Gibson votes against vets and seniors

New Congressman Chris Gibson has been a reliable supporter of anti-government tea party extremism in his first few months in office.

For example, Gibson voted with the tea party extremists to make it harder for veterans and seniors to contest denials of their claims for benefits.

According to Politico, a budget amendment supported by Gibson would enact a seven-month moratorium on paying legal fees "under the Equal Access to Justice Act (EAJA), a Reagan-era law designed to help the little guy battle Washington by making it easier for him to afford an attorney." 

That's right -- Gibson and his fellow tea party extremists are standing up for big government against the claims (most of them valid) of impoverished veterans and seniors.

And on Monday, Gibson and rookie Assemblyman Steve McLaughlin defied the countywide state of emergency to hold a meet-and-greet with a few constituents in Brunswick.

Monday's snow/ice storm was the worst this winter, at least in the professional opinion of county public safety officials. But Gibson and McLaughlin decided they knew better, and held their meeting anyway.

The Record story showed how Gibson is either ignorant, and/or a hypocrite, about government spending.

Gibson evidently repeated the tea party line that it was most important to cut federal spending, yet he continued to promote his fantasy of a nuclear power plant in his district, which could only happen with billions in federal subsidies.

It seems that Gibson believes that wasteful federal spending is OK, as long as it happens in his district.