Betsy Markey – The Bailout Queen
by Lesley Hollywood | 10:50 pm, August 22, 2010 | Comments Off
Earlier this year Tom Buchanan, chair of Loveland 9-12 Project, invites Besty Markey to speak to his members
Fourth Congressional District Representative Betsy Markey has released her first TV ad in which she states: “Bailouts really offend me” followed later by “Bailout is just another word for cop-out, and here in Colorado that’s not how we do business”.
Lesley Hollywood, director of the Northern Colorado Tea Party, tracked down a Markey staffer at a Windsor based senior community meeting in hopes of getting some questions answered – primarily how Markey reconciles her voting record with the statements made in her latest TV ad.
Simply because Congresswoman Markey’s voting record tells us otherwise.
Markey was not in congress at the time of TARP or the first auto bailouts, but since her time in office she has supported nearly every bill that has taken our country towards corporatism.
Here are just some of her big spending ”yes” votes:
- HR1 American Reinvestment and Recovery Act – a $789 billion dollar, 1073 page, pork filled piece of legislation that included a bailout for just about everyone.
- HR1368 Service America Act & HR1728 Anti-Predatory Lending Act - both included a taxpayer funded “transfer of money” (aka: bailout) to the scandal ridden ACORN. For more info, click here and here.
- HR2346 Supplemental Appropriations Act - A $108 billion dollar “transfer of money” (aka: bailout) to the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
- HR2454 American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 - A taxpayer funded “transfer of money” (corporate welfare) to the not yet independently viable green energy industry.
- HR3590 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act - Nationalized healthcare which mandates massive taxpayer funded “transfers of money” to government agencies and private health insurance corporations.
- HR4173 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act – An open-ended bailout to financial institutions deemed “too big to fail” by the federal government. This bill also gave Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac a free pass to avoid any possible reform that may have been enforced under this legislation.
- HR1586 FAA Air Transportation Modernization and Safety Improvement Act – An aviation bill which included a bailout for the states to offset bloated medicaid expenses and teachers union salaries/pensions.
Need more proof that Congresswoman Betsy Markey thinks Coloradans of the 4th Congressional District can be easily snowed? Well, just start digging. This is just the tip of the iceberg.
Betsy Markey is being challenged by Republican Cory Gardner in Colorado’s CD4.
Tags: 2010 Mid-Term Elections > bailout > ballot > betsy markey > cd4 > Congress > gop > larimer > Nancy Pelosi > northern Colorado > stimulus > Syndicated > tv ad > vote > weld
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