Ron Kind (D)
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Kind's Web Page |
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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: None
Incumbent has listed his issues at: http://www.house.gov/kind/ (see Hot topics)
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Lobbyist-paid travel |
 7 trips at $27,906 See: http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/congtravel/member_report.php?member=7159
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US Public Interest Group gives Kind 85% acceptance |
 See http://www.pirg.org/score2003/wisconsin.html (Note that the top screen scrolls through the issues Kind 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 RON KIND was
the only Wisconsin Representative to take the NPAT test at
http://www.vote-smart.org/npat.php?can_id=BC037677
Ratings by Interest Groups: http://www.vote-smart.org/issue_rating_category.php?can_id=BC037677 Votes by Category: http://www.vote-smart.org/voting_category.php?can_id=BC037677
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| 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 | 9 |
| 3) National Taxpayers Union | 21 |
| 4) Public Citizen’s Congress Watch | 54 |
| 5) U.S. Chamber of Commerce | 59 |
| 6) AFL-CIO | 93 |
| 7) Gun Owners of America | 75 |
| 8) Fed. for American Immigration Reform | 57 |
| 9) NAACP | 74 |
| 10) National PTA | 100 |
| 11) American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) | 70 |
| 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 | 20 |
| 17) Americans for Democratic Action (ADA) | 75 |