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“Florida’s 24th congressional district is a congressional district in the U.S. state of Florida. The residents of the 24th district are represented in the United States House of Representatives by Democrat Suzanne Kosmas. This district has a Cook Partisan Voting Index score of R+4, meaning it leans slightly Republican. The district was created after the 2000 Census. It includes portions of Brevard (including Titusville), Orange, Seminole, and Volusia counties.”

“Republican Tom Feeney was elected in the first election for the district in 2002 and was reelected subsequently. Feeney was defeated in the 2008 election by Kosmas, a former member of the Florida House of Representatives and a small business owner.”

Suzanne Kosmas is winding down her first term in that seat. Wiki tells us that Kosmas “campaigned on issues such as fiscal conservatism, support for veterans, and values like integrity and transparency.” Let’s see if her one-term voting record bears that out, given all the shenanigans that have been going on up in DC while she’s been there…and look at the details about the race for this House seat in 2010, after the jump…

“Florida’s 22nd congressional district is a congressional district in Florida. The residents of the 22nd district are represented in the United States House of Representatives by Democrat Ron Klein. The district has a Cook Partisan Voting Index score of D+1.”

“The 22nd district encompasses the coastline of South Florida from northern Broward County to the northern end of Palm Beach County, with a long finger jutting out into the northeastern part of Palm Beach county and another finger encompassing Boca Raton, Deerfield Beach, and Coconut Creek. Also included in the district are the towns of Oakland Park and part of Cooper City.”

“The district was created after the 1990 Census. Republican E. Clay Shaw, Jr. was elected in the first election for the district in 1992 and was subsequently reelected for six terms until he lost to Democrat Ron Klein in the 2006 election.”

“The 22nd district was the center of the disputed 2000 presidential election in Florida and the ensuing Florida election recount In the 2008 presidential election, 52 percent of the votes cast in the district went for Barack Obama.”

Ron Klein is winding down his second term in that seat having barely won his first term by a 51-48 margin. He has a horrible voting record (very similar to that of Grayson’s over in FL-8) and needs to be replaced. Liberty First PAC has already endorsed retired United States Army Lieutenant Colonel Allen West in this race, but we’ll still look at the details about Mr. West, and about the race for this House seat in 2010 after the jump…

Update: (12:05 Pacific Time) Early Returns writes:

The Tim Burns camp sends word this afternoon that Pittsburgh's WPGH-TV has stopped airing an ad from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, saying it spreads false claims about taxes. We'll try to reach the station for comment, but it bears mentioning that owners Sinclair Broadcasting have gotten involved in partisan political fights before-- most notably when it ordered its stations to broadcast a documentary critical of John Kerry the month before the 2004 presidential election. FactCheck.org called claims in a similiar DCCC ad "quite misleading":

It’s true that Burns has voiced support for the so-called "FairTax" proposal, which would impose a national sales tax that proponents say would be 23 percent. He did that in an interview with a conservative blogger in 2009.

But this ad is quite misleading because it fails to mention that the FairTax proposal would also repeal the federal income tax entirely and do away with the Internal Revenue Service. It would also eliminate gift, estate, capital gains, alternative minimum, Social Security, Medicare and self-employment taxes. But anyone viewing the DCCC’s ad could easily conclude that Burns favored slapping a 23 percent sales tax on top of all existing taxes, which is not true.

And this from the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review today: Rivals Tussle In Murtha’s Shadow:“Despite an apparent apology by Critz during an April 28 debate in Johnstown over a controversial ad that misstates Burns' position on taxes, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee continued to saturate television markets with the ad. ‘I want to take this opportunity, that if I've misstated Mr. Burn's position on something, that I apologize. I didn't mean to do that," Critz said during the debate. ‘It was my understanding that (Burns) did support the Fair Tax, and if that's wrong, I apologize.’ The commercial claims that Burns supports putting a 23 percent sales tax "on everything we buy.’ FactCheck.org, a nonpartisan, nonprofit group that aims to reduce the level of deception in politics, criticized the Critz ad. ‘But this ad is quite misleading because it fails to mention that the Fair Tax proposal would also repeal the federal income tax entirely and do away with the Internal Revenue Service. It would also eliminate gift, estate, capital gains, alternative minimum, Social Security, Medicare and self-employment taxes. But anyone viewing the DCCC's ad could easily conclude that Burns favored slapping a 23 percent sales tax on top of all existing taxes, which is not true,’ said the FactCheck organization, a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania. ‘Burns isn't really pushing the Fair Tax proposal very hard, either. In his 2009 interview (with a blogger), he said it would be impractical to implement it quickly,’ FactCheck states on its website.” (Jennifer Reeger, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, 5/14/2010)

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I just got a call from my good friend Robert Stacy McCain, who's on the ground in PA-12 covering the race, who informs me that WPGH, Pittsburgh's Fox affiliate , has pulled the latest DCCC ad due to it containing false information and lying about Tim Burns postions.

We believe, though not yet confirmed, that the ad in question is an ad released by the DCCC about a week ago entitled Tim Burns' 23% Sales Tax:

Isn't just like the DCCC to resort to these type of false attacks when the truth isn't on their side! More on this story as it develops...

“Florida’s 8th congressional district is a U.S. congressional district in Florida. Currently, the residents of the Eighth District are represented by Democrat Alan Grayson. Another notable congressman from the district is Republican Bill McCollum, who held the seat from 1983 to 2001, before retiring in order to make an unsuccessful run for the United States Senate; he is now Florida’s attorney general. The district takes in parts of Orange County, Lake County, Marion and Osceola County. Part of Orlando is in the district, including Walt Disney World.”

Alan Grayson is winding down his first term in that seat and is described by Wiki as a “Progressive” Democrat. Wiki ALSO tells us he is the Vice Chairman of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, whose founding statement says that it was “organized around the principles of social and economic justice, a non-discriminatory society, and national priorities which represent the interests of all people, not just the wealthy and powerful”. Socialist Bernie Sanders from VT is a card-carrying member and was one of the 6 founders. That should be enough to explain why this seat has been targeted…and why Grayson needs to go. So-called Progressive politics has taken this country down the wrong road these past two years.

But, as we always do, let’s take a look at voting record, and the details about the race for this House seat in 2010, after the jump…

…..I’m serious as a heart attack—right now, you are actually peering inside the mind of a liberal. Scary, huh?

You see, yesterday, Sarah Palin officially became my hero when she shined the national spotlight on the fact that Highland Park High School in Chicago, IL is not going to let their varsity girls basketball team compete in a national championship tournament, simply because the tournament is being held in Arizona (H/T Allahpundit of Hot Air). So basically, these poor girls worked their butts off all year to become the state champions—however, their school superintendent decided that it was more important to use them to make a political statement about the AZ anti-illegal immigration law (that 73% of Americans now support), than it was to reward them for their hard work. I’m telling you, liberal indoctrination of kids in the public schools never takes a holiday—even if it hurts their own students.

Furthermore, what really galls me about this story is the mealy mouthed excuse that Highland Park High School gave for not wanting these girls to go to AZ. Wait for it—they were “concerned for their safety”. I’m not kidding. Now, what’s even more unbelievable, is that, two years ago, this same high school allowed their students to visit CHINA! So now, communist China is “safer” than AZ?! REALLY????!!!!! Yeah, because as Palin pointed out on a radio show yesterday (see embed below), nothing says women’s rights like China—where they kill baby girls or leave them to die in garbage dumps. God Bless Sarahcuda, because if she hadn’t of pushed this, then this never would have become a national story (Palin has even offered to help raise money to send the girls to AZ).

Reason number 999,999,004 to homeschool or send your child to a private school.

Erick Erickson over at Redstate.com has posted Elena Kagan’s College Thesis and after reading it, I for one, will advocate for the GOP, Tea Party activists, and all freedom loving Americans to live up to the moniker thrust upon us as the party of no as to her confirmation. In fact when it comes to the confirmation of Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court I say “Hell No!”

Please sign Liberty First PAC’s petition in opposition to the confirmation of Elena Kagan. Let everyone know that you strongly oppose the nomination of Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court of the United States of America!!!

As Erick points out “This proves Elena Kagan is an open and avowed socialist. The woman declares that socialists must stick together instead of fracture in order to advance a socialist agenda, which Kagan advocates.” here are a couple of quotes from her conclusion:

In our own times, a coherent socialist movement is nowhere to be found in the United States. Americans are more likely to speak of a golden past than of a golden future, of capitalism’s glories than pf socialism’s greatness. conformity overrides dissent; the desire to conserve has overwhelmed the urge to alter. Such a state of affairs cries out for explanation. Why, in a society by no means perfect, has a radical party never attained the status of a major political force? Why, in particular did the socialist movement never become an alternative to the nation’s established parties?

-Snip-

The story is a sad but. also a chastening one for those who, more than half a century after socialism’s decline, still wish to change America.Rad~ca1s have often succumbed to the devastating bane of sectarianism; it is easier, after all, to fight one’s fellows than it is to battle an entrenched and powerful foe. Yet if ‘the history of Local New York shows anything, it- is·thpt American radicals cannot afford to become their own worst enemies. In unity lies their only hope.

The spin will obviously be that this was a long time ago and that somehow she was being an objective observer of history../blah, blah, blah but the fact that she chose this topic to write her collage thesis is very telling… Very telling, indeed! This is defiantly one of the main reasons the White House has kept her away from the press opting instead to have her interviewed by a staffer who’s a member of the internal White House press agency. Can you say propaganda anyone?

Here’s the thesis in it’s entirety

In classic John Boehner style, the House Minority Leader responds to Secretary of Health & Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius’, ObamaCare™ progress report.

Boehner Responds to Obama Administration “Progress” Report on Implementation of Job-Killing Health Care Law

Washington, May 13 - House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) today called out the Obama Administration for forcing a job-killing health care overhaul on the nation that threatens millions of American jobs, questioned the Administration’s commitment to ensuring that the new law does not promote abortion, and demanded that the Administration tell Americans what changes in the law it is willing to support in the wake of revelations that the law will cost far more than originally stated and will increase Americans’ health care costs.

Boehner made the charges in a letter to Secretary of Health & Human Services Kathleen Sebelius, who earlier this week sent a “progress” report to congressional leaders on behalf of the Obama Administration regarding implementation of President Obama’s massive health law.

“There is considerable irony in the Administration sending a progress report to Congress regarding its efforts to implement a law the American people asked Congress not to pass and continue to believe should be repealed and replaced with common-sense alternatives,” Boehner wrote.

Boehner’s letter to Sebelius noted that the Obama administration’s “progress” report to Congress “made no mention of the stream of private-sector job creators nationwide, small and large, who in the days since the law was enacted have announced they will be forced to cut back on hiring, expansion, employee benefits and other priorities for working families as a result of the law’s hostile mandates and penalties.”

“At a time when one out of every 10 Americans in the workforce is unemployed and millions of Americans are struggling to rejoin the ranks of the employed, it is critical that the American people have detailed information about the Administration’s plan for dealing with the negative real-world consequences the president’s health care law is already having on small and large private sector job-creators and the American workforce,” Boehner wrote.

Boehner also faulted the Administration for omitting any mention of back-to-back government reports in recent weeks that have directly contradicted major promises made by President Obama about the new law, and questioned Secretary Sebelius’ failure to include in the “progress” report any discussion of action by the Administration to implement President Obama’s recent Executive Order on federal funding of abortion. President Obama said the Executive Order eliminated the need for congressional passage of the Stupak Amendment, which would have banned federal funding of abortion under the president’s health care law.

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