Lungren’s tightening GOP lead

March 2008

Re “Edge shrinks for Lungren,” March 1: Yes, Rep. Dan Lungren, R-Gold River, has been “effective” – in dismantling the Constitution, serving the corporate interests that fund him and stonewalling measures that might benefit ordinary Americans.

In the last few months, Lungren voted against protecting popcorn workers from lung disease, against improving the federal flood insurance program, against affordable housing for low-income families, against restoring FISA oversight of electronic surveillance, against extending the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, against funding the Small Business Administration, against a mining law that would reduce toxic contamination and end giveaways of public lands, against prohibiting job discrimination aimed at gays, against the Child Safety Product Notification Act, against improving work-safety standards for miners, and against the bipartisan College Opportunity and Affordability Act. In environmental matters he got a 3 percent approval rating from the League of Conservation Voters.

What is Lungren for? Well, besides his usual fixation on tax cuts for the wealthy, he still supports torture, as well as the lawless, foolish Bush policies that have mired us in a bleeding war of occupation in Iraq and bankrupted our nation.

Let’s hope that in November voters in the 3rd Congressional District will rid us of this arrogant ideologue .

- Jane O’Donnell, Orangevale