How Serious is Candidate Nick Sparks?
The FISA Amendments Act is the most controversial, timely, and far-reaching bill to reach the floor of Congress this year. The proposed law unravels much of the Constitution of the United States of America, and many experts say that it’s completely unnecessary.
But, I wanted to know what congressional candidate Nick Sparks had to say about the FISA Amendments Act. Does he support its measures giving retroactive immunity to telecommunications companies? Does Sparks support the aspects of the law that enable physical searches of Americans’ homes by government agents without any search warrants or judicial approval?
Given that Nick Sparks is running to represent Alabama’s 4th District in the U.S. Congress, you’d think that Sparks would have issued a statement on the issue. Sadly, that seems not to be the case. There is no reference to the FISA Amendments Act on the Sparks for Congress at all. In fact, there doesn’t seem to be much news of any kind from the Nick Sparks campaign since he won the Democratic primary.
When I called the Nick Sparks campaign to get information about the candidate’s position on the FISA Amendments Act, I wasn’t able to get through. The campaign telephone number, listed as 205-221-1065 on the web site, has been taken out of service.
Is Nick Sparks serious about running for Congress, or is he just playing around?
Nick Sparks is playing around or he’s under the impression that he is entitled simply because he passed his bar exam. He thinks that he can win without doing any leg work. He waited until the last second to qualify, the last second to contact the New South Coalition (June 2nd) to ask for their endorsement, the last second to try to do damage control of removing detrimental photos from his my space page (check out Left in Alabama, Doc’s Political Parlor, etc), has done no substantial campaigning. He had a campaign office that was open for a couple of weeks for show and then closed down, now his contact # disconnected. All just signs of things to come from the Frat Boy. How can you expect him to represent you in Washington when you arent even important enough for him now.