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John Mica Votes to Put Women Out of Work

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  July 7th, 2012 at 05:00 PM  | 

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John Mica and Sandy Adams are battling each other in the redrawn 7th Congressional District of Florida. The choice could not be clearer based on this vote.

It’s the highway transportation bill. Mica voted for it. Sandy Adams voted against it.

Contained within the legislation, which Mica helped sherpa through the House by the way as Chairman of the Transportation Committee, was a provision shutting down American small businesses out west that allowed people to roll their own cigarettes. More than one woman worked in those perfectly legal, perfectly legitimate businesses.

John Mica voted knowingly and willfully to put these women and men out of work.

John Mica voted against American small businesses and for more excessive government spending. Sandy Adams voted for small businesses and freedom.

The choice could not be more clear. Between John Mica and Sandy Adams, we should support Sandy Adams.

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  • joayn

    I read that he changed his district to run against Sandy. Are the elites trying to take out tea party candidates where they can?

  • mikeymike143

    adams is a quality candidate and can win.

  • Joliphant

    NT

  • DerKrieger

    Let’s keep hoping a praying that if we continue to vote Republicans to Congress that maybe, someday, if we get enough conservatives elected we’ll finally, finally get a majority that will slay the beast that is devouring us.

    Good grief, when will we realize that we’ll NEVER get a conservative majority because we don’t have a conservative majority evenly distributed throughout the country. Conservatives are concentrated in red states and it is those states that can lead the fight against the Maxists.

    We would have much more success in fighting the central government if we concentrate on electing 10th amendment conservatives to governorships and state legislatures who will just say No to unconstitutional federal diktats.

    Last week at least six GOP governors said they wouldn’t expand Medicaid or implement the insurance exchanges. If more would join them we would have more power to kill Obmacare than we have in the US Congress. Screw Boehner and McConnell, run them over with the states. The GOP establishment is as invested in centralized power as are the Democrats.

    But let’s just keep lamenting the feckless, spineless, cowardly GOP and how they continue to let us down.

    They shouldn’t have enough power over us that we care so much about what they do or do not do.

    Federalism is the way out of this mess.

  • DerKrieger

    …have to be a supporter of federalism but for God’s sake stop whining that without a GOP dominated federal government we’re finished as a nation. That’s just crap.

    Just this week a state legislator from Oklahoma introduced legislation to nullify the individual mandate. It may not pass right now but what if it does? What if then other states join and pass similar legislation? What could the central government do if half the states refused to comply with their diktats? Not a darn thing.

  • DerKrieger

    Would we need concern ourselves so much about a 3rd party due to the absolute uselessness of the Congressional GOP if they didn’t have so much power? No!

    The same can be applied to the term limits debate, would we care so much about getting rid of the fossils in DC if they didn’t have so much power? No!

    Get power devolved back to the state’s where it’s easier to hold pols to account?

  • Darin_H

    He’s out of my district (06) and we’ll hopefully get DeSantis to get a TP conservative here and his new district (07) is more tilted to Sandy Adams (who is a far better Rep)

  • GregInFla

    She catches flak from the Orlando Sentinel. So she must be right over the target. Go Sandy!!! We support Sandy Adams from nearby Brevard county! Sandy points this out about John Mica — ?I?m The Best Cheerleader?

  • withaplum

    … is a tax that is collected by the IRS on your annual federal tax returns, I imagine exactly nothing would happen even if it passed. Oklahoma can’t really do anything except maybe refund the penalty out of state taxes, which I can’t imagine would go over terribly well.

  • checkmate2012

    I can’t find a Morning Brief and our conversation on Romney’s campaign style vs. O is getting ridiculously small. Thank you in advance.

  • gekster

    Get to the bottom and hit previous entries until you find one.
    (I had to go back two days sometimes)

  • checkmate2012

    but none sense. Oh well. I wanted to reply to Melody so did so there…

  • uselogic

    …. it’s good for Florida & America. The converse is also true. I helped elect Mica is his first race, decades ago and I hope to help boot his self-serving posterior out of office this time.