A quick visit to CongressPedia provides focus to and reasons for why Sam Graves should be unseated in the next election.
He consistently gets a 100% approval rating from the National Right to Life Committee, and a “Zero” from NARAL.
He consistently votes the interests of the right-wing special Interest group Americans for Tax Reform (the Grover Norquist policy thugs) gives him a score of 100 on a 100-point scale. Taxpayers for Common Sense, however, only gives him a score of 17.
On gun issues he is in the NRA’s stable of reliable votes, earning a grade of A. Organizations backing gun control give him failing grades.
His full voting record can be found here, along with complete text of bills. The most recent are at the top.
And I didn’t even get into his nefarious connections with the disgraced and indicted – but still shameless – Tom DeLay and the thousands of dollars of PAC money DeLay funneled his way.
An interesting aside that I discovered when I waded into the fever-swamp of the