Billy Long Looking More and More Like a Career Politician: Long Continues to Fund Raise

During the Republican primary, Billy Long said too many politicians spend too much time worried about reelection and not enough time working to fix the problems. Since Long won the election, he appears to have bought into this truth of Washington DC. With CPAC just days away, Long appears to be more focused on using the event to raise money that working to discover the true meaning of Constitutional conservatism--which also means you don't abuse your federal powers to attack the First Amendment and you don't grow government, especially the Department of Homeland Security who continues its own war against the Constitution. Long is guilty of both.

So we have the third strike against Long now established. The first was a memo that went out to Missouri States Political Science Department less than ten days after Long won the election to being his reelection bid. Then, barely over a week in office, we discovered "I'm not a career politician" Billy Long organized a high dollar per plate fundraiser at the Capitol Hill Club. Now Long, who skipped the reading of the Constitution on the House floor to meet with a lobbyist, is using CPAC to raise more money for his reelection bid, when he should be focused on what being a true conservative means--and it doesn't mean using the FBI to silence your political enemies nor does it mean expanding the Constitution killing Department of Homeland Security.

From The Hill: Billy Long to use CPAC to raise funds for reelection

But judging by the lineup of parties surrounding next week’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), Republicans are not quite finished celebrating. And of course, what better way to raise campaign cash than throwing a party?


In a savvy example of the old adage “Make hay while the sun shines,” at least 31 political fundraisers for Republican members of Congress will be held during the first 48 hours of the three-day CPAC gathering.


According to data compiled by the nonpartisan Sunlight Foundation, the fundraisers will range from an elegant birthday reception on Feb. 11 for Rep. Kay Granger (R-Texas) (whose actual birthday was Jan. 18) to a “Laser Shoot Out and Hard Times Chili” party for Granger’s Texas colleague, Rep. Michael McCaul, at the National Rifle Association’s Washington headquarters. And while the annual conference officially begins on the morning of Thursday, Feb. 10, the party schedule starts the night before.


Among the lawmakers hoping to raise some cash in the 48-hour period between Wednesday and Friday nights are GOP Reps. Sam Graves (Mo.), Charlie Dent (Pa.), Phil Gingrey (Ga.), John Shimkus (Ill.), Marsha Blackburn (Tenn.), Ken Calvert (Calif.), Don Manzullo (Ill.), Patrick McHenry (N.C.) and Geoff Davis (Ky.), as well as freshman Reps. Tim Scott (S.C.) and Billy Long (Mo.).

I thought Billy Long was fed up of the behavior of career politicians. It seems to me he is more focused on getting reelected than he is figuring out what it means to be a true conservative. With a grim Congressional record already where his big government actions have neutralized his "conservative" voting record, Long continues his transition into career politician.