Walter Jones (NC-3) Forgets What Side He's On
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Brian M Johnson
9 OCTOBER 2007
202-785-0266
Walter Jones Forgets What Side He’s On
Jones is Not the Same Republican He was in 1994
Washington, D.C. — The Alliance for Worker Freedom (AWF), Policy Director Brian M. Johnson issued the following statement today about Representative Walter Jones (NC-3):
“Being from this district, I am aware of the reasons Walter was first elected in 1994 and the man he was back then – let me tell you, Walter has strayed far from his Republican background.”
• Jones’ conservative voting rating has plummeted to 43 out of a possible 100 according to the Club for Growth.
• Jones voted against the Republican leadership 67% of the time on key issues identified by the Washington Post’s most recent Key Vote Database.
• Jones has consistently sided with the Democrat leadership in opposition to Republican Jeff Flake’s “earmark amendments”, including voting to leave in the one million dollar earmark for Jack Murtha’s mystery defense contractor.
• Walter Jones voted to increase the minimum wage which hits minorities, small businesses, and low income workers in North Carolina the hardest.
“Growing up in North Carolina’s Third District, in a state that carried every Republican President since 1968, I can say that Walter Jones no longer represents the values of lower-taxes and workers rights that North Carolinians want. Indeed, the voter of NC-3 did elect a Republican in 1994; they now have a Pelosi-Clinton style representative whose time is up. Jones’s seven terms have been nothing but a shift toward the left and it is time for someone new.”
AWF Website:
www.workerfreedom.org
