Dick Lugar's Voting Record

By Erick Erickson | 12:05 PM on April 30, 2012

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Images The other day I suggested Dick Lugar fire his new media guy.Let’s add another example to the list. His campaign sent out an email blast encouraging people to come to a site supporting Richard Mourdock to read a hit piece Lugar’s new media guy posted about Mourdock’s voting record.The offense? Not voting for John McCain in the Indiana GOP Primary in 2008.But what about Dick Lugar’s voting record. Consider the following:Dick Lugar voted

To support a host of anti-gun legislation including a concealed weapons ban
To support the Bridge to Nowhere
To oppose school choice for victims of Hurricane Katrina
To oppose $13 billion in new mandatory spending cuts
To support raiding the social security trust fund to fund general budget appropriations
To oppose a one year earmark moratorium
To support adding $52 billion in new spending to Barack Obama’s stimulus bill
To support TARP
To support giving the IMF more money
To support the tax credit and tariff on ethanol
To support increased foreign aid spending
To support an expansion of highway spending that would bankrupt the Highway Trust Fund
To support increasing the loan limit to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac