Mr. Cornyn's campaign web site is John Cornyn.com. (It's interesting to note that Mr. Cornyn's site is a ".com" site, meaning a for-profit company, unlike my ".org" site, meaning a non-profit organization.)
Mr. Cornyn is the incumbent in this race, having succeeded Phil Gramm, one of the most corrupt public officials in US history. Mr. Cornyn is following solidly in the footsteps of Mr. Gramm; for example, MSN Money says he is one of Big Oil's 10 favorite members of Congress.
Other "achievements" by Mr. Cornyn in his first term in office
include voting against:
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including oil and gas smokestacks in mercury regulations
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factoring global warming into federal project planning
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banning drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
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reducing oil usage by 40%, rather than by a mere 5%
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removing oil and gas exploration subsidies
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getting our troops out of Iraq - on two occasions
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implementing the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Report
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restoring $565 million for states' and ports' first responders
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restricting businesses with ties to terrorism
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preserving habeas corpus for Guantanamo detainees
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expanding the state Children's Health Insurance Program
There's a lot more, but that's enough to give you an idea of how his mind works. You can see a summary of his positions on a wide variety of issues at the On the Issues web site.
John Cornyn is one of the people who got us where we are - in an illegal war in Iraq, with a Constitutional whose protections have been nearly destroyed, with a government so corrupt that it has forgotten that the people even exist, and in an environment that is so toxic that cancer is considered "one of those diseases that everybody gets." This is not the kind of person we want representing us.
Mr. Noriega's campaign web site is Rick Noriega.com. It's fascinating that the site (also a .com site, you'll notice) has all sorts of information about Mr. Noriega - a biography, news about his campaign, endorsements, videos, photos, upcoming events, and the like - but nowhere (at least nowhere obvious) does he lay out the issues he considers important or what he pledges to do about them if he is elected.
Mr. Noriega is far and away a better choice for the Senate than John Cornyn. However, he is still a Republocrat - in the Democratic wing of that party, but in that party, nonetheless. He still stands for the old politics, of money, power, and corruption; and true to the Republocrat handbook, his web site is all style and no substance.
Flash:
Mr. Noriega has added an "Issues" page to his web site! Click
this link to see it.
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OK, now that you're back, do you get the same impression I did -
that it's all vague platitudes? I thought so.
I gave you a link to Mr. Cornyn's page at the "OnTheIssues.org"
web site; it's only fair that I also give you a link to
Rick Noriega's page
there, too.
Actually, I can save you the trouble - with three lonely
exceptions, every issue for which they record opinions
has this text under it:
"No issue stance yet recorded by OnTheIssues.org."
I know! Rick Noriega is a phantasm, created so the Democratic
Party wouldn't look quite so impotent against Mr. Cornyn.
What do you think?