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Clean Up City of St. Augustine, Florida: VOTE FAYE ARMITAGE, THE ONLY CD7 DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATE WHO OPPOSES OFFSHORE OIL DRILLING, WHICH COULD DESTROY FLORIDA'S TOURIST ECONOMY!

Flablog: Sockpuppeting in the 7th

John Hates America and Its Values

It's clear that Americans generally favor more progressive values most of the time. Not John. With a lifetime Progressive Punch voting score of 4.25%, it's clear he hates Americans and their values.

John is Wasting Your Time in Washington

According to Congress.org, John is the 265th most powerful member of the House and as part of the hugely ineffectual Florida Republican delegation in Washington, helps make Florida one of the least powerful states in Congress. Thanks for the great work!

John Hates the Environment

The League of Conservation Voters recently released scorecards for Congress. How did John do? Poorly:

John Mica (REP), 5%

Not only did all of the Democrats do better than all of the Republicans, With one exception, all of the Democrats did more than twice as good as all the Republicans. And most of the Democrats voted in favor of the environment more than four times as frequently as most of the Republicans.

I wonder how many of these Republicans own property that will be beachfront property when most of Florida is under water because of global warming? I'm just saying...

Angered New Yorkers Demand Info From Mica

Rockland County, NY - January 16, 2008: In the face of an apparent refusal by Representative John L. Mica (R.Fl., 7th Dist.) to heed a prior demand that he step down from the House Transportation Committee and Aviation Subcommittee, New York environmental group “Quiet Rockland,” acting in solidarity with the strength of thousands of petition-signatories, 300,000 Rockland County, N.Y., neighbors, and millions of affected residents in four other Northeast states, today served Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA) demands upon Mica at his six (6) Florida offices, as well as mirrored FOIA demands on the USDOT and FAA. The FOIA’s requisition all documents implicating Mica, as well as his campaign donors and donations, in the FAA’s hotly-contested and litigated “NY/NJ/PHL Airspace Redesign.”

Said John J. Tormey III, Esq. of “Quiet Rockland”: “Our grassroots group has learned to keep its press releases short, as a ‘thanks’ to the many journalists who have covered our plight to date. John L. Mica misused his position in government to personally peddle the FAA’s horrific Airspace Redesign. ‘Quiet Rockland’ will further unearth why, and how. Mica, the USDOT, and the FAA can now elect to timely comply with the document demands, or else not. They can come forward, or they can hide. ‘Quiet Rockland’ is ready to play it either way. All our rights and remedies are reserved. The FOIA served on Mica is not served on him as a Congressman, but instead served on him as an FAA alter ego, as well as on his Florida district and campaign offices. Mica and the FAA have acted in concert as one and the same harmful enterprise, to cram-down a harmful flight-plan for commercial gain while oblivious to safety and environmental imperatives. He waived any FOIA immunity he would otherwise have as a Congressman.”

Good Mica

Wow, Florida Republicans are fighting some of President Bush's dumber policies. Blast Off!:

Following a similar move by the House on Tuesday, the U.S. Senate voted a short time ago to override Drunky McStagger's veto of a water resources bill with crucial benefits to Florida. To achieve the first override of Drunky's presidency, quite a few Republicans had to support the bill, and they actually did.

"Rep. John Mica, a Winter Park conservative who votes with the president about 90 percent of the time, led the charge in the House, which voted 223-138 on Tuesday for override. Sen. Mel Martinez, who was the president's hand-picked chairman of the national GOP until recently, voted to override. And Republican Florida Gov. Charlie Crist took time out from a trip to Brazil to lobby Florida lawmakers to split with the president. All the Florida Democrats and 12 of 17 House Republicans voted to override Bush."

If they keep doing things like this, we might have to start thinking that some of these people are actually sane. Naaahhh, that won't happen.

Round-up of Mica Stories

Here are the latest stories on John Mica posted at the blog Clean Up City of St. Augustine, Florida.

The Congressman Who Helps St. Augustine City Hall's Mistakes: "Rep. JOHN MICA's office brags on getting $1.3 million for our $22 parking garage."

Rep. JOHN MICA Seeks Federal Funds for St. Augustine City Hall: "Seventh Congressional District Rep. JOHN MICA brags of working to bring federal funds to pay for St. Augustine's neglected City Hall roof, for which a grant deadline was missed by City Manager WILLIAM HARRISS, who formerly employed a nephew to work on federal grants."

REP. JOHN MICA'S WEBSITE REPORTS MICA WORKING TO GET FEDERAL FUNDS FOR St. Augustine City Hall: "Rep. Mica is working with the City of St. Augustine to renovate the historic City Hall building."

Mica Secures Beach Restoration Funds: "U.S. Rep. John L. Mica (R-St. Johns) announced today that several Northeast Florida beach restoration projects have been approved by Congress in the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) which passed in the House late Wednesday evening. Projects to study and restore beaches in St. Johns, Flagler, and Volusia counties were approved."

Representative John Mica claims he voted no on children's health care bill because of 'flawed' financing plan: "Additionally, I found several other controversial provisions objectionable. These included weakening current citizenship verification provisions that would provide federally funded health care to illegal aliens, elimination of a state's ability to consider family income and expansion of the program to include those up to 300 percent above the federal poverty level increasing income level eligibility in some states to cover families making well over $100,000. I continue to support a reasonable increase in the SCHIP program, and will vote to increase both funding and eligibility."

REP. JOHN MICA's Rabidly Anti-Environmental Record: "Anti-environmental Congressman John Mica had a 2005 League of Conservation Voters rating of 9%. In 2006 the rating was 0%."

Letter: Mica's vote wrong on Endangered Species Act: "On Sept. 24 U.S. Rep. John Mica participated in the ribbon-cutting ceremony at the new Education Center at the Guana Tolomato Matanzas National Estuarine Research Reserve (GTM ERR) which protects, studies and celebrates wildlife. What a great photo opportunity! Just five days later Mica voted against really protecting the animals."

Race pitting Hogan, Mica turning into war of words: "The congressional race for District 7 is one of stark political contrasts. A conservative Republican and former businessman faces a liberal Democrat, an attorney famed for his lawsuits against businesses. Incumbent congressman John Mica, a friend of President Bush and a Capitol insider, runs against storied Jacksonville attorney Wayne Hogan."

JOHN MICA'S" FAMILY VALUES"?: "1. Put your kids on campaign and public and corporate lobbying payrolls. 2. Vote against health care for other peoples' kids, refusing to override veto. 3. Yammer about being "pro-family" when your real agenda is serving multinational corporations, including those who want to drill for oil off Florida's coasts, selling airplanes for Boeing in China and traveling to Tibet on our dime."

ORLANDO WEEKLY: Rep. Mica Drags Heels on Protecting Americans' Jobs From Importing Foreign Professionals -- VISA ABuSE: "He's also been sparring with his congressman, Rep. John Mica, a fight which led to Emmons' own aborted run for Mica's seat in the House. After Emmons contacted Mica with his concerns about the visas in 2002, Mica wrote back stating, 'Please know that this issue is of grave and urgent concern to me and I will continue to press for the most expedient solution." Later, when Emmons learned that Mica received campaign donations from Siemens, he felt betrayed. "I've called this man 'honorable' for far too long. He obviously doesn't give a damn about his constituents, he only cares about transportation and his corporate supporters,' Emmons says."

ORLANDO SENTINEL: MICA'S MILLIONS -- Unearned Millions From 1980s Federal Cellular Telephone Lottery Speculation Helped Propel John Mica Into Congress: "He’s a crowd-pleaser on crime, steering federal money toward Central Florida as a "High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area" and voting to try 13-year-olds as adults. And as the first and only representative of a heavily Republican district drawn in 1991, Mica has taken off the gloves to fight powerful interests such as ... average federal workers, with dramatic hearings on what he regards as wasteful labor-union activities performed on government time. Mica also has been fiercely partisan in his attacks on President Clinton, co-sponsoring an early impeachment resolution and calling the president 'the little bugger' from the floor of the House."