from www. mlive. com
Upton, a 24-year veteran of the House, has been a popular topic recently for right-of-center pundits like Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck who are questioning his conservative credentials.
The Washington Examiner has editorialized that the new chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee needs to be more conservative, claiming Upton’s votes siding with Democrats on a series of environmental bills, unemployment extension and the 2009 omnibus spending bill don’t match that profile.
And then there’s the firestorm over 2007 legislation that Upton co-sponsored with a California Democrat to ban incandescent light bulbs in favor of compact fluorescent lights.
But Upton has been mounting his own full-court-press countering his critics. He has published a series of op-eds and position papers, and enlisted support from conservative writers like Fred Barnes of The Weekly Standard.
Upton went straight to the source this week, sending a letter to House GOP leader John A. Boehner, of Ohio, to outline what Upton called his vision for “cutting spending, removing regulatory burden, restoring freedom, keeping government accountable through rigorous oversight and jobs."
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