Doug Ose's Extreme Makeover
Doug Ose’s Extreme Makeover—Political Edition
Washington – In today’s Sacramento Bee, former Rep. Doug Ose is trying to hide his liberal voting record. When Ose represented California’s Third Congressional District in Congress, his liberal record consistently ranked him in the bottom half of the Republican Caucus (see NTU scores). Now that Ose is running in the conservative Fourth District, he is trying to spin a conservative image out of whole cloth.
Sorry Doug, the congressional record doesn’t lie.
Doug Ose consistently voted for wasteful projects, increased government spending, new regulations, bigger government, and even taxes on the Internet. These include:
- Mohair subsidies (RC #383, 07/11/00)
- Pork projects like wood research (RC #160, 05/26/99), peanut competitiveness (RC #161, 05/26/99), and asparagus research (RC #360, 06/29/00)
- Opposition to school choice (RC #135, 05/23/01)
- Taxes on the Internet (RC #155, 05/10/00)
- McCain-Feingold, trampling on political free speech (RC #34, 02/14/02)
- The bloated 2002 Farm Bill that doled out taxpayer-funded subsidies to millionaire farmers, including Doug Ose himself (RC #123, 05/02/02)
- The 2003 Medicare Prescription Drug Bill, creating a brand new government entitlement program (RC #669, 11/22/03)
“Doug Ose is spending millions of dollars trying to make over his liberal voting record and attacking his conservative challenger Tom McClintock,” said Club for Growth Executive Director David Keating. “There is just one problem with this plan—voters in California’s Fourth Congressional District know Doug Ose’s liberal record and have watched Tom McClintock fight for lower taxes and limited government for years. Sorry Doug, all the money in the world can’t cover up the truth.”
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