Release: Trivedi, Proud Pelosi Partner, Rejects More Moderate Blue Dog Democrats
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
TRIVEDI, PROUD PELOSI PARTNER, REJECTS JOINING MODERATE BLUE DOG DEMOCRATS
(Glenmoore, PA) - The campaign of Congressman Jim Gerlach (R-PA) today congratulated his new liberal opponent Manan Trivedi for winning the Democratic nomination in the 6thCongressional District by a razor-thin margin. As part of Trivedi’s pandering to his extreme liberal base throughout the Primary election, Trivedi embraced at every step the big-government and massive public debt agenda of Nancy Pelosi by firmly pledging that he would never join the fiscal conservative Blue Dog Democrats in Congress.
The Trivedi-Pelosi Checklist on Issues:
- During the entire Democratic Primary, Trivedi never once disagreed with the Pelosi agenda, and pledged to never be a member of the Blue Dogs in Congress. According to the Blue Dog Democrats website, they support the fiscally conservative principles of a cap on federal spending, a balanced budget, transparency and accountability in government, performance-based budgeting to control spending, closing tax loopholes, and eliminating waste, fraud and abuse. Five Pennsylvania Democrats are members of the Blue Dogs rejected by Trivedi.
- Trivedi is one of the most liberal candidates in the country when it comes to health care, promoting a European-style bureaucrat-dominated, government-controlled health care system that’s even more expensive and further to the left than the law recently passed. Trivedi claimed during the campaign that the recent health care law does not go far enough and enthusiastically embraces the public option.
- Even now, after seeing the failures of last year’s "Stimulus” bill and the massive new government debt that has resulted, Trivedi still gives his full support to this spending package which was criticized as the largest spending package in American history and has done nothing to create private-sector jobs as originally promised. The stimulus added to the bloated government bureaucracy and saddled every American with a new massive debt obligation.
- Just to further prove Trivedi’s extreme liberal credentials, he has publicly stated that he supports rewarding the estimated 12-17 million illegal immigrants with citizenship.
"During the liberal love fest over the last eight months known as the Democratic Primary, Trivedi embraced the Nancy Pelosi agenda at every turn. Maybe Trivedi’s platform of pushing bigger government, more debt, government-run health care, and killing American jobs plays well in San Francisco, but it doesn’t sit well with working families and seniors in southeastern Pennsylvania,” said Mark Campbell, spokesman for Gerlach’s campaign. "We look forward to watching Trivedi sprint back to the center, and we promise to hold him accountable at every turn. His extreme liberal statements and positions taken during the Democrat primary make him un-electable in November.”
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