| OMG, whodathunkit!?!
Our very own Shelley Moore Capito, R-2d, is a terrible representative. A member of the lockstep Right in the U.S. House of Representatives, Ms. Capito voted for the Ryan Plan to Kill Medicare (RPKM), consistently supports gutting the EPA, dismisses climate change, and generally does the bidding of her corporate owners.
By Republican standards, a perfectly acceptable politician.
And yet ... Berkeley County delegate Jonathan Miller (R-53d) has announced that he's going to run for Congress next year!
Here's his announcement: http://www.votejonathanmiller.... (sorry, I never remember how to make it a pretty link).
As you can see, he manages to get through the whole speech without ever mentioning Capito's name. And he wraps himself in populism ("I'm running because I'm tired of seeing Washington politicians put themselves before you," for example), while including a dig at health care reform to make sure that folks know he hates Obama.
A look at his official bio on the House of Delegates site turns up some interesting stuff:
- Member, National Rifle Association (no surprise there);
- Martinsburg-Berkeley County Chamber of Commerce (ditto no surprise);
- Berkeley County Farm Bureau (appropriate);
- American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), The Heartland Institute (*this one's interesting - see below);
- The Cato Institute (rightwing "unthink" tank);
- The Club for Growth (another rightwing "unthink" advocacy group);
- Americans for Tax Reform, Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council (ah, Grover Norquist, who wants to make government so small it can be drowned in a bathtub ... I guess he thinks no one will remember Jack Abramoff).
* ALEC is the legislative clearinghouse that writes "model" legislation on such topics as union-busting, a la Wisconsin governator Scott Walker.
Shelley has been a loyal foot soldier for corporate America. Do you think she's wondering what the hell else she has to do to prove that she's just as willing as the next guy (or Jonathan Miller) to destroy America in the furtherance of unfettered greed? |
