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Neil Lisst Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-25-05 04:18 PM
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Name 5 living Progressive Democrats you respect
Senator Tom Harkin

Jim Hightower

Ann Richards

Congressman Lloyd Doggett

Senator Russ Feingold

are my five.
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WI_DEM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-25-05 04:19 PM
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1. Russ Feingold, Jimmy Carter, John Conyers, Barbara Boxer,
and my Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin. Those are five, but there are more.
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Neil Lisst Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-25-05 04:36 PM
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16. I like all of those!!
good call!
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DBoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-25-05 04:19 PM
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2. Barbara Boxer,
Antonio Villaragosa
Henry Waxman

and 2 others
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peekaloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-25-05 04:20 PM
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3. Boxer, Waxman, Conyers,McKinney, RFK Jr.
Edited on Tue Oct-25-05 04:22 PM by peekaloo
p.s. :thumbsup: for your Texas love!
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Neil Lisst Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-25-05 04:42 PM
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19. I know every one of those Texans, too.
Edited on Tue Oct-25-05 04:46 PM by Neil Lisst
I think the world of each of them, and I hope they feel that way about me. I've worked in campaigns for Ann, for Jim, and for Lloyd. I've put together 501C3s for Jim and Lloyd, and I've created and bought tv, radio and print ads for them.

I'm part of the old school Texas Liberal Mafia.

I've been a big supporter of Harkin for over 20 years. We go back to his first Senate race. I spent the last 6 weeks of the campaign in Iowa with him. I was doing work with the SDCC at the time, and that was a race we needed to win bad, and we did.
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MN ChimpH8R Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-25-05 04:21 PM
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4. Ted Kennedy,
Barbara Boxer
Dennis Kucinich
John Conyers
George McGovern
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Mabus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-25-05 04:22 PM
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5. Gore, Dean, Clark, Conyers, Tubbs, Waters, Kennedy, McKinney and Byrd
Edited on Tue Oct-25-05 04:34 PM by Mabus
Sorry, couldn't stop at five. I've got more.

edited: meant Cynthia McKinney.
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prescole Donating Member (416 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-25-05 04:22 PM
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6. Patrick Moynihan RIP n/t
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LostInAnomie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-25-05 04:23 PM
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7. Howard Dean, RFK Jr., John Conyers, John Edwards...
... and Bill "Big Dog" Clinton.
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marmar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-25-05 04:23 PM
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8. John Conyers, Barbara Lee, Lynn Woolsey, Antonio Villaraigosa and ...
Gavin Newsome.

:yourock:
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DanCa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-25-05 04:25 PM
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9.  I am not sure what the progressive label means but ill give it a shot.
John Conyers,
Max Clealand
Barbra Boxer
Barrack Obama
Dennis Kucinnich
Again the distinction between liberal and progressive label is genuinely lost on me. I am not putting anyone down I am just letting you know. :D
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davhill Donating Member (854 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-25-05 04:32 PM
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12. Since Liberal has been made a dirty word
We use the term "Progressive" now. I would much rather we still used the word "Liberal". It has better connotations.
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DanCa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-25-05 04:35 PM
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15. Gotcha I need a scorecard to keep up with these labels.
Thanks for the info.
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Neil Lisst Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-25-05 04:39 PM
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18. I always liked being a populist. I'm old school.
call me old school prairie populist

The original GREEN party wanted looser banking policies and more currency printed.
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Neil Lisst Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-25-05 04:37 PM
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17. I don't know either, but progressive seems to have currency ...
... while liberal doesn't.

I think a liberal is a progressive who is over 30.
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Tierra_y_Libertad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-25-05 04:25 PM
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10. McKinney, Waters, Boxer, Lewis, Kucinich.
A mighty slim collection.
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Wind Dancer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-25-05 04:26 PM
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11. OK
Bernie Sanders

Dennis Kucinich

Cynthia McKinney

John Conyers

Sheila Jackson Lee
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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-25-05 04:35 PM
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14. Good list!
:thumbsup:
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Neil Lisst Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-25-05 04:52 PM
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23. I know Sheila, but she couldn't pick me out of a line-up
I was a fan and friend of Mickey Leland, who held the seat after Barbara Jordan and before Craig Washington, who was Sheila Jackson Lee's immediate predecessor.

I've never done more than say HI to her, however.

Liberal or progressive, Mickey was a great one, and Sheila is a work horse for good causes. She's a little difficult to work for, and she loves the camera, but she works hard for good causes and I salute her for that.
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Rowdyboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-25-05 04:33 PM
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13. Feingold, Clark, Kucinich, Boxer, and Rangel......I could go on for awhile
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txaslftist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-25-05 04:45 PM
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20. Dean, Kucinich (sp), Feingold, Boxer, Clark
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Neil Lisst Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-25-05 04:48 PM
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21. On behalf of my vegan friends and relatives ...
I salute your Kucinich selection, even though he looks like a Ferengi from Star Trek Whatever.
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txaslftist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-25-05 04:57 PM
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28. Ferengi? Well, at least he's not from Vega, unlike your friends.
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Snotcicles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-25-05 04:50 PM
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22. Only Five?
Howard Dean
Henry Waxman
David Bonior
Dick Gephardt
Al Gore
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pstans Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-25-05 04:52 PM
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24. Dean, Feingold, RFK Jr., Harkin (he's my Senator!), Kucinich
Edited on Tue Oct-25-05 04:53 PM by pstans
Boxer, Conyers could also be on the list.

Gore is becoming more and more progressive and leaving the corporate Clinton wing of the party.
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Zinfandel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-25-05 04:55 PM
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25. Kucinich, Boxer, Kennedy, Conyers & Waxman!!!!!
Edited on Tue Oct-25-05 05:53 PM by Zinfandel
Dennis Kucinich

Barbara Boxer

Ted Kennedy

John Conyers

Henry Waxman

These are true liberal progressives, not moderates, like so many others listed.
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spuddonna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-25-05 04:56 PM
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26. Conyers, Boxer, Waxman are in a class of their own....
Then for acting Senators... Byrd and Kennedy...
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Cookie wookie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-25-05 04:56 PM
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27. My top five: John Conyers, Howard Dean, Barbara Boxer
Russ Feingold and Dennis Kucinich -- all true American heroes.

Also greats: Sheila Jackson Lee, Wesley Clark, Russ Holt, Ted Kennedy, RFK, Jr., Cynthia McKinney, Robert Byrd, Tom Harkin, Corrine Brown, John Lewis

Also: Bob Graham, Jesse Jackson

And let's don't forget our heroes from the FCC: Michael Copps and Jonathan Adelstein who used their own money to travel around the country to stop further deregulation of the media and although outnumbered at the FCC, have held the line heroically.
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HillDem Donating Member (561 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-25-05 05:49 PM
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29. Durbin, Daschle, Feingold, Edwards, Gore
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progressivebydesign Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-25-05 05:51 PM
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30. Gore, Edwards, Conyers, P. Murray, McDermott. OMG forgot DEAN!! n/t
Edited on Tue Oct-25-05 05:52 PM by progressivebydesign
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JesterCS Donating Member (627 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-25-05 05:54 PM
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31. Edwards, Dean, Conyers, Feingold so i got 4 =p
NT
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Neil Lisst Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-25-05 06:51 PM
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32. love Conyers! he's old, old school.
He's so old, the Pips were in grade school when he was first elected to congress.
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fed-up Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-25-05 08:16 PM
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33. Kucinich, Boxer, McKinney, Lee, Waters n/t
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SeaNap05 Donating Member (103 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-25-05 08:28 PM
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34. Dean, Edwards, Gore, Rangel, and :"Jerry Brown"
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RandomKoolzip Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-25-05 08:33 PM
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35. Do you mean "progressive Democratic POLITICIANS?"
'cuz there's lotsa progdems I respect who are in no position of power at all.

The politicians I like the most are:

1. Kucinich

2. Obama

3. Conyers

4. Dean

5. McKinney
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drummo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-05 09:11 AM
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36. Hightower supported Nader in 2000. Helped put Bush in.
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Neil Lisst Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-27-05 11:42 AM
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41. You're right, and it's only my personal blinders on that ....
Edited on Thu Oct-27-05 11:44 AM by Neil Lisst
... which allows me to list him.

I was very displeased with that, but we never spoke of it. I called him after the election, however, to ask him to get Greens out in Austin for protests at the Governor's Mansion in November of 2000, to protest Bush stealing the election.

A lot of Greens did show for those protests.

I can't be mad at Jim. Been in too many trenches with him over the years, and I do respect his beliefs. But dizzam! Nader?!!


darth cheney returns today
http://www.webcomicsnation.com/neillisst
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dogfacedboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-05 09:17 AM
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37. Durbin, Obama, Feingold, Kucinich and Gore. n/t
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belle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-05 09:38 AM
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38. Obama, Tim Ryan, among others already listed
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Talismom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-27-05 11:30 AM
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39. Conyers, Boxer, Hightower, RFK Jr., Barbara Lee
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goodhue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-27-05 11:40 AM
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40. Kucinich, Conyers, Woolsey, McKinney, Baldwin
And five more for good measure: B. Lee, S. Brown, Hinchey, Waxman, J. Lewis
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Douglas Carpenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-27-05 12:04 PM
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42. George McGovern
A great man who I voted for on my 18th birthday.

Be sure to see the film "One Bright Shining Moment: The Forgotten Summer of George McGovern" -- see the trailer for this film

Here is the link -- the trailer is at the bottom of the page:

http://www.comingsoon.net/films.php?id=10451
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Sapphire Blue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-27-05 12:47 PM
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43. Conyers, Jackson Lee, Jones, Kucinich, Waters
Edited on Thu Oct-27-05 12:52 PM by Sapphire Blue
Edited to add: ... with very honorable mention to Boxer, McKinney, and Lee.

Would love to see a Presidential/Vice-Presidential team made up of a combination of any two of these Dems.
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Michigander4Dean Donating Member (588 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-27-05 12:50 PM
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44. He Whose Name Is In My Username
Edited on Thu Oct-27-05 12:50 PM by Michigander4Dean
Plus John Conyers, Feingold, Barbara Boxer, and Robert Byrd.
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Tinksrival Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-27-05 12:53 PM
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45. OOOO there's more than I thought!
Clark
Durbin
Feingold
Boxer
Conyers

Special mention for Charlie Rangel, still watchin Barrack O.
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-27-05 12:54 PM
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46. Conyers, Boxer, Kucinich.
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