| We only see Rep. Bono in our district if there's a red carpet or a chichi gala involved. David Roth is talking about the health care and education. Roth deplores the waste in Iraq. He's accepted The Desert Sun's call for a public debate. Bono is ducking.
Perhaps that's because Mary Bono, despite being a USC grad and Hollywood widow, has a typical Rubberstamp Republican record. Bono co-sponsored HR 4437, the bill that criminalizes aid to dying people. She rates among the worst Representatives for children and seniors, and among the best for Corporate America. Bono does stand up for the rights of the recording industry (isn't that in Hollywood?) to retain their royalty income. As she pleaded at the time, how could she afford college tuition on her measly Congressional salary if not for Sonny Bono's royalties? How about her constituents' chances at affording college? Mary Bono cast the deciding vote to cut $14 billion from federal student aid. That's reprehensible, even for a GOP member of this Congress. And Mary Bono thinks she can avoid her constituents, duck a debate, and smear David Roth as a "Hollywood Liberal" with an onslaught of big money. Today's Desert Sun article on her ongoing romance with Connie Mack is typical of the press Bono gets, it's rarely about the voters and our lives. It's nice that Ms. Bono is having a good time, but Congress should be working on national security, restoring our foreign policy, and bettering Americans' lives. Here's what Bono's working on, apparently:
Bono, Mack continue building relationship
Keith Matheny * The Desert Sun * September 2, 2006
A romance of Congressional proportions continues - and is bi-coastal.
Rep. Mary Bono confirmed to The Desert Sun in December that she was "exclusively dating" fellow Republican Rep. Connie Mack IV of Florida.
They've since appeared together publicly numerous times, including at the Palm Springs International Film Festival in January and during President Bush's visit to the Coachella Valley in April.
Mary Bono can snarl at her Hollywood peers all she likes if she thinks that will help her get re-elected, I call it hypocritical and unfair. Hollywood liberals are loyal Americans, too, and they didn't get us into Iraq and spend our children's future and our country's honor. Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Gonzales, et. al, did that, and Mary Bono supported them. Still does.
CA-45th deserves so much better. Support David Roth here 
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