Smith Votes With Bush 90% of the Time.
That's right. In the last six years, Gordon Smith has voted with the President an average of 90% of the time. In Bush’s first term, though, and before Smith was looking ahead to his own re-election bid, Smith supported Bush an average of 94% of the time. [CQ Member Profile]
Gordon Smith Led Bush’s Oregon Re-election Effort. In 2004, Smith served as the state Chairman of the Bush-Cheney re-election campaign and was one of Bush’s top national fundraisers. “President Bush's steady leadership is resonating with the people of Oregon,” Smith said at the opening of the Bush-Cheney ’04 Oregon headquarters. [Gannett News Service, 9/2/04; Bush-Cheney ’04 Press Release, 4/13/04; AP, 10/17/03]
2004: Gordon Smith Said Bush "Represents Economic Recovery And American Leadership." "President Bush has set our country on the course of recovery at home and strength abroad," Smith. "We are safer today because this president has had the backbone to follow terrorism where terrorists are and go after them, and they have failed to strike us again on our own shores since 9-11… President Bush represents economic recovery and American leadership." [University Wire, 5/19/04]
Gordon Smith Proudly Campaigned With Bush in 2002. During his 2002 re-election bid, Smith twice brought President Bush in to campaign for him. [Statesman Journal, 11/1/02]
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