Reprinted from The Press-Enterprise

Throughout his campaign for the coveted chairmanship of the House Appropriations Committee, Inland Rep. Jerry Lewis has repeatedly insisted that he has support from the fiscally conservative Tea Party movement. Now he has it in writing from one leader of a national Tea Party group.

Lewis’ detractors have questioned his commitment to cutting spending, which will be job number one for whomever Republicans tap to head the committee that holds the federal purse strings. They have pointed to his history of steering millions of dollars annually to projects in his district, four-fifths of which is in Bernardino County and the rest in Riverside County, through the use of earmarks. Read the rest of this entry »