Dump Denham is Politics 101

[courtesy of The California Majority Report]

It doesn’t get any simpler than this: thou shalt not hold thy constituents in contempt.
 
But Jeff Denham has gone out of his way to break the rules:

• He campaigned on a promise to improve school funding -- then voted against the budget to fund schools, against school bonds to rebuild classrooms and even against legislation to update school lab equipment.
• Denham crowed to the media about being a fiscal watchdog and turning down pay raises, but three times secretly raised his own pay, increasing his take-home total by 20 percent. 
• And when Denham had to choose between his constituents and lobbyists for the subprime lending industry, he picked the lobbyists and voted against helping homeowners in his own district avoid foreclosure.

Jeff Denham wouldn’t play it straight with the voters, and now they’re gearing up to get even. Some 50,000 Dump Denham recall petition signatures have now been filed, well above the 31,000 required to force a recall election this June.

He’s busy pointing fingers and trying to blame his political enemies for his troubles. He ought to look in the mirror.