Democrats Call on Lungren to Release Recovery Fund Request

In an-going taxpayer transparency campaign, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) is urging the three term Republican incumbent Representative Dan Lungren to release all of his requests to federal agencies for Recovery Act funds, including letters and other correspondence.

In recent weeks the DCCC has stepped up its campaign against Lungren and other Republicans who voted against the stimulus but praised the funding sent to their districts. On at least one occasion last year Lungren praised an in-district project that was a direct beneficiary of the stimulus he and every Republican member of congress voted against.

“Given that more than half of House Republicans have now been caught hypocritically attacking recovery efforts in Washington and then trying to take credit in their districts for the funding, voters deserve to know where Representative Dan Lungren really stands,” Ryan Rudominer, National Press Secretary of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee said.

Republican congressional member are not just receiving criticism from the Democrats either. The conservative-leaning anti-tax group Club for Growth’s vice-resident of public affair Andrew Roth said “It’s pretty hypocritical for someone to be against the stimulus and then walk around handing out big checks.”