Speak pups. I haven’t voted yet. Still collecting info.

Dammit, Grayson is swamping poor Doggett. Poor Lloyd, ever laboring in the vineyard, one step at a time.

And I just noticed that Hinchey is in the table twice, once with 28 votes and once with 2 votes. He represents the district where my house is. He’s a really good guy, votes the right way, follows thru, but has been in congress a long time (1993), D+6 district, and doesn’t seem to have a hard time getting reelected. I’d unhesitatingly recommend him but others may need our help more.

Grayson must have this posted somewhere. Just amazing to me that progressives would put Grayson who voted to condemn the Goldstone Report, voted for more unsubstantiated sanctions against Iran on top of that list.

Maybe the voters here are PEPs (progressive except for Palestine) like Grayson

So Kucinich voted against the war, supports a public option, voted against the condemnation of the Goldstone Report and voted against the Iran sanctions act

Grayson who is a tough guy supports a public option voted yes to condemn the Goldstone Report and voted for the Iran sanctions act which is based on quite a few unsubstantiated claims.

Grayson leads a double life
http://mondoweiss.net/2009/12/gutsy-progressive-congressman-alan-grayson-leads-a-double-life.html

Grayson would be quick to vote us into a confrontation with Iran? Grayson is obviously unwilling to even consider the crimes committed by Israel in the Gaza last year? He voted to condemn the Goldstone Report. Probably like most of our Reps and their aides did not even read the report

Why would so called progressives vote for someone who voted to condemn the Goldstone Report and voted for the Iran sanctions act . Grayson has a double life.

There are many unsubstantiated claims in the Iran Sanctions ACT
http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/RS20871.pdf

Iran sanctions bill update: full speed ahead

http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/01/19/iran_sanctions_bill_update_full_speed_ahead

Only 12 voted against new sanctions on Iran, 3 of them Republicans. 412 voted in favor.
http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2009/12/15/only-12-house-members-vote-against-iran-sanctions/

Here is the honor roll who voted against:
Tammy Baldwin (D-WI)
Earl Blumenauer (D-OR)
John Conyers (D-MI)
John Duncan (R-TN)
Jeff Flake (R-AZ)
Maurice Hinchey (D-NY)
Dennis Kucinich (D-OH)
Stephen Lynch (D-MA)
Jim McDermott (D-WA)
Gwen Moore (D-WI)
Ron Paul (R-TX)
Pete Stark (D-CA)

DO YOU REALLY WANT TO VOTE FOR PEOPLE WHO CONDEMNED THE GOLDSTONE REPORT AND ALSO VOTED FOR ANOTHER INFLAMMATORY AND UNSUBSTANTIATED CLAIMS IN THE IRAN SANCTIONS ACT

Kucinich…Kucinich. consistent, truthful and wiling to tackle any issue with honesty. Any issue

Pennsylvania Congressman Eric Massa

New York is always losing talent and after getting rid of the nut case Randy Kuhl too.

Not Grayson. While I support where he stands on National issues. Grayson voted to condemn the Goldstone Report. How progressive is that?

Kucinich, Grijalva

In an interview in March with the Philadelphia Jewish Voice, Grayson revealed two meetings he held the previous week with AIPAC Executive Director Howard Kohr. In the interview, Grayson explained how Kohr helped to “educate” him about Israel-related issues, then misquoted the Abba Eban line, “The Arabs never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.”

GRAYSON: I met with Howard Kohr, the head of AIPAC [American Israel Public Affairs Committee], twice last week.

PJV: And what was the gist of the conversation?

GRAYSON: The gist of the conversation was that Iran is a tremendous threat to Israel and needs to be stopped. And I agree with that.

PJV: And what about what is going on in the Gaza Strip; was there any conversation about that?

GRAYSON: Yes, we talked about that. I think what AIPAC often tries to do is to educate Members of Congress who frankly follow this a lot less closely than I do. In my case, I read Haaretz and the Jerusalem Post online four or five times a week, so I am pretty familiar with the circumstances and why the war took place. As a famous Israeli once said, the Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.

Grayson’s January 8th statement explaining his vote in favor of Israel’s assault on the Gaza Strip read like a mimeograph of those released by other AIPAC-friendly members of Congress. However, its introductory line stood out: “Congressman Alan Grayson, one of three incoming Jewish members of Congress, issued the following statement on the situation in Gaza.”

Eric Massa is a New York Congressman, not PA. He’s NY29. He’s my rep.

Great storytelling, Jane, about how Grayson got to be where he is with his freedom of speech intact and a war chest for the mid-terms.

Great campaign Jane: I am looking forward to interesting stories all week!

And that Dexter is one very fine looking firedog!

We should be paying close attention to how our Reps vote on I/P resolutions, their willingness to condemn the honorable Judge Goldstone’s report on thr Gaza and if they are pushing for more sanctions on Iran based on unsubstantiated claims.

There are many unsubstantiated claims in the Iran Sanctions ACT
http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/RS20871.pdf

Iran sanctions bill update: full speed ahead

http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/01/19/iran_sanctions_bill_update_full_speed_ahead

Only 12 voted against new sanctions on Iran, 3 of them Republicans. 412 voted in favor.
http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2009/12/15/only-12-house-members-vote-against-iran-sanctions/

Here is the honor roll who voted against:
Tammy Baldwin (D-WI)
Earl Blumenauer (D-OR)
John Conyers (D-MI)
John Duncan (R-TN)
Jeff Flake (R-AZ)
Maurice Hinchey (D-NY)
Dennis Kucinich (D-OH)
Stephen Lynch (D-MA)
Jim McDermott (D-WA)
Gwen Moore (D-WI)
Ron Paul (R-TX)
Pete Stark (D-CA)

DO YOU REALLY WANT TO VOTE FOR PEOPLE WHO CONDEMNED THE GOLDSTONE REPORT AND ALSO VOTED FOR ANOTHER INFLAMMATORY AND UNSUBSTANTIATED CLAIMS IN THE IRAN SANCTIONS ACT

Dennis Kucinich is the man. A progressive on all counts. Give Kucinich the money. He is the real deal

————————————————————————-Grayson is a strong supporter of Israel no matter what they do. Including being willing to condemn the honorable Judge Goldstones report on what took place in the Gaza last year. This is a critical issue.

Rep Kucinich and Rep Grijava voted no on the resolution to condemn the Goldstone Report. Rep Frank also voted to condemn that report.

Please think about this critical issue and whether you want to support Reps who support Israel no matter what they do. Think about this and vote for Kucinich, Grivalja

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2009/roll838.xml

BILL TITLE: Calling on the President and the Secretary of State to oppose unequivocally any endorsement or further consideration of the “Report of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict” in multilateral fora

These Reps were the brave 36 on that resolution
Baird
Baldwin
Blumenauer
Boustany
Capps
Carson (IN)
Clarke
Clay
Davis (KY)
Dingell
Doggett
Edwards (MD)
Ellison
Filner
Grijalva
Hinchey
Johnson, E. B.
Kilpatrick (MI)
Kucinich
Lee (CA)
Lynch
McCollum
McDermott
McGovern
Miller, George
Moran (VA)
Olver
Pastor (AZ)
Paul
Price (NC)
Rahall
Snyder
Stark
Waters
Watt
Woolsey

While your at it call or email your Reps and ask them to read the Goldstone Report and to invite Judge Goldstone to the hill to discuss his findings

Kaptur and Delahunt voted “present” on the Goldstone Report.

Yep. Can’t vote for someone who’s an Israel whore. That’s a deal breaker for me. Notice Hinchey is on your honor roll.

If I understand the data correctly, Grayson (FL08 R+2) needs more help than Doggett (TX25 D+6). Same with Massa (NY29 R+5) relative to Grijalva (AZ07 D+6).

I’d be happy to support Grayson and Massa.

I wish DeFazio were doing better.

80 votes for Woolsey?!?

Oh, no, no, NO! Woolsey votes well, it’s true…but fundraising for Jane Harman and lukewarm statements about whether the Progressive Caucus should vote NO on the Senate Healthcare bill should knock her off the list entirely.

Asking Progressive candidates to be consistent on national and International issues. Let’s be clear about Grayson he is a progressive on some issues, warmongering on others…Iran…condemning the Goldstone Report.

Damn serious contradictions. The time is long over due that as a nation we really look at the “core motivations” of those who are blowing themselves up to take out Americans. When we have Reps who do their best to block Judge Goldstone’s report and condemn it before ever allowing Judge Goldstone to come to the hill to discuss his findings that is a candidate who wants Americans not to really look at what some of the anger directed towards us has to do with.

When Representatives ate willing to sponsor (Rep Barney Frank) or vote for sanctions on Iran based on many substantiated claims…this is not progressive…not based on hard facts. Why would we support them with money

I voted for Grayson although I have reservations about him. Honestly he got my vote for being a vocal bulldog, not for his voting record. Right or wrong, that was my vote.

Grijalva deserves the prize, IMO. He has been a brave, effective leader of the Progressive Caucus without whom the Senate bill would likely have been passed in it’s pure form.

I am rather shocked to find my congressman, Michael Arcuri (NY-24) on this list. The man is a Blue Dog, a Republican in Democrat’s clothing, and happily and consistently votes against his constituents, for war, and against the Constitution of the United States. He consistently lies and uses amazingly convoluted language in some of his communications in order to mislead his constituents. He happily accepted over $120,000 the last election from Wall Street and real estate firms (and this is just the easily traced contributions) and happily voted for the $700BN bailout and all followup bailouts for the rich while voting against cram-down and other bills that would have helped his constituents. The only time he voted in opposition to war or war funding was the one vote that we all knew would be meaningless in the end anyway because the Senate would restore the funding (and it did, and he then voted aye). It is my intention to do what I can (without directly supporting a Republican challenger) to ensure he is not re-elected, and a Republican in his place could not possibly be any worse a representative of my district.

I think Grayson and Grijalva make a great team. Grijaova is a real standup person and I have great admiration for him.

Me too. I hope we get many more years of his leadership in the CPC.

There are other choices who vote the right way on both domestic & foreign policy who I can vote for.

Do a DeFazio support diary on the Seminal! Lots of ways to campaign for more votes. You can post it on his Facebook wall where supporter will see it too.

PS we totally encourage campaigning for the Reps you support.

I would like to see FDL voters support a woman Congressmember in the first round. Is there no more love here for the always stalwart progressives Barbara Lee and Maxine Waters?

Heh. My third vote was for Barbara Lee. Grijalva, Grayson, Lee.

I wanted to include someone local.

Thanks for posting this important AIPAC news about Grayson. Very, very disappointing to learn. Shame on him for that. Otherwise, Grayson has been exceptionally inspiring.

They are in VERY heavily D districts. They don’t need our help.

Donna Edwards

We opened the contest to any Democrat in Congress who was nominated by someone from their district. Doesn’t appear to be a tremendous amount of enthusiasm for him.

and Grayson is filthy rich,doesnt need our money

Grijalva and Kucinich. Kucinich has been incredibly consistent with his votes and stances. He deserves to be recognized for this.

Come on Grayson voted to condemn the honorable Judge Goldstone’s report. He does not deserve to be able to spin his hawkish stance on the I/P conflict or on Iran. So callled progressives who vote like this need to be called out not given money from so called progressives.

Unless it is true and many of the folks at FDL are PEP’s (progressive except for Palestine)

The most endangered is probably Carol Shea-Porter. She’s great on the war. Would love to see a diary campaigning for her!

http://action.firedoglake.com/page/content/fdlpacvote

Yes he has been inspiring but he needs to be called out on these hawkish and dangerous stances

Kucinich has been consistent for a very long time

Good point, @ #9 (Leeson) –
Congressman Grayson may be courageous standing up to the Big Finance swindlers, but he is AWOL at confronting the Israel lobby, which is master of the (“permanent”) Wars Lobby.

The influence of both the Israel Lobby (AIPAC & others) on our Congress is just hideous to behold, they are even worse than the Vatican (Catholic Church in a SOVEREIGN STATE bastion over in Rome, Italy) come election season, the Vatican (Catholic Church) of course TERRORIZING as many candidates as they can to support the anti-women’s repro health jihad, aka the anti-abortion movement…. which REPEATEDLY ENCOURAGES and STIMULATES ASSASSINS & TERRORISTS, like Olympic bomber (and repro health clinic bomber) Eric Rudolph, and all the other doctor killing gunmen.
The FOREIGN POWER that is the Vatican certainly HELPED Bush-Cheney Republicans STEAL the election in Ohio in 2004 (if not in New Mexico, Iowa, Florida, and possibly Minn. that year) – and the AIPAC/Israel lobby has an even more destructive chokehold on US politics & government.

Go, Dennis! He deserves this recognition. And way to go, FDL!

I voted Grijalva, Lee, and Waters. Lee and Waters *always* impress on c-span and I saw they looked good in the table on the voting page.

I didn’t vote for him as I felt others had more ‘visibility’ on the ‘issues’ but check out Bob Filner from the Southeast section of San Diego. Heavily hispanic district -he’s not- but always on the ‘side of the people’.

Kucinich is great. He gets a lot of progressive love already.

I’d like to see someone else at the top.

I would like to learn more about Shea-Porter! I would read that diary.

Carol Shea-Porter’s district (NH01) is EVEN, while Maxine Waters’s district (CA35) is D+31 and Barbara Lee’s district (CA09) is D+37.

I agree, I’d be happy to see Carol Shea-Porter or Peter DeFazio in the top three, along with Massa and Grayson.

I’ve been having a difficult week (car accident, bad fall on ice, sick). I’d like to put together a diary or two to support DeFazio (wasn’t he one of the founders of the Congressional Progressive Caucus?) and Shea-Porter. I’ve got a couple of days, right?

Take care of yourself, Knox! You must he having some Mars issues.

Good grief, you have had a bad week. I hope you are okay and getting better. Take care of yourself.

Being sick isn’t fun, but it could be worse. And falling isn’t fun, either. I’m doing better than my car, though. Hit from behind. Hard. Nearly $4,000 in damage. If his insurance (Travelers) doesn’t pay for it, then there’s no point in anyone having liability insurance!

(((Knoxville)))

Leen,
Thanks for the list of the 12 who voted bravely against new sanctions on Iran. I am shocked to learn that my Congressman, Price (NC) is not one of those. He usually shows a spine on these issues. I’ll have to write his ass…

I’d like to point out that John Hall (NY-19) is running even with Carol Shea-Porter (NH-01), with 75 votes each.

In addition to Massa and DeFazio, I voted for Hall. According to his wikipedia page, he stopped by the Lake in 2006 and talked about supporting the impeachment of Bush if he were to win. He won, but Bush wasn’t impeached…

I voted for Hall because, among other things, his district is R+3.

Thanks, eCAHN. :-)

Jane,
Can we have another contest like this in support of Primary Challengers to obstructionist and neo-con Blue Dogs?

Marcy Winograd is great on the issues, and she stands a real chance at unseating Jane Harman in the primaries. Knowing that Harman is worth about $400 million, Marcy could probably use FDL’s help.

Jane,

Marcy Winograd has come up several times. I contributed to her campaign via ActBlue http://www.actblue.com/entity/fundraisers/22298

It was about a month ago, when t0dd wrote: Woolsey To Support “Blue Dog” Harman as Progressive Momentum Builds for Winograd at The Seminal.

You seem to support Winograd. In a post on Nov 6, 2009, you noted that she’s a strong single-payer proponent: Marcy Winograd: Jane Harman Profits From Anti-Generics Amendment She Helped Eshoo Pass.

Please consider adding Marcy Winograd at http://blueamerica.firedoglake.com/

Massa is great, but he has an extreme, right of Limbaugh republican running against him and doesn’t really need our help to beat him. I tried to vote for the best, who really need our help.

Ditto on Marcy. She would be a great contribution to the true progressives. She is a PDA which means a real progressive.

Woolsey turned out to be a huge disappointment. first saying she would not vote without a “robust public option” and then saying she would support something that would do the same thing as a public option and then went to do a fund raiser for Jane Harman. Lynn was a PDA board member and did the fund raiser against the PDA candidate, Marcy Winograd.

Barney Frank is tremendously supportive when the media lights are on. It took me too long to realize he’s not just dumb, he’s corrupt. Bottom line, he’s been a tremendous failure for Dems & all who have an interest in our country’s future. He deserves to be soundly defeated, not supported. Barney Frank doesn’t deserve one dime from Progressives, Democrats or anyone who believes elected Representatives should be accountable for actions as well as their words.

Read this article from PDA how Congressman Henry Waxman, who endorses Harman, wrote a letter to the Jewish community “attacking and misquoting Winograd’s position on the issue of Israel/Palestine”:

The article contains a copy of Winograd’s response to him, essentially calling him out. She outlines Harman’s positions on Iraq war, health care, bankruptcy laws, perpetual war, etc.

Winograd would be a liberal’s dream representative!

{{Knoxville}} ~ Take it easy: those falls on the ice are bad news. I’m swearing off slips this winter so last year’s injuries can completely heal!

I am on Winograd’s mailing list: her e-mails are a breath of fighting fresh air! If she serves anything like she campaigns she could be great. I would sure like to see her have a chance.

Agree on Woolsey, Waxman, and Frank. They should all know better. They were all *raised* better.

Fighting the I/P war by proxy in congressional primaries (other than *his* own) as Waxman is doing is ridiculous. I wish everyone would just be able to laugh at that but I know that is not realistic.

Massa is great, but he has an extreme, right of Limbaugh republican running against him and doesn’t really need our help to beat him. I tried to vote for the best, who really need our help.

Good point, but I think he’ll need help all the same.

Massa’s district (NY-29) is R+5. We know from polling that the base of the Democratic Party isn’t nearly as enthusiastic about voting in 2010 as is the Republicans’ base. Like others, Massa will have a bit of a hill to climb as a result of what the sellout Dems have done.

Remember Massachusetts. Coakley was far too confident. And she lost.

I voted for Diane Watson because she’s up against a centrist Dem primary challenger and could use the funds.

Oh absolutely, voting doesn’t close until Tuesday night.

Rep. Eric Massa’s seat in NY-29 is in one of the Congressional Districts most targeted by Republican leadership. He definitely could use our help, and he was a successful PDA-endorsed candidate in 2008. His District is R+5.

Massa is a stalwart single payer advocate and was a vocal opponent to the escalation of the troop presence in Afghanistan. He has voted solidly with PDA principles in the 111th Congress.

I’ve decided to write a diary supporting John Hall (NY19). I already voted for him earlier today because he’s shown leadership on a variety of issues and shown real courage as a Progressive in a R+3 district.

He sent a letter to Pelosi a few weeks ago stating his strong opposition to taxing health care benefits. He’s taken leadership in opposing SCOTUS’s ridiculous decision a few weeks ago. And he’s worked hard for veterans.

He’s in an R+3 district (Obama barely beat McCain there in ’08) and he’s facing a serious effort to unseat him from local and NRCC Republicans (Nan Hayworth – his most likely challenger from what I’ve read – has support from local Republicans and from the Republican he unseated in 2006).

Hall deserves recognition from FDL. And he could use our help!

I’ll write the diary tomorrow. When you say “post it on his Facebook wall,” do you mean go there, become a supporter, and leave a comment with the link?

Please FDL, if yer gonna post the results, could you PLEASE add a column for the +/- Dem numbers?

Like you do on the voting page(s)?

One column, that’s all I ask for TRUE transparency, so we can see if the wrong people are getting votes, who don’t NEED the support!

Simple request, add the column from your voting page, to your results page, to show what the numbers are for the Dem’s, + or – . . .

Why should we vote for a D+15, when a three check marked Dam +5 is at risk?

See what I’m sayin?

SHOW US THE NUMBERS!!!!!

Kurt Schrader (OR-05) is a proud member of the Blue Dogs. David Wu (OR-01)voted for the bankruptcy reform bill under Bush that prevented people from discharging their credit card debt in bankruptcy, in the face of evidence that most such bankruptcies were related to medical expenses. Neither deserves this kind of progressive support.

I also think the party composition of the districts would be very helpful in making this choice.

Thank you for all of your work on this.

McGovern also wrote a letter condemning Winograd and in support of Harman over her I/P pro-peace stance. It’s surprising because he so good on is other votes.

Can somebody explain how John “Blue Dog” Salazar (D-Co) got on this list and has any votes at all? This is the man who denied he was a Democrat when confronted walking to his office. Help me here. This is beginning to have no meaning at all.

Makes you wonder if Blue Dogs don’t have staffers at their offices stuffing the ballots over here.

After all the Blue Dog obstructionism over the last year and neo-con led disasters over the last decade, candidates who are aligned with these two groups are listed above, and seem to be getting more votes than actual progressives. We should be working to unseat these Blue Dogs and neo-cons — not potentially funding them.

Makes you wonder …

Progressives seem to be smitten with Grayson’s beat on his chest strategies. But let’s start being consustent with our alleged progressive values across the board.

Kucinich. Grijalva best reflect progressive values across the board. They are not afraid intimidated by those on the wrong side of the Goldstone Report. Those who are afraid to have the Goldstone Report read and discusssed on the hill. Kucinich and Grijalva not afraid to vote against the warmongers who sponsored (Barney Frank) and those who co-sponsored the Iran Sanctions Act….which is one more step to pre-emptive strikes on Iran’s alleged nuclear weapons facilities.

Grayson progressive on health care, right wing radical on Israel, Golstone Report and Iran.

What do we know about how he made his money? Voting to condemn the Goldstone Report says a great deal about Grayson. Wants to completely block any negative light being directed towards Israel, even when criminal actions have been documented by an Internationally recognized and honored Judge Goldstone conducts the investigation and report.

That is not progressive…not honest and avoids shining the light on one of the “core motivations” of those who are willing to blow themselves to smitherins while trying to take out Americans.

Grayson is a show man on many counts

Congressman Massa voted for the recent Iran Sactions Act and voted to block the Goldstone Report.

This is progressive? Come on. Our Reps need to start dealing with the Israeli Palestinian conflict more fairly. When is the so called progressive community going to start standing up on this critical issue?

Congressman Grijalva and Congressman Kucinich voted against the Iran sanctions act and voted against the condemnation of the Goldstone Report. Unafraid…honest willing to take a deeper look at these issues without having knee jerk reactions. Willing to dige deeper into these critically important issues.

Interesting that my comments are now being moderated. What is up with that? Can you explain please?

Leen February 6th, 2010 at 10:16 am Your comment is awaiting moderator approval 67Congressman Massa voted for the recent Iran Sactions Act and voted to block the Goldstone Report.

This is progressive? Come on. Our Reps need to start dealing with the Israeli Palestinian conflict more fairly. When is the so called progressive community going to start standing up on this critical issue?

Congressman Grijalva and Congressman Kucinich voted against the Iran sanctions act and voted against the condemnation of the Goldstone Report. Unafraid…honest willing to take a deeper look at these issues without having knee jerk reactions. Willing to dige deeper into these critically important issues

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Leen February 6th, 2010 at 9:58 am Your comment is awaiting moderator approval 66In response to sadlyyes @ 27 (show text)
What do we know about how he made his money? Voting to condemn the Goldstone Report says a great deal about Grayson. Wants to completely block any negative light being directed towards Israel, even when criminal actions have been documented by an Internationally recognized and honored Judge Goldstone conducts the investigation and report.

That is not progressive…not honest and avoids shining the light on one of the “core motivations” of those who are willing to blow themselves to smitherins while trying to take out Americans.

Grayson is a show man on many counts

MODERATION ON THESE COMMENTS…WHAT FOR? PLEASE EXPLAIN?

This is so interesting so telling. Question the support for those who were willing to condemn the Goldstone Report or the Iran sanctions act and are up for receiving money from ACT BLUE and your comments start being moderated at FDL. Please Explain?

[modnote: this is not a thread about the Goldstone Report, you were warned yesterday not to hijack the thread for your purposes. You made your point in numerous other comments here. Please create a Seminal Diary to make your case, thank you.]

Saw no such warning. Can you point me to that. Sorry but did not see that.

also thought this was a thread where we were trying to inform one another about those who are up for ACT BLUE’s money and support and these Representatives voting records and how truly progressive they are or are not. Just looking at how they have voted on critical issues. Their votes on health care, the bank bailouts are not the only things voters should be concerned with. How they voted on International foreign policy is huge. Sorry (RBG) that you do not see it that way.

Would seem that how they voted on the Iran Sanctions Act and the G Report would be important issues to consider when deciding how to distribute progressive money.

You may have noticed that folks were thankful that I had posted this information. Sorry to bring attention to how these Reps voted on these critical votes did not see your warning.

Where was it? Will go look, read and heed.
Later

RBG went looking for your warning. Can not find it. I apologize but truly can not find it. Will heed the warning.

Sorry to misinterpret that FDL wants voters to be well informed on a broad spectrum of issues and the light shed on how our Reps vote on other critical issues.

Did find these comments.

eCAHNomics February 5th, 2010 at 12:33 pm 10In response to Leen @ 6 (show text)
Yep. Can’t vote for someone who’s an Israel whore. That’s a deal breaker for me. Notice Hinchey is on your honor roll

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TheCallUp February 5th, 2010 at 1:37 pm 42In response to Leen @ 4 (show text)
Leen,
Thanks for the list of the 12 who voted bravely against new sanctions on Iran. I am shocked to learn that my Congressman, Price (NC) is not one of those. He usually shows a spine on these issues. I’ll have to write his ass

eCAHNomics February 5th, 2010 at 12:52 pm 18In response to Leen @ 13 (show text)
There are other choices who vote the right way on both domestic & foreign policy who I can vote for

veracity February 5th, 2010 at 1:05 pm 31Good point, @ #9 (Leeson) –
Congressman Grayson may be courageous standing up to the Big Finance swindlers, but he is AWOL at confronting the Israel lobby, which is master of the (”permanent”) Wars Lobby.

The influence of both the Israel Lobby (AIPAC & others) on our Congress is just hideous to behold, they are even worse than the Vatican (Catholic Church in a SOVEREIGN STATE bastion over in Rome, Italy) come election season, the Vatican (Catholic Church) of course TERRORIZING as many candidates as they can to support the anti-women’s repro health jihad, aka the anti-abortion movement…. which REPEATEDLY ENCOURAGES and STIMULATES ASSASSINS & TERRORISTS, like Olympic bomber (and repro health clinic bomber) Eric Rudolph, and all the other doctor killing gunmen.
The FOREIGN POWER that is the Vatican certainly HELPED Bush-Cheney Republicans STEAL the election in Ohio in 2004 (if not in New Mexico, Iowa, Florida, and possibly Minn. that year) – and the AIPAC/Israel lobby has an even more destructive chokehold on US politics & government.

[Mod Note: RBG is not the only Mod. The Mod who posted the warning yesterday stated that the note apparently got lost as you were editing the comment that was noted. But for the record, "Others do it too" is not often an excuse that plays well.]

“Mod Note: RBG is not the only Mod. The Mod who posted the warning yesterday stated that the note apparently got lost as you were editing the comment that was noted. But for the record, “Others do it too” is not often an excuse that plays well.]”

Thank you for acknowledging that the warning was not there.

Not sure what you are talking about “but for the record…”others do it too” is not often an excuse that plays well”

Did I miss something. I have never said that. So if you please what are you talking about?

Can you tell me what the categories of our Reps voting records that we are allowed to discuss on this thread? Health care, bailouts? I will heed the off topic issues.

Thanks for admitting that that warning was not posted

There is nothing wrong with considering all issues as we evaluate candidates, and it sure seems like you’ve had plenty of opportunity to state your case in this thread.

Can we move on now, please?

Wondering why Jim Moran has not received more votes? Or Bill Delahunt?

I wrote FDL Fire Dogs: Vote for John Hall (NY-19) today to make sure he gets more votes.

Hall’s down now, but there are still a few days for him to pull ahead!

keep pushing. Can’t help my admiration for Kucinich and his consistency in support of progressive values across the board. He deserves even more recognition and support for his long standing and consistent commitments.

Grijalva falls in to the same category. Love Marcy Kaptur and Dellahunt just wish they both would be brave enough to challenge the I lobby…straight up. Important

I agree 100% about Kucinich, Grijalva, Kaptur and Dellahunt. But take a look at their districts:

Kucinich: OH10 D+8
Grijalva: AZ07 D+6
Kaptur: OH09 D+10
Dellahunt: MA10 D+5

Now take a look again at what I wrote to support John Hall for 2010 FDL Fire Dog. Not only is he a progressive leader; he’s in NY-19, a R+3 district.

In 2006, he unseated a seven-term Republican. Now, Republicans at the local and national levels want to take that seat back. They’re going to try hard to beat him.

John Hall really could use our help, and we need him to stay in the House!

Fair points