(Well Researched. You should take a look at why it is time to support Ciro. - promoted by Matt Glazer)
Ciro Rodriguez - Rated 100% by the NEA, indicating pro-public education votes.
Henry Bonilla - Rated 33% by the NEA, indicating anti-public education votes.
Ciro Rodriguez - Voted NO on allowing vouchers in DC schools.
Henry Bonilla - Voted YES on allowing vouchers in DC schools.
Ciro Rodriguez - Opposes requiring school prayer.
Henry Bonilla - Supports a Constitutional Amendment for school prayer.
Ciro Rodriguez - Rated 100% by APHA, indicating a pro-public health record.
Henry Bonilla - Rated 11% by APHA, indicating a anti-public health voting record.
Ciro Rodriguez - Voted YES on allowing reimportation of prescription drugs.
Henry Bonilla - Voted NO on allowing reimportation of prescription drugs.
Ciro Rodriguez - Voted NO on forbidding expanded stem cell research.
Henry Bonilla - Voted YES on forbidding expanded stem cell research.
(A refresher for those who are new to who Ciro Rodriguez the person is. - promoted by Karl-Thomas Musselman)
Ciro Rodriguez is rated 100% by the NEA, indicating pro-public education, and he voted against the school voucher program which would bleed money from the public schools and for reducing class size in grades 1 to 3.
Ciro is rated 100% by APHA, indicating a pro-public health record, and he has voted for more federal funding for health coverage, against the Prescription Drug Coverage boondoggle for international pharmaceutical corporations, for allowing reimportation of safe prescription drugs from Canada, and against arbitrarily capping damages in lawsuits involving hospital and nursing home negligence.
Ciro is rated 100% by the ARA, indicating a pro-senior voting record, and he voted against privatizing Social Security, in favor of strengthening the Social Security Lockbox, and against reducing tax payments on Social Security benefits.
Ciro is rated 100% by NARAL, indicating a pro-choice voting record.
Ciro is rated 89% by SANE, indicating a pro-peace voting record.
Ciro is rated 0% by the xenophobes at FAIR, indicating he favors a non-punitive immigration policy, and he voted for extending Immigrant Residency rules, and against reporting illegal aliens who receive hospital treatment.
In 1999, Henry Bonilla took over an independent Political Action Committee known as the American Dream PAC. Bonilla promised to "give significant, direct financial assistance" to minority political candidates.
Under the first four years of Bonilla's supervision over the American Dream PAC, Bonilla collected $550,000.00 to fulfill his promise to help fund minority political candidates, but Bonilla gave less than $50,000 to minority candidates seeking public office. Bonilla used less than 9% of the funds collected to serve the interests which Bonilla promised to serve.
Instead, Bonilla used over twice as much money collected by this supposedly "independent" Political Action Committee (more than $100,000.00) to pay off partisan Republican Party organizations and causes, including corrupt Republican Tom DeLay's criminal defense fund. This is the same Tom DeLay who violated the Voting Rights Act to illegally gerrymander Bonilla's congressional district in a failed attempt to dilute the votes of over 100,000 Latino voters in Bonilla's district. Even the Republican-dominated Supreme Court had to reject Bonilla's gerrymandered district because DeLay and Bonilla "took away the Latinos' opportunity because Latinos were about to exercise it" against Bonilla.
