Porter's Score on the RePORK Card
Washington – Yesterday, Republican Rep. Jon Porter (NV-3) defended his record of fiscal responsibility despite scoring a pathetic 10% on the Club for Growth’s 2007 RePORK Card. Fiscal responsibility, my foot.
“Porter’s staff claimed the RePORK Card is ‘misleading,’ but the Club for Growth’s RePORK Card speaks for itself,” said Club for Growth President Pat Toomey. “Either you stand for American taxpayers by voting against pork projects, or you stand for parochial special interests. With a score of 10% on the 2007 RePORK Card, Jon Porter backed up the special interests 90% of the time. Porter also scored a humiliating 26% last year, voting for only 5 of Jeff Flake’s 19 anti-pork amendments. If anything, Jon Porter is sinking further into the pit of fiscal recklessness with each passing year.”
The RePORK Card documents all fifty anti-pork votes during the 2007 appropriations process. Over the course of this process, Jon Porter voted to keep such outrageous pork projects as:
- $34,000,000 for the Alaska Native Education Equity program and other programs (RC #654, 07/18/07)
- $300,000 for the On Location Entertainment Industry Craft and Technician Training project at West Los Angeles College in Culver City, CA (RC #667, 07/18/07)
- $150,000 for the American Ballet Theatre in New York City for educational activities (RC #668, 07/18/07)
- $150,000 for the South Carolina Aquarium in Charleston, S.C. (RC #669, 07/18/07)
- $100,000 for the Kansas Regional Prisons Museum in Lansing, Kansan (RC #670, 07/18/07)
- Bars funding of $2,000,000 for the Charles B. Rangel Center for Public Service at the City College of New York in New York City (RC #678, 07/19/07).
- $50,000 for the National Mule and Packers Museum in Woodlake, CA (RC #700, 07/24/07)
