Gary Trauner is running against 5-term incumbent Republican Barbara Cubin for the single congressional seat in Wyoming. Think of your contribution to this race as your own personal gift to Dick Cheney.
The latest Mason-Dixon poll, released October 17, had Cubin at 44%, Trauner at 37%. That was a 10-point drop for Cubin and a 5-point increase for Trauner over the past eight months.
Republican Barbara Cubin is a far-right George Bush clone:
* Voted NO on allowing human embryonic stem cell research. (May 2005)You get the picture.
* Voted YES on restricting interstate transport of minors to get abortions. (Apr 2005)
* Voted YES on banning partial-birth abortion except to save mother’s life. (Oct 2003)
* Voted YES on forbidding human cloning for reproduction & medical research. (Feb 2003)
* Voted YES on banning partial-birth abortions. (Apr 2000)
* Voted YES on barring transporting minors to get an abortion. (Jun 1999)
* Rated 0% by NARAL, indicating a pro-life voting record. (Dec 2003)
* Voted YES on making the PATRIOT Act permanent. (Dec 2005)
* Voted YES on Constitutional Amendment banning same-sex marriage. (Sep 2004)
* Voted YES on protecting the Pledge of Allegiance. (Sep 2004)
* Voted YES on constitutional amendment prohibiting flag desecration. (Jun 2003)
* Voted YES on banning gay adoptions in DC. (Jul 1999)
* Voted YES on ending preferential treatment by race in college admissions. (May 1998)
* Rated 0% by the ACLU, indicating an anti-civil rights voting record. (Dec 2002)
* Voted YES on prohibiting product misuse lawsuits on gun manufacturers. (Oct 2005)
* Voted YES on prohibiting suing gunmakers & sellers for gun misuse. (Apr 2003)
* Voted NO on decreasing gun waiting period from 3 days to 1. (Jun 1999)
* Rated A+ by the NRA, indicating a pro-gun rights voting record. (Dec 2003)
Gary Trauner, however, is great on the issues.
On the Economy:
...the fact that the economy has grown, it's grown for a very thin slice of people and that's corporations and big companies and the people that run them, basically. So five years into a recovery when average workers wages are down and gas prices are up and the cost of health care and education is up, and people are more likely to lose their jobs, I don't see the economy as steam rolling on.On Iraq and the War on Terror:
The government just came out with the latest national intelligence estimate, the NIE, where all of the intelligence agencies, I believe there may be 16 of them, have gotten together to look at where we stand and they're saying: you know what, things aren't going that well. We're not doing a good job of fighting the quote unquote "war on terror", things aren't going that well in Iraq. That's not me, that's the experts from this country speaking.On Global Warming:
I believe climate change is a serious threat and I think that we need to take steps to reduce emissions of the fuels or pollutants that contribute to that. There is generally a scientific consensus on this. People try and say that there is controversy but in the peer reviewed scientific community, there is no controversy.On Abortion:
Generally speaking, it's all about the right to privacy as far as I'm concerned. I think medical decisions, it's on my website, should be between the people, their families and their ethical medical representatives, you know, doctors. And I'll tell you one thing: for better or worse, we have been through, my family, some very difficult medical decisions, tough ones and anyone who's had to make an agonizing medical decision whether it's birth or death or anything in between, know that the last thing that they want, the very last thing that they want is the state knocking on their door telling them what they should or shouldn't do so to me it's a privacy issue.On Gay Marriage:
Gay marriage, I don't think that the founding fathers would look kindly on amending the constitution to limit people's rights. I think the constitution was actually written to give people rights. I think that society has every right to define marriage between a man and woman but society also shouldn't discriminate. And my point is, I don't really care what people do, if someone is dying in a hospital and they want to have their legal next of kin next to them, I don't care who that is, and I don't think that anybody should care. So my feeling is you know what marriage, men, women, great. But let's not discriminate against people and not allow them to have some of the benefits that they should be able to have.The guy is great, and he's taking on a far-right nut. Please help him out.
