Yesterday the Senate passed the Small Business Lending Bill, a long-needed piece of the puzzle needed to start putting Americans back to work. John McCain proved that he isn’t done playing petty politics after losing the 2008 presidential election to Barack Obama by voting against this bill. Proving yet again that his own interests and those of the big corporations that support him are more important than the people of Arizona who sent him to DC in the first place.
H.R. 5297 will extend $42 billion in credit to small businesses across the country. Those small businesses will then be able to grow their business and put Americans back to work. From the mom and pop corner store to the family owned businesses and the millions of others like them, this bill is long overdue.
To think that it almost didn’t happen because of politics as usual is a bitter pill to swallow. I believe George Voinovich, one of the Republicans who voted for the measure, summed it up best by pointing out that the obstruction by his GOP brethren is nothing but political posturing that this country can’t afford.
"We don't have time for messaging," Voinovich said. "We don't have time anymore. The country is really hurting."
McCain, totally insulated from the effects of the recession in any of his seven houses, continues to show his willingness to let the economy wither just to improve his party's political standing in the upcoming mid-term elections.
McCain's vote against the bill also demonstrates that Arizona needs a U.S. senator who will serve the people of Arizona, not his own partisan goals. I will be that senator.
Every single day as I travel around Arizona, I hear from voters who are either desperately looking for work or know someone who wants a job that doesn't exist. Some of these people have already lost or are on the verge of losing their homes. Many of them don’t have the resources needed to provide their families with the basics needed to survive.
Today the Congress gave them a lifeline. Now the small businesses that are the backbone of our economy can borrow the money they so desperately need so they put people back to work.
If elected, my first order of business in Washington is going to be putting Arizona and America back to work, so that not even John McCain will have to wait too long to find a new line of work.
I need your help to do that. Please, if you can, donate $10 or $20 to our campaign so we can continue to talk to the Arizona voters about what they need their Senator to do for them so that I can go to DC on their behalf and do it.