Reminder: Why it is VITAL you vote for a Democrat, even if a DINO in '06..

[helderheid]

Worth the reminder.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1552626

From Kevin Spidel's post:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=839811&mesg_id=839811

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- At least 9 Congressional Progressive Caucus Members would become Committee Chairmen or Chairwomen
- An additional 35 Congressional Progressive Caucus Members would become Subcommittee Chairmen or Chairwomen.

The following Progressive Caucus Members would become Committee Chairs:

- Congressman George Miller, Chairman of Education and Workforce Committee
- Congressman Barney Frank, Chairman of Financial Services
- Congressman Henry Waxman, Chairman of Government Reform
- Congressman Bennie Thompson, Chairman of Homeland Security Committee
- Congressman Tom Lantos, Chairman of International Relations Committee
- Congressman John Conyers, Chairman of Judiciary Committee
- Congresswoman Louise Slaughter, Chairwoman of Rules Committee
- Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez, Chairwoman of Small Business Committee
- Congressman Charles Rangel, Chairman of Ways and Means Committee

The following Progressive Caucus Members would become Subcommittee Chairs:

- Appropriations Subcommittees -- Congresswomen Rosa DeLauro and Marcy Kaptur and Congressmen John Olver, Jose Serrano, and Ed Pastor
- Armed Services Subcommittee, Congressman Neil Abercrombie
- Education and Workforce Subcommittees, Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey and Congressman Dennis Kucinich
- Energy and Commerce Subcommittees, Congressman Ed Markey and Congresswomen Jan Schakowsky and Hilda Solis
- Financial Services Subcommittee, Congresswoman Maxine Waters and Congressman Luis Gutierrez
- Government Reform Subcommittees, Congresswoman Diane Watson and Congressmen Dennis Kucinich, Elijah Cummings, Danny Davis of Illinois, and William "Lacy" Clay
- International Relations Subcommittee, Congressman Donald Payne
- Judiciary Subcommittees, Congresswoman Sheila Jackson-Lee and Congressmen Jerry Nadler and Melvin Watt
- Interior Subcommittees, Congressmen Raul Grijalva and Tom Udall and Congresswoman Donna Christensen
- Rules Subcommittees, Congressman Jim McGovern
- Small Business Subcommittees, Congresswomen Madeleine Bordallo
- Transportation and Infrastructure, DeFazio, Filner, Holmes-Norton, and C. Brown
- Ways and Means Subcommittees, Congressmen Pete Stark, Jim McDermott, and John Lewis of Georgia

Folks, it is that serious.

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(Thank you Kevin Spidel!!)
This is SO IMPORTANT

[Lost-in-FL]

1. Ok

I'll vote for my DINOcrat :hurts:

[helderheid]

2. Thanks - I have Rep Matheson of Utah - one of the CAFTA 13. UGH!

But it's a vote for Conyers.

[helderheid]

3. Are you sure you want to Recommend this Topic for Greatest Page?

Stole that from Bucky - thanks Bucky!

[CAG]

4. But, but, but..... George Miller once voted for the bank lobby, & Barney

Frank once voted for a tax cut, and I saw Henry Waxman shake Frist's hand the other day, and Bennie Thompson once voted to allow guns in pickup trucks, and Tom Lantos didn't help an old lady cross the street, and John Conyers said something nice about Reagan a few years ago, and Louise Slaughter once had dinner with Newt Gingrich, and, well, of course we know just what a right-wing hack that ol'Charlie Rangel can be...

Just a bunch of DINO's, all of them, because they once had the nerve to disagree with me on some issue, HOW DARE THEY!!!!

;-) :sarcasm:

[helderheid]

6. :) see post 3 :)

[MADem]

9. Ah, an enlightened soul!!!!

If we want to win, we have to remember our tent is HUGE, and we can't just back those who happen to be in our little corner of it, because that ensures that we won't get the power.

Together, we win. Fractured, they win.

[helderheid]

10. yep yep yep!

[bullimiami]

5. the one thing that truly sucks about it is that many of these races or all

are likely to be rigged, stolen, hacked. and it will all be for naught again in this once great country that used to be a democracy and used to pride itself in its constitution and rule of law.

[helderheid]

7. I'm with ya. I established

www.utah-vote.org so I am very much in agreement with you. I think it may be too late to stop the machines before 2006. I plan to vote absentee in protest. Even if my vote won't count any more that way than on a DRE, atleast they'll know what I think of the DREs.

[helderheid]

8. ...

[Vidar]

11. Agreed.

[Warren DeMontague]

12. Gotta hold my nose this fall and vote for DiFi.

But other than that, I believe in every one of 'em.

[MercutioATC]

13. Nope

Think short-term if you choose.

I choose to think longer-term. If we elect DINOs, we elect people who don't represent our ideals. It may gain us a measure of short-term power, but we lose in the long run.


It's thinking like this that created the situation we now face.

[Tesha]

15. It's PRECISELY BECAUSE we've been electing DINOs that we're in the mess...

You've got it right: it's *PRECISELY BECAUSE* we've been
electing DINOs that we're in the mess we're in, where no
one can figure out what Democrats stand for because they
apparently stand simultaneoulsy for nothing and everything!

Run real democrats! Elect real democrats!

When people can once again say that Democrats are the
party that stands for human rights for everyone, for peace
through prosperity, for *THE LITTLE GUY* and the *WORKING
PERSON*, then there won't be any trouble electing Democrats
over Republicans.

Tesha

[Tesha]

14. I'll vote for the democrat. If they happen to be the Democrat, more...

You've got it backwards. It's vitally important to vote for
the democrat because what we need most is for people to see
why it's important to return to basic democratic principles
such as support for the Constitution and the Bill of Rights,
equal rights for everyone, the reigning in of the corporations,
peace THROUGH prosperity, etc.

If the candidate also happens to be a Democrat, more the better,
but that's not nearly as important to me, and a lot of Democrats
simply ain't democratic enough for me to support them.

Luckily, for me, the guy running for CD2 from New Hampshire is
both a democrat and a Democrat.

Tesha