Apache Junction, Ariz., May 2 -
Today, the Pinal County Greens, members of the Arizona Green Party in Pinal County, passed a resolution condemning U.S. Rep. Jeff Flake, a candidate for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate, for being "a budget-busting deficit maker."
"When Jeff Flake entered the U.S House of Representatives for the first of what he promised would be three terms, the United States had a budget surplus," said Richard Grayson, Pinal County Greens co-chair and the 2010 Green Party candidate against Rep. Flake.
"In his many years in Congress, long after he broke his promise to serve only three terms, with his party in control of the House for most of those years, Jeff Flake has managed to bankrupt the country year by year with his policies," Grayson added. "Flake has wasted our money on egregious shit like tax cuts for his billionaire bankrollers while at the same time denying basic services like education for our students."
Grayson cited a new analysis by the Congressional Budget Office which clearly showed that our current mountainous budget deficit was caused by policies championed by Rep. Flake -- mainly the tax cuts of 2001 and 2003 and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan -- combined with the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis caused in part by the deregulation also championed by Rep. Flake.
"The Pinal County Greens would urge voters to consider Jeff Flake's record as a fiscally irresponsible budget buster in 2012," Grayson said.
