Hey "Liberal Media" friends!

I looked at the dccc/congressional website and found the following on Chris Smith's record here in the NJ04 race:

HOW SMITH RESPONDS TO HIGH ENERGY PRICES
Rep. Smith voted against cracking down on the oil and gas industries price gouging.
Big oil and gas industries have given Rep. Smith $4,700. Any surprise?

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GOP "HEALTH CARE"
Big drug interests have given $27,835 to Smith over the Representative's career. They know who their friends are.
Rep. Smith voted for the GOP Medicare Prescription Drug Bill that will give billions to businesses and the health care industry, while forcing seniors to accept annual increases in premiums and deductibles and a growing gap in coverage for the prescription drugs they buy.

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TIES WITH THE GOP LEADERSHIP
Smith voted the GOP party line 83% of the time.

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TIES WITH TOM DELAY
Smith has:
Voted to weaken House ethics rules when DeLay proposed doing so as GOP Majority Leader.
Voted with Tom DeLay 81% of the time (through 3/31/2006)

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SUPPORTING OUR TROOPS
Rep. Smith voted to continue awarding contracts to Halliburton even if the Pentagon's own audit processes found that more than $100 million of their contractor's costs in Iraq were unreasonable.
Rep. Smith opposed expanding access to the military's TRICARE health insurance program to thousands of Reservist and National Guard members, even though 20 percent of all Reservists do not have health insurance, and 40 percent of Reservists aged 19 to 35 lack health coverage.
Rep. Smith voted against granting a bonus to grant a $1,500 bonus to every American service member serving in Iraq and Afghanistan, including National Guard and Reserve forces.

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HOW DOES SMITH SUPPORT....

STEM CELL RESEARCH?
Rep. Smith sided with social conservatives against patients with debilitating diseases and voted against expanding Federal funding of stem cell research.

Is anyone paying attention (besides the democratic candidate) Carol Gay?

/EJZip