Only 25 percent of 9th District voters found Charlotte Bergmann's message persuasive in 2010. One message she's delivering in 2012 -- the EPA is hurting small business.
Bergmann attacks EPA, says it arrests for infractions that make "no sense"
Count Memphis's perennial 9th Congressional District Republican candidate, Charlotte Bergmann, among those Republicans targeting the Environmental Protection Agency for overreach in how it enforces of the nation's laws aimed at protecting the environment.
A statement on her website claims the EPA has been making arrests and cosing small businesses over what she characterizes as nonsense enforcement "to anyone but the EPA."
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Rick Santorum
Says in the last 20 years, the French have not "stood by" the United ...
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Rick Santorum
Says Mitt Romney supports cap and trade.
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Rick Santorum
"Romney adviser admits Romneycare was blueprint for Obamacare."
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U.S. Chamber of Commerce
"Obamacare (hit) Americans with over $500 billion in new taxes."
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U.S. Chamber of Commerce
"Obamacare ... will kill jobs across America."
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U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Says the Congressional Budget Office said "unemployment could top 9 percent in 2013"
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Wayne LaPierre
Says Barack Obama "endorsed a total ban on the manufacture, sale and possession of ...
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Jack Lew
"You can't pass a budget in the Senate of the United States without 60 ...
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Barack Obama
"Preventive care … saves money, for families, for businesses, for government, for everybody."
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Mitt Romney
President Obama told people "to skip coming here (Las Vegas) for conventions and meetings."
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Mitt Romney
"President Obama is shrinking our military."
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Mitt Romney
"Three years ago, a newly elected President Obama told America that if Congress approved ...
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Mitt Romney
"If you take into account all the people who are struggling for work, or ...
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Barack Obama
On fundraising for super PACs
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Newt Gingrich
Says President Barack Obama "has an Environmental Protection Agency proposal that would raise the ...
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"Shelby County donated – I’m sorry, gave – 44 schools to the city of Memphis."
Promise: Enforce laws that prohibit hiring of illegal immigrants
Update: Not quite a crackdown on hiring illegal aliens
"Fewer than 10 percent of those in the House are what anyone would classify as wealthy."
Promise: Institute a "Small Business Works" initiative
Update: Still working on Small Business Works
Promise: Create a leadership position for rural development
Update: Rural development director named
"This year’s redistricting has been the most open, interactive and transparent redistricting process in Tennessee history."
The state constitution "clearly says there’s not to be a state income tax in Tennessee."
AIDS was transmitted to humans because "one guy" had sex with "a monkey" and then started "having sex with men."
Congressman Scott DesJarlais "is spending his one year anniversary on vacation -- only working 6 days in all of January."
"Studies show that if we opened one reserve in Alaska now, in five years, gas prices could be at $2 a gallon."
"Congressman Phil Roe hands out $1.3M government check" from a federal program that "he voted against."
The United States is no longer "top nation in the globe on infrastructure," having fallen to 15th.
A typical married couple "will contribute $119,000" into Medicare but will "receive $357,000 in Medicare benefits over their lifetimes."
"Tennessee’s grocery tax is one of the highest in the nation."
"Martin Luther King Jr. was a Republican."
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Says in the last 20 years, the French have not "stood by" the United States on foreign policy.
— Rick Santorum
Says Mitt Romney supports cap and trade.
— Rick Santorum
"Romney adviser admits Romneycare was blueprint for Obamacare."
— Rick Santorum
"Obamacare (hit) Americans with over $500 billion in new taxes."
— U.S. Chamber of Commerce-
"Obamacare ... will kill jobs across America."
— U.S. Chamber of Commerce
