Jeremy Cloward, Green candidate for California’s 10th Congressional District, issued the following statement on the recent Congressional vote to immediately withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan.
“John Garamendi says that it is time to ‘draw down’ our military involvement in Afghanistan. But when recently given an opportunity to do so through approving a bill proposed by Representative Kucinich of Ohio, Garamendi chose to vote no. This is further proof that the Democratic Party is not only unwilling to move the country forward consistent with the majority of the people’s wishes but is actually voting inconsistent with their own publicly stated positions.”
Democrat John Garamendi (D- Elk Grove, California) currently represents CA-10 after winning a special election to fill the absence caused by Ellen Tauscher’s appointment to the State Department.
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In a flip-flop typical of Congressman John Garamendi (D-CA), the congressman has said that he is opposed the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Yet, as a Congressman, he has voted to funds the wars anyway. In June 2009, Congress voted to appropriate over $100 billion for the two wars. When Garamendi was a candidate for Congress in the fall of 2009, I, as a reporter, asked him how he would have voted on the June 2009 $100 million appropriation for the wars. Garamendi said that he could not answer the question because he was not in Congress at the time of the vote. If Garamendi says that he really is against the two wars, he is being deceptive and is not worthy of re-election.
Richard S. Colman
Orinda, CA
March 16, 2010