http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/07/18/1111114/-Second-quarter-House-fundraising-Which-challengers-kicked-ass
Bill Bloomfield has the money and the mission to take on the Washington establishment. Waxman has no real campaign experience after more than three decades in Congress. Waxman has claimed to represent the narrow interests of health care and enviromental concerns. For all of his politics, the LA Congress has expanded state power without providing for the common good, failing to protect the environment and raising health care premiums with abortive legislation still rejected by a majority of Americans who want to repeal the law.
Waxman has soft-pedaled his way to reelection for the past 17 election cycles.
Bloomfield is not a politician.
He has business experience.
He has demonstrated a commanding savvy to reach out to voters.
While Bloomfield's campaign will be about getting voters to know who he is and what he stands for, Mr. Waxman will spend a greater part of his campaign telling people what George W. Bush did while ignoring and covering up the rank failure of the current administration to cut the deficits, stop the spending, or to enact meaningful health care reform.
Like President Obama, Waxman will spend more time running from his record of status-quo spending and taxation. He will deny his role in implementing one of the largest tax hikes in American history.
In short, Waxman can only claim that he has represented progressive interests in Congress for decades, yet with little to show for all of his political wrangling.
The 33rd deserves better. It's time for a change. Waxman is going down, and a new, independent legislator is slated to take his place.
Friday, July 20, 2012
Some Wearisome Waxman Quotes
| "Did I Say That?" |
"Memorials become relics if they do not stir our modern conscience."
The sanctity of our battlefields, monuments, and veterans institutions is of utmost importance to preserve military history and pay respect to those who fought."
Mr. Waxman has been all over with gamesmanship.
How many oversight committee hearings did he holler about, even as the ranking member, most of which was neither necessary nor beneficial to the well-being of this republic?
The one memorial which will be written all over us in red ink -- the national debt -- Waxman has openly repudiated, baldly claiming, "We're not broke."
Yet Congressman Paul Ryan has cogently asserted, aside from the $16 trillion national debt spooking investors already, that in three years bondholders will demand higher interests rates to take on more American debt, a move that will spike a Greek-like credit crisis.
If Congressman Waxman cares about the recuperative care and memory of our soldiers, then why does he not repeal his landmark legislation, Obama-WaxmanCare, an enormous piece of legislation which imposes the highest tax hike in American history while limiting access to health care by driving up premiums and pricing insurance carriers and doctors out of the health care industry?
And then there's the debt thing, which added $5 trillion following Obama's profligate spending spree, which Waxman went along with without reservation.
Protect Your Paycheck!
http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/jul/18/tp-battle-lines-set-on-payroll-deductions/?print&page=all
Independent Candidate Bill Bloomfield supports Prop 32--Paycheck Protection. He put his own money behind this initiative, which will also prevent unions and corporations from giving directly to political candidates. This time, the authors of this initiative respected that the role of public unions and private corporations should not come at the expense of workers or investors
What is Henry Waxman's take on Prop 32? So far, the Congressman has not given a statement on the issue, but the causes and caucuses which support him -- environmentalists and the Democratic party apparatus in the state-- all oppose the initiative that would protect the individual and put an end to the unfair investment of limited interest groups hammering Sacramento at the expense of the citizen-taxpayers in the state.
Moreover, Waxman has passed bills which would rob consumers, laborers, and businesses: (ObamaCare, Waxman-Markey Cap and Trade)
Does anyone need another reason why not to vote for Waxman for another term? The 33rd Congressional district deserves better: Bill Bloomfield.
Independent Candidate Bill Bloomfield supports Prop 32--Paycheck Protection. He put his own money behind this initiative, which will also prevent unions and corporations from giving directly to political candidates. This time, the authors of this initiative respected that the role of public unions and private corporations should not come at the expense of workers or investors
What is Henry Waxman's take on Prop 32? So far, the Congressman has not given a statement on the issue, but the causes and caucuses which support him -- environmentalists and the Democratic party apparatus in the state-- all oppose the initiative that would protect the individual and put an end to the unfair investment of limited interest groups hammering Sacramento at the expense of the citizen-taxpayers in the state.
Moreover, Waxman has passed bills which would rob consumers, laborers, and businesses: (ObamaCare, Waxman-Markey Cap and Trade)
Does anyone need another reason why not to vote for Waxman for another term? The 33rd Congressional district deserves better: Bill Bloomfield.
Bloomfield is Mounting a Real Challenge
As we all know, the amount of money one spends on his campaign is not always commensurate with victory. Such is likely to occur in the new 33rd, as the Democratic voting patterns in a presidential election year will, of course, favor the Democratic congressional candidate. Though we are likely to see Bloomfield wage a spirited battle, Waxman is still the decided favorite to win a 20th term in the House later this year even though he currently represents just less than half of the new CA-33.
(http://jimellisinsights.wordpress.com/2012/07/20/house-challengers-outraising-incumbents/#comment-812 --)
Money does not decide a race. Efficacy, dignity, and accountability do.
Waxman lacks all three. No matter what one's affiliation in the 33rd, a growing number of reports indicate that Waxman is not leaving anything to chance, nor should he.
Mr. Bloomfield has commanded a great deal of respect supporting issues which influence all Californians for the better, including an association to end lawsuit abuse, an initiative to protect individual workers from having their paychecks pilfered by union bosses to support graft-laden political candidates.
He has partnered with Michelle Rhee's prominence to reform public schools to benefit the student, not the bureaucrat.
Most importantly, to the growing consternation of stalwart progressives like Henry Waxman, Bloomfield supported Prop 14, which established open primaries and opened up legislative contests to the top-two vote-getters, regardless of party. Bloomfield also supported the California Non-partisan Commissions role in redesigning the legislative districts in California, forcing long-term incumbents -- like Henry Waxman -- to fight for their place in Congress in new districts, while freeing up lesser-known candidates to compete against more well-funded candidates in contests which lean more heavily toward distinctly different voting blocs. Nothing could better signal the glory of this reform than to witness Howard Berman and Brad Sherman, two established Democrats, compete for Republican votes in the newly-crafted 30th Congressional district.
Mr. Waxman is no ordinary, "well-known" incumbent. He has an abrasive manner which has turned off many voters and pundits. He has sponsored disastrous legislation which would harm consumers, kill jobs, and discourage businesses. His voting record is so left-wing, in significant votes, including tax relief, he has voted against his own party. He is a laugh-stocking to well-informed voters who expect more from their leaders than a long tenure in public office. The sheer length of his time in office, 38 years, should be enough in itself to turn off voters in the 33rd Congressional District.
(http://jimellisinsights.wordpress.com/2012/07/20/house-challengers-outraising-incumbents/#comment-812 --)
Money does not decide a race. Efficacy, dignity, and accountability do.
Waxman lacks all three. No matter what one's affiliation in the 33rd, a growing number of reports indicate that Waxman is not leaving anything to chance, nor should he.
Mr. Bloomfield has commanded a great deal of respect supporting issues which influence all Californians for the better, including an association to end lawsuit abuse, an initiative to protect individual workers from having their paychecks pilfered by union bosses to support graft-laden political candidates.
He has partnered with Michelle Rhee's prominence to reform public schools to benefit the student, not the bureaucrat.
Most importantly, to the growing consternation of stalwart progressives like Henry Waxman, Bloomfield supported Prop 14, which established open primaries and opened up legislative contests to the top-two vote-getters, regardless of party. Bloomfield also supported the California Non-partisan Commissions role in redesigning the legislative districts in California, forcing long-term incumbents -- like Henry Waxman -- to fight for their place in Congress in new districts, while freeing up lesser-known candidates to compete against more well-funded candidates in contests which lean more heavily toward distinctly different voting blocs. Nothing could better signal the glory of this reform than to witness Howard Berman and Brad Sherman, two established Democrats, compete for Republican votes in the newly-crafted 30th Congressional district.
Mr. Waxman is no ordinary, "well-known" incumbent. He has an abrasive manner which has turned off many voters and pundits. He has sponsored disastrous legislation which would harm consumers, kill jobs, and discourage businesses. His voting record is so left-wing, in significant votes, including tax relief, he has voted against his own party. He is a laugh-stocking to well-informed voters who expect more from their leaders than a long tenure in public office. The sheer length of his time in office, 38 years, should be enough in itself to turn off voters in the 33rd Congressional District.
Waxman's Regrets on Steroid Hearing
Waxman Regrets Hearing Was Held
WASHINGTON — A day after a dramatic, nationally televised hearing that pitted Roger Clemens against his former personal trainer and Democrats against Republicans, the chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform said Thursday that he regretted holding the hearing in the first place.
The chairman, Henry A. Waxman, Democrat of California, said the four-hour hearing unnecessarily embarrassed Clemens, who he thought did not tell the truth, as well as the trainer, Brian McNamee, who he thought was unfairly attacked by committee Republicans.
“I think Clemens and McNamee both came out quite sullied, and I didn’t think it was a hearing that needed to be held in order to get the facts out about the Mitchell report,” Waxman said. [New York Times, February 15, 2008
This coming from the man who knew absolutely nothing about steroid use in the first place, nor could he account for where $15 million earmarked for steroid education ended up!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxLNKnLaDG8
He drags people before committees, he humiliates them, then he apologizes afterwards. . .
Is this the way that Congressmen should behave?
“I think Clemens and McNamee both came out quite sullied, and I didn’t think it was a hearing that needed to be held in order to get the facts out about the Mitchell report,” Waxman said. [New York Times, February 15, 2008
This coming from the man who knew absolutely nothing about steroid use in the first place, nor could he account for where $15 million earmarked for steroid education ended up!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxLNKnLaDG8
He drags people before committees, he humiliates them, then he apologizes afterwards. . .
Is this the way that Congressmen should behave?
Thursday, July 19, 2012
Extended Response to Waxman's Letter to the Jewish Journal
Berman-Sherman Analysis Falls Short
As a legislator and a Jewish Journal subscriber, I was deeply disappointed in “Berman vs. Sherman: Evaluating Their Congressional Records” (June 29), Bill Boyarsky’s effort to measure each member’s legislative effectiveness through an Internet search engine.
We are still waiting for Henry Waxman to promote his own legislative effectiveness.
GovTrack.us is actually a very effective, non-partisan website, one which I am certain the Congressman does not want his next delegation of constituents to look into.
Waxman is one of the most left-leaning legislators in the state and in the country.
He sponsored legislation that barely passed Congress -- ObamaCare and Waxman-Markey Cap and Trade -- then he effectively shuts down legislation or dismisses legislation in committee that will create jobs and diminish the growing debt swallowing this country whole.
This man is too partisan to know how to play a part in his own party!
The effectiveness of a legislator can be judged by whether people listen when they speak, whether they can capably influence the legislative process, and whether the amendments and bills that they offer have a meaningful impact on the debate.
Waxman does not listen to anyone. He has been in office for nearly forty years, swinging into office every term without campaigning. He had not visited the Malibu area in nearly four years before he decided to speakl at the Malibu Democratic club last month. Where has he been?
If Mr. Boyarsky wanted to truly gauge the effectiveness of Reps. Berman and Sherman, he could have asked some of their colleagues from the California congressional delegation and surveyed why Sens. Feinstein and Boxer and 25 of the 27 members who have issued endorsements have endorsed Rep. Berman.
I am certain that Mr. Boyarsky was looking for a non-partisan analysis of Berman and Sherman's records. Every voter in the Santa Monica Bay ought to take a look for themselves and see what Waxman has actually accomplished for the voters in his district.
And hy is Waxman singing the praises of two legislators duking it out for a Congressional seat in the Valley? Waxman is supposed to be running for reelection in the South Bay, where voters want to know if the next Congressman who represents them will get out of the way and promote the aerospace and technology industries which have flourished in the region.
I have never read so blatant a puff piece endorsing Howard Berman, yet Waxman has the audacity to attack Boyarsky for his non-partisan methodology?
He could have probed for a perspective about which member is more capable at garnering votes for key pro-Israel legislation or at smoothing passage of legislation by enabling other members seeking visibility on an issue to take credit. Both are hallmarks of Rep. Berman’s tenure in office.
We are waiting for Congressmen who will be pro-United States as well as pro-Israel. How does Henry Waxman measure up?
I not only question Mr. Boyarsky’s methodology, I was also surprised that his article appeared to downplay the significance of Rep. Berman’s success in passing and enacting legislation this year in a gridlocked Congress lambasted for enacting the fewest bills in congressional history. Mr. Boyarsky’s calculations don’t even account for Rep. Berman’s key role in enacting strong sanctions against Iran’s central bank early this year as part of the Defense Authorization bill or his current efforts to shepherd the Iran Threat Reduction Act into law.
I wish The Journal’s readers could have gotten a straightforward analysis that truly reflects the legislative effectiveness of the members.
The residents of the 33rd Congressional district, where Waxman is running for reelection, are waiting for a representative who will put the interests of the country, the state, and the district ahead of green interest groups and socialist impulses which scare away jobs, waste taxpayer dollars, and sink the country into an already too-deep debt hole.
Henry A. Waxman
Congressman, 30th District
Editor’s note: The race is not over, and columnist Bill Boyarsky will continue to examine the two congressmen’s records.
As a legislator and a Jewish Journal subscriber, I was deeply disappointed in “Berman vs. Sherman: Evaluating Their Congressional Records” (June 29), Bill Boyarsky’s effort to measure each member’s legislative effectiveness through an Internet search engine.
We are still waiting for Henry Waxman to promote his own legislative effectiveness.
GovTrack.us is actually a very effective, non-partisan website, one which I am certain the Congressman does not want his next delegation of constituents to look into.
Waxman is one of the most left-leaning legislators in the state and in the country.
He sponsored legislation that barely passed Congress -- ObamaCare and Waxman-Markey Cap and Trade -- then he effectively shuts down legislation or dismisses legislation in committee that will create jobs and diminish the growing debt swallowing this country whole.
This man is too partisan to know how to play a part in his own party!
The effectiveness of a legislator can be judged by whether people listen when they speak, whether they can capably influence the legislative process, and whether the amendments and bills that they offer have a meaningful impact on the debate.
Waxman does not listen to anyone. He has been in office for nearly forty years, swinging into office every term without campaigning. He had not visited the Malibu area in nearly four years before he decided to speakl at the Malibu Democratic club last month. Where has he been?
If Mr. Boyarsky wanted to truly gauge the effectiveness of Reps. Berman and Sherman, he could have asked some of their colleagues from the California congressional delegation and surveyed why Sens. Feinstein and Boxer and 25 of the 27 members who have issued endorsements have endorsed Rep. Berman.
I am certain that Mr. Boyarsky was looking for a non-partisan analysis of Berman and Sherman's records. Every voter in the Santa Monica Bay ought to take a look for themselves and see what Waxman has actually accomplished for the voters in his district.
And hy is Waxman singing the praises of two legislators duking it out for a Congressional seat in the Valley? Waxman is supposed to be running for reelection in the South Bay, where voters want to know if the next Congressman who represents them will get out of the way and promote the aerospace and technology industries which have flourished in the region.
I have never read so blatant a puff piece endorsing Howard Berman, yet Waxman has the audacity to attack Boyarsky for his non-partisan methodology?
He could have probed for a perspective about which member is more capable at garnering votes for key pro-Israel legislation or at smoothing passage of legislation by enabling other members seeking visibility on an issue to take credit. Both are hallmarks of Rep. Berman’s tenure in office.
We are waiting for Congressmen who will be pro-United States as well as pro-Israel. How does Henry Waxman measure up?
I not only question Mr. Boyarsky’s methodology, I was also surprised that his article appeared to downplay the significance of Rep. Berman’s success in passing and enacting legislation this year in a gridlocked Congress lambasted for enacting the fewest bills in congressional history. Mr. Boyarsky’s calculations don’t even account for Rep. Berman’s key role in enacting strong sanctions against Iran’s central bank early this year as part of the Defense Authorization bill or his current efforts to shepherd the Iran Threat Reduction Act into law.
I wish The Journal’s readers could have gotten a straightforward analysis that truly reflects the legislative effectiveness of the members.
The residents of the 33rd Congressional district, where Waxman is running for reelection, are waiting for a representative who will put the interests of the country, the state, and the district ahead of green interest groups and socialist impulses which scare away jobs, waste taxpayer dollars, and sink the country into an already too-deep debt hole.
Henry A. Waxman
Congressman, 30th District
Editor’s note: The race is not over, and columnist Bill Boyarsky will continue to examine the two congressmen’s records.
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