Platts reveals liberal tendencies in USAVoter Survey

In a survey for USAVoter, Todd Platts reveals he supports embryonic stem cell research, supports adding "sexual orientation" to anti-discrimination and hate crime laws, opposes allowing workers to invest their Social Security contributions, and is undecided whether every American should be enrolled in government-run health care.

Todd Platts doesn't know if he likes socialism or not.

Platts wants more government spending "to help economy"

Taking a page from FDR, Todd Platts calls for a second stimulus to improve the economy, by having Washington politicians spend more money from taxpayers

Platts Does Good

Platts votes against the horrendous mortgage/Fannie Mae bailout. I credit this blog.

ACU Gives Platt's Poor Rating

The American Conservative Union gives Platts a 64 for his votes in 2007, even below his mediocre lifetime rating of 76.6.

Bad votes:

• For Minimum Wage Increase
• For federal funding of stem cell research
• Against cutting wasteful Amtrak routes
• To give DC a Congressional seat
• For additional penalties for "hate crimes" against racial, ethnic, sexual orientation
• For energy subsidies, more federal regulation of energy companies, and ban on incandescent light bulbs
  
• For new federal welfare program for "affordable housing"
• For health care and Medicare (SCHIP) expansion
  
• For new energy standards, subsidies and mandates for alternative fuels, and more federal energy regulations.

Platt's Record for Big Labor

The Alliance for Worker Freedom gives Platts a 63.64% rating, meaning he votes with big labor/against worker freedom more than one-third of the time.

ATR gives Platts poor review

Todd Platts gets a 60% rating from American's for Tax Reform - an index which most Republicans aced.

Platts votes to override President's veto of farm bill

Today Todd Platts voted to override President Bush's veto of the pork laden, Manhattan millionaire subsidizing, special interest driven farm bill.From PolicyBlog:

How Bad is the Farm Bill In light of today's front page commentary on the federal Farm Bill Fiasco, here are some more links describing how awful this legislation is.

• Citizen's Against Government Waste discusses the earmarks included in the bill, and offers a full list of official earmarks.
• Cato-at-Liberty notes some last minute earmarks added to the bill.
• Club for Growth on the potential cost of the bill (exceeding $300 billion over five years)
• Coyote Blog focuses on a program that will offer federally funded tax-credit bonds - for exactly one company, the Plum Creek Timber Company, the single largest private landowner in the United States
• FreedomWorks provides a map of where agriculture subsidies go - in lower Manhattan.
• NTU on the use of the farm bill in the Presidential Campaign
• And an IBD Editorial focuses on how the farm bill will not reduce food prices, and how most of the agricultural subsidies go to millionaires.
  

Club for Growth on Platts

The Club for Growth:

• Gives Platts a 34% rating on their 2007 scorecard, ranking 187th in the House.
  


• Notes that Todd Platts voted for McCain-Feingold campaign finance law to restrict free speech


• Notes that Platts voted 14 out of 19 times for more pork in 2006.


• Notes that Platts voted 21 out of 50 times for more earmarks in 2007.
  

Platts gets C- on NTU ratings, continues downward trend

Todd Platts earn a C- on the National Taxpayers Union's annual ratings, voting to protect taxpayers a mere 42% of the time.

Platts is getting worse every year.

Platts votes for higher taxes, welfare expansion

Todd Platts voted again today to override President Bush's veto of the SCHIP expansion, which would provide welfare for middle class families while raising cigarette taxes (mostly on the poor).