Creative Campaigning Award

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This is an interesting year to be running for Congress.  No one is actually sure what November will bring.  Massachusetts is looking like a two-party state for the first time in many years.  Many of the people who have previously run for office without Republican candidates to oppose them now face election campaigns against extremely qualified and motivated candidates.  President Clinton has stumped the Fourth Congressional District to help Barney Frank, who is being challenged by Sean Bielat, a serious and well-qualified candidate.

In the Third Congressional District incumbent Jim McGovern is being challenged by Marty Lamb, a local small businessman who has injected some humor into the campaign.  During the Republican primary (there were five candidates running in the Republican primary for the Third District--last year Congressman McGovern ran unopposed), Marty Lamb handed out barf bags with the words "Are You Sick Of Congress?" and his legislative platform printed on them.

This week, Marty Lamb's campaign office released this statement:

Marty Lamb, Republican candidate for Congress in Massachusetts Third District, sent one of his barf bags full of acorns over to Congressman McGovern's office to make the point that this long term incumbent has gone too far.

"People are sick over his vote to fund ACORN," said Lamb. "Failing to bar all federal funding for ACORN after being exposed for fraud shows you how extreme McGovern is and how he is so blinded by extreme partisanship."

Congressman James McGovern voted to keep funding this controversial group Acorn, Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now, even after they were exposed for fraud and corruption. The incumbent voted against recommitting H.R. 3221 to the Education and Labor Committee with instruction that it be immediately reported back with language that would bar federal agreements from being entered into with ACORN. This House vote came after a long list of numerous voter registration fraud convictions and the video was released of Acorn's workers helping set up a child prostitution business. (172 Democrats voted for recommitting.)

"What sort of message does this send to our children? Fraud and corruption are ok, if you are politically connected? What ever happened to accountability?" questioned Lamb. "Voting to continue to fund Acorn is just one of many votes that proves McGovern has gone too far."

Moreover, McGovern also voted to block an amendment from being considered on the House floor that would prevent any funding for the Census Bureau being made available to Acorn and voted to block another amendment from being considered on the House floor that would prohibit funding in fiscal year 2010 Labor, HHS, and Education Appropriates bill from being made available to Acorn.

Since 1994 Acorn has received $53 million in federal funding.

This is the kind of originality and creativity that we need in Washington.

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