Friends,
Here is a rundown of the voting record of Rep. Jo Ann Emerson. These votes are in 2011! I keep hearing we need to keep calling and writing so that Rep. Emerson will vote more conservatively. The record speaks for itself. The fact is she is one of the most liberal Republican representatives in Washington and Heritage Action’s scorecard proves it!

Where did you see ANY of these votes in our media here in the 8th district? I wish they would report the record. Most voters are unaware of how they are truly being represented. We must get control of our spending. Rep. Emerson has voted for TARP twice. Cash for Clunkers twice. Voted to bailout the Union Pension funds with YOUR tax dollars, and voted to kill and research embryo’s with YOUR tax dollars! I will continue to expose this big government/big spending record. You will have a choice in the upcoming August primary. I sincerely ask for your support. Let’s stop this and send Washington a strong message, we have had enough. Time to balance the books. Please send this record to your friends and contacts. I need your to help get the message out.

Sincerely,
Bob Parker

Republican candidate for Congress in 2012
Missouri’s 8th district
www.electbobparker.com
Take America Back!!

The facts below are found on Heritage Action Scorecard, part of the Heritage Foundation.

With each vote cast in Congress, freedom either advances or recedes. Heritage Action’s new legislative scorecard allows Americans to see whether their Members of Congress are fighting for freedom, opportunity, prosperity, and civil society. The scorecard is comprehensive, covering the full spectrum of conservatism, and includes legislative action on issues both large and small.
Heritage Action’s legislative scorecard isn’t graded on a curve;  it is tough and we don’t apologize. After all, we are conservatives, not tenured university professors. [From Heritage Action scorecard] see:

http://heritageactionscorecard.com/scorecard/index.html#h217-2011#vote

Rep. Jo Ann Emersons voting record that has earned her one of the lowest scores in the Republican House. She scored 48 out of 100. Only 10 House Republicans have a lower score!

Bill # hr1182-112 Emerson votes NO to stop bailouts to Fannie and Freddie Mack! Emerson’s plan? Bailouts for everyone!

GSE Bailout Elimination and Taxpayer Protection Act
End Taxpayer Bailouts of Fannie/Freddie: Legislation would end taxpayer funded bailouts of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and put both companies on the path towards privatization.

Bill # hr1167-112 Emerson votes NO to cap and reform welfare! Where does Emerson get all this money? From YOU and China!

Welfare Reform Act of 2011
Conservative Welfare Reform: Legislation would build on the successful reforms of 1996 and set a cap on total welfare spending.

Bill # hr750-112 Emerson votes NO to stop job killing global warming regulations!

Defending America’s Affordable Energy and Jobs Act
Stop All Job-Killing Global Warming Regulations: Legislation would prevent job-killing global warming regulations via Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Endangered Species Act and the National Environmental Policy Act.

Bill # hr2514-112 Emerson votes NO to stop federal intrusion into education!

A PLUS Act
Empower States to Make Education Decisions: A-PLUS Act would allow states to opt out of the bureaucracy of No Child Left Behind and provide greater flexibility to make decisions.

Vote # h103-2011 Emerson votes NO to cut spending by 11% in Congress!

Full-Year Continuing Appropriations Act, 2011
Reduce Congress’ Spending by 11% and Other Cuts: Blackburn, R-Tenn., amendment that would reduce funding for the legislative branch by 11 percent and all other funding under the measure by 5.5 percent.

Vote # h143-2011 Emerson votes NO to cut spending to 2006 levels!

Full-Year Continuing Appropriations Act, 2011
Reduce 2011 Federal Spending to 2006 Levels: Amendment would reduce 2011 discretionary spending to fiscal 2006 spending levels, with some exemptions.

Vote # h164-2011 Emerson voted YES to expand Obamacare! She said she wanted to repeal it, now she EXPANDS it?

Veterinary Public Health Amendments Act of 2011
Expand Obamacare Provision to Veterinarians: Legislation would expand a provision of Obamacare by making veterinary public health professionals eligible for public health workforce grants and loan repayment.

Vote # h179-2011 Emerson voted YES on ”Kick the Can” spending! Keep throwing the money at our problems Jo Ann!

Additional Continuing Appropriations Amendments, 2011
Temporary “Kick the Can” Spending Measure: Legislation provided for the continuing appropriations for the federal government through April 8, 2011; a short-term funding measure that “kicked the can down the road.”

Vote # h275-2011 Emerson voted NO to balance the budget in 10 years!

Pass Alternate Conservative House Budget: Legislation – “Honest Solutions: Fiscal Year 2012 Budget” – would bring our country?s federal budget deficit in balance in less than ten years.

Vote # h424-2011 Emerson voted NO about stopping wasteful Ag spending.

Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2012Cut $1.8 billion from Agriculture Appropriations: Chaffetz, R-Utah, amendment would cut $1.8 billion by reducing wasteful spending.

Vote # h538-2011 Emerson voted no to wasteful grants. When will the deficit spending stop?

Cut $3.25 billion from Energy Appropriations: McClintock, R-CA, amendment would reduce or eliminate funding for various programs for the Energy Department and independent agencies by $3.25 billion.

Vote # h633-2011 Emerson voted NO on cuts to depts of Interior and Environment. The Emerson plan? Keep spending your money!

Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2012
Cut $3 billion from Interior Appropriations: Huelskamp, R-KS., amendment would decrease funding for various programs in the bill by $3 billion and transfer the money to the bill’s spending reduction account.

Vote # h217-2011 Emerson votes YES for the UNIONS…again! Married to Democrat Union lobbyist husband Ronald C. Gladney!

FAA Air Transportation Modernization and Safety Improvement Act
Uphold Rules Change that Empowers Unions: Amendment would strike provision in FAA Reauthorization that overturns a National Mediation Board ruling that allows a minority (as opposed to a majority) of workers to create a union at airlines and railroads.

Please send in $10, $20, $50, $500, whatever you can to help send Rep. Emerson back to her home in St. Louis.

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The liberal newspapers in this district will not tell you about the other side of Emerson as they support her liberal values.

Below is the must read story on
Emerson by Redstate… A conservative website.

Paging the Missouri Tea Party: Here’s One to Primary

I believe I must do two things to win the August Primary election against Emerson. One, expose her voting record as most do not know the facts as none of the media in this district reports on it.

Two, explain what I will do and what I stand for, check out my website and facebook page for more information about me or just call 417-457-6111 [my home phone].

I stand for smaller government, Right to Work, balance the budget and CUT spending, Pro life, Pro gun, eliminate the IRS and Dept of Education. Cut regulations on business and farmers. I oppose the ”free trade” deals that have destroyed our jobs. Emerson voted for ”permanent most favored trade nation” status for China, how is that working for you? I have run a business and lived in the 8th district since I was 20 years old [34 yrs ago], Emerson has done neither. She lives in St. Louis with her husband/lobbyist Democrat Att. Ronald Gladney. Most people in this district do not even know Emerson re-married years ago. This information has been kept from the public for the most part. I only mention this now because of the Union Pension bailout that Emerson Co-Sponsored, I want people to understand what is happening and the conflict involved. Emerson was endorsed by the Unions in the 2010 elections.

We are being destroyed my friends by this out of control government and taxes and regulation. Send me to Washington to fight for you! With 35% of the vote in the last primary we just need 16% more to win this time. I can be done, but not without your support. Please help me bring sanity back to Washington and let’s vote out the liberals in both parties that are destroying our Country.

Had enough yet 8th district???

Bob Parker
www.electbobparker.com
Take America Back [ Take the 8th district back ]

Please send a generous contribution to help me get the message out and take our district back to CONSERVATIVE values!
Committee to elect Bob Parker, 19438 Golden Drive, Raymondville, MO 65555

Sources:
Fox News America Live Union Bailout
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqvzvEgyXqw Emerson Union bailout clip

For the record, Emerson’s 2006 letter explaining the Animal Id program was ”all voluntary” is fact. It took her 5 years to figure that program out after years of mis-information from her office. This was clearly stated in the 2005 USDA draft plan documents that the program would be going ”Mandatory” in 2009. Many people have spent years fighting this program with ZERO help from Emerson until January of this year, now that she is in a primary battle for re-election. The implementation of NAIS has been delayed because of massive opposition to this program from across the country.

For the record, Emerson voted for the repeal of Glass-Stegall that most now say led to the banking crisis by allowing banks to gamble with your money.

For the record, Emerson still denies that NAFTA and CAFTA have destroyed our manufacturing jobs. I think the record is clear on what that has done to our jobs in America.

For the record, in January of 2010 Emerson did a press release that NAIS [animal id] was dead. Two weeks later she issued a press release that she is fighting this horrible program. She did this after I explained to her and a crowd in Dexter Missouri that the program had just been re-named.

For the record, whatever you call HB 3936 that Emerson has co-signed, the taxpayers will be paying Billions to ‘’save” these failing pension funds if this passes.

Had enough yet Missouri?

Bob Parker
Candidate for Congress
Missouri’s 8th district
Take America Back!

[Emerson/Gladney's picture is on the front middle. It's blurry, but it's her]

Rep. Jo Ann Emerson/Gladney is married to Ronald C. Gladney, who works for SEIU and AFL-CIO as a registered lobbyist! Please send this all across the 8th district so people can see that THEIR representative is still supporting these outrageous bailouts! Are you tired of elected officials that say one thing back home and do something else in Washington?

• Emerson/Gladney voted for the Wall Street Bailout twice!
• The 410 Billion dollar Omnibus bill with 9,000 earmarks, including some of hers!
• Cash for Clunkers twice!
• Embryonic stem cell research twice!
• Free trade CAFTA that has destroyed our jobs.
• Takes massive campaign contributions from UNIONS.
• Is a 14 year incumbent with one of the worst ratings in Congress! National Review ranks her as 9th worst!
• One of the top Republican’s for earmarks [Pork spending]
• Works for Social Justice wealth redistribution at the www.hungercenter.org that she funds with millions in earmarks. See Emerson class of 20 which includes gay activist Kate Geronimus.

You have a real choice in the August 3rd primary race.

Bob Parker
Republican Candidate, Missouri’s 8th district
Take America Back

We need your help! Please support our efforts to take back out country and take back the Republican party! Back to it’s Conservative/ Constitutional foundations.

Jo Ann Emerson is back in the news today as one of nine members of the U.S. House of Representatives sponsoring H.R. 3936, a $165 billion union pension bailout bill. But why?

It could be that the seven-term Republican elected in the 8th Congressional District of Southeast Missouri simply loves bailouts. After all, she did vote for the Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP) and “Cash for Clunkers”. But I don’t think her love for bailouts is the main reason why she is behind the bill.

Instead, I think her sponsorship of the union bailout bill stems from the fact that she is married to Ron Gladney.

In a May 3 post, I pointed out that her second husband is both a Democrat and an labor union attorney for St. Louis-based Bartley Goffstein LLC and that, according to Federal Election Commission records, she has received campaign contributions from a variety of union entities, including the AFL-CIO and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). And that’s not all!

In a post one week later, I highlighted the fact that her husband represents 12 powerful labor unions, including the International Association of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental and Reinforcing Iron Workers for whom he serves as general counsel.

Furthermore, I mentioned she backed funding for costly projects in her district — including the $170 million Bill Emerson Memorial Bridge and the $62 million Rush H. Limbaugh Federal Building — from which her husband’s union friends likely received great benefit.

So, the answer to the question is simple. Congressman Emerson believes in bringing home the bacon — err, uh, pork — and putting it straight into her own husband’s skillet.

Source | Links | Related

Republican Jo Ann Emerson Sponsoring Union Bailout Bill!
http://biggovernment.com/bmccarty/2010/05/26/republican-jo-ann-emerson-sponsoring-union-bailout-bill/

Jo Ann Emerson
http://bobmccarty.com/?s=%22jo+ann+emerson%22

Should Jo Ann Emerson Run as Independent?
http://bobmccarty.com/2010/05/03/should-jo-ann-emerson-run-as-independent/

Bartley Goffstein LLC
http://www.bgbllaw.com/about.html

RINO Congresswoman Thrives in the Boot Heel
http://bobmccarty.com/2010/05/10/rino-congresswoman-thrives-in-the-boot-heel/

Watch that left hand, and the other side of the the mouth

Some very interesting information put together by Missourian veteran Terry Kinder about our 8th district Congresswoman Jo Ann Emerson. I have found that the facts that are known about Emerson’s voting record are few and far between here in the 8th district. Have the Republican’s been telling you about Emerson’s voting record? No. Have the Democrats? Why would they, Emerson votes with the Dems and Pelosi and Reed more than any other Missouri Republican in Congress.

Does the media tell you the truth?

Emerson brings back millions in pork for the towns and special interests in the 8th district. She is one of the top ear markers in Congress.

This is very problematic for media to expose things like that and then sell newspapers and advertising. They find it is best just to go along to get along. It’s a cushy situation. Don’t make anyone mad, everybody gets their money and their ”favors” and the American taxpayer and your grandchildren get stuck with the tab. This is what is wrong in America. No one is speaking out, it’s always the other districts Congress person that is the problem, not yours.

My solutions? Get back the constitution. No bailouts. No cap and trade. No government takeover of healthcare. Uphold our second amendment gun rights. Protect the unborn, Pro Life. No more ”free trade” that has destroyed our jobs. Stop Spending so much money! Look out for the people that produce in America and help create a better environment for jobs and production. I don’t promise more spending. I do promise to do everything in my power to shrink government back into it’s constitutional constraints.

My 33 years of running my own private business in the 8th district give me the experience to know what is takes to keep jobs and create jobs here in Missouri. I know as an employer for many years the challenges small business owners and farmers face.

If you like the status quo just delete this. If you see something happening in America that is not good and want to restore our freedoms and our great country, just read the information on the Congresswoman Jo Ann Emerson Tracker site.

I don’t have the million dollar campaign war chest by sucking up to every special interest I can. I want to represent you, the hard working forgotten working people in America. I won’t sell my soul to the special interests and labor unions.

I believe that when you realize how serious I am about this that you will want to help my campaign. I want to represent the farmers, seniors, teachers, factory workers, and the common men and women just like me that still long for freedom and prosperity for us and our families.

I believe we are about to lose our country that we know and love. Obama and company are fundamentally transforming our country… and not for the best. I believe we can take it back, but it is rapidly slipping away now. We must take back Congress in 2010! Put me there to fight for you! Put me there to fight for and uphold our Constitution!

The good book says “my people perish for lack of knowledge.” Read… and learn. The country you save may be your own.

Bob Parker
Republican Candidate for Congress
Missouri 8th district
Take America Back

RELATED:

• They’re back: Representatives reveal their earmarks
  http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/03/congress.earmarks/index.html

• Congresswoman Jo Ann Emerson Tracker
  http://joannemersontracker.posterous.com/

This is why we have to elect people that have clue about how socialism and capitalism works.

Let’s see, give the bankers and insurance companies 700 BILLION DOLLARS because they failed!?! Thousands send faxes, emails, and make phone calls to try to stop Congress from doing it… We need to vote them ALL OUT — each and every one that voted FOR the wall street bailout, if we can. These are not the people we need to rebuild this country and take it back from the socialists!

My opponent, Representative JoAnn Emerson VOTED FOR THE BAILOUT, CASH FOR CLUNKERS, unbalanced budgets, NAIS FUNDING has all come through her AG Committee, TAX INCREASES, JOB DESTROYING TRADE AGREEMENTS, funding out of control regulatory agencies, and on and on!

Don’t be fooled again!

Most people are not aware of these facts, please pass this on to your friends. In my meetings around the district, I am finding even Republican committee people are not aware of these votes…

– Bob Parker

Dave Eberhart wrote an interesting article about Sen. John McCain’s appearance on CNN’s “State of the Union” this weekend and revealed that he now regrets the Wall Street bailout.

McCain dropped a bombshell when revealing his thoughts on the Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP) that, among other things, green-lighted the federal government to bailout the floundering financial sector.

“What we’ve done, unfortunately, is we bailed out Wall Street, now they’re making billions, they’re making the deals, they’re giving the bonuses, and because they were too big to fail, we pumped – I don’t know, we still haven’t had a full accounting – into those major financial corporations and told financial institutions.”

In 2008 McCain voted for the TARP bailout, but now revealed his disappointment in how the bailout went down.

“We told them they were too big to fail,” McCain told King. “We told the guy on Central Avenue that just shut down his storefront that he’s too small to save. There’s something terribly wrong with that picture, and we were off on the wrong foot by bailing out these financial institutions instead of addressing the housing crisis. And Americans have figured it out and they’re very, very unhappy.”

For the full article: http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/mccain_bailout_vote_obama/2009/10/12/271235.html?s=al&promo_code=8BAC-1

“Congresswoman Emerson DID NOT vote in favor of the Wall St. bailout. I would hope a congressional candidate would have their facts straight and not base their campain on half truths in an attempt to get the uninformed vote.”

– g’s thoughts

Emerson’s “YEA” vote for the Bailout is posted for all to see right here:
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2008/roll681.xml

RELATED:

• Final Vote Results for Roll Call 681
  H R 1424 YEA-AND-NAY 3-Oct-2008 1:22 PM
  QUESTION: On Motion to Concur in Senate Amendments
  BILL TITLE: Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008
  http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2008/roll681.xml

• VOTES on H.R.1424 – Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008
  October 03, 2008 Roll call number 681 in the House
  Question On Motion to Concur in Senate Amendments:
  H R 1424 Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008
  http://www.opencongress.org/roll_call/show/5099

• House Vote On Passage: H.R. 1424 [110th]:
  Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008
  http://www.govtrack.us/congress/vote.xpd?vote=h2008-101

• Another challenger enters 8th District race
  http://www.dailyjournalonline.com/articles/2009/10/12/news/doc4ad1011ba1731189896891.txt

Respectfully, they are wrong…

Sadly, the media is not reporting this and there have been no corrections from others that I have seen so far. I am forced to be the one to correct the record. Hopefully, many of you will help in the future to educate the voters of the truth.

Rep. Emerson has voted for the Banker Bailout [twice], Cash for Clunkers, Free trade deals that are destroying our JOBS here in America and on and on.

Please do everything you can to get this information out. If you can put a letter to the editor in your paper about it or send it to your email list that will be a huge help.

I consider these votes by anyone in either party to go against everything our country stands for. In America, we have a free market system and we should not shovel money to special interests, Big Bankers and Insurance companies!

These are not conservative or constitutional votes my friends!

You have a choice, a Representative that chooses to vote with the liberal agenda, or a person that will follow our constitution for a change…

Thanks for your help in setting the record straight!

Bob Parker for Congress, Missouri 8th district

P.S. If you would like to help with our campaign please contact me, we have a lot of work to do!