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Dems Will Win Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-04-07 05:45 PM
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Barack Obama Introduces Bill Making Robo-Call Abuse and Voter Suppression A Federal Crime
Edited on Sun Feb-04-07 05:51 PM by Dems Will Win


YOU GONNA MAKE A FEDERAL CASE OUT OF IT??

YES.

That makes 68 bills Obama is the lead sponsor on since coming to Congress.

Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) yesterday added election fraud to the spectrum of weighty issues he has covered since informally launching his presidential bid, further fleshing out a legislative record that could be an inviting target in the intensifying 2008 campaign.

Obama sought to stay focused on his bill criminalizing voter suppression and deceptive electoral tactics, his third momentum-building effort in two weeks, ...

Yesterday’s voter-deception bill, which would allow injunctive relief for individuals targeted by fraudulent flyers and automated phone calls during the run-up to Election Day, earned plaudits from civil-rights groups and the co-sponsorship of Sen. Charles Schumer (N.Y.), the Democratic Caucus’s No. 3 and a backer of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) in 2008.

...

Obama weighed in late Tuesday with an Iraq measure that would require a start to troop withdrawal by May and an end to the process by March 31, 2008 — mere weeks after the presidential showdown of the “Super Tuesday” primaries. That hard date for drawdown goes a step beyond Clinton’s rhetoric on the war, while matching one of her goals by allowing for troops to move out of Iraq and into Afghanistan.


Civil-rights lions at the People for the American Way (PFAW), the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights (LCCR) also marshaled behind Obama’s election-fraud remedy. PFAW will partner with Obama for a voter-suppression event next week, and LCCR executive director Barbara Anwine was glowing in her praise for Obama.

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“There’s an old saying in Chicago politics: Good policy is good politics,” the source said.

...

Yet Obama will have to determine eventually whether to directly or subtly parry skeptical questions about his legislative experience, such as Biden’s judging him “a one-term” in the Observer this week or Dick Morris’s false charge in December that Obama “has never introduced a bill.”

Obama served as lead sponsor on 66 bills and 86 amendments during the 109th Congress, according to the Library of Congress.


http://thehill.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/020107/obama.html



This guy is a Legislative Sex Machine!

Do you think this law is a good idea? What does it say about Obama that he was the first to write the law, plus the 67 other bills he was lead sponsor on?

Please recommend to help make Voter Suppression a major issue at the debates...
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twilight_sailing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-04-07 05:47 PM
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1. You gotta like Obama.
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Colobo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-04-07 05:48 PM
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3. Super Obama
This guy is all business. Gotta love him.
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twilight_sailing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-04-07 05:56 PM
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10. Hey, Welcome!
Edited on Sun Feb-04-07 05:58 PM by twilight_sailing
I never do this, but, "Hey, Welcome! Katzenkavalier."

Too many consonants and not enough vowels, if you ask me. ;)

I'll be looking out for you.
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Colobo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-04-07 06:38 PM
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16. Thanks, twilight!
I appreciate it! :)
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mzmolly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-04-07 06:58 PM
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17. Indeed.
:toast:
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KingFlorez Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-04-07 05:48 PM
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2. This is a good idea
Those robo-calls were out of control last year and bordered on harassment.
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Dems Will Win Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-04-07 05:54 PM
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7. Didn't border on -- it WAS harrassment, they were waking up people several times at 6 AM
Edited on Sun Feb-04-07 05:58 PM by Dems Will Win
and the way the call went, the RNC made it sound like it was a Democratic candidate calling!!

People were furious and called the Dem candidates to cuss them out.
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The Straight Story Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-04-07 05:50 PM
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4. Clean up this town
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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-04-07 05:53 PM
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5. And what will be the federal penalty for this crime?
Laws need sharp, pointy teeth.

Understand that I'm not against hanging anyone who doesn't treat a vote with the same awe and reverence as the holy grail.
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Morgana LaFey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-04-07 07:41 PM
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20. I think that's appropriate too. However
you'd probably need a Right to Vote amendment to the Constitution, which I strongy favor. Various courts have said in handing down their decisions on voting or election law suits that there is no "right to vote" in the Constitution. We need to fix this for once and for all.

THEN we can proceed with the hangings. :evilgrin:
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Superman Returns Donating Member (804 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-04-07 05:53 PM
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6. So much for the accussations
that he hasn't done much in the Senate.

Btw, love the pic!!!
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Dems Will Win Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-04-07 05:55 PM
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9. Hmm wonder why you like the pic so much...
Wait! It's coming to me --

No, it's gone.
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Dems Will Win Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-04-07 06:28 PM
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15. It's on the tip of my tongue...
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Olney Blue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-04-07 05:55 PM
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8. I love this new cover of Ebony- just saw it at the grocery store.
http://www.ebony.com/assembled/home.html
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Dems Will Win Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-04-07 05:57 PM
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12. I think the lady with him, her middle name is Oprah...
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derby378 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-04-07 05:56 PM
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11. I'm sure fellow IL Dem Tammy Duckworth is still smarting over her loss...
I still remember reading about the GOP robo-calls that are often blamed for her defeat last year. I say more power to Obama. Sic 'em!
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Dems Will Win Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-04-07 06:09 PM
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13. The Dems would have won several more seats if there had been no
robo-call abuse
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John Q. Citizen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-04-07 06:15 PM
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14. Yes, I can support this bill. Good on Obama for writing and introducing it.
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ooglymoogly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-04-07 07:25 PM
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18. as our very civilization is at stake
Edited on Sun Feb-04-07 07:33 PM by ooglymoogly
it should be no less than TREASON punishable by death by firing squad or hanging. we should be taking no prisoners in our struggle to save this failing democracy...and yet it is a first step...thank you obama...we are watching and hoping so pull a rabbit out of the hat or something...get up on that soapbox and if you get it right we will by your soap by the bucket. kr
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Morgana LaFey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-04-07 07:39 PM
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19. Yes, it's a VERY good idea
and while I'm not overly fond of Obama-the-candidate, what it says about Obama is way less important to me than what it says about everyone else who seems not to have NOTICED we needed something like this.
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Dems Will Win Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-04-07 07:47 PM
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21. That's what I thought
HE did it FIRST
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sakabatou Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-04-07 07:53 PM
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22. Those are very needed
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Dems Will Win Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-04-07 09:13 PM
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23. kick
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Jack Rabbit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-04-07 09:15 PM
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24. If passed it should be cited as the Harris-Blackwell Act of 2007
Any thoughts?
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Dems Will Win Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-04-07 10:41 PM
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25. I agree!!
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Dems Will Win Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-05-07 04:06 PM
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26. kick
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Ignacio Upton Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-05-07 04:07 PM
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27. Aside from this, we need an investigation into the 2006 robo-calls
n/t.
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