John Mica's Voting Record Revealed

I wonder if the voters in District 7 know about this:

• An F score with The Middle Class!!
• A 0% with the Disabled American Veterans in 2003, 2004 and 2005
• A 5% with the League of Conservation Voters

Watch Faye Armitage debate John Mica on Orlando's Local PBS station.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5ylBIS5x6Q&NR=1

He takes a lot of credit for things, but never gets called on his voting record. Let him take responsibility.

It is time for Change: Vote Faye Armitage!

John Mica's Voting Record Exposed

And it doesn't look good.

Imagine an F score with The Middle Class!!

Sounds too weird to be true, right?

Well, that's what Faye Armitage said during a debate with him on Orlando's Local PBS station.

Check for yourself:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5ylBIS5x6Q&NR=1

John Mica, a National Embarrassment

Electing to U.S. Congress Faye Armitage of Fruit Cove -- an economist, mother of five, grandmother of three, she raised a disabled son (her son-in-law is in Iraq).
Eight-term incumbent John Mica is way too big for his britches, a national embarrassment. Mica's voted against raising the minimum wage and granting (unpaid) family and medical leave. Mica never apologized for taking money from the likes of convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff or head-butting an ABC News cameraman upon leaving Tom DeLay's lobbyist party.
Mica's spends special-interest campaign contributions on travel/hotels/casinos/restaurants/bars/private clubs. See www.cleanupcityofstaugustine.blogspot.com. Ungracious Mica's guilty of goading "liberals," President Clinton ("a little booger") and social welfare recipients ("don't feed the alligators"). But as Record Senior Writer Peter Guinta reported, Mica's given earmarks to campaign contributors (that's corporate welfare). Mica wrote that he flew to Tibet to sell airplanes to China for Boeing (whose PAC contributed thousands to Mica's campaigns).
Economist Armitage will represent all of us and we can be proud to say that we finally have a Congressman who works to help people like us. No ninth term for Mica.

http://staugustine.com/stories/102608/opinions_1026_058.shtml

Saddest Displays of Partisan Politics in Washington

This has got to be one of the saddest displays of partisan politics in
Washington, a system that oftentimes places a much higher priority on assigning
blame to the folks on the other side of the aisle rather than attempting to
understand the problems they are charged with solving.

Let's be clear. There is plenty of blame to go around here - Alan Greenspan, Fannie and Freddie, Countrywide, hedge funds (also scheduled for after the election), rating
agencies, the SEC, individual homeowners, Wall Street firms ... the list is very
long.

http://seekingalpha.com/article/101680-pathetic-display-at-yesterday-s-financial-hearings

Mr. Mica is shown taping a sheet of paper in front of his microphone. What a circus!!!

Are Minorities to blame?

This is what Daniel Gross in Newsweek reports:

Subprime Suspects

The right blames the credit crisis on poor minority homeowners.
This is not merely offensive, but entirely wrong.

The subtext: if only Congress
didn't force banks to lend money to poorminorities, the Dow would be well on its
way to 36,000.

At Monday's hearing, Republican Rep. John Mica of Florida
gamelytried to pin Lehman's demise on Fannie and Freddie. After comparing
Lehman's small political contributions to Fannie and Freddie's much larger ones,
Mica asked Fuld what role Fannie and Freddie's failure played in Lehman's
demise.Fuld's response: "de minimis."

Lending money to poor people doesn't make you poor. Lending money poorly to rich people does.

Shame on you Mica, trying to cover up your own lack of oversight in the Government Reform and Oversight committee!

Here is another blogger's astute comments:

Oft-Repeated GOP Lie Exposed by ex-Lehman CEO

So there you have it folks. The former CEO of Lehman Brothers telling you
under oath, that Fannie and Freddie had absolutely ZERO to do with the Wall
Street meltdown.

Indeed, as a column in today's Newsweek points out, the Community Reinvestment Act, which GOPers from John McCain to Ron Paul have fingered as root cause of the meltdown, only applies to depository banks. In case you haven't noticed, it is depository banks like Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase that are still standing, and purchasing up failed investment banks like Bear Stearns and Merrill Lynch.

In other words, this whole nonsense is misdirection intended to distract attention from the root cause of the meltdown, the deregulation of the financial markets by the GOP buddies of the Wall Street fat cats.

Are Minorities to Blame?

This is what Daniel Gross in Newsweek reports:

Subprime Suspects
The right blames the credit crisis on poor minority homeowners. This is not merely offensive, but entirely wrong.

The subtext: if only Congress didn't force banks to lend money to poor
minorities, the Dow would be well on its way to 36,000.

At Monday's hearing, Republican Rep. John Mica of Florida gamely
tried to pin Lehman's demise on Fannie and Freddie. After comparing Lehman's small political contributions to Fannie and Freddie's much larger ones, Mica asked Fuld what role Fannie and Freddie's failure played in Lehman's demise.
Fuld's response: "de minimis."

Lending money to poor people doesn't make you poor. Lending money poorly to rich people does.

Shame on you Mica, trying to cover up your own lack of oversight in the Government Reform and Oversight committee!