Will Lap Dog Larsen Roll Over and Roll Out the Bureaucratic Red Tape?

Democrats Look to Lock-Up More Energy-Rich Land

Washington- In a document recently leaked by the Department of Interior (DOI), a list of as many as 14 energy-rich areas could be unilaterally designated as national monuments under the Antiquities Act, which provides the President full executive power to designate areas without input from local residents, stakeholders and officials. If the President were to move forward with the national monument designations, Washington's public land users and energy producers will be among those hardest hit, not to mention the likely impact it will have on future local tax revenue and jobs. Lap Dog Rick Larsen has already rolled over for his party's failed economic policies which have cost taxpayers millions of jobs, will he roll out the red tape too?

"A letter to President Obama Thursday from Reps. Doc Hastings (Wash.) and Rob Bishop (Utah) highlights an internal Interior list of 14 areas that could be designated as National Monuments under the Antiquities Act.

"The lawmakers fear Obama will wield executive power to designate large regions where uses such as oil-and-gas drilling and mining would be greatly restricted." (Ben Geman, "Senior Republicans allege secret Interior plot to create national monuments," The Hill, 2/18/2010)

By giving his seal of approval to his party's failed stimulus, Larsen has already proven he supports a big-government agenda that puts bureaucracy before creating jobs:

"Although President Obama initially said that 90 percent of the jobs created by the stimulus program would be in the private sector, the data suggests that well over half of the jobs claimed so far have been in the public sector." (Michael Cooper and Ron Nixon, "Reports Show Conflicting Number of Jobs Attributed to Stimulus Money," The New York Times, 11/5/2009)

"With thousands of acres of profitable and energy-rich land at stake, will Rick Larsen continue to advance his party's big-government agenda at the expense of creating opportunities for Washington's small businesses?" said NRCC Communications Director Ken Spain. "Larsen has already jeopardized Washington's economy by supporting his party's failed economic policies 98.3percent of the time. Will Larsen roll over again for his party bosses and potentially put more Washington jobs at risk?"

February, 2010

My name is John Koster. Many of you have known me for years, and what I have stood for, both in the State Legislature and the Snohomish County Council. Now, I hope to represent you in the United States Congress.

I have never run for office for personal prestige, certainly not for money or glory.

I first ran out of concern for my country and the kind of future I would be leaving my children. Amazingly, the issues that were important to me at the beginning are even more important today. Like many of you, I feel the uneasiness as we watch our nation at the brink of bankruptcy as Congress continues on the biggest spending frenzy in world history.

January, 2010

I answered your call.  Just last week,  I announced my candidacy for the United States Congress.

Why am I running?  To take back the keys to the car. 

You see ... someone recently said that trusting money and the economy to Congress is like giving a bottle of whiskey and the car keys to a 16 year old.

Let's face it; the U.S. Congress has lost all regard for its citizens.  What other answer can there be when it holds our Constitution in such low regard?  Where do they find authority in the U.S. Constitution to print and spend money on nebulous economic gambles they have not yet taxed ... and then defer the repayment onto a generation yet unborn?

No sooner had our 401K's, pensions and stock portfolios taken a nose-dive when Congress saddled us with debt beyond even their wildest hallucinations.

Who do these people think they are?

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Elected to a third Council term last November by a wide margin, the Koster run for Congress will offer voters a clear ideological choice between Koster's steady conservative political approach to that of the "progressive" socialist agenda of the incumbent, Rick Larsen.

Larsen, who appears consistently in the upper tier of congressional big spenders, has been heavily criticized in the 2nd Congressional district the past year for supporting the Obama administration's multi-billion dollar bailouts and economic "stimulus" packages. He is seen as vulnerable by the National Republican Congressional Committee for his "anti-jobs big government agenda".

"Rick Larsen offers Washingtonians a failed socialist ideology that punishes prosperity and produces mediocrity - it has failed millions of people every time it has been tried - government cannot spend us into prosperity", said Koster.

"Larsen continues to promote and fund a bigger and more intrusive government marked by a continuing loss of freedoms and more control as the federal government micro-manages our lives and confiscates our personal wealth", Koster continued. "A look at his voting record reveals a puppet of the Pelosi-Reid Congress that is spending our hard earned dollars to fund anti-American disasters like ACORN"

"And now, Congress is on a course to destroy the finest health care system in the world. They are asking us to believe that it will be more efficient and cost less. The last survey I saw showed that 63% of Americans are against government run health care. What has the federal government done so well that we want to give them our health care?"

"With John Koster as your congressman, you will get smaller, less intrusive government, and more freedom. You will get a government that takes far less from the people, because it recognizes that wealth is created in the private sector, and belongs to you."