Why Should Texans Stop Cornyn?

Here are some critical facts:

 

 

Cornyn voted to reauthorize the PATRIOT Act and extend the PATRIOT Act’s wiretap provision.

 

Cornyn voted against restoring $565M for states’ and ports’ first responders.

 

Cornyn is rated 0% by SANE, indicating a radical pro-war record.

 

Cornyn voted against redeploying troops out of Iraq by July 2007.

 

Cornyn voted against requiring on-budget funding for Iraq.

 

Cornyn voted against investigating contract awards in Iraq & Afghanistan.

 

Cornyn voted to allow lobbyist gifts to Congress.

 

Cornyn voted against establishing the Senate Office of Public Integrity.

 

Cornyn voted against repealing tax subsidies for companies which move US jobs offshore.

 

Cornyn voted for eliminating bankruptcy protections for working families.

 

Cornyn is rated 0% by the AFL-CIO, indicating an extremist anti-worker record.

 

Cornyn is rated 100% by the anti-consumer US Chamber of Commerce, indicating a pro-corporatist voting record.

 

Cornyn voted for CAFTA.

 

Cornyn voted to make Bush tax cuts for corporations and the ultra-wealthy permanent.

 

Cornyn voted to end the millionaire’s estate tax and voted to end that tax permanently.

 

Cornyn voted against $47B for our military’s soldiers by repealing capital gains tax cut for the ultra-wealthy.

 

Cornyn voted to extending the ultra-wealthy’s tax cuts on capital gains and dividends.

 

Cornyn voted to allow pro-monopoly FCC approval of larger media conglomerates.

 

Cornyn voted to limit the enrollment period for Medicare Part D.

 

Cornyn voted against increasing Medicaid rebate for producing generics.

 

Cornyn voted against giving the government authority to negotiate bulk discount purchases for Medicare prescription drug.

 

Cornyn voted against $40 billion per year for limited Medicare prescription drug benefit.

 

Cornyn is rated 0% by APHA, indicating an extremist anti-public health voting record.

 

Cornyn is rated 10% by the ARA, indicating a radical anti-senior voting record.

 

Cornyn voted to limit hospital and nursing home negligence responsibility to $250,000 no matter how badly the patient is hurt.

 

Cornyn voted against $3.1B for emergency oil assistance for hurricane-hit areas.

 

Cornyn voted against reducing oil usage by 40% by 2025 (instead of 5%).

 

Cornyn voted against targeting 100,000 hydrogen-powered vehicles by 2010.

 

Cornyn opposes global warming treaties.

 

Cornyn voted to drill in the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge. and he opposes global warming treaties.

 

Cornyn voted to allowing an oil leasing program in AMWR.

 

Cornyn voted against including oil & gas smokestacks in mercury regulations.

 

Cornyn is rated 0% by the League of Conservation Voters, indicating radical anti-environment record.

 

Cornyn is rated 100% by the Christian Coalition indicating an extremist theocratic record.

 

Cornyn is rated 0% by NARAL, indicating an extremist anti-choice voting record

 

Cornyn voted for the homophobic constitutional ban of same-sex marriage.

 

Cornyn voted against $52M for 21st century community learning centers, against $5B for grants to local educational agencies, against closing $11B from corporate welfare though tax loopholes to education.

 

Cornyn is rated 27% by the National Education Agency, indicating anti-public education record.

 

Cornyn voted against establishing a Guest Worker program.

 

Cornyn voted against allowing illegal aliens to participate in Social Security.

 

Cornyn voted against giving Guest Workers a path to citizenship.

 

Source: http://www.ontheissues.org/senate/John_Cornyn.htm

Sen. John Cornyn’s Thoughts on Box Turtle Love, Judicial Assination, Border Control, and Iraq

“It does not affect your daily life very much if your neighbor marries a box turtle. But that does not mean it is right. Now you must raise your children up in a world where that union of man and box turtle is on the same legal footing as man and wife.”

Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.), advocating a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage in a speech Thursday to the Heritage Foundation.

“I don’t know if there is a cause-and-effect connection but we have seen some recent episodes of courthouse violence in this country,” Sen. Cornyn said. “Certainly nothing new, but we seem to have run through a spate of courthouse violence recently that’s been on the news and I wonder whether there may be some connection between the perception in some quarters on some occasions where judges are making political decisions yet are unaccountable to the public, that it builds up and builds up and builds up to the point where some people engage in – engage in violence.”

“I don’t know what ‘operational control’ of the border means, but I do understand the English language. And as I understand that phrase, that’s not true. We do not have operational control.”

“We will finish this job, Iraq will hold elections, and our commitment to a free and prosperous Iraq will not waver.”