Mark Green: Bought and Sold by the Special Interests

Mark Green … whose congressional office repeatedly requested and received skybox ticket freebies from convicted GOP lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who has admitted to bribing members of Congress in exchange for official acts.

Mark Green … who continues to claim ignorance of the caucus scandal, when documents show Green as Caucus Chair of the Assembly Republicans and his staff both benefited from and were involved in the illegal campaign work done by state employees.

Mark Green … who destroyed all of his state electronic files and the files of an aide named in the caucus scandal when he left office in 1998.

Mark Green … who has stood by convicted former Assembly GOP Speaker Scott Jensen, even taking four tries to finally get the right answer on whether he’d pardon Jensen.

And Mark Green … who has spent a career taking campaign cash from the special interests – and giving them his votes in return.

Time and again, Mark Green has stood with the special interests – and against middle class and working families. Here’s just the tip of the iceberg:

MARK GREEN: BOUGHT AND SOLD BY BIG OIL:

Mark Green has taken $43,850 from Big Oil, including:

$3,500 from the Petroleum Marketers Association
$3,000 from the Society of Independent Gas Marketers
$2,500 from Koch Industries
$1,000 from Phillips Petroleum
$1,000 from Exxon Mobile
$1,000 from Valero Energy
$500 from Enron
$500 from BP
$500 from Occidental Petroleum
[Source: Center for Responsive Politics, http://www.opensecrets.org/]

Mark Green’s Votes for Big Oil:

·Stood with Big Oil, voting for a $500 million subsidy for the oil and gas companies [Source: HR5427, Vote 201, 5/24/06]

·Stood with Big Oil, voting for $5 billion in tax breaks, subsidies, and giveaways for Big Oil companies from tax bill [Source: HR4297, Vote #109, 4/27/06]

·Stood with Big Oil, voting to give billions to oil companies [Source: HR6, Vote #445, 7/28/05]

·Stood with Big Oil, voting against $15.5 million for energy efficiency [Source: HR2419, Vote #207, 5/24/05]

·Stood with Big Oil, voting repeatedly to allow drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) in Alaska [Source: HR5429, Vote 209, 5/25/06]

·Stood with Big Oil, voting against cracking down on gas price gouging [Source: HR6, Vote #118, 4/20/05]

·Stood with Big Oil, voting to give $13 billion in tax breaks and spending to oil companies, voted for drilling in ANWR, and voted to promote offshore drilling [Source: HR4, Vote #320, 8/1/01]

MARK GREEN: BOUGHT AND SOLD BY THE BIG DRUG COMPANIES:

Mark Green has taken $22,000 from the pharmaceutical companies, including:
$500 from Aventis Pharmaceutical, Inc.
$9,000 from GlaxoSmithKline
$7,000 from Pfizer, Inc.
$5,500 from Eli Lilly & Co.
[Source: Center for Responsive Politics, http://www.opensecrets.org/]

Mark Green’s Votes for the Big Drug Companies:

·Stood with the Big Drug Companies, voting repeatedly against reimporting safe, affordable prescription drugs from Canada [Sources: HR2427, Vote 445, 7/25/03; HR1, Vote 668, 11/22/03]

·Stood with the Big Drug companies, voting to give away more $200 billion to the drug companies and HMOs [Sources: HR1, Vote 332, 6/27/03; HR1, Vote 669, 11/22/03]

·Stood with the Big Drug companies, voting against allowing the Secretary of Health and Human Services to negotiate lower prescription drug prices, against allowing drug reimportation, and against increased coverage for low-income seniors [Source: HR 1, Vote #668, 11/22/03]

·Stood with the Big Drug companies, voting against ensuring Medicare prescription drug coverage in rural areas [Source: HR 1, Vote #524, 9/30/03]