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Sunday, September 10, 2006

Who Is Diana Irey?

I'm giving this Congressional race special attention this week. Irey's swift boating of a heroic man is truly deserving of attention and the more I dig into who this woman is the more disturbing it gets. Jack Murtha, though a very conservative Democrat, deserves credit and support for doing something very brave: he went public and said the emporer has no clothes. He told us how George Bush has bungled the war on terror and how he lost Iraq. He was the first to tell us about the horrible, cold blooded murders committed in our names in Haditha.

Diana Irey called him a traitor for so doing. She said he was aiding and abetting our enemies. Diana Irey is a vocal supporter of President Bush and his illegal war in Iraq. She is doing so because she and her husband are war profiteers, but more on that later in the week. Exactly how radical is this woman? Here are her stands on the issues according to Project Vote Smart.

She supports:

Tax cuts for the very rich
Passage of the Paris Hilton tax relief act
School vouchers
Logging on federal lands
Oil, natural gas, and coal exploitation of our environment
Oil drilling in ANWR
The right to carry concealed weapons
Medical savings accounts
Privatization (elimination) of Social Security
War in Iraq
Use of unconstitutional military tribunals
Unconstitutional warrantless spying of American citizens without probable cause
Federal Marriage Amendment

She does NOT support;

The Bill of Rights
Affirmative Action
Funding for school construction
Assault weapons ban
Closing the gun show loophole
Raising the minimum wage
Rights of workers to strike
Employment nondiscrimination (ENDA)
Programs to reduce unemployment
Universal health care
Embryonic stem cell research
Foreign aid
United Nations