The Dems Who Have Spoken For Cordoba House

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http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/08/the-dems-who-have-spoken-for-cordoba-house.php

With all the attention we've given to politicians who have attacked the Muslim community center set to be built near Ground Zero in New York, let's take a different look at the story: A list of the Democratic politicians who have stood up in support of it.

Opposition to the project has been brewing for weeks, and the issue came to a head a week and a half ago, when President Obama voiced his support for the right of organizers to build it.

Since, some Dems have come out and said that the project should be moved -- most notably Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), who nevertheless affirmed the right of Muslims to build it. So let's look at the other side of the equation: Dems who have spoken out on the project's behalf, both before and after Obama's remarks.

This isn't a totally complete list, and for our purposes, we are counting both solid affirmations of the project itself, plus those politicians who have attacked the project's opponents in the name of upholding the constitutional right to free exercise of religion.



Rep. Jerrold Nadler ,Rep. Carolyn Maloney , Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, Rep. Keith Ellison , Rep. Charlie Rangel , Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) , Alexi Giannoulias, Rep. Joe Sestak (D-PA), Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL),Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI),

[babylonsister]

1. Senator Jeff Merkley shows Dems how it's done on "mosque"

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x555400

[nevergiveup]

2. Alexi Giannoulias is one courageous man.

He is in a very tight race here in Illinois for Obama's old senate seat and this will probably hurt him with Independents but on the other hand it has me and other progressives fired up and ready to go to work for him so hopefully the pros and cons will balance.

[Douglas Carpenter]

3. kick and recommend!!