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Another Reason to Support Carl Wimmer

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  April 19th, 2012 at 11:27 AM  | 

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Carl Wimmer is running for Congress in Utah and I’m supporting him. He’s got the support of most major conservative groups out there, including Club for Growth.

With that much support, it is typical that his opponents are out savaging him. In true liberal fashion, his opponents are attacking the former police officer and landscape company owner because he went to community college. Seriously.

Well, Carl’s opponent is Mia Love. She has some explaining to do . . . or maybe she shouldn’t. Here she is explaining why she’s cool with tax increases.

MIA LOVE: “You know, I never found it easy to sit there and raise taxes and then go back and say, you know, business as usual. It’s been – last year we did, well two years ago actually, we did raise taxes, and it was probably the most difficult thing to do. However, the reason why we did it was that our taxes were so low to begin with. And I found that sometimes raising it just a little bit year by year is probably best than doing that big jump. You know you always have to balance when it’s justified to raise taxes and when it’s not.”

Carl, by the way, in the Utah General Assembly was no fan of tax increases and introduced the legislation in Utah to prohibit any part of the Utah state government from implementing Obamacare.

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  • rwbclock

    Wimmer hasn’t been attacked for attending community college; Wimmer has been attacked for quitting community college without finishing. Wimmer has reputation for being a quitter. In addition to quitting college, he quit his “career” as a police officer in his early 30s. He quit the legislature in the middle of his third term, and did so right before the session started which meant his district’s replacement couldn’t run as many priority bills as all other members of the legislature. He quit holding any full-time job years ago, and now has two mortgages on his home and as much as $200,000 in personal debt according to one of the local newspapers.

    Wimmer is a “say anything to win” candidate. He says he supports Ron Paul, but then tells other people he’s voting for Mitt Romney and he donates $1,000 to Romney’s campaign. He’s been caught by the media lying about his role in the Obamacare legislation before the Supreme Court. (As a lawyer, Erick, you would quickly see that Wimmer played absolutely no role in Obamacare if you would simply read the federal cases that have found standing for Utah to sue WITHOUT Wimmer’s anti-Obamacare law.)

    If you think the attacks on Wimmer are bad, you should see the nasty things that his campaign says about his main opponent, Mia Love. “She’s stupid,” “She’s a bad mother because she won’t see her kids while in DC,” “She has no experience.” That last one is especially funny considering Love has more elected experience (eight years) than Wimmer (five years).

    Finally, I ask this one simple question that not a single Wimmer supporter has ever been able to answer: What one thing would you have cut from Saratoga Springs city budget that Mia did not cut in 2008 when the city cut 30% of its spending?

  • streiff

    just sayin’

  • Mike Krempasky

    The caption implies she ran for mayor to raise taxes. That’s just about the opposite of what she says in the video.

    Then you cut the quote before she said she was extremely conservative, and raising taxes should always be the last resort. And she did cut her budget by a freaking ton before that.

    Hard to disagree.

  • conservativerock5

    A candidate in the Mike Lee mold