Last week, a national news online political magazine called out U.S. Representative Adam Putnam for his hypocrisy on asking for special stimulus dollars after railing against the stimulus bill. (Even Wikipedia joined in the action.)
We thought we had seen it all.
But earlier week, President Obama signed into law one of the best consumer protection bills in recent memory. This new law will protect credit card consumers by eliminating retroactive rate increases, ensuring the consumers are fully made aware of charges, and outlawing some of the gimmicks that unscrupulous banks use to trick unwary customers into bad deals.
So it makes sense that Adam Putnam would support its passage… doesn’t it?
For sure, we can expect Putnam to tell us how he supported this bill and voted “Yes” on final passage.
Of course that would be the position of someone who is running for the Florida Cabinet and the title of that post contains the words “Consumer Services”…
But what will Putnam say about his votes to kill the bill in committee, to kill it with procedural votes, or amend it into uselessness?
When the spotlights were dim and Putnam thought nobody was looking, he attempted to kill this good pro-consumer measure.
But when the lights came on and the public was watching, Putnam did what he knew he HAD to do.
Is that hypocrisy?
You decide!
…and the way you can decide is by taking a moment and joining our efforts to end the political career of this veteran of Washington double-speak.
Join us today and help us put an end to the hypocrisy.
Sincerely,
Scott Maddox
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