RemoveRINO Vernon Ehlers

Voted AGAINST off-shore
drilling in 06 (ACU-4).

Voted AGAINST off-shore
drilling in 07 (ACU -6).

Voted AGAINST drilling in
ANWR in 2005 (ACU 2).

Voted AGAINST drilling in
ANWR in 2006 (ACU-4) .

Voted FOR the Democrat's
2007 Energy Policy that
mandated reliance on biofuels while
not allowing oil supplies to increase.
The policy also stiffened regulations
and raised taxes $2 billion (ACU-6 ).

Voted AGAINST Earmark
Reform aimed to cut runaway
spending (A CU-6).

Voted AGAINST reinstating
funds for missile defense
in 2007 (ACU-6).

Voted AGAINST
strengthening missile
defense in 2008 (ACU-8).

Voted AGAINST speeding
up construction on the
border fence (ACU-6).

Voted TO OVERRIDE

Bush’

veto

the State

Children’s

Health

Insurance

Program

(SCHIP)

xpansion

(

ACU-

This

program was

created

1997

only

provide

insurance

children

from

uninsured

families

were

narrowly

above poverty.

But 10

years

later, the

Dems

moved

expand the

program

--an

as always,

he devil

the details

joining

forces

with the Dems,

hlers

chose

do the following

Re-define "children" to mean "21-year-
old adults."
Re-define "just above poverty" to
mean "$80,000 income."
Let some taxpayers pay for other
taxpayers' insurance (even if the
former make less than the latter and
purchase their own insurance).
Give incentives for states to
“recruit” new enrollees and thus
make this big program even bigger.
(Carney-1).

Voted FOR applying
McCain / Feingold to
grassroots organizations (ACU-
4). NOTE: Undoubtedly, in this
instance, the dems were the good
guys. This was GOP-sponsored and
nearly ALL republicans voted for it.
However, we at Remove the Rinos
believe there is no excuse for voting
against the 1st Amendment no matter
how many republicans do so and no
matter how reprehensible George
Soros’ 527s are. And if John McCain
were to jump off a bridge…..??

Voted AGAINST a 2006 con-
servative budget
alternative that according to ACU
would have extended Bush’s tax cuts
while trimming more than 300 billion
dollars of discretionary spending,
done away with close to 150
programs, and increased funds for the
military and for veterans. It also would
have opened ANWR for drilling.

Voted FOR raising min-
imum wage after the Dems
rejected tax cuts that would
have protected entry-level
workers and small
businesses (ACU-6) . For insights
into the harmful effects the measure,
in its House form, would have meant to
workers and small businesses,
National Review Online consulted with
four leading economists. All four
economists agreed that only
politicians stood to gain from the
measure : "At Minimum…Should Republicans
fight back against a minimum-wage increase?"

Voted AGAINST banning
tax-payer dollars from
going to the U.N. to renovate, or
build anew, their headquarters in the
United States (ACU 4).

Voted AGAINST an amend-
ment that would keep
government funds from
being used to enforce
trigger-lock regulations (ACU
4). Critics argue these regulations
have little value in promoting gun
safety and are primarily punitive in
design, adding cost and red tape to
gun ownership. Still worse, these
trigger locks would hamper, if not
outright nullify, a gun-owner's ability to
use the weapon in self-defense. This
suggests another Machiavellian gun-
control strategy: if you can't make a
gun illegal, do the next best thing--
make it useless.

Voted AGAINST a bill pro-
tecting property owners
from eminent domain
abuses. The bill would guarantee
access to the federal court so that
citizens could sue to stop the
government from taking their
property.

Voted AGAINST an amend-
ment to cut discretionary
spending by 2% while pro-
tecting the Bush tax cuts (ACU
2).

Voted FOR raising CAFE
standards (ACU-2 ) For a look at the
link between higher CAFE standards
and increased traffic fatalities, as well
as the folly of the economic
justifications for higher standards, see
what Dennis Kneale has to say: "New
CAFE" (CNBC-1)

Voted FOR banning 50-
caliber rifle exports (ACU 2).
According to the NRA-Institute for
Legislative Action (NRA-ILA 1), this bill,
which was sponsored "by notoriously
anti-gun Representative James
Moran," outlawed exports of .50-
caliber rifles, and it marked the first
congressional vote on any kind of .50-
caliber ban.

Voted FOR spending an
additional $100 million on
Public Broadcasting (ACU)

Voted AGAINST a ban on
federal eminent-domain
seizures that force property out of
the hands of private citizens and into
the hands of private developers (ACU 2).

Voted AGAINST reforming
the Endangered Species
Act (ACU 2). to reimburse property
owners for losses suffered from not
being able to develop their land. It
also clarified species designations,
better protecting the species in need
of protection and better targeting the
properties in need of oversight (Marano
and Lieberman).

Voted FOR a 700% increase
in funding for the HOPE VI
Public Housing Program,
even as $2 billion remained in the
coffers, unspent. This was a program
that Bush had marked for elimination
(ACU -8 ).

Voted AGAINST a 2008
motion to allow drilling in
ANWR, the Outer-
Continental Shelf, and
other territories in the West
(ACU-8).

Voted FOR permanently
raising taxes on
businesses while temporarily
extending tax credits on “green”
initiatives. This was presented to the
American people as "tax relief" (a
deed that the ACU appropriately
describes as "legislative sleight-of-
hand") (ACU-8).

Voted FOR the Democrat's
Mortgage Bailout (Round
One). Introduced in May 08, this bill
set the tone for the bailout fever that
would soon infect Washington. Under
threat of Bush veto, Ehlers voted for
the bill, which sought to further distort
the marketplace by increasing the
Federal Housing Authority's influence,
guaranteeing hundreds of billions of
dollars in Fannie Mae and Freddie
Mac loans. Simultaneously, it provided
a multi-billion dollar trust fund
available to parties of questionable
relevance and repute, such as
ACORN (ACU-8).