Steve Kagen, A Fraud And Hyprocrite

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Let's just call it like we see it. Every word from Thesaurus.com fits what Congressman Steve Kagen is doing to the the people of the 8th district. A fraud and a hypocrite.

"Main Entry: fraud

Definition: trickery, deception
Synonyms:
artifice, bamboozlement, barratry, blackmail, cheat, chicane, chicanery, con, craft*, deceit, double-dealing, dupery, duping, duplicity, extortion, fake, fast one, fast shuffle, flimflam, fourberie, fraudulence, graft, guile, hanky-panky, hoax, hocus-pocus, hoodwinking, hustle*, imposture, line, misrepresentation, racket, scam, sell, shakedown, sham*, sharp practice, skunk, smoke*, song and dance, song*, spuriousness, sting, string, swindle, swindling, treachery"
 Fraud Synonym | Synonym of Fraud and Antonym of Fraud at Thesaurus.com

"Main Entry: hypocrite

Definition: person who pretends, is deceitful
Synonyms:
Pharisee, actor, attitudinizer, backslider, bigot, bluffer, casuist, charlatan, cheat, con artist, crook, deceiver, decoy, dissembler, dissimulator, fake, faker, four-flusher, fraud, hook*, humbug, impostor, informer, lip server, malingerer, masquerader, mountebank, phony, playactor, poser, pretender, quack, smoothie, sophist, swindler, trickster, two-face, two-timer, wolf in sheep's clothing "
Hypocrite Synonym | Synonym of Hypocrite and Antonym of Hypocrite at Thesaurus.com

Now to some great reporting from Try 2 Focus via Lakeshore Laments.

For the first time ever, you can now find out how much your individual Congressman is spending in his Congressional office without making a special trip to Washington. So, with that weapons cache in tow, bloggers and journalists have been pouring over the report available either at the Office of the House’s Chief Administrative Officer or the Sunlight Foundation. Some of them — like this one in New Mexico – have begun compiling lists of the biggest Congressional spenders for the third quarter of 2009.

At the top: Appleton’s own Steve Kagen.

In actuality, Kagen’s office spent $452,596. Congressional offices get a total of $1.5 million to spend for the entire fiscal year.

Steve Kagen put out this press release in July regarding fiscal responsibility.

Congressman Steve Kagen, M.D. today voted to enforce fiscal responsibility. Kagen supported the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act which requires Congress to write into each piece of legislation how they will pay for it.

“The federal government must live within its means just as we do around our kitchen tables in Wisconsin,” said Kagen. “This legislation is a necessary step to prevent our deficit from getting deeper.”

"Doesn’t that make Congressman Kagen a hypocrite? Where’s the fiscal responsibility in spending all the money allotted to you instead of only spending what is needed and returning the rest? I mean wouldn’t that make sense in light of the excessive debt that Kagen & his buddies have racked up in the last year? Debt that will be a burden for future generations.

Remember this next year voters in the 8th when Congressman Kagen starts making those claims of being a fiscal conservative. It’s hypocritical to make such a claim when your office spending is out-of-control." Try 2 Focus

You need to go to Try 2 Focus for the whole story. Also, Kevin comments on only one 8th district candidate that put out a PR on this. What's going on here ?