Delia Lopez for Congress

“Darn it!” I said, when I read what was written underneath Delia Lopez’s picture on her campaign website. She has already been taken (married). It’s hard to believe that such a cute babe like her could be 45. She even has three grandchildren! Her husband must be very lucky, she being so gorgeous and so socially and fiscally conservative. (If you want to see her picture, go to her website.)

Some people believe that it is unscriptural to choose a woman to be an elected official. I don’t have a problem with supporting the only freedom loving candidate in the race for Oregon’s third congressional seat. I have debunked the misguided argument here.

The Candidate

Delia Lopez checked the box that says, “Abortions should be legal when the life of the woman is endangered.” She says, “Our Constitution guarantees the right to life.”

Delia is very fiscally conservative, and strongly believes that federal spending should be limited to what the constitution allows (national defense and law enforcement). “Any idiot knows you can't continue to spend more than you make, paying interest is wasting money. If you do this, you get known for doing so. This is bad credit. When you have a bad credit rating as a person, you pay a higher interest rate. If you are a country, the value of your currency, if it is backed only with your promise, loses value. In 2001 .82 would buy a euro now it cost $1.60 that is a 50% reduction in the value of our money. The world is losing faith in our Countries promise.” she says. She would eliminate all foreign aid. “The United Nations has become corrupt and must be defunded,” and with respect to taxpayer bailout of real estate investors, “taxpayers must not be forced to pay the bills for investors that got greedy.” she says.

She is in favor of eliminating federal income taxes. She says, “According to the 10th amendment to our Constitution, States are the ultimate power in our nation, not the federal government. I would eliminate most of the Federal departments and return control of the taxes paid in a state, to the state and allow the states to determine, what is taxed, how much the taxes are to be, how the income from the taxes are best spent or invested. This puts the people of the state in more direct control of their money, lands, educational systems and health care. The people are to be the ultimate power in the States.”

She would eliminate all federal education standards and testing requirements for K-12 students (No Child Left Behind). “Control of education must be returned to the local education systems,” she says.

She believes that liquefied natural gas is answer to our energy problems because it is cheaper and more efficient. She believes that this would become our fuel of choice if the free market was freed from government manipulation. She supports domestic oil exploration in areas that are currently restricted.

She is in favor of eliminating restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns.

She is against government involvement in healthcare.

On border security, she says, “We must secure our borders to keep out terrorists as well as criminal entrants. We must not provide taxpayer supported benefits to criminal entrants. Calling criminal entrants/illegal aliens an undocumented worker is like calling a drug dealer an unlicensed pharmacist. Many diseases that were eradicated across this nation are being brought back in. We must secure both borders and our sea ports. Our military is securing the borders in countless other nations instead of our own. Our Border patrol agents are spending time in jail for doing their jobs. They are being killed, our borders are out of control.” “Handing out free stuff is a magnet for illegals,” she says.

On Iraq she says, “We need a planned exit from Iraq. No permanent bases there. We would not want their bases here. We need to mind our own business. Our meddling more often than not, causes more harm to the people we are trying to help, or as in Osama bin Laden and Sadam Hussain and the Shaw of Iran, problems for our nation down the road. Isreal would be better off if we stopped giving money to all her enemies.” And she also says, “We must leave Iraq ASAP, and let the Iraqi's decide how thier country will be rebuilt.” (Gosh, her spelling is atrocious.) The proposed legislation of Delia’s opponent, Earl Blumenauer only “…requires responsible redeployment of US troops from Iraq in one year… [and] performance benchmarks and progress before further support.”

Delia opposes free trade agreements and says, “NAFTA, CAFTA and the rest of trade agreements have not been in the best interest of the American worker! Many countries add VAT, value added tax, to imports that make their domestic products cheaper compared to imports. This eliminates the benefit of free trade as originally proposed to American workers. These agreements have become a scam. We need to get out of the UN. We also need to eliminate excessive taxation and regulation that is hampering American companies making them unable to compete with international products and services. Our taxation adds about 30% to a U.S.-produced product.”

On the homosexual “marriage” issue, Delia says, “The government should have nothing to say about marriage it is a religious ceremony! The 1st amendment says the government shall make no law.. concerning religion.”

She also says, “By returning the lands of each state to that state, and the control of the income from them. Eliminate the federal department of transportation, and let each state manage the federal gas taxes paid in it they can rebuild their infrastructure.”

The Opposition

Earl Blumenauer voted yes on ENDA. He voted yes on hate crime legislation.

About abortion, he says, “Since the landmark Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision, Congress has slowly passed legislation to erode women's reproductive choices. This is a personal and private decision that should be made by a woman, her family, her physician, and her own beliefs.”

Not satisfied with the legalization of murder, he supports federal funding for embryonic stem research.

He takes a pro-government involvement approach to the energy crisis.

He voted yes on the No Child Left Behind Act.

He supports federally funding public broadcasting.

He supported CAFTA (the Central American Fraud and Theft Agreement), which set up yet another international governing body to dictates U.S. trade policy, taking it out of the hands our elected officials.

He voted no to adopt an amendment (HR 3058, 06/30/2005) that forbids the use of federal funds to support eminent domain for projects with the purpose of generating tax revenue or personal financial gain of private enterprise.

Conclusion

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