Letter to the Editor From Small Business Owner Chris Cadigan, Oceanside

Printed in the Long Island Baldwin Herald

To whom it may concern:

I am voting for Fran Becker not as a Republican or other party affiliate, but as a Dad and a small business owner. For full disclosure, I am a conservative thinker and right leaning. I am a concerned citizen. I am proud of my Country and proud of the opportunities that this Country has afforded me.

I am concerned for our future and for my daughter's future. I want her to have the same opportunities that I have had. At the rate we are going, our children will face record debt and a service based economy subservient to the Chinese.

Mrs. McCarthy stopped serving the 4th Congressional district of NY a long time ago. She ignores her constituents when they call, email, and write letters. She voted for the Cap and Trade bill that went to the floor earlier this year even though Long Islanders get their electric from coal fired facilities. Why? How do you vote in favor of something that hurts the people that put you there?

It is time that we as citizens send public servants to Washington who have practical real-world experience on how to address problems, create jobs, and cut spending. Congress-woman McCarthy isn't the person for the job anymore.

Fran Becker has my vote!

Sincerely,

Chris Cadigan

Oceanside, NY

San Francisco East? No daylight between Congresswoman McCarthy and Speaker Pelosi.

Congresswoman McCarthy has ceded our voice in Congress to Nancy Pelosi.  She has voted with Nancy Pelosi 98% of the time.  Worse yet, on three legislative issues that are hurting us the most- health care, taxes and the unprecedented waste of a trillion dollars on a failed stimulus bill (more pork, less jobs), she has voted with her 100% of the time.  The result? By ceding our voice to Nancy Pelosi she has cost us millions of jobs, suffocated us with debt we cannot possibly pay back, and set us on the path to the destruction of our quality health care.

This is not San Francisco, this is not Nancy Pelosi’s district, and we didn’t vote for her.  And Nancy Pelosi is not entitled to TWO votes in the House, and that is what Congresswoman McCarthy has done.   Facts are facts, and right now we are sold out lock stock and barrel to the crazy whims of Nancy Pelosi- its wrong and it cannot continue.

Here is a very neat tool that proves we have become a branch office of California’s radical 8^th Congressional District – opencongress.org.

Consider for a moment, in light of these demonstrable facts about Congresswoman McCarthy’s voting record, how some other Democrats voted.  These folks are generally considered to be ‘moderate’ Democrats.  Why not take a moment to compare their votes with Congresswoman McCarthys.  Lets see if Ms. McCarthy is a moderate Democrat or  an extremist Pelosi ‘yes’ vote as we have seen above.

• 31 Democrats signed a letter to Speaker Pelosi urging her to not raise taxes in January, McCarthy does not sign
• 47 Democrats signed a letter to Speaker Pelosi urging her to not raise taxes on capital gains and dividends, McCarthy does not sign
• 39 Democrats voted NO on adjourning Congress without voting to prevent the massive tax increase coming in January, McCarthy provides swing ‘yes’ vote (210-209!)
• 39 Democrats voted NO on Obamacare in the House, McCarthy and Pelosi vote YES
• 43 Democrats voted NO on Cap and Trade, McCarthy and Pelosi vote YES
• 11 Democrats even voted against the Stimulus Bill, McCarthy and Pelosi vote YES

This much should be crystal clear at this point in the campaign, any suggestion that Congresswoman McCarthy is a ‘moderate’ is a gross disservice to the voters- the facts say otherwise.  San Francisco East, indeed.

We need our vote,  we are entitled to our vote, and we do not have to outsource our representation to Nancy Pelosi and her San Francisco extremists.  For when Nancy votes twice, we lose.  Come November, each one of us has a chance to tell Nancy Pelosi that we want our House seat back.

Long Island to be slammed by McCarthy/Pelosi tax hike; McCarthy trades her leverage for…NOTHING

This week Fran delivered an exceptional address dealing with the income tax tsunami that’s going to hit Long Island in January.  As Fran made clear, Congresswoman McCarthy provided the critical swing vote for Speaker Pelosi to adjourn Congress without addressing the January 1^st massive hike in income tax rates.  Believe it or not, the vote was 210-209!  Had Carolyn stood up for us, and not Speaker Pelosi, they would be in session now finding a way to protect our jobs and our economy.  This really was an unbelievably irresponsible vote by Congresswoman McCarthy.

“Carolyn held the fate of our district in her hands” Fran told the crowd, “and she just let go”.

The truth is that Ms. McCarthy knew for the entire year what was coming and did nothing.  Neither Carolyn nor her leadership even bothered to write a bill continuing the existing tax rates!  Well, now that she is back home she is telling us not to worry, she will take care of it when she gets back to D.C.  Really?  What power does she have to keep that promise when her leadership is against continuing the existing rates and her party is in turmoil?  Well, one thing that would be useful would be some leverage for the 4^th CD…

But wait,  Ms. McCarthy just gave away the one bit of leverage this district had, her vote to adjourn.  Why?  Maybe so Speaker Pelosi could help embattled politicians in far away districts get re-elected.  If she really cared about this district and our economic well being, she would have told Pelosi NO.  Saying you are going to do something,  Ms. McCarthy, is not the same as actually doing it.  And when you could have stood up for US, you sat down for Pelosi.

No matter what empty promises her campaign circulates about how she wants to vote in the future, the fact is that when she could have acted she did not.  And when she goes back for her lame duck term,  she will be unable to act.  What she actually did by providing that critical swing vote to Pelosi was seal our fate for vastly higher taxes come January.  And there is no way to spin that.

What is especially galling about this is there actually are moderate democrats that pleaded with Speaker Pelosi to not raise taxes in a recession- 31 one of them signed a letter to her laying out how devastating it will be for the economy and our jobs.  You can read it yourself.  If Carolyn was being straight with us, why is her name not on that letter?  Is it really too much to ask that she be one of the moderate Democrats that actually walks the walk?

These massive tax increases are going to cause greater job losses and an unacceptable new burden on taxpayers in our district.  Even Senator Lieberman said recently, “the surest way for Congress to help bring about a double-dip recession” is to raise rates.

Ms. McCarthy's vote to adjourn was a vote for massive tax hikes on Long Island families.  This has to stop; we need an effective and wise advocate for US  in Washington, D.C.  Fran Becker is that advocate.

"Making a Difference for Long Island Families"

Since Carolyn’s motto is “Making a Difference for Long Island Families” we thought it might be a good idea to see exactly how she herself has made a difference over the last two years on the most important and critical issues. Specifically, how she, with HER vote (our vote that we trusted her with), has impacted us:

• Massive new taxes coming in January

• Millions of jobs lost while the Federal Government squandered almost a TRILLION of our dollars (actually, Carolyn borrowed the money from China, but details details…)

• A radical and destructive health care plan that’s going to give us less care for more money after waiting forever to get it

• Cap and Trade, the job killing tax raising scheme that she voted for and we have to stop

Well, maybe they get credit for being honest, she certainly has made a difference. Now let’s get out there and vote for Fran Becker, who is going to make life for us BETTER and not simply ‘different’.

Carolyn Tells Us Why She Is Running; sort of...maybe not

Well it seems that the ever elusive and indeed reclusive Representative from the 4th CD has actually decided to allow the voters some idea of why she is running for an 8th term. The only problem is, she can't seem to make up her mind as to what we want to hear this time around. So very odd that she is not telling us how wonderful her health care disaster is, or how much we are going to enjoy paying for the massive McCarthy income tax hike that’s coming in January. Of course that would require running on her record- and she obviously cannot do that.

So it seems that at the beginning of September Ms. McCarthy's top priorities were abating airplane noise and keeping guns out of the hands of terrorists, as she stated to Garden City Life. By the time October rolled around, we learned from the Rockville Center LI Herald that she views her top priorities as curbing the housing crisis and improving the unemployment outlook.

Well, what a difference a few weeks makes. Either Ms. McCarthy has actually invented silent airplanes and defanged the terrorists single handedly in a couple of weeks, or she is just flailing around from issue to issue in a desperate bid to talk about anything other than her record. Passing strange that she is not talking up Obamacare and tax hikes? We think so.

Letter to Carolyn McCarthy from Siobhan Moran, Rockville Centre Resident

                                                                                                                          October 1, 2010



Hon. Carolyn McCarthy
300 Garden City Plaza
Suite 200
Garden City, New York 11530


Dear Congresswoman McCarthy:


I’ve never met you. But you do represent me and my family, and my friends and neighbors, in Congress. I believe that you’re running for re-election. I say believe because I haven’t received any campaign literature from you and I don’t know your position on virtually any issue of importance. I checked your web site to try to discern your positions on various issues but find no answers. I also wrote to you directly asking about your position on health care legislation and tax issues but only received form letters in response that must have been written by your interns.


Last year I asked you to explain why the healthcare legislation was good for New Yorkers. As you know, New York is a community-rated state that already precludes denial of coverage for pre-existing conditions. In reality, the major impact of the legislation you voted for is to increase Medicaid costs for the State and the County – costs which ultimately get passed on to your constituents. Medicaid already consumes more than 40% of the state budget.


More recently, I wrote to you asking why you are not trying to stop yet more tax increases that are scheduled to take effect on January 1, 2011. As you know, here on Long Island we already pay exorbitant property taxes, village taxes, county taxes, state taxes and sales taxes that are the highest in the nation. And let’s not forget all those stealth taxes they slip in on our telephone bills. But again you didn’t answer my question. I did receive one of those nifty form letter responses though. Do you honestly believe that massive tax increases are in the best interests of your constituents in the current economic environment? If so, why? Seems to me to be a straightforward question deserving of a straightforward answer.


I’ve never met Fran Becker, your opponent in the upcoming election, either. But at least his web site explains his positions on various issues so that I can be an informed voter. Your silence on these issues is deafening.



Siobhan E. Moran
Rockville Centre, NY


cc: Fran Becker
     Rockville Centre Herald







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Letter to the Editor From Don Cariddi, Lynbrook Resident

It is time for real change in Washington and time to have true representation. Carolyn McCarthy has become part of the problem with our dysfunctional Federal Government. She is someone who votes along party lines and with Nancy Pelosi 97% of the time, how can she honestly say she represents her constituents if her voting record is so off balance? In poll after poll her constituents and the country are against amnesty for illegal aliens and yet she votes for the Dream Act, a reward for supposed children up to the age of 35. She has voted against the SAVE Act, a common sense approach to start controlling our illegal immigration problems. Her dismal voting record makes it quite clear she is pro-illegal alien and against legal, tax-paying citizens in her district. On countless occasions I have called her office, requesting the location of her next town hall meeting only to be told she does not have any meetings planned. Well over 100 times I have faxed, called and emailed Carolyn on a variety of issues only to get her usual cookie cutter response which amounts to nothing more than a rejection letter since she will vote along party lines and does not care what any of her constituents believe. So it is time for real change, enough of a non-representative who has been in office 13 years and only knows how to vote with Nancy Pelosi while ignoring the majority of her constituents. This change is someone who will represent what the majority wants, this person is Fran Becker. His values are the same values as the majority of those in his district. He supports legal immigration as any sensible person would, he supports secure borders, he supports a return to fiscal sanity in Washington and he supports truly representing his constituents . As an independent voter I am able to evaluate both candidates and it is evident if we want things to truly change in Washington, it is time to change our Representative who only knows how to represent her democratic party and not her constituents back home.



Don Cariddi
Lynbrook NY