Gary Peters Wonders Why He Keeps Voting to Enlarge a Government That is Broke

U.S. Rep. Gary Peters’ campaign went on the offensive this past week, repeatedly questioning why it keeps voting to enlarge the size of government and empower it further when it obviously has trouble publishing something as simple as the mandatory financial disclosure statement that his Republican opponent, Andrew “Rocky” Raczkowski, filed twice.

Raczkowski said he submitted the statement disclosing his income and assets twice but he has no explanation as to why the Clerk of the House of the Representatives does not have it on file. The House is currently run by the Democrats, and Gary Peters is a Democrat, but apparently that does not explain the mysterious missing disclosure statement.

Some people feel that this utter lack of responsiveness and efficiency demonstrates once again why it is not very intelligent or wise to empower the federal government to make decisions about your personal life, such as healthcare, but others are so shocked that the government makes mistakes like this that they can not accept it- Dan Farough, campaign manager for Peters, a Bloomfield Township Democrat sputtered when asked about the situation “Rocky … needs to learn, just like the rest of us, that he is not above the law.”

Via The Oakland Press:

The disclosure law is designed to expose any conflicts of interest that a congressman may have, based on salaries, investments or other sources of income. Ironically, Peters’ disclosure statement provides far more potential conflicts of interest than the modest assets reported by his election opponent.


The incumbent’s most recent report, filed on May 15, indicates that his numerous assets — stocks, bonds, 401(k) accounts and other investments — are worth a combined value ranging from $147,000 to $2.2 million. A former stock broker, Peters’ congressional salary is $174,000.

Raczkowski provided a copy of a disclosure report, dated June 21 in his own handwriting, to The Macomb Daily. It indicates that he earned $161,300 in salary last year from Star Tickets and the Army. The federal documents provide a dollar range when reporting assets — not exact figures — and the Raczkowski report that was provided to the newspaper shows investments in the range of $165,000 to $400,000 and a bank account in the range of $50,000 to $100,000.

So, to sum up, Gary Peters has more conflicts of interest than his challenger, has voted to enlarge the size of government many times over, voted to spend billions of dollars and few know where it is going, supports a President who recently fired his "openness and transparency czar" when he got tired of pretending that the Democrats are even remotely open and transparent, and now is upset that government officials messed up and failed to report disclosure statements that were submitted twice. Gary Peters is now rumored to be thinking about giving more money to the government agencies that failed.

FYI: Shockingly, this post is more balanced that the stuff that passes for 'reporting' at the Oakland Press!