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October 10th, 2024
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ICYMI: POLITICO PROFILE DETAILS CALVERT’S HYPOCRISY ON INFRASTRUCTURE FUNDING
CORONA, C.A. — Yesterday, a new profile in POLITICO highlighted 32-year incumbent Ken Calvert’s record on infrastructure funding, saying he’s partaking in a “time-honored tradition” called “vote no and take the dough.”
Calvert famously voted against the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, which secured more than $300 million in funding for infrastructure projects in Riverside County. That funding is creating six-figure paying jobs for union members who are going through apprenticeship programs and looking for a path into the middle class without the crippling debt that often comes with a four-year degree.
“It’s the height of hypocrisy,” said Rollins. “Unlike Calvert, I’m proud to be endorsed by the unions whose members are being put to work on projects funded by this historic legislation. One of the most rewarding things that I’ve done this cycle is visit with the workers who are working on the 91/71 exchange in Corona. Projects like that are going to relieve traffic going in and out of Riverside County and dramatically improve the quality of life of our Riverside County families who rely on long commutes for work.”
Read more below.
POLITICO: Vulnerable CA Republicans sought infrastructure dollars after slamming the bipartisan law
Lara Korte and Melanie Mason | October 8, 2024
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- Four vulnerable House Republicans — Reps. Mike Garcia, Ken Calvert, David Valadao and Young Kim — all voted against the law in 2021, but subsequently lobbied the Department of Transportation for hundreds of millions of dollars for bus, road and other transit projects, according to letters obtained by Playbook.
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- Calvert — now fending off a challenge from Democrat Will Rollins — went on a tirade against the law in a 2021 Facebook post, where he claimed it was “reckless spending” that would further inflame inflation. The final deal, he said, “erodes our individual liberties and freedoms.”
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- In the following years he would request at least $100 million in bipartisan infrastructure law funds for transportation projects in the district.
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Will Rollins is a Palm Springs resident and Southern California native. A former federal prosecutor and counterterrorism law attorney, he is now the Democratic nominee for Congress in California’s 41st Congressional District. California’s 41st District is shaping up to be a key 2024 matchup that will help decide the House majority. Punchbowl News called it the #2 most critical race in the battle for control of the House, and the National Journal ranked it as one of its 15 seats most likely to flip this November.
