Professional politician, Tammy Suzanne Green Baldwin, (D-WI), began her political career in 1986 on the Dane County Board of Supervisors and a year on the Madison City Council. Then in 1983 onto the Wisconsin Assembly representing the most liberal Madison district before being elected to Congress in 1998; after 7 terms was elected in 2012 to the US Senate succeeding Herb Kohl. So, another Poster Child has spent the bulk of her life in government with little or no experience in the private sector. Her voting record, as you’ll see below, shows that inexperience in a lack of understanding of economics and what makes for freedom and prosperity.
Ron Honl, a whistleblower
from the Veterans Administration in her district came to her many times with
evidence of the need for an investigation pleading with her to intervene but
she ignored him. She not only did not act on the information she didn’t
even pass it along to someone who could have followed up. She had for several months the information regarding the exceptional high rate
of opiate
prescriptions coming out of the Veterans Affairs center in her district. Three
deaths there linked to the overmedication are being investigated by the VA
Inspector General and Baldwin is lawyering up as the Republican party of
Wisconsin and now one of top aides are going after her in connection with the
matter.
She fired the aide offering her a generous severance
package with a confidentiality agreement. The aide, Marquette Baylor, rejected
the deal and is considering a sexual discrimination lawsuit against
Baldwin, an avowed lesbian.
Her support of obamacare is over the top: she even voted for a bill (HR 525) to give
veterinarians obamacare grants and benefits. Being a lesbian she was an early
supporter of same-sex marriage --in 1994 while in the Wisconsin legislature she
proposed legalizing same-sex marriage in her state.
By Their Votes Ye Shall Know Them
With that brief background you’d expect conservative
scorecards to be very low rated and you’d be right: HeritageAction rates her lifetime 16%; Conservative Review
grades her “F” at 4%. Liberal rating from Americans
For Democratic Action gets 95% for the last year they publish.
There are numerous groups that
rate congress from one view or another but these are instructive sufficient to
understand Sen. Baldwin as one who favors Big Government statism over
individual freedom. As we said in the beginning, her lack of real world
experience, never having to work for a living or raising a family in the environment
created by the laws she passes on the people affects her votes.
Our argument for term limits is that
instead of career politicians we need turnover so that those elected can go
home and live under the laws they passed. Sen. George McGovern had a
long career in politics but after he retired he went into business –a hotel with bar and
restaurant and convention services—which went
bankrupt after two years. “In retrospect,
I wish I had known more about the hazards and difficulties of such a business,”
McGovern said about his first real experience in the private sector. “I
also wish that during the years I was in public office, I had had this
firsthand experience about the difficulties business people face every day.
That knowledge would have made me a better U.S. Senator and a more
understanding presidential contender.” Career politicians are destroying the Republic!
