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Getting to know the Liberal Representatives

#21

David Cicilline:
David Nicola Cicilline (/sɪsɪˈliːni/; born July 15, 1961) is an American politician who has been the U.S. Representative for Rhode Island's 1st congressional district since 2011.[1] He is a member of the Democratic Party. He previously served as Mayor of Providence, Rhode Island, from 2003 to 2011, and was the first openly gay mayor of a U.S. state capital.
Did you know:
[font=Times New Roman]Since his election to Congress, Cicilline’s tenure in City Hall has received harsh scrutiny. | AP Photo Close[/font]
[font=Times New Roman]Cicilline has sought to deflect the criticism, telling local reporters that he faced little choice but to take funds from the city’s rainy-day account — the alternative was to impose devastating cuts in the budget.
He declined to address the political fallout surrounding the controversy.
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https://www.politico.com/news/stories/03...l#continue
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#22

Cheri Bustos:
Cheryl Lea Bustos /ˈbuːstoʊs/ (née Callahan; born October 17, 1961) is an American journalist, healthcare executive, and politician who has served as the U.S. Representative for Illinois's 17th congressional district since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, Bustos is the first woman elected to Congress from her district.[1] In 2019, Bustos assumed a leadership position among House Democrats as chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee[2]

Did you Know:
I mentioned Bustos in a story I wrote on June 25, the day before Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez stunned party honchos with her upset victory over longtime incumbent Joe Crowley in the New York Democratic primary. Crowley, as I pointed out, was one of a handful of House Democrats who received campaign contributions from the political action committees of all five of the biggest for-profit health insurers—Aetna, Anthem, Cigna, Humana and UnitedHealth Group. But Crowley wasn’t those PACs’ favorite Democrat in Congress. That distinction at the time went to none other than Cheri Bustos.

https://tarbell.org/2019/03/democrats-on...-insurers/
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#23

Raul Grijalva:
Raúl Manuel Grijalva (/rɑːˈuːl ɡrɪˈhælvə/; born February 19, 1948) is an American politician who currently serves as the U.S. Representative for Arizona's 3rd congressional district, serving since 2003. He is a member of the Democratic Party. The district, numbered as the 7th District from 2003 to 2013, includes the western third of Tucson, part of Yuma and Nogales, and some peripheral parts of metro Phoenix. He is the current dean of Arizona's congressional delegation.

Did you know:
Rep. Raul M. Grijalva quietly arranged a “severance package” in 2015 for one of his top staffers who threatened a lawsuit claiming the Arizona Democrat was frequently drunk and created a hostile workplace environment, revealing yet another way that lawmakers can use taxpayer dollars to hide their misbehavior on Capitol Hill.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/201...-hush-fun/
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#24
(This post was last modified: 05-24-2019, 10:45 AM by homebiscuit.)

Holy cow. The Boston Herald unloaded on Elizabeth Warren.


"When Donald Trump is involved in any brushes with bankruptcy, it just proves what a con man he is, a deadbeat and a scam artist, using his white privilege and toxic masculinity to rip off victims of the evil capitalist system.

But now that it turns out the fake Indian, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, may have made millions as a lawyer in assorted corporate, Trump-like bankruptcies, somehow it’s become a wonderful, positive experience.
“Bankruptcy law is about coming up with the fairest outcome possible in a difficult system,” the fake Indian’s campaign gushed Wednesday, “and trying to help individuals and businesses get a fresh start.”
Translation: there are two kinds of bankruptcies, Republican bankruptcies (bad), and Democrat bankruptcies (good).

We’re heading into the long first weekend of summer, so the Warren campaign decided it was time for one more document dump about yet another dodgy part of Fauxcohontas’ career — at least in the sense that she now claims to be a woke Social Justice Warrior fighting The Man.
Turns out that in reality, The Man was paying Lieawatha big wampum — on her website, she listed 56 cases she was involved in as the first “woman of color” professor at Harvard Law School, and before that at UPenn.

Chief Spreading Bull was grabbing as much as $675 an hour, which puts her on the jagged (or is it ragged?) edge of the 1 percent. This was on top of the $350,000 Harvard paid her every year for teaching one course, plus of course the interest-free loan to buy her $2-million teepee in Cambridge..."
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#25

(05-24-2019, 10:43 AM)homebiscuit Wrote: Holy cow. The Boston Herald unloaded on Elizabeth Warren.


"When Donald Trump is involved in any brushes with bankruptcy, it just proves what a con man he is, a deadbeat and a scam artist, using his white privilege and toxic masculinity to rip off victims of the evil capitalist system.

But now that it turns out the fake Indian, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, may have made millions as a lawyer in assorted corporate, Trump-like bankruptcies, somehow it’s become a wonderful, positive experience.
“Bankruptcy law is about coming up with the fairest outcome possible in a difficult system,” the fake Indian’s campaign gushed Wednesday, “and trying to help individuals and businesses get a fresh start.”
Translation: there are two kinds of bankruptcies, Republican bankruptcies (bad), and Democrat bankruptcies (good).

We’re heading into the long first weekend of summer, so the Warren campaign decided it was time for one more document dump about yet another dodgy part of Fauxcohontas’ career — at least in the sense that she now claims to be a woke Social Justice Warrior fighting The Man.
Turns out that in reality, The Man was paying Lieawatha big wampum — on her website, she listed 56 cases she was involved in as the first “woman of color” professor at Harvard Law School, and before that at UPenn.

Chief Spreading Bull was grabbing as much as $675 an hour, which puts her on the jagged (or is it ragged?) edge of the 1 percent. This was on top of the $350,000 Harvard paid her every year for teaching one course, plus of course the interest-free loan to buy her $2-million teepee in Cambridge..."

See, this is the problem with running rich white people in the Democratic Party right now. How can they consistently call themselves the party of the people when they're running white, privileged millionaires like Warren (who is white), Sanders and Biden, even a billionaire in Hillary Clinton? The type of people that the Democratic Party are after are already figuring that out, and it's going to be a disaster for them in 2020 if they wind up split between a "man of the people" and an "establishment: candidate, like what happened in 2016.

Also, I believe the proper, respectful term is "wigwam".
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#26

(05-24-2019, 10:43 AM)homebiscuit Wrote: Holy cow. The Boston Herald unloaded on Elizabeth Warren.


"When Donald Trump is involved in any brushes with bankruptcy, it just proves what a con man he is, a deadbeat and a scam artist, using his white privilege and toxic masculinity to rip off victims of the evil capitalist system.

But now that it turns out the fake Indian, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, may have made millions as a lawyer in assorted corporate, Trump-like bankruptcies, somehow it’s become a wonderful, positive experience.
“Bankruptcy law is about coming up with the fairest outcome possible in a difficult system,” the fake Indian’s campaign gushed Wednesday, “and trying to help individuals and businesses get a fresh start.”
Translation: there are two kinds of bankruptcies, Republican bankruptcies (bad), and Democrat bankruptcies (good).

We’re heading into the long first weekend of summer, so the Warren campaign decided it was time for one more document dump about yet another dodgy part of Fauxcohontas’ career — at least in the sense that she now claims to be a woke Social Justice Warrior fighting The Man.
Turns out that in reality, The Man was paying Lieawatha big wampum — on her website, she listed 56 cases she was involved in as the first “woman of color” professor at Harvard Law School, and before that at UPenn.

Chief Spreading Bull was grabbing as much as $675 an hour, which puts her on the jagged (or is it ragged?) edge of the 1 percent. This was on top of the $350,000 Harvard paid her every year for teaching one course, plus of course the interest-free loan to buy her $2-million teepee in Cambridge..."

There is a huge difference between representing clients in bankruptcy court and being the person who declared bankruptcy.  
The former should drive away from the courthouse in a Mercedes, having worked hard to earn it. 
The latter should drive away in a Kia.
And the latter should really try to make the whole thing a "one time only, lessons learned" type of experience.  Not an "oops I did it again."
My fellow southpaw Mark Brunell will probably always be my favorite Jaguar.
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#27

(05-23-2019, 07:59 AM)The Real Joker2 Wrote: I thought it would be interesting to do a thread pointing out the history of the nations liberal representatives.

Lets start with Maxine Waters:
Maxine Moore Waters is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for California's 43rd congressional district since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, Waters is currently in her 15th term in the House, having served since 1991. She previously represented the state's 29th district and 35th district. She is the most senior of the twelve black women currently serving in Congress; she chaired the Congressional Black Caucus from 1997 to 1999.

Did you know:

1) She owns a 4.5 million dollar home-
https://truepundit.com/video-busted-pove...tes-walls/

Maxine Waters Under Siege: Congresswoman lives in $4.8M mansion, Paid daughter $750,000 to mail campaign flyers.

2) A few years ago, Waters was charged by the House ethics committee for allegedly securing bailout funds for a bank in which her husband owned stock.

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/11330...ree-counts

3) She received three counts of violating House rules in addition to the federal ethics code. These charges were linked to her moves to establish a meeting between OneUnited bank representatives and Treasury officials in 2008. The committee stated that Waters’ moves to benefit OneUnited bank would serve as personally beneficial to her own interests due to her husband’s ownership of stock. The Congresswoman and her attorney filed a motion to have the charges dismissed, but unsurprisingly, the ethics panel denied it.

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/11330...ree-counts


And she is now The Chair of the House Financial Services Committee.

I get the ethics charges, but why is Maxine Waters "busted" for being wealthy? Can only poor people work to end poverty?
If something can corrupt you, you're corrupted already.
- Bob Marley

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#28

(05-25-2019, 06:53 PM)rollerjag Wrote:
(05-23-2019, 07:59 AM)The Real Joker2 Wrote: I thought it would be interesting to do a thread pointing out the history of the nations liberal representatives.

Lets start with Maxine Waters:
Maxine Moore Waters is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for California's 43rd congressional district since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, Waters is currently in her 15th term in the House, having served since 1991. She previously represented the state's 29th district and 35th district. She is the most senior of the twelve black women currently serving in Congress; she chaired the Congressional Black Caucus from 1997 to 1999.

Did you know:

1) She owns a 4.5 million dollar home-
https://truepundit.com/video-busted-pove...tes-walls/

Maxine Waters Under Siege: Congresswoman lives in $4.8M mansion, Paid daughter $750,000 to mail campaign flyers.

2) A few years ago, Waters was charged by the House ethics committee for allegedly securing bailout funds for a bank in which her husband owned stock.

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/11330...ree-counts

3) She received three counts of violating House rules in addition to the federal ethics code. These charges were linked to her moves to establish a meeting between OneUnited bank representatives and Treasury officials in 2008. The committee stated that Waters’ moves to benefit OneUnited bank would serve as personally beneficial to her own interests due to her husband’s ownership of stock. The Congresswoman and her attorney filed a motion to have the charges dismissed, but unsurprisingly, the ethics panel denied it.

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/11330...ree-counts


And she is now The Chair of the House Financial Services Committee.

I get the ethics charges, but why is Maxine Waters "busted" for being wealthy? Can only poor people work to end poverty?

Because she's nothing but a corrupt politician who hypocritically castigates people for doing things less corrupt than her to get wealthy.
“An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers.”. - Plato

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#29

(05-26-2019, 08:44 AM)flsprtsgod Wrote:
(05-25-2019, 06:53 PM)rollerjag Wrote: I get the ethics charges, but why is Maxine Waters "busted" for being wealthy? Can only poor people work to end poverty?

Because she's nothing but a corrupt politician who hypocritically castigates people for doing things less corrupt than her to get wealthy.

This only bothers you when it's Liberal? Besides the Trump family, who is cashing in big time, who else is she castigating?
If something can corrupt you, you're corrupted already.
- Bob Marley

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#30

(05-27-2019, 04:18 PM)rollerjag Wrote:
(05-26-2019, 08:44 AM)flsprtsgod Wrote: Because she's nothing but a corrupt politician who hypocritically castigates people for doing things less corrupt than her to get wealthy.

This only bothers you when it's Liberal? Besides the Trump family, who is cashing in big time, who else is she castigating?

Short list of fun stuff from Mad Max.
“An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers.”. - Plato

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#31
(This post was last modified: 05-28-2019, 01:00 PM by HURRICANE!!!.)

(05-23-2019, 07:59 AM)The Real Joker2 Wrote: I thought it would be interesting to do a thread pointing out the history of the nations liberal representatives.

Lets start with Maxine Waters:

(05-23-2019, 08:16 AM)The Real Joker2 Wrote: Next up Steven Cohen:

(05-23-2019, 08:23 AM)The Real Joker2 Wrote: Next we have Elijah Cummings:


10 years on the Message Board and I've never seen any thread in which the initial 3 posts were made by the same person.

Congrats.
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#32

(05-28-2019, 01:00 PM)HURRICANE!!! Wrote:
(05-23-2019, 07:59 AM)The Real Joker2 Wrote: I thought it would be interesting to do a thread pointing out the history of the nations liberal representatives.

Lets start with Maxine Waters:

(05-23-2019, 08:16 AM)The Real Joker2 Wrote: Next up Steven Cohen:

(05-23-2019, 08:23 AM)The Real Joker2 Wrote: Next we have Elijah Cummings:


10 years on the Message Board and I've never seen any thread in which the initial 3 posts were made by the same person.

Congrats.

J-Dub: gone and forgotten.
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#33

(05-23-2019, 07:59 AM)The Real Joker2 Wrote: I thought it would be interesting to do a thread pointing out the history of the nations liberal representatives.

Lets start with Maxine Waters:
Maxine Moore Waters is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for California's 43rd congressional district since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, Waters is currently in her 15th term in the House, having served since 1991. She previously represented the state's 29th district and 35th district. She is the most senior of the twelve black women currently serving in Congress; she chaired the Congressional Black Caucus from 1997 to 1999.

Did you know:

1) She owns a 4.5 million dollar home

Being a black female who was born ~ 25 years prior to the Civil Rights Act (and only 20 years after women were granted the right to vote in the US), I'd have to say that she has done remarkably well for herself.
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(05-28-2019, 02:27 PM)HURRICANE!!! Wrote:
(05-23-2019, 07:59 AM)The Real Joker2 Wrote: I thought it would be interesting to do a thread pointing out the history of the nations liberal representatives.

Lets start with Maxine Waters:
Maxine Moore Waters is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for California's 43rd congressional district since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, Waters is currently in her 15th term in the House, having served since 1991. She previously represented the state's 29th district and 35th district. She is the most senior of the twelve black women currently serving in Congress; she chaired the Congressional Black Caucus from 1997 to 1999.

Did you know:

1) She owns a 4.5 million dollar home

Being a black female who was born ~ 25 years prior to the Civil Rights Act (and only 20 years after women were granted the right to vote in the US), I'd have to say that she has done remarkably well for herself.

Political corruption pays the big bucks!
“An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers.”. - Plato

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#35

(05-23-2019, 09:53 AM)Last42min Wrote: I like this. I would like to see one of the more progressive posters on this board do something similar with Republicans. It would be great to let each "side" make their case against the other. I bet we'd all be a little more annoyed with the system in Washington if politicians were scrutinized heavily.

"Progressive"

Such a positive term for such hate-filled rhetoric. If they don't agree with you - they are evil. If they don't think like you - they are evil. Everyone must be the same. EVERYONE!

Seriously though.. we don't need anyone to post the Republican side. The mainstream media reports on that EVERY SINGLE DAY. It's the liberals you never hear about.
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#36

The Democrat Party is seriously divided and in a lot of trouble.  Do they move even further left and oust some of the long time "establishment" people or does the "establishment" part of the party eliminate the far left wing?


There are 10 kinds of people in this world.  Those who understand binary and those who don't.
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#37

(05-27-2019, 06:30 PM)flsprtsgod Wrote:
(05-27-2019, 04:18 PM)rollerjag Wrote: This only bothers you when it's Liberal? Besides the Trump family, who is cashing in big time, who else is she castigating?

Short list of fun stuff from Mad Max.

None of those had much to do with the specific criticism you originally leveled at her. At least you're consistent. 

Do you ever criticize Trump?
If something can corrupt you, you're corrupted already.
- Bob Marley

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#38

(06-03-2019, 02:40 PM)jagibelieve Wrote: The Democrat Party is seriously divided and in a lot of trouble.  Do they move even further left and oust some of the long time "establishment" people or does the "establishment" part of the party eliminate the far left wing?

It's a long time until November, 2020. At lot of this will work itself out. Republicans will rest on their laurels expecting Democrats to feed on themselves at their own peril.
If something can corrupt you, you're corrupted already.
- Bob Marley

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#39

(06-03-2019, 03:14 PM)rollerjag Wrote:
(05-27-2019, 06:30 PM)flsprtsgod Wrote: Short list of fun stuff from Mad Max.

None of those had much to do with the specific criticism you originally leveled at her. At least you're consistent. 

Do you ever criticize Trump?

Sure, when he does stuff I disagree with I'll criticize him for it. Haven't seen much of that other than not being aggressive enough on his Obamacare repeal.
“An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers.”. - Plato

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#40

(06-03-2019, 02:40 PM)jagibelieve Wrote: The Democrat Party is seriously divided and in a lot of trouble.  Do they move even further left and oust some of the long time "establishment" people or does the "establishment" part of the party eliminate the far left wing?

I think both parties will end up split within the next 20 years. Buckle up kiddos, here come the Whigs!
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