{"id":8949,"date":"2022-10-11T13:08:35","date_gmt":"2022-10-11T20:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=8949"},"modified":"2022-10-11T13:08:35","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T20:08:35","slug":"but-mike-levin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=8949","title":{"rendered":"But Mike Levin&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Written and submitted by Mary Anne<\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Most Southern Californians care a lot about the environment, and we, here, in San Diego County are strong supporters of the military.\u00a0 Democrat Congressman Mike Levin in the newly redrawn 49<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> District has shown his support of both through a strong congressional presence on these issues since his election in 2018.\u00a0 Most of the bills he has introduced address specific and relatively narrow issues and has broad bipartisan support.\u00a0 He has successfully convinced his constituents that he is something of a moderate, especially in a Congressional Democratic Caucus that appears to have swung far left, <\/span><b>but\u2026<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><i>\u2026Mike Levin\u2019s actual voting record tells a very different story.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is a man who has voted 100% of the time with President Biden\u2019s stated positions.\u00a0 In a Democratic-Party-controlled Congress, he is a reliable vote for the Party line.\u00a0 In fact, since June he has only twice voted against the general will of Congress, once in favor of an amendment that would have favored Communist Cuba and another against the fast-tracking of environmental approvals for certain computer projects.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mike Levin is no moderate.\u00a0 He is in fact a party-line voter favoring the causes of the extreme left.\u00a0 Some examples, from his own <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mikelevin.org\/issues\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">website<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><strong>Climate Change<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0 On his website, he speaks of \u201cthe climate crisis, including more extreme heat waves and longer droughts fueling year-round wildfires, and rising sea levels and storm surges driving unprecedented coastal erosion.\u201d\u00a0 He goes on to tout his success in banning offshore drilling and drilling in the ANWAR reserve.\u00a0 Mike Levin sees California\u2019s position on forcing the purchase of electrical vehicles as a model for the nation and describes his support for \u201cinvestments\u201d in electric vehicle infrastructure and hydrogen manufacturing.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><strong>Immigration<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0 \u201cUltimately, Mike believes that members of both parties need to come together on comprehensive immigration reform, including a path to citizenship.\u201d\u00a0 On his website, he acknowledges no difference between legal and illegal immigration.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><strong>Abortion<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0 \u201cHe believes that only a woman, her family, and her doctor should be able to decide what is best for her health.\u201d\u00a0 He advanced this belief by voting for the recent house abortion bill (HR8296) which permitted abortion for any reason up to the moment of birth.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><strong>Filibuster<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0 \u201cHe supports targeted exceptions to Senate rules in order to overcome Republicans\u2019 filibuster of voting rights and civil rights legislation.\u201d\u00a0 Although he doesn\u2019t expressly state this, he\u2019s referring to proposed legislation that would remove state voter id and proven citizenship requirements.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><strong>Transgender Politics<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0 \u201cMike co-sponsored and voted for the Equality Act, which provides anti-discrimination protections for LGBTQ+ people throughout society, including in employment, housing, credit, education, public services, and more.\u201d\u00a0 Again, he fails to mention some of the ramifications of his legislation \u2013 e.g., how this is being used to undermine Title IX protections for women\u2019s sports and sexual privacy issues where men and boys \u201cidentifying\u201d as female gain access to women\u2019s locker rooms.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><strong>Education<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0 He speaks of teachers as \u201cheroes\u201d during the recent Covid Pandemic and supports student loan forgiveness for certain categories of students.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><strong>Guns<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0 \u201cMike is a strong proponent of legislation to address the epidemic of gun violence in our country. He is proud to be endorsed by Moms Demand Action, Everytown for Gun Safety, Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, and other advocates for gun safety.\u201d\u00a0 He has cosponsored gun bans and praises the CDC for examining gun violence as an epidemic.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">None of these are moderate positions and, by specifically mentioning them on his website, he cannot claim he embraces any of these positions reluctantly.\u00a0 He takes pride in endorsements from big labor, NARAL and Planned Parenthood and many Progressive, issue-oriented groups.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One has to ask how a once extremely Conservative Congressional District has been convinced to elect a man who embraces the far left, President Biden, and Nancy Pelosi in so many of his positions? \u00a0 How many of his constituents actually know he holds these positions\u2026and continues to vote them?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s definitely time for us to remind everyone that the local issues he does embrace publicly represent only a very small part of his congressional record.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mike Levin is not just liberal; he\u2019s Progressive.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vote Brian Maryott, a solid conservative.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Photo Cred: Tom Williams CQ Roll Call<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written and submitted by Mary Anne \u00a0Most Southern Californians care a lot about the environment, and we, here, in San Diego County are strong supporters of the military.\u00a0 Democrat Congressman Mike Levin in the newly redrawn 49th District has shown his support of both through a strong congressional presence on these issues since his election&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8543,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2],"tags":[41],"class_list":["post-8949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","category-politics","tag-mike-levin"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v16.5 - 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