Folks – many of you may have seen a letter signed by Lew Uhler telling all of us that Doug Ose is a Reagan Republican and a Tax Fighter.

Uhler is President of the National Tax Limitation Committee. I think Lew forgot to do his homework before endorsing Doug Ose…

From Ken Campbell — Re-Posted with his permission

Ose the BIG Spender

Posted by: Ken Campbell | 02/21/2008 10:46 AM

But Ken, Ose can’t be a big spender; he received the endorsement of Lew Uhler of the National Tax-Limitation Committee, right? Let me explain that, many years ago Rico Oller badly beat Lew’s son Kirk in an Assembly race. After all these years, Lew and Kirk have never gotten over that. Lew Uhler has put personality above conservative principle by endorsing Big Spender Ose.

We all remember the “thumping” the Republicans received in 2006 in large part due to their spending addiction. Discretionary domestic spending- excluding defense and the war on terror- increased faster under Republican control than under any Democrat since LBJ. During the six years Ose was in Congress, he was part of the big spending problem.

For example, with Medicare already heading for bankruptcy, the Republicans, along with confirmed big spender Ose, passed the largest expansion of the Federal government since the Great Society- the budget busting Medicare Prescription Drug Bill (HR 1, roll call #669, 11/22/03).

Ose voted for a plethora of other irresponsible and wasteful spending, such as grants for studies on “Mood Arousal and Sexual Risk Taking”, “Sexual Habits of Older Men”, “San Francisco’s Asian Prostitutes/Masseuses”, “American Indian Transgender Research”, and “Child Health and Human Development Study on Pandas” (HR 2660, roll call # 352, 7/10/03), all paid for courtesy of the Placer County taxpayers.

Ose voted to spend taxpayers’ money on mohair subsidies (roll call vote #383, 7/11/00), wood utilization (roll call vote # 160, 5/26/99) and peanut competitiveness (roll call # 161, 5/26/99). I could continue on, but I think you get the idea.

Ose repeatedly voted against the conservative Republican Study Club budget that would cut wasteful spending (roll call vote #73, 3/23/00) (roll call vote # 79, 3/20/03), and for a Democrat budget (roll call #75, 3/25/99)

How bad was Ose’s spending addiction? In the 107th Congress alone Ose sponsored 37 bills to increase spending by whopping $46.7 billion.

And for all this reckless spending Lew Uhler gave former Sacramento Congressman Ose a taxpayer’s award? Go figure.