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Not the Most Common Sense, However

Adam Smith stood up in front of the Seattle Times Editorial Board on July 7th and said he was the most qualified candidate of the lot.  Smith has a law degree and he's been in Congress long enough that he knows how it works -- who wouldn't with that amount of time?  However, Smith's degrees didn't stop him from voting for the dismantling of the Glass-Steagall Act, or Bush's invasion plans for Iraq, or nullifying habeas corpus protections as established in the Bill of Rights, or being in the opposition to the Amash-Conyers Amendment that tried to put some checks on an overreaching N.S.A., or from making a number of other congressional votes that defied good common sense and the will of the majority of his constituents.  By the way, I was opposite of Smith in regards to my position on all of the votes shown here, before the vote, and most of those positions of mine are on record in some source, primarily blogs and newspapers.

-- Mark Greene, candidate for U.S. House of Representatives, 9th Congressional District

UPDATE: 7/26/14:  Uncle Sam's largesse funds wars.

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