RemoveRINO Fred Upton

Voted AGAINST the surge:
Had Upton gotten his way,
we would have surren-
dered to Al Qaeda, granting
them victory in their most
clearly defined battlefield
against us.

For an inside look at the
importance of Iraq to Al Qaeda,
please read the following report
from the field, courtesy of
Michael Totten and Colonel
Mike Silverman: "Al Qaeda Lost"
For a poignant reminder of the
hands into which Upton voted to
leave the Iraqi people, please
read the following post by Victor
Davis Hanson: "Thyestean Feast ." .

Voted AGAINST
withholding tax-payer
dollars from Planned
Parenthood (ACU-6 ) Read what
Kathryn Jean Lopez has to say about
Planned Parenthood: "Planned".

Voted FOR Pelosi's "light-
bulb ban" that, as the ACU
explains, regulates "lights and
appliances (including a ban on the
incandescent light bulb), creating new
programs for alternative energy
sources, imposing more regulations on
energy companies and mandating
vastly increased use of ‘renewable’
energy” (ACU 6).

Voted FOR Barney Frank’s
Housing Trust Fund of 2007
(ACU-5 ), which Speaker Pelosi boasted
as “the largest expansion in federal
housing programs in decades” (Pelosi 1)
and which the Bush administration
opposed as “a duplicate program”
that “would create an undue and
counterproductive reliance on Fannie
Mae and Freddie Mac” (Woolley & Gerhard
1) .

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,

pton

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 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 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
conservative budget
alternative that 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 (ACU-4) .

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

Voted AGAINST an
amendment to cut
discretionary spending by
2% while protecting the
Bush tax cuts (ACU 2).

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 FOR spending an
additional $100 million on
Public Broadcasting (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 AGAINST the Online
Freedom of Speech bill,
which would have prevented e-mail
and blogs from being regulated by the
Federal Election Commission (ACU 2). In
essence, this bill's defeat leaves open
the possibility that McCain/Feingold
could reach its way dramatically into
the Internet (Hayward).

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 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, Upton voted in
favor of the bailout, 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).