Feb

05

2012

So, our two NH based US Senators had the chance to vote on getting rid of earmarks; how’d they do?

by Skip

NH Senators vote to get rid of EarmarksYeah, pretty much as expected: when voting on an amendment that would have banned earmarks (and hopefully, the corruption and self-serving pandering that often comes from it), we had a disparity in voting from our two US Senators.  As far as I am concerned, earmarks are nothing but giveaways to the politically connected.  Beseech a politician (which costs some amount of time

On one hand, US Senator Kelly Ayotte, Republican, voted to eliminate them.  Many Republicans ran having this as part of their platform.

On the other, US Senator Jeanne Shaheen, Democrat, voted to keep this practice.

 

It should have been both.

(H/T: US Senate)

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by Skip Murphy

Co-founder of GraniteGrok, my concern is around Individual Liberty and Freedom (and how Government is taking that away from us). My fight, from a Conservative (with small "L" libertarian leanings) and evangelical Christian perspective, is with the Progressives that are forcing a collectivized and secular humanistic future upon us. As TEA Party activist, citizen journalist (and pundit!), my goal is to use the New Media to advance the radical notions of America's Founders back into our culture again.

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