As Dr. Campbell wrote – Doug Ose is a scorecard watcher… he will vote correctly on a series of inconsequential amendments or procedural votes and then vote the wrong way once at the last key place. This way – they will get scores from the ACU (in Ose’s case from 64%-80% in a given year) but be able to really vote the wrong way. The ACU factors in too many votes to be as accurate as the scorecard of the pro-life council laid out below:

Ose voted for a hostile substitute to the Unborn Victims of Violence Act (9/30/1999, roll call 464). Ose then voted against the real Unborn Victims of Violence Act (9/30/1999, roll call 465).

Ose again voted for a hostile substitute of the Unborn Victims of Violence Act (4/26/2001, roll call 88) and against the real Unborn Victims of Violence Act (4/26/2001, roll call vote 89).

And again Ose voted for a substitute in 2004 (2/26/2004, roll call 30) and against the real thing (2/26/2004, roll call vote 31).

Meanwhile an anon commenter who is on Ose’s staff rolls out one roll-call vote where Ose actually voted pro-life and then uses that as a basis to call Dr. Campbell a liar.

Strategic voting is a deceptive practice and the way Ose’s courageous anonymous supporters are presenting rebuttals and half-truths is not ethical.

Ose’s received a 64% score from the American Conservative Union twice while in Congress – those same years, several Democrats had higher scores.

In addition: In fact Doug Ose’s pro-life voting record is so bad he earned a 35% in the 106th Congress, 26% in the 107th Congress, and 36% in the 108th Congress. (as in only 36% Pro-Life, an abortion of a voting record)

Rico Oller does not have to think about how he votes – because he has the instincts of a Republican.

According to on the issues – Ose could not hide the following:

• Voted NO on forbidding human cloning for reproduction & medical research. (Feb 2003)
• Voted NO on funding for health providers who don’t provide abortion info. (Sep 2002)

Basically Ose supports Human cloning for the purposes of harvesting the parts of the clone for medical research.

The second “No” vote is even more troubling:

Abortion Non-Discrimination Act of 2002: Vote to pass a bill that would prohibit the federal, state and local governments that receive federal funding from discriminating against health care providers, health insurers, health maintenance organizations, and any other kind of health care facility, organization or plan, that decline to refer patients for, pay for or provide abortion services. In addition the bill would expand an existing law “conscience clause” that protects physician training programs that refuse to provide training for abortion procedures.

Ose’s no vote means that he thinks the Government should force (through withholding funding) an organization whose Doctors have a “conscience clause” so they won’t have to do abortions against their will, to in fact have to provide abortions or lose their funding.

This No vote also means he favors forcing health plans to have to pay for abortions as well.