Apr 23 2008
Mumpower Opposed to Earmarks
Take earmarks, for instance. While most of the nation’s 435 representatives strive to bring home as much federal funding as possible, Mumpower says he will not pursue them.
“If folks are anxious to elect someone to bring a lot of pork back from Washington, they need to elect one of the other guys,” Mumpower said from his North Asheville home. “I consider earmarks part of Washington’s community welfare system, and I have no intention of being an active participant in that anymore than I’m interested in exotic committee appointments.”
He is interested in keeping more of people’s tax money here and making sure the federal government “honors the promises that it makes, whether that be for roads for Western North Carolina, veterans services, or Social Security disability payments.”
If Republicans want to prove to America that they truly are a fiscally conservative party and not just give lip service to it, they need to put forth more candidates who will work to rid Washington of the corrupt business of earmarks. As Mumpower pointed out, our money should stay local. We can spend our own paychecks better than some stuffed-shirt politician in D.C. Several Congressmen over the past few years have gone to jail over corruption resulting from earmark abuse and a few more are still being investigated. The politicians are using earmarks to buy votes for their reelection with our money. It needs to stop.
