WTF? Loretta Sanchez (D-Cal) might not show to vote or might vote no per RollCall

[jezebel]

http://www.rollcall.com/news/44440-1.html

In Scramble for 216, Sanchez Presents Unexpected Hurdle
By Tory Newmyer
Roll Call Staff
March 20, 2010, 9:32 p.m.


As their whip efforts narrow to just a handful of Members, House Democratic leaders are facing an unlikely problem vote: Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-Calif.).

Sanchez was nowhere to be found on Saturday — she was in Florida on a fundraising jaunt, two Democratic sources said — and while leaders expected her to return for the Sunday vote on final passage, they weren’t assured. What’s more, leaders now list the Orange County Democrat as a “no” vote.

Sanchez’s office did not return a request for comment Saturday evening. She cast her last vote shortly after 6 p.m. Friday and missed all seven recorded votes on Saturday, a review of the record shows.

Democratic hand-wringing about her status — geographically and intentionally — underlines just how tight the margin has become for leaders trying to zero in on 216 votes as the clock ticks down to their appointed deadline. Leaders are still hunting for a winning coalition of votes — and still struggling for a breakthrough abortion fix that will convert three or four holdouts angling for tougher protections against public funding of the procedure.

Sanchez this week told the Orange County Register that she needs to be satisfied that the health care overhaul is affordable. “The Senate bill is a bad bill,” she told the paper.

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[FrenchieCat]

1. PUMA strikes again.......

[Windy]

7. exactly..... wow. nt

[Phx_Dem]

2. No surprise. I've never liked her.

She's from very conservative Orange County, and she's not concerned about the bill, she's worried about her job.

I hope she gets primaried.

[rufus dog]

6. Her district is in STRONGLY democratic

it went 60% for Obama in 2008. Call her sister and have her knock some sense into her.

[Phx_Dem]

8. That's even worse. She really does deserve to be primaried.

Horrid woman.

Linda is definitely the keeper of those two!

[tabatha]

3. Jeepers.

Does she know what is in the bill?

[FrenchieCat]

4. She needs some calls!

DC Office Phone: [phone] • Fax: [phone] •

DISTRIC OFFICE Phone: [phone] • Fax: [phone] •

[bluestateguy]

5. I am going to pretend like I just didn't read that

and unrecc it out of existence too.

[Imajika]

9. Interesting, FDL has Sanchez as a No now...

Kinda surprised.

Their Headline is as follows:

Glenn Nye, Loretta Sanchez to Vote “No” — 209

Very hard for me to imagine Sanchez voting against her party on this one.

I thinking that can't be a Firm NO from her. She's one I'd think leadership could count on.

[FrenchieCat]

10. She's always been difficult!

Which means she doesn't give a shit about People....
just her feelings.

[Imajika]

11. I'd guess she ends up voting yes..

..if she can bother to leave Florida and get back up here.

On a defining vote like this where she is really needed, and she's reasonably safe in her district last I heard. Unless she truly has some major problem with the bill we don't know about, I just can't see how she votes NO on this.

[HughMoran]

12. Sounds so strange

[rufus dog]

14. I truly can't figure her out

The Repubs always talk about arm twisting and payoffs. The first is SOP, the second is projection. Loretta always makes me go hmmm, what is she up to? The western edge of her district is home to an extremely large Vietnamese community who tend to break conservative and her Republican challenger is Vietnamese so maybe she thinks going right will help her.

It was the district of B1 Bob Dornan, but that was when the OC had tens of thousand Defense industry jobs.

[tishaLA]

16. But the Vietnamese population is outnumbered by the Latino population by at least 4:1

so if she votes no it's because she's being a chickenshit

[kestrel91316]

13. Loretta is a DINO. I don't know what else we'd expect from somebody

who occupies the seat that B-1 Bob Dornan did for years.....

[tishaLA]

15. the district has changed so much since then though

it's has a large, large Latino population and they are pretty unwavering in their support for her, whether she deserves it or not.

[rufus dog]

17. that is what is perplexing

She seems to be shunning the Latinos in an effort to garner the Vietnamese vote.

[Thrill]

18. Coward

[SoFlaJet]

19. She and every other democrat who votes no on this

needs to be held accountable and needs to be primary-ed. Vote no Loretta and you are on the shit list, I will send $$$ to your democratic rival if there is one-I will write letters and NOT forget-be forewarned, this bill is needed-I need it, my family needs it and so do thousands in your district.

[Zomby Woof]

20. All you need to know about Loretta Sanchez

Is that she is all about Loretta Sanchez.

[HughMoran]

21. We are learning an awful lot about Democrats versus "Democrats" in this HCR vote

If the Dems that are screwing us now think that this will be forgotten after the vote is over, they are very seriously mistaken.

[NYC_SKP]

22. Loretta Sanchez is a Card Carrying Blue Dog Democrat (I was surprised to learn). True.

Just learned this yesterday.

Freak.

http://www.house.gov/melancon/BlueDogs/Member%20Page.html

:mad:

[joe black]

23. Maybe that's what the people see represents want.

Did you ever think of that.

[Jennicut]

24. Her office said the calls coming in were 50/50 and that many people that were nos

were out of her district.