Mr. Joe Pitts

"To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it."
Martin Luther King
 

“It's safe to say that a wealthy kid from the suburbs can play Grand Theft Auto or similar games without turning to a life of crime, but a poor kid, who lives in a neighborhood where people really do steal cars, or deal drugs or shoot cops might not be so fortunate. There's almost certainly a child somewhere in America who will be hurt by these games. Maybe his dad's in jail or his brother's already down on the corner, dealing drugs.”
Joe Pitts
 (Explaining why "poor" kids suould not be permitted to play video games.)

HOW JOE PITTS IS RATED

  • Rated 30% by CURE, indicating anti-rehabilitation crime votes
  • Rated 11% by APHA, indicating a anti-public health voting record
  • Rated 0% by the ARA, indicating an anti-senior voting record
  • Rated 8% by the NEA, indicating anti-public education votes
  • Rated 5% by the LCV, indicating anti-environment votes
  • Rated 0% by the CAF, indicating opposition to energy independence
  • Rated 0% by the CTJ, indicating opposition to progressive taxation
  • Rated 11% by SANE, indicating a pro-military voting record
  • Rated 0% by the AU, indicating opposition to church-state separation.

HOW JOE PITTS RESPONDS TO HIGH ENERGY PRICES

  • Voted NO on tax incentives for renewable energy. (Feb 2008)
  • Voted NO on criminalizing oil cartels like OPEC. (May 2007)
  • Voted NO on removing oil & gas exploration subsidies. (Jan 2007)
  • Voted NO on keeping moratorium on drilling for oil offshore. (Jun 2006)
  • Rep. Pitts voted against cracking down on the oil and gas industries price gouging.
  • Rep. Pitts voted for the GOP energy bill that gave billions to oil, gas and nuclear industries.
  • Big oil and gas industries have given Rep. Pitts $21,500. Any surprise?

JOE PITTS PUTS BIG BUSINESS AHEAD OF AMERICAN WORKERS

  • Rep. Pitts voted to strip overtime protection from millions of workers.
  • Rep. Pitts voted to allow federal loans to American companies that have escaped paying U.S. taxes by moving offshore.

GOP "HEALTH CARE"

  • Big drug interests have given $101,793 to Pitts over the Representative's career. They know who their friends are.
  • Rep. Pitts 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.
  • Rep. Pitts voted against allowing millions of Americans to save their hard-earned dollars on prescription drugs by re-importing them from Canada, even though these were U.S. made and patient safety was ensured.

TIES WITH THE GOP LEADERSHIP

  • Pitts has taken $1,000 from House Majority Leader John Boehner.
  • Pitts voted with President Bush 91% of the time.
  • Pitts voted the GOP party line 97% of the time.

SUPPORTING OUR TROOPS

  • Rep. Pitts 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. No surprise that Halliburton gave Pitts $1,000.
  • Rep. Pitts 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. Pitts 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.

THE ENVIRONMENT

  • 1,861 water systems in 29 states have been contaminated with MTBE, exposing as many as 45 million Americans to this potential carcinogen, but Rep. Pitts voted to protect the companies responsible from lawsuits by communities that need their help to clean up these systems.
  • Rep. Pitts voted against bipartisan reform of the Endangered Species Act.
  • Rep. Pitts voted for a massive sell off of public lands to mining interests.

 
Do you know how Joe Pitts voted?
 
 
  • While tuition costs are rising for ordinary Americans, Rep. Pitts voted to cut Federal student aid by $12.7 billion -- the biggest such cuts in history.
  • Voted NO on raising CAFE standards; incentives for alternative fuels. The LCV (League of Conservation Voters) rated him 5% indicating an anti-environmental position.
  • Voted NO on prohibiting oil drilling & development in ANWR.
  • Voted YES on speeding up approval of forest thinning projects.
  • Voted NO on withdrawing from the WTO (World Trade Organization) which destroys the economy of developing nations.
  • Voted NO on campaign finance reform banning soft-money contributions.
  • Voted NO on additional $10.2B for federal education & HHS projects. (Nov 2007)
  • Voted YES on limiting medical malpractice lawsuits to $250,000 damages.
  • Voted YES on limited prescription drug benefit for Medicare recipients.
  • Voted NO on allowing reimportation of prescription drugs.
  • Voted YES on continuing military recruitment on college campuses.
  • Voted YES on deploying SDI - “Star wars”.
  • Voted NO on $167 billion over 10 years for farm price supports indicating an anti-family farm position.
  • Voted YES on making the Bush tax cuts permanent indicating a tax program highly favorable the very wealthiest 19% of Americans.
  • He voted to reduce tax payments on Social Security benefits and was given a rating of 0% by the Alliance for Retired Americans (ARA) indicating an anti-senior voting record.
  • He voted for zero funding of OSHA’s ergonomic rules instead of the needed $4.5 billion. The AFL-CIO gave him a 7% rating indicating anti-working people voting record.
  • Voted NO on revitalizing severely distressed public housing.
  • Voted NO on regulating the subprime mortgage industry. (Nov 2007)
  • Voted YES on restricting bankruptcy rules. (Jan 2004)
  • He supported legislation to report illegal aliens who receive hospital treatment and to increase immigrant visas for skilled workers. These are usually referred to as H1B visas which creates not only a brain drain in developing countries but allows corporations to pay these highly skilled technical workers extremely low wages and avoid hiring skilled American workers.
  • He was given an 11% rating by The American Public Health Association (APHA) indicating an anti-public health voting record.

 


"I'm a white male, age 18 to 49. Everyone listens to me,
 no matter how dumb my suggestions are."
-Homer Simpson

According to an Associated Press report, Congressman Joe Pitts believes that Homer Simpson is the reason why "fatherhood" is declining in the United States.  I only hold two university degrees and I could be wrong about this, but I have a suspicion that Homer Simpson has about as much to do with the decline of fatherhood in the United States as Tinky Winky has to do with homosexuality. On the other hand I'll bet Mr. Pitts thinks Tinky Winky of Teletubby fame is gay!

Even though Mr. Pitts decided to break his pledge to the people of the 16th District and serve only 10 years, I think the pressure's been too much for the congressman who wants to destroy our civil liberties with the same fervor that he wishes to chop down our national forests and drill up our national parks.  Let's help Mr. Pitts keep his pledge this November.


George Bush? Joe Pitts? Republicans? 
Yeah, sure. Are you trying to make me roll in my grave? 
I’d tell you what I’d do with guys like that
 but we don’t use that kind of language up here.

 

MR. JOE PITTS  REFUSES TO RETURN ABRAMOFF  CASH

 

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Please don't let Joe Pitts get reelected.

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