Doug Ose's Record
Ose’s Record Speaks for Itself
Washington – Sunday’s editorial in the Auburn Journal endorsed Doug Ose in California’s Fourth Congressional District primary race, arguing that Ose will bring pork dollars home and will work “to unite our country.”
The Auburn Journal is correct—Ose will do both of those things, but those are the exact reasons why Doug Ose is wrong for taxpayers and wrong for the Fourth Congressional District.
Take the issue of pork. As a member of Congress from the Third District, Ose consistently voted for outrageous pork projects and against stripping those projects from appropriations bills. He voted, for example, to spend California’s tax dollars on wood research; peanut competitiveness; asparagus research; and mohair subsidies. Sure, Ose brought home some pork to California but in order to get his few crumbs, Doug Ose had to vote to waste California’s tax dollars on billions of dollars in outrageous pork projects for all 49 other states. If taxpayers in the Fourth District are looking for a leader who will take on the culture of corrupt, wasteful spending in Washington, they should look no further than Tom McClintock. Doug Ose has already shown himself to be nothing more than a follower.
The Auburn Journal is also correct when they say that Ose is a “consensus builder” in the sense that he’d rather go along with the rest of his colleagues than fight for taxpayers. Let us consider what years of Ose’s “consensus building” have wrought: A bloated Farm Bill that doled out subsidies to millionaire farmers, including Doug Ose himself; a brand new government entitlement program in the Medicare Prescription Drug Bill; the McCain-Feingold legislation, trampling on political free speech; and bloated government budgets.
“If voters in the Fourth Congressional District want to know how Doug Ose would vote in Congress, they need not look further than Ose’s six years in Congress representing the Third District,” said Club for Growth Executive Director David Keating. “From 1999 to 2005, Ose was one of the most liberal Republicans in the House, voting for greater government spending, wasteful pork projects, special-interest subsidies; a brand new entitlement program, and even against removing a tax on the Internet. That kind of record may be good enough for the editorial board at the Auburn Journal, but that doesn’t mean voters in the Fourth District have to settle for a big-government Republican.”
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