Matthew Rothschild: Appreciating Rep. Marcy Kaptur

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from The Progressive:



Appreciating Rep. Marcy Kaptur
By Matthew Rothschild, December 28, 2010


Over the Christmas weekend, we were visiting dear friends of ours. Their extended family was in town, including elderly parents from Toledo. I asked the father what he though about his Representative, Marcy Kaptur. And he told me a story of meeting her when she first ran for Congress in 1982.

He was with a group of realtors who were interviewing the candidates to make endorsements. The incumbent sauntered in, he said, but wasn’t prepared to discuss the issues and left early. Then they interviewed Kaptur, and she had studied every single issue they brought up, he said. She got the endorsement, and she won, and now she is the longest serving woman in the House of Representatives.

“No one has done more for our district,” my friend’s dad told me.

I had the pleasure of having lunch with Kaptur on Dec. 19, when she was in Madison to give the commencement address for the University of Wisconsin, which is where she graduated from.

She was down to earth and impassioned, as always. She was furious at the extension of the Bush tax cuts and concerned about the rightwing Republican ascendancy. She also expressed alarm at the diminishing ability of young people to write coherently. And she appeared dismayed at the Facebook Nation we’ve become. ..............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.progressive.org/wx122810.html

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1. Kick for Marcy !!!

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2. Working with her office on the Farm Bill. She's such a pleasure to be around.

And a brillant mind to boot!!

[Octafish]

3. ''Make Them Prove They Own Your Loan!''

She is wonderful, a real Democrat.