A week from tomorrow (July 20 3:30 p.m.) the Nashville TEA Party will gather at an intersection in Smyrna, TN to protest Senator Lamar Alexander. They reference a low score that Lamar! has received from an Heritage Action Scorecard.
I am Conservative, closer to an Evangelical Conservative. I first supported Herman Cain and then Rick Santorum in 2012. However, I do mot decide my support on how one group scores a public official on a group that picks and chooses a few issues and scores their approval based on their actions. I choose to base my support on the total body of work that a public official either produces or fails to produce.
Try this Brian as far as Alexander’s votes:
Voted for SB 744 (The immigration disaster)For federal minimum wage
Voted for SCHIP
Against decreasing the US contribution to UN Peacekeeping
For increasing US foreign aid assistance
For increasing Labor-HHS-Education funding
For increasing AMTRAK subsidies
For reauthorizing Head Start
For Economic Stimulus Package
For Mortgage relief
For warrantless searches
For Farm bill
For TARP
For National Service Program
For IMF funding
For Cash for Clunkers
For confirmation of Sotomayor
For Transportation-HUD Appropriations
For Agricultural Appropriations
Against auditing the FED
For Bernanke confirmation
For continuing airline subsidies
For use of the Patriot act to search Americans firearm records
For extension of the Patriot Act
For raising the debt ceiling again
Against restricting the EPA from regulating power plant emissions across a state
Against an amendment to restrict government’s right to indefinitely detain US citizens
Against returning national forests to the states
That seems enough to question his governance to me.
I’d rather vote for an Alexander than for a Dejarlis or a Sanford, whoI think were two Tea Party supported candidates.