…on a personal level he is a friendly fellow. During the last presidential election we chatted as I held my McCain Palin sign at the polling station.
However politically he is about as out there as you can get so this article at Big Government didn’t surprise me in the least:
Olver was recently ranked as the nation’s most liberal congressman — a record he had in 2005, as well. With a quick look over at his record, it’s easy to see why he earns that moniker. Olver was one of only twenty-two congressmen to vote against a resolution merely expressing support for democracy in Cuba. Instead, he’s supported resolutions to impeach then-President Bush.
This goes to show that being a nice guy doesn’t qualify you for high office.
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Being a nice guy didn’t qualify him, but the 4 years as a state Representative followed by 18 years as a state Senator sure did qualify him for the seat in the US Congress he won in 1991 and has held ever since in a historically republican district.
By the way I supported and voted for future Governor Jane Swift during the 1996 Congressional Election and have never voted for Congressman Olver in an election (I also spent the last 5 years out of Massachusetts).
Regarding Olvers favoring impeachment vs President Bush.
Would you rather that the House and Senate have to stop all important legislation and focus on doing nothing but attempting to remove a president from office just as the last Repulican Controlled Congress did back in 1998 with the impeachment hearings?
Notice how that was the ‘year of the last ‘republican controlled congress’?
Perhaps I should re-phrase, being a nice guy doesn’t make him the right representative for the state.
With all due respect there were actual grounds for impeachment for Bill Clinton, there were not for George W. Bush. (There are not grounds for impeachment for President Obama either and that kind of talk today would be foolish too.)
[…] you are dealing with the most liberal congressman in the house it is unlikely that the protesters were going to change his mind, but they wanted to be sure that […]
This district may have been “historically” Republican only in the sense the Silvio O. Conte was a long serving incumbant. He did a lot for people and so was re-elected. When he died, this district which contains UMass/Amherst, Smith College, Amherst College, Hampshire College,, and Mt. Holyoke College elected someone more to their political leanings. UMass/Amhest is one of the most leftist public universities in the country.