John Barrow and Jim Marshall Vote Against Efficiency and Economy

Last week, Georgia’s Congressmen John Barrow and Jim Marshall betrayed the constituents who sent them to the U.S. House of Representatives. Given the chance to support the Creating Long-Term Energy Alternatives for the Nation Act, they instead chose help out big oil corporations and dirty coal-burning power plants.

The Creating Long-Term Energy Alternatives for the Nation Act would have increased fuel efficiency of American automobiles. The law would have provided for the creation of real sustainable sources of electric power, not just research for future generations. It’s estimated that the law would have saved Americans tens of billions of dollars every year.

With all that, Jim Marshall and John Barrow voted against it. Why?

Who doesn’t want their car to get more miles per gallon? Who doesn’t want cheaper electricity? Well, the oil companies and power utilities don’t want that. What a shame that John Barrow and Jim Marshall chose the interests of those companies over the interests of the American people.

Robert Nowak Offers More Genuine Democratic Voice Than Jim Marshall

Jim Marshall voted in favor of starting Iraq War. Congressman Marshall voted in favor of the three laws that have done the most to reduce liberty in the USA: The Patriot Act, the Military Commissions Act, and the Protect America Act. Representative Marshall has voted to allow government-funded programs to engage in religious discrimination against workers. Marshall voted against providing expanded SCHIP health care for the children of working families across America.

Jim Marshall votes just like a Bush Republican. So, why is it that Jim Marshall calls himself a Democrat? Well, it’s because the Democrats are the stronger political party in his congressional district, and he wants to keep on using their political power to maintain his own power. Jim Marshall uses the Democratic Party to stay in Congress, and then kicks Democrats in the teeth by voting against everything that Democratic voters care about.

Up until now, the Democrats of the 8th congressional district have stood by and taken the abuse from Jim Marshall. Not any more. Now, Georgia’s 8th district Democrats have a mainstream Democratic candidate, Robert Nowak, to set things straight. Nowak is challenging Jim Marshall in the Democratic primary for the congressional nomination. Please give him your support.

Do Right, Do Wrong Georgia Democrats

This August, Georgia Democrats can count their state’s representatives in Congress as do right and do wrong.

One of the very last things that the U.S. House of Representatives did this August, before breaking to go on vacation, was to pass a Republican law called the Protect America Act. Think fast, and you’ll realize that Congress could not have passed this Republican law unless many Democrats turned coat and joined the Republicans to help it get done. In fact, forty one Democrats did just that, siding with George W. Bush over the interests of their own constituents.

In the case of the Protect America Act, that was a particularly nasty decision. You see, the Protect America Act gives unprecedented spying power to Alberto Gonzales and to John Michael McConnell. Alberto Gonzales has proven his lack of trustworthiness as the author of the Bush legal plan to justify torture, as the head of an effort to fire federal prosecutors who go after corrupt Republican politicians, and as someone who has been caught blatantly lying to Congress on many occasions. John Michael McConnell, Director of National Intelligence, is one of the original architects of the Total Information Awareness plan to spy on ordinary Americans and is the guy who came up with the idea to allow state and local law enforcement use spy satellites and airplanes like the U2 Spy planes to snoop in on the lives of American citizens, watching from above.

The Protect America Act essentially reactivates Total Information Awareness, enabling the Bush Administration to eavesdrop on our telephones and our web activities, scanning through our private email for useful information. The Protect America Act makes the American government into Big Brother.

When it comes to the Protect America Act, the Georgia Democrats in Congress are divided. Three voted against the law, and two voted for it.

Democrats against the new powers to spy against Americans:

John Lewis
David Scott
Tim Bishop

Democrats for the new powers to spy against Americans:

John Barrow
James Marshall

Note to the Georgia Democratic Party rank and file: If you are represented by John Barrow or Jim Marshall, give the home office a call and ask tell them what you think about them selling out American liberty for the sake of a quick ticket home for their summer vacation.