How Close is Your Rep. to Tom Delay? Tennessee's Cleanest: Harold Ford Jr.

See how close your Rep. is to ethics-challenged wing-nut Tom Delay.

The 50-state ranking is based on "how often they vote the way DeLay does, how much DeLay's PAC contributed to them, how much they've contributed to DeLay's legal defense fund, and so on."

In Tennessee, Rep. Harold Ford Jr. (D) has the cleanest record, or is rated as the most distant from Delay. Harold Ford Jr. votes with Delay 19.33% of the time; that compares with 38.18% for John Tanner (D) and 31.13% for Jim Cooper (D).

Republican Rep. Marsha Blackburn, the state's only Congresswoman, is effectively in bed with Delay. Blackburn votes with Delay are rated at: 97.49%. Blackburn receives, by far, the most money from Delay. Blackburn also has a score of zero from Planned Parenthood for her utter absence of pro-choice votes. Tennessee Guerilla Women give Blackburn a perfect score of 100 in the category of male identification, which is, of course, how she got to Washington.

More details are provided here including how much money your Rep. gets and gives to Delay.

Via
Political Wire