Two Time Losers

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Here we profile the two-time losers: members of Congress who have LCV scores under 15 percent and who are ethically challenged. All but Senator John Cornyn (R-Tex.), Cunningham, and DeLay are up for reelection. The rest are running on their records--including Representative Bob Ney (R-Ohio), who promises to run even if indicted.

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Representative John Doolittle (R-Calif.)
LCV 0%
(Ethics)
Jack Abramoff and his associates and clients donated $140,000 to Doolittle's campaigns and political action committees. The California representative subsequently wrote a letter to then-Interior secretary Gale Norton trying to block a new tribal casino in Louisiana that would have competed with some of Abramoff's clients. But when two other tribes represented by Abramoff sought to build casinos, Doolittle (a devout Mormon and ostensible gambling opponent) wrote letters supporting them. He also had a close relationship with military contractor Brent Wilkes, helping to steer $37 million in federal earmarks to Wilkes's company, PerfectWave Technologies. Wilkes and his associates raised $85,000 for Doolittle and paid his wife, Julie Doolittle, nearly $15,000 for consulting services. Julie also acts as her husband's fundraiser and takes an unprecedented 15 percent commission, allowing her to pocket some $180,000 over the past five years.
(Environment)
"The left promotes conflict. That is the tenet of communism and of the environmental movement," said Doolittle in 1999. "I want to get the top national scholars to dissect the environmental movement, identify who the left-wing leaders are, their political connections, how they get their funding, what tax laws they take advantage of, then change the game and attack them."

To this end, after the 2000 election, Doolittle launched Project Evergreen, soliciting suggestions from lobbyists and right-wing activists for anti-environmental executive orders George W. Bush might sign. "What I'm looking to do is not merely reverse the damage done but to enable the executive branch to work its will to counter that entire movement and undercut their sources of power," he wrote.

In California, Doolittle has been the chief backer of building the Auburn Dam, often called "the last big dam." Purportedly intended to protect the city of Sacramento from flooding, it would be a boon to the real-estate developers who contribute mightily to the representative. The U.S. Geological Survey reports that the dam's construction on a faultline could trigger a massive earthquake and its own rupture.

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