No, that wasn’t Chuck DeVore being slammed

By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  May 3rd at 02:16 PM  | 

Ray Haynes at Flash Report has a subtle hit up on somebody running for office this year: The key years for the current budget are the 06-07 and the 07-08 budgets[....] As critical to the current crisis, however, is the 07-08 budget. A legislator, or former legislator that voted for 07-08 budget, and who is now running for office, who claims to be a fiscal | Read More »

Tom Campbell lobbied for earmarks [not. Updated]

By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  April 1st at 04:30 PM  | 

Updated: I’ve been sent a passage from the Congressional record illustrating that the specific spending Tom Campbell defended was not an earmark, but rather an NSF grant. So, while it makes sense that John Campbell’s amendment would target such a thing as wasteful spending, this specific amendment that Tom Campbell opposed addressed “peer reviewed” grants, not requests by members of Congress. Different process. John Campbell | Read More »