Wheres Weldon When Our Neighborhoods Need Cops to Fight Crime?
Do-Nothing Dave Weldon voted against $1.15 billion in grants to help local agencies hire more offices and prosecutors — especially important in the Orlando area, where police are battling a record high murder rate. Fortunately the grants passed the House 381-34, with Weldon being in the tiny minority of representatives to vote against common sense. Orlando police chief lauded the grants: “It’s absolutely great news for Orlando and every larger city in the United States… We are reverting back to something that clearly was successful in the past. I hope the . . . president sign[s] this one.” [House OKs $6B to hire more cops, Orlando Sentinel, 5/16/07] Where’s Weldon When We Need a Real Plan for Iraq? Do-Nothing Dave Weldon said, “I don’t know why the gentleman [Murtha] from Pennsylvania put forward his plan even though he is not the commander in chief.” [“House Sets Iraq Deadline, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 3/24/07] Weldon also voted for escalating the war and opposed setting benchmarks
