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Politics : John EDWARDS for President -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (1091)	3/1/2004 10:06:04 PM
From: PROLIFE	Respond to of 1381

Kerry not on roll with voting By Jonathan Wells and Maggie Mulvihill Monday, March 1, 2004 Presidential hopeful John F. Kerry [related, bio] has been a virtual no-show in the U.S. Senate over the past 14 months, but he hasn't missed a paycheck, even though a dusty federal law says some of his $158,000 salary should have been withheld. During his run for the presidency, Kerry has missed every one of the 22 roll call votes in the Senate this year and was absent for 292, or 64 percent of the roll call votes last year, according to a Herald review of Senate records. That means the Massachusetts senator has been away from his post in the Senate chamber for at least 128 days over the past 14 months. Kerry is not the only political truant. U.S. Sen. John Edwards [related, bio] (D-N.C.), the runner-up behind Kerry in the hunt for the Democratic nomination, has also missed every roll call this year and skipped 178, or 39 percent of the votes last year. Kerry, when the assets of his wife are included, is one of the wealthiest members of the Senate with a reported net worth somewhere between $198 million and $838 million. However, he and the other AWOL candidates have been spared the automatic paycuts called for in a long-ignored federal law passed in the 1850s. Section 39 of the United States Code Service requires the Secretary of the Senate and the Chief Administrative Officer of the House to deduct daily pay from members for each day they are absent. The only legal excuse is if the senator or representative, or one of their family members, is ill, the law states. Dominick Ianno, executive director of the Massachusetts Republican Party, said he finds it ``offensive'' that Kerry is still receiving his full Senate pay. ``I think it's a slap in the face to every hard-working taxpayer who shows up to work every day to earn their pay,'' Ianno said. ``John Kerry [related, bio] is not showing up for work and he shouldn't get paid. He certainly doesn't need the money.'' Kerry campaign spokesman Michael Meehan said the senator has fulfilled his legislative obligations fully while on the campaign trail by maintaining regular contact with his staff in Washington D.C. and Massachusetts. ``In the age of telecommunications, Sen. Kerry is in daily contact with his chief of staff,'' Meehan said. ``Voting is just one small part of being a U.S. senator.'' Meehan said Kerry has missed no roll calls in the past 14 months in which his vote would have altered the outcome. Kerry plans to be in Washington tomorrow, Super Tuesday, to cast his vote on hotly contested gun safety legislation. The Edwards campaign did not return a Herald phone call. On Feb. 26, Kerry and Edwards were in Southern California for a debate and missed a Senate vote that allows gun manufacturers legal immunity if they are sued by crime victims harmed by guns the dealers legitimately sold. The bill passed the Senate 75-22. And when the Senate debated and passed the historic Medicare prescription drug legislation in November - providing sweeping benefits for seniors and disabled people - Kerry was in Council Bluffs, Iowa, pitching education reform. news.bostonherald.com

To: American Spirit who wrote (1091)	3/3/2004 12:26:26 PM
From: Ann Corrigan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1381

It's not over yet. Have to hand it to the Dean people. They're sharp plus persistent. Following from the Edwards website: Stick with your candidate! - from a Dean supporter Wednesday March 03, @01:05PM For the record I just want to say that I pray that John Edwards does not bend to the same pressures that Dean apparently fell to. It would be such a shame for him to allow himself to be bullied by the idiots running the Democratic Party. And if he does drop out today, I hope that each and every one of you out there WILL CONTINUE TO FIGHT TOOTH AND NAIL for Edwards delegates in the remaining states. I have never in my life seen a poorer candidate for president that pathetic excuse for a candidate, John Kerry. We are SO VERY CLOSE to a brokered convention. You cannot give up right now. Fight with everything you have for delegates in the remaining states. And in the end, there's still a chance that Kerry will not take this, that your candidate will get it by default. And you must fight for that, no matter how slim the chance. In order for this to happen you have to do what the Deaniacs were unable to do. You MUST stick togehter by your man. The media, the DNC... they will throw everything they have at you over the next few days, they will seek to divide and conquer you. If they split your resolve they will win. And they will do everything possible to make you run around like chickens with your heads cut off. I've read through your blog this morning, and it's already starting to happen. The convention is not until July people. Remember that. It's a long way until July... anything can happen. If you work your asses of, you can do something here that will be remembered. You can help force change in our party. And despite our differences, can we all agree that there is something very, very sick in the Democratic party? The people can still rise up and have a say about our convention. Kerry does not have to be the crowned prince of the DNC. You and I both know that Rove will eat him for breakfast. We all know that there will be NO energy behind a Kerry nominee. We all know that the chances of him raising money from Clark, Dean, Kucinich and Edwards supporters is rather slim. And we all know that there will be no rally cry to support Kerry from the Greens and more clear-headed Republicans out there. Kerry's record of nothingness will become apparently clear. Ignore the Kerry trolls who will come begging for your support. They know that they have to beg. Because simply serving in Vietnam does not a president make. Please. What a crock. A republican I know made an observation that I'd like to share with you all. "When Democrats run on fear, they lose. And vice versa, when Republicans run on hope, they lose." Well, nominating John Kerry is a move made purely on fear. So I ask you, on behalf of all the people in this country who don't know any better. For those poor fools who let the pundits on CNN tell them who to vote for. For those who beleive in a fake concept of electibility, because they've heard it repeated over and over on TV for the last few months, and for all those who don't know that ABB is a recipe for disaster. Fight. Stick by your man. Stick with your conscience. Do not allow yourselves to be bullied by the people who run our country. Remember, no matter what anyone tells you... you do not have to stop fighting until a nominee has been named in Boston. And in fact, you shouldn't stop fighting. Our government was intended to be by the people and for the people. No one ever said anything about the media. If you're in a state that has not voted yet, get out there and show some support for Edwards. This is not the time to silently wish for a miracle. Get out there and make that miracle happen. Paper your communities. Put up posters, stickers, put flyers on cars, make banners to put up over freeways-- do everything you can to encourage people to vote for delegates. Delegates are the key here. Get delegates, and Kerry cannot hit the magic number before the convention. Get delegates and they will be the last ones to speak for the majority of us who do NOT support Kerry. Wednesday March 03, @01:15PM By the way, it doesn't take that much to get this going. but you can't wait for leadership from above. You, the people who are reading this must become the leaders. What makes this idea so powerful is that it must come from the bottom up... from the grassroots, if you will. It has to be the people revolting against the front-loaded primary system concocted to get Kerry nominated. And don't think for a second that there are not major parties involved in the play to make that happen. We've all been good little Americans, doing our research and supporting the candidates who best represent our views. The problem is that they never expected so many of us to care. That's why they're exerting major pressure on the "other" candidates. That's why all you heard on TV before Wisconsin was a call for Dean to quit. Never mind the actual process of electing a nominee... never mind that he was SECOND in delegates at the time. And no they're doing the same thing to your man Edwards. They pressure the ones who are doing well to drop out, and they leave Kucinich and Sharpton alone... because they don't feel threatened by them. You all are SECOND in delegates, with Dean running right behind you. Look at us. We focused on Vermont and WON... we focused and trying to get votes out in CA, and we were still able to take Delegates for Dean. You can do teh same thing in Texas, Florida and the other remaining states. Focus on districts where you're already doing well. Get out there and get people to vote for delegates. Then at the convention, we all have to encourage our candidates fo choice to band to gether to takes this away from Kerry. If Edwards, Dean, and the others combine their delegates, we have the power to upset the plans of the DNC.