pete hoekstra posts
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Pete Hoekstra's Chinese "Now" ad (Debbie Spendit Now, Super Bowl, racism, stupidity, corruption) - 02/06/12
... controversial new ad from former Rep. Pete Hoekstra that ran during the Super Bowl. In it he calls his opponent for Senate from Michigan Debbie Stabenow "Debbie Spendit Now" and refers people to the site debbiespenditnow.com.
The ad has set off a veritable firestorm of negative comments from the usual suspects, and the ad and the reaction to it are a microcosm of serious problems the U.S. has:
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Janet Napolitano on failed terror attack: "The system worked" (video) - 12/27/09
... detonated the explosive." Rep. Pete Hoekstra says: "It's important for the president or the secretary to be more out there and reminding people just how real this threat was and how deadly it is... For the first three months of this administration, they refused to use the word terrorism."
UPDATE: This is titled "Flight 253 passenger: Sharp-dressed man aided terror suspect Umar Farouk Abdul...
DHS released rightwing extremists report despite objections by their civil rights officials (+Napolitano, Hoekstra, Harman, Boehner) - 04/17/09
From this:
Civil liberties officials at the Homeland Security Department did not agree with some of the language in a controversial report on right-wing extremists, but the agency issued the report anyway.
...Homeland Security spokeswoman Amy Kudwa said the report was issued before officials resolved problems raised by the agency's civil rights division. Kudwa would not specify what language...
Rep. Pete Hoekstra staffer served on Mexican government advisory board - 07/30/08
... (District Representative) for Rep. Pete Hoekstra of Michigan.
Hoekstra is a Republican who gets an career B grade from NumbersUSA (link), making this a bit more curious a case than if he were, say, Barack Obama.
If you're one of his constituents, please ask him about this at his public events and get video of his response.
[1] The page www.ime.gob.mx/ccime/directorios/dir_ccime_03_05.htm lists...
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