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Heath Shuler: QB, Congressman, Friend to Entrepreneurs
By Bizbox
The National Federation of Independent Business, one of the prime small business interest groups, 
will frequently issue press releases extolling (or condemning) various bills and legislators. But it caught our eye when the group had praise for Heath Shuler, a congressman from North Carolina just re-elected to his second term. This partly because Shuler is a Democrat, and the NFIB, while officially nonpartisan, does tend to favor Republicans because its agenda more closely aligns with the GOP's. The other reason it caught our eye is because we still find it difficult to think of Shuler as a congressman: to some of us, he will always be an okay, mid-'90s Washington Redskins quarterback.
It's worth noting that Shuler is, if anything, the protypical "Blue Dog" Democrat--which is to say, staunchly moderate (and usually, as in Shuler's case, from the South). It's not like the NFIB has suddenly turned liberal. But the group's open-mindedness in this regard is laudable. And it's something we're especially thankful for given our previous call for the group to think more broadly as it attempts to define and articulate an agenda that is "pro-small business".
The NFIB also publishes a scorecard for the 110th Congress (that would be the one culminating now), accessible here. Check it out.
Comments (0)December 1, 2008 10:08 AM
