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District #2 - Tammy Baldwin (D)

U.S. Representative

Baldwin has always supported the strongest campaign and ethics reform measures.

Incumbent Incumbent Web Page Personal Web Page Who funds the incumbent?

Tammy Baldwin (D)

 Baldwin's Web Page Baldwin's Personal Page Follow the Money

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Political Money Line

Also see incumbent's Personal Finances to see where potential conflicts of interest may occur with his voting on issues. Does he or she own stock in the health care or pharmaceutical industry while voting on the Medicare Drug program, which will benefit the industry to the tune of $750 billion in public expenditures over the next decade? Does your representative have his or her finances in a blind trust to eliminate such conflicts? Does he or she receive campaign contributions from the health care or pharmaceutical industries while voting down a universal health care system? 

Incumbent has Town Hall Meetings listed at: http://tinyurl.com/lxc5w

Incumbent has listed her issues at: http://tinyurl.com/fjlhu

 

Challenger Challenger Web Page Occupation Contact

David Redick (R)

   

David Redick
913 Hampshire Place
Madison, WI 53711

For a list of all candidates for state office go the State Elections Board and click on "All Candidates Registered."

 

Baldwin - On the issues (see also http://tinyurl.com/fjlhu)

Lobbyist-paid travel

None listed

Campaign Reform

Baldwin has always supported the strongest campaign and ethics reform measures

CommonDreams.org

Children's Defense Fund Action Council gives HIGH MARKS (100%) to Baldwin for her votes on protecting children. See http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/0323-01.htm

US Public Interest Group gives Baldwin 93% acceptance

See http://www.pirg.org/score2003/wisconsin.html (Note that the top screen scrolls through the issues Baldwin was graded on)

Permanent Estate Tax

Incumbent voted AGAINST the Estate Tax Relief Act (i.e., eliminating the Paris Hilton tax), which will shift taxes from the wealthy to the middle class.

Line Item Veto

Incumbent voted to oppose the line item veto (6/22/2006): Follow the dominoes and you’ll see that the campaign bribes that went to congressmen to get the pork inserted in the first place, will just be duplicated for the president so the pork is not vetoed when signed. Unless, of course, you are already a political briber of the right persuasion, then it’s a shoo-in. They say things will have to get much worse before they get better, and the line item veto will clearly make things much worse. It will give voters the false sense that things are being fixed when it is just increasing the cash flow in an already corrupt political system. It is a misconception that ‘bad’ things will get vetoed and ‘good’ things left in. It will be just the opposite. In Wisconsin we saw Governor Doyle veto 95% of the words in a bill and the remaining words transfer funding from road construction to schools. I prefer that particular end result but am appalled by the tactic. This not only violates the separation of powers doctrine but is also a terrible abuse of power. No, the real solution is to get private money out of the public electoral system altogether, and then the legislature will do the right thing in the first place and a line item veto would not be needed.
 

Project Vote-Smart Rating

 REPRESENTATIVE TAMMY BALDWIN REPEATEDLY REFUSED TO PROVIDE ANY RESPONSES TO CITIZENS ON ISSUES THROUGH THE 2004 NATIONAL POLITICAL AWARENESS TEST

Ratings by Interest Groups: http://www.vote-smart.org/issue_rating_category.php?can_id=BS021382

Votes by Category: http://www.vote-smart.org/voting_category.php?can_id=BS021382

 

 

Project Vote-Smart Interest Group Ratings

Details on pgs. 36-37 at www.vote-smart.org/pdf/vsdm2006/vsdm-2006.pdf Supports the interest group x% of the time
1) NARAL Pro-Choice America 100%
2) National Right to Life Committee 0
3) National Taxpayers Union 19
4) Public Citizen’s Congress Watch 100
5) U.S. Chamber of Commerce 30
6) AFL-CIO 100
7) Gun Owners of America 25
8) Fed. for American Immigration Reform 43
9) NAACP 100
10) National PTA 100
11) American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) 90
12) League of Conservation Voters 100
13) Alliance for Retired Americans 100
14) American Public Health Association 100
15) Disabled American Veterans 100
16) Eagle Forum 90
17) Americans for Democratic Action (ADA) 100