Watt to Lead Congressional Black Caucus

[Rose Siding]

WASHINGTON - Rep. Mel Watt, a North Carolina Democrat whose document condemning the war with Iraq (news - web sites) became policy for the Congressional Black Caucus (news - web sites), was elected the group's leader Monday. He pledged to pursue more frequent meetings with the White House.

"My attitude would be to treat this new election as a possibility of a new beginning and to aggressively say to the president, 'We would like to reinstate our regular meetings with you if you would be willing to do that,'" Watt said.

Despite that olive branch to the Republican White House, Watt gave little signal the all-Democratic group of black lawmakers would change its historically left-leaning policies.
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One of Congress' more outspoken Bush critics, Rep. Corrine Brown (news, bio, voting record) of Florida, was elected as the caucus' first vice chair. Earlier this year, the House voted to strike from the official record Brown's comments that Bush "stole" the 2000 election during the Florida recount.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=512&ncid=703&e=4&u=/ap/20041206/ap_on_go_co/black_caucus

[Spiffarino]

1. A fellow North Carolinian!

Congrats, Mel! I wish you were my congressman. Charlie Taylor's a crooked jerk. :(
:toast:

[TheDebbieDee]

2. Whew! I thought you were talking about JC Watt.

I thought I had finally crossed over to Bizarro-land.

[rogue emissary]

8. Same here

When I first read Watt leads CBC, I automatically thought J.C. and my heart just about skipped a beat. :D

[VivaKerry]

9. Me too. And I had one helluva a HUGE arse laugh too!

Couldn't contain myself before opening the thread!!!

Woooo, I thought someone slipped an Onion 'article' into lbn or something!

[donheld]

3. Congressional Black Caucus

Is my favorite political group these people have guts

[Kelvin Mace]

4. Cool, he and I had a long phone conversation

about elecrtonic voting machine and the investigations by the GAO and the appointment of the Select Committe on e-voting in NC.

Very much in favor of paper ballots and a full investigation into the 2004 election.

David Allen
Publisher, CEO, Janitor
Plan Nine Publishing
http://www.plan9.org
http://www.blackboxvoting.com

[peacetalksforall]

5. Straight arrow, professional, sense of humor, dedicated...excellent!

[realFedUp]

6. but is he good on television?

The CBC has been the balls-out defenders
of real Americans in Washington
and stood many times for democratic values on
the floor of Congress. I hope Mel continues
the work and appears many times in front of
the media.

[struggle4progress]

7. Yippie! eom