"Perriello has voted repeatedly in support of Obama policy," Feda said in a release from her Fluvanna County home.
"He voted for the Obama Stimulus Bill and for the Obama Health Care Bill," she recalled, "so I am calling for Tom to support Obama's promise to oppose earmarks and vote against the $447 billion omnibus spending bill that came out of the Senate over the weekend."
Feda pointed out that during last year's campaign, both Obama and Perriello condemned the earmarking of funds for pet projects in appropriations bills.
"As a candidate Obama said he would veto any bills that had earmarks in them," Feda recalled, "and now this Senate-passed bill contains "thousands of earmarks" according to Washington press reports."
"Perriello can keep his campaign promise as well as President Obama's by voting "no" on this irresponsible spending scheme when it hits the House floor, maybe later this week," she added.
She said by voting "no", the bill would be sent back to the Senate where earmarks could be stripped from it, leaving essential spending items.
"It is runaway spending like this, the health care bill and last spring's stimulus bill that required the Senate last week to raise the debt ceiling for the second time since Obama came to office and it is bankrupting our nation," Feda concluded.
Feda, a former elected member of the Fluvanna County school board and past chairman of the Fluvanna County GOP, and former state championship basketball and track coach, teaches Advanced Placement Biology at Fluvanna County High School. The mother of five children, she is married to Don Morton, former fire chief for the Virginia Department of Forestry.
| < Prev | Next > |
|---|
