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Barrow hides liberal, San Francisco Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi in Atlanta. Why?

SAVANNAH, Ga. – Max Burns, former Congressman and candidate for Georgia’s new 12th District, Friday asked why Athens turned Savannah Congressman John Barrow would campaign with his party’s leader in Atlanta instead of Georgia’s new 12th District. According to an Associated Press article, Barrow hosted liberal, San Francisco Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi in Atlanta Thursday in an attempt to raise money for his campaign.

“John Barrow voted for Nancy Pelosi to be Speaker of the House and said his vote for Speaker was one of the most important things he would do as a Congressman, but what’s he afraid of now?” asked Burns. “Is John Barrow afraid that voters in the new 12th District might learn that Nancy Pelosi voted against the creation of the Department of Homeland Security? Is it that she voted against the $87 billion for troops in Iraq and Afghanistan? Or is it that Nancy Pelosi voted against a national energy policy, legislation to reduce our dependence on foreign oil and lower gas prices?

“Is John Barrow hiding Pelosi from 12th District voters because he doesn’t want to have to explain why his party’s leader voted for a budget to cut military funding and increase taxes? Is John Barrow hiding Pelosi from voters because she voted for a budget amendment to raise taxes and increase federal spending? Or is he hiding her because she supported amendments to weaken the Patriot Act and withhold 25 percent of the 2004 intelligence budget? Is John Barrow hiding Nancy Pelosi because she voted for a budget in 2001 that cut defense spending by $65 billion?”

“Mr. Barrow, why would you not bring Ms. Pelosi to Savannah, your new hometown? Voters in Georgia’s new 12th deserve to know why.”

Pelosi has accrued a very long, very detailed, far-left voting record. Below is a small sample of votes and positions detailing this out-of-the-mainstream record:

AGAINST prescription drugs for seniors

AGAINST the tax cuts of 2001 and 2003

AGAINST reforming our medical liability system

AGAINST a budget to curb waste, fraud and abuse of taxpayers’ money

AGAINST relief from the Alternative Minimum Tax

AGAINST Marriage Penalty Relief

AGAINST an expanded 10% tax bracket

AGAINST an extended, increased per-child tax credit

AGAINST a ban on partial-birth abortion

AGAINST the Unborn Victims of Violence Act

AGAINST the creation of Association Health Plans

AGAINST Personal Re-employment Accounts for laid-off workers

AGAINST barring obesity suits against the fast food industry

AGAINST the American flag protection amendment

AGAINST a repeal of the Death Tax

AGAINST the Social Security Protection Act

AGAINST the Defense of Marriage Act

And…

FOR using taxpayer money to fund development of an abortion pill

FOR allowing abortions at taxpayer-funded overseas military hospitals

FOR giving free needles to drug addicts—six times

FOR increasing Social Security benefit taxes from 50 to 85%

FOR increasing motor fuel taxes by 30 percent

FOR extending a 2.5-cents-per-gallon increase in the motor fuels tax

FOR a prohibition of drilling in the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge
FOR restricting the Department of Homeland Security’s decision making power in shaping personnel policy

FOR cutting defense spending on multiple occasions