Patriots already running for Congress

Frank Gonzalez is running for the 21st district in Florida. I have spoken with him and he even went to my friends house and sat down on the couch and talked to us all about such issues as ending the war on drugs, ending corruption, lowering taxes, stopping wars, getting to the bottom of 9/11 etc.... I dont trust any politicians, but he seems genuinely honest. Please give him all the support you can. In 04 he ran as a libertarian and almost won. Now he is running as a democrat agaisnt Republican Lincoln Diaz Bolart. If you can help in any way it would be appreciated, he seems like the real deal.

Clint Curtis is the whistlebolwer that came forward involving a request by a sitting Congressman to build a vote fraud prototype. That Congressman was also voted in the top three of the most corrupt Congressmen in Washington. His web site is www.ClintCurtis.com and he is running in Florida's 24th district for the US House seat against the very Congressman named for vote fraud and illegal Abramhoff trips. This is a totally honest individual who has been active in making sure that every citizens vote actually counts. He is in favor of immediate withdrawal from Iraq and keeping jobs in America. He has an actual plan for energy independence today, establishing universal health care, and fighting corruption. This isn't someone reading talking points but a man that lays out an actual plan for success. This is a guy that has put everything on the line to save our democracy. We need to make sure we get this person elected. All the better to make the point by tossing out one of the most corrupt congressmen in DC.

Andy has become one of the first Congressional candidates in the country to publicly back an impeachment probe of George W. Bush.

''I'd support it because I believe the president lied to the American people about the reasons for war,'' Warren said. ''I believe there is enough evidence to begin the process of impeachment hearings.''

Andy Warren
8th District PA
http://www.warrenforcongress.com/articles_details.asp?id=113

I am not running for office to make money nor am I running for office to obtain power. I am running for office to make a difference.

If the Republicans continue to refuse to clean their house, we must give the Democrats a majority in the House of Representatives so it can begin the process to demand answers from President Bush. Yes, indeed, I mean impeachment. The People cannot further afford the incompetence of this Administration and must demand action of the Congress.

The people of our nation must now stand up and say, "No more!" I will stand up for all of us whose hearts are heavy with sorrow over where our country is headed.

Karen Marie Otter
California District 52

http://www.otterforcongress.com/

* ...the immediate withdrawal of our troops from Iraq?
* ...Bush held accountable for the lies he told as an excuse to get us into Iraq, even if it means impeachment?
* ...a true national health care plan?

Arizona's 1st Congressional District
http://www.mikecforcongress.com/

Will a Democratic Majority make a difference?

Only if we get rid of Nancy Pelosi!
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/05/13/MNG94IRGOO1.DTL

Pelosi already had been cool to a House resolution that calls for creating a special House committee to investigate the administration, proceedings that could lead to Bush's impeachment over such issues as prewar intelligence and warrantless eavesdropping on Americans' phone calls.

The issue resurfaced after Pelosi appeared Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press.'' Host Tim Russert pressed her on Conyers' push for his impeachment resolution, notable because as the ranking minority Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, Conyers is in line to become committee chairman next year if the Democrats pick up the 15 seats they need to win a House majority.

Russert asked her: "Is impeachment off the table?''

Pelosi said, "Well, you never know where the facts take you, but -- for any president -- but that isn't what we're about.

In a memo sent to supporters this week, Pelosi stressed her priorities in the new Congress if Democrats win -- raising the minimum wage, implementing all recommendations of the Sept. 11 commission, cutting subsidies for oil companies, reducing student loan rates and making prescription drugs more affordable.

And she did nothing about the recent stolen election and then tells us this!
"But I will say this -- elections have ramifications. If they don't like the policies of our country, I encourage everyone to mobilize to change who is in power in Washington, D.C.," Pelosi said.

Alaska lawmakers atop list of lobbyist largesse
WASHINGTON -- An analysis of campaign contributions by the government watchdog group Public Citizen says Washington, D.C., lobbyists are big political donors, and that Alaska's delegation to Congress scoops up more of that money per lawmaker than any other state's.

That's because Alaska has only a three-member team, and two of the members are Sen. Ted Stevens and Rep. Don Young, among the most powerful members of Congress. Stevens was chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, and Young is chairman of the House Transportation Committee.

Since 1998, Washington lobbyists have contributed $663,000 to Stevens' campaign and his political action committee, making him their tenth-most favored senator. Young was tenth-most favored in the House, with $652,448, according to the Public Citizen analysis.

"What it tells me is lobbyists are trying to influence Don Young and Ted Stevens," said Taylor Lincoln, the primary author of the report.

Lobbyists gave almost $275,000 to Sen. Lisa Murkowski, putting her in 56th place in the Senate, although she was not a federal candidate for much of the period Public Citizen studied. She was appointed in 2002....

Young's campaign manager, Steve Dougherty, said lobbyist contributions have no influence on the congressman, and to suggest otherwise is unfair. Young, Dougherty said, campaigns hard, holding lots of fundraisers in Alaska and elsewhere.

"Congressman Young has friends and contributors all across the country," Dougherty said.
http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/7763454p-7675829c.html

Safavian faces up to 25 years in prison and $1.25 million in fines if he's found guilty of obstruction and making false statements.

Prosecutors submitted a string of e-mails that show how the lobbyist sought Safavian's help to obtain federal property for a school he operated in suburban Maryland, and for Indian tribes that he represented.

Other evidence includes a letter that Concord Township Republican Rep. Steve LaTourette wrote to former GSA head Stephen A. Perry about a prominent government building in downtown Washington that Abramoff wanted to turn into a hotel.

LaTourette and Rep. Don Young of Alaska sent the letter at the request of Neil Volz, who worked as a lobbyist for Abramoff and is scheduled to testify in court today about Abramoff's lobbying operation and the lavish Scotland trip. Volz previously worked as a top aide to Ney.
http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/news/1148546692278060.xml&coll=2

The bridge to nowhere...

The Congress becomes just a pork dispenser
By Michael Grunwald
The Washington Post
Published: Sunday, May 7, 2006

Last fall, House Transportation Committee Chairman Don Young, R-Alaska, and Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, earmarked $223 million to link the remote town of Ketchikan (population 8,900) to the more remote island of Gravina (population 50). The Bridge to Nowhere became a national symbol of congressional porkmania, lampooned by Leno, Letterman and Limbaugh.

It was the most brazen of the record-breaking 6,300-plus earmarks inserted by individual members of Congress into the record-breaking $286 billion transportation bill.

Young, a 33-year House veteran, defiantly boasted that he had stuffed the bill ''like a turkey.'' And Stevens, a 37-year senator, furiously threatened to resign if Congress shifted money away from Gravina and another bridge to nowhere near Anchorage - a bridge actually named Don Young's Way, near Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport.
http://www.registerguard.com/news/2006/05/07/ed.col.earmarks.0507.p1.php?section=opinion

More Democrats want their leaders to stand up against Bush, war
BY STEVEN THOMMA
Knight Ridder Newspapers

MANCHESTER, N.H. - Anti-war and anti-Bush fervor is growing among rank and file Democrats, threatening to pull the party to the left and creating a rift between increasingly belligerent activists and the party's leaders in Washington.

Many outside-the-Beltway Democrats want the party to turn forcefully against the war in Iraq and to investigate, censure or even impeach President Bush should the party win control of Congress this fall.

Yet party leaders such as Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York have maintained support for the war while criticizing the way Bush handled it, and have shied away from talk of using power to go to after him.

The fault line is evident as Democrats gather for spring and summer sessions filled with demands for bolder action by the congressional wing of their party, especially if they win control of the House or Senate in November.

In New Hampshire, the state that will kick off the party's 2008 presidential primary voting, activists gave thunderous ovations this weekend to Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., when he pressed his anti-war agenda, boasted that he alone among potential 2008 presidential candidates opposed the war from the start, and pushed for a censure of Bush.

In Maine Saturday, state Democrats passed a resolution urging impeachment.

In Ohio, the state that decided the last presidential election and is a pivotal battleground for this year's congressional elections, the state party chairman notes that the two top statewide candidates voted against the war and says 2008 candidates who did support it have some explaining to do.

And nationally, one poll shows that more than eight out of 10 Democrats now believe the United States should have stayed out of Iraq. The same poll for CBS News this spring showed that more than three out of five Democrats want U.S. troops out of Iraq as soon as possible, even if the country is not stable.

In one sign of the shifting sentiment, Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass, a possible repeat candidate for president, told supporters in an e-mail last week that "most members of Congress, myself included, share some responsibility for getting us into Iraq."

Another potential candidate, former Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina, says he made a mistake in voting to authorize the war.

And those who did vote against it now brag about it.
http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/mld/myrtlebeachonline/news/nation/14740572.htm

The 33rd Constitutional Convention of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union has gone on record urging Congress to enact HR 676, a bill introduced by Reps. John Conyers (D-Mich.) and Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) to implement a single-payer health care system in the U.S. The ILWU, whose convention met the third week in May, represents all dockworkers in West Coast ports from San Diego to Vancouver.

Several other international union conventions this summer are slated to consider the legislation in response to resolutions from their local union bodies. Included in this list are the United Auto Workers, National Association of Letter Carriers, Plumbers and Teamsters.

Supporters emphasize that HR 676 would cover every person in the U. S. for all necessary medical care including prescription drugs, hospitalization, dental, mental health, home health, physical therapy, substance abuse treatment, vision care and long-term care. HR 676 ends deductibles and co-payments. HR 676 would save billions annually by eliminating the high overhead and profits of the private health insurance industry and HMOs.

Seventy-one members of Congress have now signed on to the bill.
http://www.pww.org/article/articleview/9245/1/324