Labrador will be part of the “new conservative” make-up of Congress this next term.
Minnick will support the liberal agenda that is continuing with Pelosi, Reid, and Obama.
Labrador understands economics and the principles of supply & demand, supply side theory.
Minnick knows how to spend taxpayer money and how to artificially stimulate the economy. He is also in favor of Price Controls.
Labrador wants strong national defense.
Minnick is for cutting the militaries budgets.
Labrador will vote for business friendly bills.
Minnick voted for the “The Financial Stability Act”.
Labrador leads the efforts to repeal ObamaCare.
Minnick dos not want to repeal ObamaCare.
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