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I found this little exchange to be insightful from Congressman Bishop:
. . . the two 1st District candidates snapped at each other, with Bowen accusing Bishop of taking $26,000 in the past four months from the radioactive-waste-storage company.
"I did not take $26,000, I took $28,000," Bishop fired back. "And that’s not company money, I can’t take that. It’s from individuals who work for EnergySolutions. And it’s not my biggest source of revenue."
Only someone who is comfortable in Washington D.C. could swallow the idea that dozens of individuals from EnergySolutions contributing $28,000 to the campaign is not a significant endorsement from the company as a whole or that they would do so without believing that the Congressman was working in the interests of the company that pays them.
I wondered who the biggest source of revenue was for Rep. Bishop and I found this list at OpenSecrets. It has Energy Solutions as the top source of revenue although it lists under $17,000 so it must not be current.
I wish I had all the facts, but I have enough to choose. If Rep. Bishop believes what he said then he’s not the kind of man I want representing me. If he does not believe what he said, then the fact that he said it means he is not the kind of man I want representing me.
I am definitely voting for Morgan Bowen – worst case scenario is that I’ll want to replace him in 2010. I’d say there’s more than a 50% chance that I’ll still want him in 2010.
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Anti-incumbent voters may also consider voting for Libertarian Joseph Geddess Buchman in the 1st CD race.
That’s true, but Mr. Buchman has failed to give any reasons to vote for him save the fact that he is a libertarian. His website lacks any information on his candidacy (aside from the standard party lines) and is decorated with undocumented “facts” such as how long a billion seconds, or a billion minutes is. (Both of his figures are wrong, and at no time in history could both of them be simultaneously right.)
This basically says to me that his candidacy is not to be taken seriously.
On a national level the entire country should be anti-incumbent as well.
As soon as politicians realize that the R or the D next to their name won’t save them, the sooner things will bet back on track.
I could not agree more.