Who is Marcy Kaptur (D) and why is she kicking so much ass?(10 PM ET)

[Khephra]

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[JohnKleeb]

1. congresswoman from Ohio

I think she is like Kucinich on many of the issues I think I may be wrong though.

[eridani]

29. You must be right

I think she's actually endorsed Kucinich, and I hope we hear a lot more from her on the national stage.

[goobergunch]

32. I don't think so, but I'm at school right now

and my definitive spreadsheet is at home. :-(

[goobergunch]

2. D-Toledo, very pro-labor Dem...

She actually ran for Democratic leader against Pelosi and Ford, but lost miserably.

EDIT: Her website: http://wwwc.house.gov/kaptur/default.asp

[blm]

3. From Ohio...she's on my dream shortlist for VP.

She is TOUGH and great on labor issues.

[JohnKleeb]

5. Kucinich/Kaptur?

I know that wouldnt work though because two people from the same state cant run on the same ticket but she sounds great :thumbsup:

[yankeeinlouisiana]

13. All she has to do

is get a second home in Wyoming. It worked for Cheney. :-)

[JohnKleeb]

19. lol

why would she wanna be out there near Dick seriously though that would be a killer ticket. Maybe she could be his labor secretary, I didnt know she was pro labor as they get, I would love it if DK appointed a union head for the job but she would be awesome.

[karlschneider]

14. That didn't stop Shrub and Cheeny.............

:grr:

[JohnKleeb]

20. sorry karl but we gots honor

[TacticalPeek]

25. A Constitutional Abomination that overwhelms my capacity for disgust.

I am curious how many articles a Nexis search would turn up on this 'Oil Twins' finesse the Founding Fathers, vs, say, how many articles on Gore's choice of colors in his suits.

The Constitutional design team had a reason for their prohibition, damn it, and we see the geometric proof of their superior logic today in the bloody debacle in the foreign sand.

I fail to see how ANYONE in the shameful media can get out of bed in the morning.

[Yupster]

27. She'd have to move to Wyoming

What the Constitution says is you can have VP and Prez from same state, but electors have to vote for prez and VP, one of which cannot be from the same state as the elector. Therefore, you theretically could run two from Ohio, but Ohio electors would have to vote for someone else for VP.

If somehow a court had ruled that Cheney was a Texan, the Texas electors would have voted for someone other than Cheney. Bush would have been prez, but the VP would have had to have been picked by the Senate, who would have picked Cheney anyway.

On edit -- or was the Senate 50-50 then? In that case, Gore? would have broken the tie so the VP would have been Lieberman?

[Khephra]

4. She just entered my "radar"

Man, she's great!

[Khephra]

6. "clearly, this administration doesn't know what it's doing."

heheheheheh

[Khephra]

7. I wanna hear more from her

She's got IT.

[blm]

17. Perot was looking to have her run with him

as VP. He was very antiNAFTA at the time, and she was so popular with labor.

[bobd]

8. She's My Congressional Rep

She represents the district I live in - Toledo, Ohio. She IS great. She's smart, eloquent, and very friendly.

Bob D.

[goobergunch]

11. You are very lucky! (n/t)

[Maccagirl]

9. Marcy Rocks!

She's one of the good ones!

[KoKo]

10. Here's Who Marcy Kaptur is: And, why we should love her! Her NAFTA Speech

A Magnificent speech so many years ago........here's the link.....it's worth the read....I heard her give this one: http://gos.sbc.edu/k/kaptur.html


If Boeing makes a deal to outsource airframe production to China, who
benefits? Does the productive wealth of America increase? Do jobs here at
home increase? Or do a handful of executives and unaccountable
shareholders merely pocket millions for themselves? There is a difference
between "money for a few" and the "wealth of a nation." Further, does the
edge of freedom advance -- or do Chinese men and women workers, denied
basic freedoms, work for "hunger wages" in a society that does not value
liberty nor their inalienable rights as human beings?

For 20 years, America's middle-class families have not had an increase in
their real wages. You know that. Our checks don't buy as much. Today a
high school graduate with five years work experience makes 27% less in real
wages than his counterpart did in 1979. In the 1950's, one working person
could provide for a family of four. In the '90's, it takes two family members
working full-time just to keep the family afloat. Isn't there something wrong
when worker productivity in America has steadily risen, but workers' wages
and benefits continue to decline?

Our international trade agreements have been a net destroyer of millions of
jobs in our country over the last two decades. Wouldn't you think someone
in charge would notice? Since 1980, the U.S. has accumulated a net loss of
wealth of over $1 trillion in traded goods. One result is the U.S. has lost
more than 2 million well-paying manufacturing jobs: 300,000 jobs have
been lost in textiles, 287,000 jobs in steel, 128,000 jobs in construction
equipment, and 60,000 in computers and office equipment. The list goes on.
This past year alone, in spite of the gentle recovery, permanent layoffs in
just the textile, apparel, and chemical-industries-together amounted to over
103,000 more lost jobs. America's never had a recovery where we've lost
so many manufacturing jobs!

Why doesn't our media ever cover these casualties? Could it be even our
media has become beholden to the corporate advertisers that fill their
coffers? It is, after all, corporate advertising that pays for the rubbish we are
subjected to over the public airwaves. Our mass media is becoming
increasingly owned by a few corporate giants. For example, General Electric
which has terminated thousands of U.S. workers, owns NBC; billionaire
Lawrence Tisch owned CBS until he agreed to sell to Westinghouse; and
Capital Cities, which owned ABC, is being swallowed by Disney. Behind
these financial empires lies an even more tangled web of interownership.
Wells Fargo International Trust, for instance, is the biggest shareholder in
General Electric. It is also the 5th largest shareholder in Capital Cities, the
7th largest shareholder in CBS, the 4th largest shareholder in Time-Warner.
And, just to round out the circle, Wells Fargo is also the 3rd largest
shareholder in Disney. Wells Fargo is not unique. Other major institutional
investors such as Bankers Trust, Capital Research & Management and
Fidelity Management & Research all own substantial holdings in each of
these media giants. Sound familiar? These are the same barbarians at the
gate we met back in the 1980's as merger mania hollowed out America's
productive wealth. Is it no fact that the one who pays the piper generally
calls the tune?

[ShaneGR]

12. We call her Miss Labor

She's UBERLABOR.

[jonnyblitz]

15. damn she was awesome in the 90's. Used to watch her on C-SPAN

I am suprised you never heard of her til now! seriously surprised!

[Khephra]

18. I never watched CSPAN until 2000

And then I pay more attention to the Senate than the House.

[jonnyblitz]

26. aaaah...the house used to get wacky during the days of Newt!

I used to watch CSPAN-1 all the time in the 90's. I didn't have CSPAN2 on the cable system where I was. My favorite thing to watch was that wackjob BoB Dornan give his anti-clinton tirades during after hours on special orders. Those were hysterical. I couldn't believe people in southern California keot voting that dipshit back into office

[goobergunch]

16. ADA, ACU, National Journal ratings

ADA: 95 in 2002, 85 in 2001, 75 in 2000
ACU: 18 in 2002, 30 in 2001, 18 in 2000
National Journal (2002): 77% LIB - 23% CON

[goobergunch]

21. Is this Special Order Speeches?

And if so, what's the topic?

I'm stuck doing homework right now...:grr:

[Khephra]

23. Dunno

She off now...

[LittleApple81]

24. It was the hearing for the 20B part of the 87b to be used in

reconstruction of Iraq
one of the democratic representatives she tore into Bremer and one of her questions is: What were we thinking appointing Chalabi, a convicted felon?
Besides, she mentioned Bush, Cheney, Halliburton, Carlyle, and oil in one sentence: this war was about oil.

Also in the same hearing the representative from New Jersey tore into Bremer (lies from administration, money requested leads to the next election only, etc. etc. Bremer was boiling, could not even answer).

[KoKo]

22. Oh Man....I'm so glad to hear Kaptur's BACK.....!

:-)'s

[Yupster]

28. Kapyur was Perot's first choice for Veep

before he dropped out. She wouldn't do it.

[shirlden]

30. We are going to lose her if

we don;t do something quickly. Lucas County (Toledo) just became the first county in Ohio to announce they are buying all new Diebold Machines. Of course, Lucas is also one of the few counties in Ohio that have a strong Dem population. Our sneaky SOS (SOB) Blackwell is obviously targeting the Dem areas first.

:argh:

[jonnyblitz]

31. well. I am grateful to all the people in her district

for voting her into office. :hi: