What Doolittle Does With Taxpayer Money

Bush flew to Sacramento, and then traveled to El Dorado Hills for a fundraiser for embattled Congressman John Doolittle. Let’s examine the details. The cost of Bush’s trip with the presidential planes, motorcade, staff and secret service body guards has been figured at $6,000,000 to raise $600,000 for Doolittle’s coffers. Doolittle’s wife Julie gets 15% of all money raised so her personal share of this pelf is $90, 000, which is enough to pay the yearly salaries of two public school teachers.

During the time that Bush was fundraising, he was not performing his primary job which Thomas Jefferson said is to keep the nation and people safe. Some will argue that we are safer when Bush is not on the job. Nonetheless, campaigning takes a president away from his primary job to perform a job the taxpayer never directed him to do.

Who paid for Bush’s $6,000, 000 trip to El Dorado Hills to help Doolittle, a congressman that many people feel should not be in office and should be helped out of office? The answer sadly is that the US taxpayers paid for this campaign junket.

It gets worse. Richard Robinson, Doolittle’s Campaign Chairman, is also paid with taxpayer money as is his entire staff which works on his reelection campaign. The job of Robinson and the staff is to deceive the public, to lie to the people, and to shield Doolittle from the slings and arrows thrown at him by disenfranchised constituents. His job is to send surrogates to represent Doolittle, who is almost a congressman by default, functioning in absentia, who rarely is seen in public. The one debate Doolittle deigned to engage Charlie Brown in took place in an empty room before Starstream cameras available only to a very limited cable television audience. Doolittle hides from the public whenever possible. When he does send a representative to a live debate with a live audience, his representative is treated with such anger and disdain and verbal abuse, it becomes obvious why Doolittle never appears in the flesh. When one witnesses these encounter between Doolittle’s surrogates and the public, it becomes obvious that Doolittle is highly disliked
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Doolittle must pay staffers to take the flak the public directs at him in frustration.

There is more. As I write, two slick, glossy flyers lie on my desk. One is entitled “A Balanced Approach to the Environment,” and the other “An Agenda to Strengthen America”. In tiny print I can make out “This mailing was prepared, published and mailed at taxpayer expense”. When I responded to his office about the immorality and lying contained in these mailers, I received a form letter responding to a question I did not ask
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So, then, taxpayers paid for Bush’s trip, taxpayers paid for Doolittle’s campaign staff, taxpayers paid for staffers to stand in Doolittle’s place to shield him from the outrage of his constituents, and taxpayers paid for his lick, glossy campaign mailers. If this practice is not illegal, which it may be, it certainly is unethical and immoral, which must have been Doolittle college major and minor.


Doolittle’s self interests are served always at the expense of the taxpayer. Taxpayers can also shoulder the expense of dumping Doolittle.