Ros-Lehtinen Busy Gunning for Venezuela and Cuba

[magbana]

This woman is just plain evil..... You can read the full text of the legislation here
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:H.R.375
WARNING, It's hard to swallow!!!!

H.R.375 : To enhance the security of the Western Hemisphere and bolster regional capacity and cooperation to counter current and emerging threats, to promote cooperation in the Western Hemisphere to prevent the proliferation of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons, to secure universal adherence to agreements regarding nuclear nonproliferation, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Ros-Lehtinen, Ileana (introduced 1/9/2009) Cosponsors (2)
Committees: House Foreign Affairs
Latest Major Action: 1/9/2009 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.

[Peace Patriot]

1. Throw Diebold and ES&S election theft machines into 'Boston Harbor' NOW!

It's the only way we will be able to get rid of trash like this.

[Mika]

2. Pushing for the normalization of US/Cuba relations is how to get rid of them also.

In addition to ending Helms-Burton, the Lieberman Act, Libertad Act, and the myriad of other unjust sanctions on Cuba, normalization also means ending the Cuban Adjustment Act and Wet Foot/Dry Foot perks.

Normalization completely destroys the only platform these cretins stand on.


Of course we all know that the root of most all of this evil is US campaign financing (aka: bribery by moneyed special interests).

[Judi Lynn]

3. Hope the Democrats will finally put the beast the Cubans call "the She-Wolf" back in her place.

She appeared to believe _Bush was her ticket to the stars, and she gathered a lot of clout under _Bush. Let's hope that was as far as she's going to get, as this beligerent idiot has absolutely NOTHING this country needs in leadership.

From her Wikipedia:

Ros-Lehtinen was born in Havana, Cuba to Enrique Ros and his wife, Amanda Adato.

She received her Bachelor of Arts in education and her Master of Arts in educational leadership from Florida International University. She attended the University of Miami where she earned a Ph.D in higher education.<2> She was a member of the Florida House of Representatives from 1982 to 1986, and was then a one-term member of the Florida Senate before entering the House.

Prior to entering political life, Ros-Lehtinen was an educator and the owner/operator of a private school in Miami-Dade County.<3> Upon her election to succeed the late Congressman Claude Pepper, she became the first Cuban American woman elected to the United States Congress.

Religious Views
Project Vote Smart lists Ros-Lehtinen as Episcopalian.<2> Ros-Lehtinen’s maternal grandparents were Sephardic Jews from Turkey who had been active in Cuba’s Jewish community.<4> Her mother later converted to Catholicism.<4>

Political Views

Ros-Lehtinen was an original author of the Vision Care for Kids Act. She is also an original cosponsor of the Vision Preservation Act.Ros-Lehtinen is a Republican, although she sides with the Democrats on the issue of gay rights. She supports anti-hate crime laws, anti-discrimination bills, believes gays and lesbians should be allowed to serve openly in the armed forces, voted against the Federal Marriage Amendment, and is one of two Republican members of the LGBT congressional caucus.<5> She is considered conservative on foreign, economic, and other social policy. Ros-Lehtinen is a supporter of President Bush's surge policy in Iraq, a supporter of Israel and supports continued sanctions against Cuba.

Among Ros-Lehtinen's other conservative views include votes against the estate tax on the wealthy, votes in favor of President Bush's tax cuts, for fuel efficiency standards on autos, drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, support of the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), votes in favor of making the Patriot Act permanent, support of the Military Commissions Act, votes against funding for stem cell research, and votes against SCHIP.

She is also a frequent guest on Real Time with Bill Maher.

Congressional committee assignments
Committee on Foreign Affairs (Ranking Member)
Co-Chair, Congressional Vision Caucus
Co-Chair, National Marine Sanctuary Caucus
LGBT Caucus

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Cuba

Ileana Ros-Lehtinen plays a prominent role in the Cuban-American lobby, which aims to put pressure on the Cuban government and encourage political change on the island. She is a member of the Congressional Cuba Democracy Caucus. She is the daughter of Enrique Ros, a Florida based Cuban business man and anti-Fidel Castro activist and Amanda Adato. Ros-Lehtinen also advances strongly held views on Cuba, and has lobbied against ending the United States embargo against that country. In 2004 she formed the Cuba Democracy Group aimed at curtailing U.S. agriculture exports and preventing U.S. banks from doing business with the Cuban government.<13>

Ros-Lehtinen has defended former fugitive Velentin Hernández, convicted of murdering Luciano Nieves, a fellow Cuban exile who supported negotiations with the Cuban government,<14> In the 1980s Ros-Lehtinen lobbied for the release and pardon of Cuban exile Orlando Bosch, who had been convicted of terrorist acts and has also been accused of involvement in the 1976 bombing of Cubana Flight 455, which killed 73 people, helping organize an "Orlando Bosch day" to gain support for his release.<15><16><17> Ros-Lehtinen played a prominent role in the failed attempt by relatives of Elian Gonzalez to gain custody of six year old from his Cuban father, describing Cuba as "that system of godless communism".<18> She also attempted to block Jimmy Carter's visit to the island in 2002.<19><20>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ileana_Ros-Lehtinen