Harry Teague is scared. He is so scared he is modifying his voting record!
The Pink Flamingo thinks one of the burning questions of the millennial should be as follows: Why would a man who is worth (allegedly) forty million bucks spend over $40,000 of the tax-payer’s money on travel for just one season – summer? I guess he was fighting those dastardly teapartiers?
“…Summer travel for the office of New Mexico’s Harry Teague (D) totaled $40,274. His neighbor, Rep. Ben Lujan (D), disbursed just $20,697. Neither office responded to requests for comment….”
It gets better. I also need to be honest and mention that Teague is a first timer and probably needs to waste all our money setting up shop.
“…Rep. Harry Teague’s disbursements begin on page 277 of the third pdf file. Teague’s office spent $899,807.89 through September, including $352,130.23 in the third quarter…”
One of the problems Democrats are having these days is trying to stay true to some sort of “value”. When you really have none it is fine if you are going for the superficial look. But, when you get backed into a corner and need to at least look like you stand for something, it gets a little problematic. It doesn’t help when you have someone ethical, honorable, and decent like Steve Pearce running against you!
Harry Teague must be scared. (I do like this idea)
“...Congressman Harry Teague has introduced a bill to end the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) that passed last year — and use the remaining money to pay down the national debt. “I opposed the bailout because it did more for Wall Street than it did for Main Street,” said Teague. “We need to end TARP. And rather than allow for any remaining TARP funds to be used as a slush fund for other programs, we need use that money to pay down our national debt.” The bill, the TARP Sunset and Fiscal Responsibility Act, is cosponsored by Betsy Markey, D-Colo., Suzanne Kosmas, D-Fla., Larry Kissell, D-N.C., and Debbie Halvorson, D-Ill. It would block Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner from spending TARP money after December 31. Teague says the program still has $200 billion of unspent money. “TARP was deeply flawed from the beginning,” Teague said. “While most families in my district were tightening their belts, the bailed out financial institutions were awarding executive bonuses.”…”
In fact, Teague is now considered a “problem” for the Dems!
“...New Mexico’s 2nd: Rep. Harry Teague faces former Rep. Steve Pearce (R), who gave up his seat in 2008 to run for Senate. Teague has tried to vote his district, but he isn’t being helped by Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) and Obama, who drew 49 percent of the district’s vote in 2008. Definitely a midterm problem for Democrats….’
TEAGUE’S STIMULUS JOBS!
Teague is also helping to bring in something like 750 stimulus based jobs to the Las Cruces Area….you read correct – 750?
“…New Mexico will be getting up to $100 million from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to help build and run a New Mexico integrated biorefinery project near Columbus, New Mexico. The demonstration-scale facility “will cultivate algae in ponds that will ultimately be converted into green fuels, such as jet fuel and diesel, using the Dynamic Fuels refining process” according to the description of the project from the DOE (pdf).
The money will go to Sapphire Energy, a Las Cruces-based San Diego-based company (the New Mexico operations of Sapphire Energy are based out of Las Cruces) which will begin construction of the facilitiy in September of 2010. Just under half of the money, $50 million, will come as a grant from the Recovery Act through the Integrated Biorefinery Program. The other $54.5 million will be provided in the form of loan guarantees through the Biorefinery Assistance Program.
“Producing the energy that powers America is something that New Mexico has always done. As we begin to add renewable fuels to our energy portfolio, I am proud that southern New Mexico will remain a leader in the energy industry,” said Congressman Harry Teague. “Investments like these will have a huge impact on our communities, not only in the jobs that will be created but in keeping southern New Mexico on the forefront of the new energy economy.”
A press release from Teague’s office said the money would result in 750 direct or indirect jobs from the construction, administration and operation of the facility.
The money is coming from the stimulus package that Congress passed and President Barack Obama signed into law earlier this year….”
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December 17th, 2009 on 6:51 pm
Steve Pearce is a conservative ideologue that would have voted against a stimulus package that has proved to work (and, actually, the tax cuts included in the stimulus package have been the LEAST effective part of the bill).
In other words, Pearce would have voted to extend the recession. Your choice, southern New Mexico. The guy whose conservative principles 1) helped get us into the mess (with nearly all of the bulk of the current and projected deficit due to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the Bush tax cuts in 2003) and 2) would have voted against a bill that has helped America slowly climb out of this mess.