15 Democrats Break Ranks to Vote for CAFTA and hand Bush a victory

[ClarkUSA]

If the DNC wants to pick up votes, they'll pound CAFTA like a drum come the midterm elections. NAFTA's passage did lasting damage to the Democratic Party, pushing Reagan Democrats into the embrace of the Republican Party -- now we can do the same to Republicans with CAFTA.

For more on why CAFTA is wrong:
http://www.stoptheftaa.org/artman/publish/article_279.shtml

Here are the complete roll call vote results:
http://clerk.house.gov/cgi-bin/vote.asp?year=2005&rollnumber=443

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The 15 Democrats who voted AYE:

Representative Melissa L. Bean (D-IL 8th)
http://www.congress.org/congressorg/bio/?id=129581&lvl=C&chamber=H

Representative Jim Cooper (D-TN 5th)Ê
http://www.congress.org/congressorg/bio/?id=132966&lvl=C&chamber=H

Representative Henry Cuellar (D-TX 28th)
http://www.congress.org/congressorg/bio/?id=8337&lvl=C&chamber=H

Representative Norman D. Dicks (D-WA 6th)
http://www.congress.org/congressorg/bio/?id=618&lvl=C&chamber=H

Representative Ruben E. Hinojosa (D-TX 15th)
http://www.congress.org/congressorg/bio/?id=568&lvl=C&chamber=H

Representative William J. Jefferson (D-LA 2nd)
http://www.congress.org/congressorg/bio/?id=275&lvl=C&chamber=H

Representative Jim Matheson (D-UT 2nd)
http://www.congress.org/congressorg/bio/?id=10412&lvl=C&chamber=H

Representative Gregory W. Meeks (D-NY 6th)
http://www.congress.org/congressorg/bio/?id=409&lvl=C&chamber=H

Representative Dennis Moore (D-KS 3rd)
http://www.congress.org/congressorg/bio/?id=260&lvl=C&chamber=HÊ

Representative James P. Moran (D-VA 8th)
http://www.congress.org/congressorg/bio/?id=606&lvl=C&chamber=H

Representative Solomon P. Ortiz (D-TX 27th)
http://www.congress.org/congressorg/bio/?id=582&lvl=C&chamber=H

Representative Ike Skelton (D-MO 4th)
http://www.congress.org/congressorg/bio/?id=354&lvl=C&chamber=H

Representative Vic Snyder (D-AR 2nd)
http://www.congress.org/congressorg/bio/?id=314&lvl=C&chamber=H

Representative Edolphus Towns (D-NY 10th)
http://www.congress.org/congressorg/bio/?id=413&lvl=C&chamber=HÊ

Representative John S. Tanner (D-TN 8th)
http://www.congress.org/congressorg/bio/?id=549&lvl=C&chamber=H

Let 'em know how we feel!

Ask them if they intend on voting AYE for Bush's energy bill too. :wtf:

[getmeouttahere]

1. And 3 of them are from Texas!

Quel surprise!

[geckosfeet]

9. And what about the 2 of them from NY. The rest are understandable. nt

[Mass]

2. One reason not in the StopCafta document

CAFTA = slavery for the Central American workers. (I may have missed it).

[fooj]

3. Texas!

:spank:

[drfunk]

4. hope they all get in

next weeks top 10 conservative idiots :D

[Strawman]

5. I hope the Pelosi and the leadership punishes them

[melissinha]

6. 3 Texans are Hispanic

Wonder if they have had constituent support on this? Corpus, Valley and Laredo/San Antonio....

[getmeouttahere]

7. You would think only if people have no idea...

what the implications are

[melissinha]

19. Another idea

This has got to be a result of DeLay's pressure.... wonder what Sheila Jackson Lee has to say?

[senseandsensibility]

8. If any of these are YOUR reps please write to them

It doesn't have to be long, just three or four sentences with a message line that makes it clear you are unhappy with their vote on CAFTA. Messages will carry much more weight if they come from their own contstituents. Thanks for putting this list together, ClarkUSA !

[brook]

10. send them

the link to * giving us the finger as well. Ask if he's expressing their thoughts.

When I get home from work, I intend to send the picture to a number of congress critters, newspapers, etc. I've already printed it out to leave lying around at work.Hoping it might push a few folks out of denial.

[coffeenap]

11. Done--I worked for Melissa Bean and opened my checkbook.

My activist teen kid volunteered in her office, we met her three or four times with big smiles all around. No more. We are done. My son is pissed and so am I. If she doesn't vote with Dems, she is no better than Crane, the idiot she replaced. This is a huge mistake for her--Repubs. won't vote for her and now Dems won't either.

Too bad, she could have been a hero.

[senseandsensibility]

12. I would feel exactly the same in your shoes

And it is important to let her know that her former supporters are paying attention. There needs to be a down side to this for them.

[madfloridian]

16. Melissa Bean was supported by MoveOn, I think.

I was trying to think if she were DFA, but I don't think so. I can't find the list now to verify.

[ClarkUSA]

17. I knew that DUers would care enough to SPEAK OUT

Glad to share with like minds here, senseandsensibility.

Even if you don't live in their districts, do call and email - I did, to each and every DINO on the list. When I called, they didn't ask me where I was from.
I was prepared to tell them that I had no desire to share my personal information with DINOs I don't intend on supporting again if they did.

They need to hear from all of us, IMO.

[senseandsensibility]

26. Good point

I'll call tomorrow. :)

[1932]

13. Suprisingly, only five of them are members of the DLC.

Bean
Meeks
Moore
Moran
Snyder

http://www.dlc.org/new_dem_dir_action.cfm?viewAll=1

[Nikki Stone 1]

14. kicked and recommended

:kick:

[kentuck]

15. What can we say..?

We have some stupid and ignorant Democrats that need to be replaced.

[ClarkUSA]

18. C'mon, DUers - let's show these DINOs how we feel about their votes!

:kick:

[spooky3]

20. Moran is anything BUT a DINO

check out his record--he opposed the war in Iraq from the beginning and has a very strong progressive voting record on most issues.

He has a district that is 40% minority and most of that minority is Central American, and many of those constituents want CAFTA. It is a highly educated, consistently blue district (Arlington & Alexandria, outside DC), despite Rethug redistricting that added more red neighborhoods.

I'm not saying he did the right thing. I am saying he did what he probably thought represented the wishes of his constituents, which is what he usually does. On this particular issue, it happens to be at odds with what most liberals and progressives would want, but that does not make him a DINO.

[flpoljunkie]

21. All voted for Dubya's energy bill, except Moran, D-VA and Cooper, D-TN.

http://clerk.house.gov/cgi-bin/vote.asp?year=2005&rollnumber=445

[ClarkUSA]

22. These are the kind of Democrats who weaken this Party's message....

thanks for the info.

[gizmo1979]

23. These are the kind of democrats

That kill the message.

[Nikki Stone 1]

24. kick

:kick:

[ElsewheresDaughter]

25. i sent a letter to each: "YOU MAKE ME FUCKING SICK TO MY STOMACH"