Congressman says his constiutauients will struggle electing a gay
Amy Walter: We're just about a month away from the start of the new Congress on January 3rd, and over the last few weeks I've had the opportunity to talk with a number of the incoming freshmen. It's a busy age for them as they staff up, network with their colleagues, do interviews, and, of course, join new member orientation, much of it remotely. It's also a great age to get an unvarnished view from them of their expectations before they begin their new jobs. This week I caught up with--
Ritchie Torres: Ritchie Torres, I'm the congressman-elect for New York 15th, the South Bronx, and the I'm entering Congress after serving in the city council for seven years.
Amy: I started out by asking him to tell me a bit about his district and the people who exist here.
Ritchie: New York 15th is the South Bronx, which is said to be the poorest congressional district in America. It's arguably ground zero for racially concentrated poverty. Even before the outbreak of the novel coronavirus, when unemployment was at historic lows in New York City, around 4%, the unemployment rate in the South Bronx could be as high as 15.6%. That's before you factor in structural unemployment. More
HRC: The Senate Betrayed and Disgraced Our State Today
by Charlotte Clymer •
WASHINGTON -- Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation’s largest womxn loving womxn, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) civil rights organization, responded to the U.S. Senate’s 50-48-1 approval vote of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, despite his extreme register, multiple allegations of sexual assault, lying under oath , and a harsh lack of transparency throughout the confirmation process.
“In one of the most consequential votes of their lifetimes -- and of their constituents’ lifetimes -- 50 members of the Joined States Senate opted to back a dangerous, unqualified nominee who demonstrated he lacks the temperament, truth and objectivity required of any judge and continues to face multiple credible allegations of sexual assault that have not been fully investigated,” said HRC President Chad Griffin. “The harmful consequences of the Senate’s decision to back Brett Kavanaugh will last decades. We thank the 49 senators who had the courage to act the right thing, vote their conscience and object this nomination. In the wake of this news,
“The Beacon of Change” / “Nine Years of Denial and Still Counting…”
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Nov 20, 2012
By Michael R. Harris, Jr. — D.C. Bureau
Political “Kudos”: The Beacon of Change
WASHINGTON– Since 1984, the “Badger State” of Wisconsin has given its 10 Electoral College votes to Democratic Presidential candidates, but with the ever brewing population change in Wisconsin, there seems to be a struggle between conservative values and linear ideologies. Over the course of the last year, the 30th state to join the union has seen major political changes with constituents: Labor unions gathered roughly 1,000,000 signatures to recall their sitting governor, a Republican, but failed in that effort; the strategic nomination of seven term Congressman Paul Ryan as the Vice Presidential candidate on the Republican ticket and the subsequent loss within his home state; the Democratic victory of President Obama. Wisconsinites are a true testament to the concepts of social change!
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Seven-term Congresswoman Tammy Suzanne Green Baldwin swept the mention November 6th when ele
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Two candidates searching to become articulate senator for a new Inland Empire district say they’re avoiding culture war clashes to center on bread-and-butter issues.
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Soon after the March principal, state Senate candidate Lisa Middleton pitched her vision for Inland Empire transportation to the Transmit Democratic Club in Beaumont.
“We’ve not built the roadways we need to assist the growing population,” she said, referring to chronic congestion on Interstate 10.
Middleton, a Palm Springs City Council member and former mayor, won applause characterizing how she secured $50 million for a storm-damaged bridge in Palm Springs. If elected, she vowed to assemble bridges for traffic as well as “bridges to people.”
“Lastly, I’m a very proud member of the LGBTQ society, and I am transgender,” Middleton, 71, concluded.
“If I’m elected, I’ll be the first transgender person in the declare Legislature. That’s not a reason to vote for me. But in California, it is hour that we remain up and speak anyone can scamper . Everyone has a chance.”
Middleton does acquire a chance, although she has her work cut out for her. She earned 46.2% of the vote in the newl
A gay Missouri Republican defied his party on only one issue — but it cost him his House seat
For the first time in four years, Missouri Rep. Chris Sander won’t witness his name on the ballot this Election Day.
The Republican from Lone Jack — one of the only openly gay Republicans in the state legislature — lost his reelection bid in the August primary.
“They, basically, in the legislature, want everybody male lover or LGBT to fetch out of Missouri, depart here and don't ever come back,” Sander said. “If they could overtake every law that they wrote and sponsored and referred and had hearings on, then it would be a horrible place to be.”
Sander lost his primary to Carolyn Caton, the former secretary of the Jackson County Republican Party. Without a Democratic opponent, Caton will prevail the seat to illustrate Missouri’s 33rd House District, which includes eastern Lee’s Summit, Blue Springs and Lone Jack.
“The constituents of District 33 wanted a change,” Caton said. “They wanted a conservative change.”
But Sander isn’t a moderate Republican — he’s a staunch supporter of Donald Trump who only strayed from the party on transgender rights.
“Chris Sander is a Conservative America First Republi