better know a district: the ilx home game

Basis for West Wing's Josh Lyman and 50 State Plan opponent whose office never responds to voice mails, Rahm Emanuel.

What do you know . . . mine is also Diane Watson. We call this area Micro-micronesia.

Eleanor Holmes Norton suckas

she ain't allowed a vote cause those other fools afraid and they right to be

I have the one, the only...

Dana Rohrabacher.

Hoo boy.

mine's named vito!

Frank Dobson Lab, Former secretary of state for Health.

Stephen Dorrell who was once Secretary of State for Health under John Major. Old school One Nation tory

My home district is served by the fantastic Keith Ellison - first Muslim in Congress.

http://www.keithellison.com

Mary Lou Dickerson (No. 36 in WA). Female Dem who seems to not do much except be a female Dem. :/

Suzy, is that the right link?!

Make the Move From Mediocre to Magnificent!

Hello,

I’m Keith Ellison and I’m a farmer... I grow people.

Andrew Smith - Blairite.

Hello, I'm on about four hours of sleep, argh:

http://www.keithellison.org

Keith Ellison. I'm a little surprised that I knew that off the top of my head. Don't ask me who my state-level representatives are.

Rick Larsen, currently trying to push for a new wilderness area in my county.

I went to KE's sendoff to Washington and would like to see him give advice to Obama re: OMG bigots as O clearly needs it.

Kate Ellis MP, Minister for Youth, Sport & Lookin' Sexxxay.

Nancy Boyda, D-KS

Rodney Frelinghuysen (R-NJ), who's essentially stealing a paycheck

http://www.glenda-jackson.co.uk/images/uploads/166291/L_3cf6d097-632e-1c84-f9b2-4fa1e17d343f.jpg

One of the few currently serving members of parliament worldwide to have got her pubes out on screen.

I have moved from Glendaland to Dobsonland, AND NOT BEFORE TIME.

Mr. Oversight and "The Scariest Guy In Washington" - Henry Waxman

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolyn_B._Maloney

Gu-ti Gu-ti Gu-ti!

http://luisgutierrez.house.gov/

(special shout-out to back home: http://www.house.gov/stupak/)

Federal: Jim McDermott
State: Sharon Tomiko Santos and Eric Pettigrew

Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Rahm Emanuel.

http://img.timeinc.net/time/daily/2006/0608/emanuel0830.jpg

John Conyers, married to noted crazy lady Monica Conyers.

BAGHDAD JIM NYARK NYARK NYARK!

I have four:

Lucinda Creighton (FG)
John Gormley (GP)
Ruairi Quinn (Lab)
Chris Andrews (FF)

John Heppell

Everything I know about him makes him seem like a twat. Eg:
# Voted very strongly against a transparent Parliament.
# Voted moderately for introducing a smoking ban.
# Voted strongly for introducing ID cards.
# Voted very strongly for introducing foundation hospitals.
# Voted strongly for introducing student top-up fees.
# Voted very strongly for Labour's anti-terrorism laws.
# Voted very strongly for the Iraq war.
# Voted very strongly against an investigation into the Iraq war.
# Voted very strongly for replacing Trident.
# Voted strongly for the hunting ban.
# Voted very strongly for equal gay rights.

Okay, those last two I agree with, obviously. I probably should have just said 'he's a cocking whip' and left it at that. However, I found an interesting item on wikipedia: "He used to have the words love and hate tattooed on his knuckles, but they have since been removed".

BAGHDAD JIM NYARK NYARK NYARK!

He's all yours too. I was in Doc Hastings' district over in the Tri-cities. Went from red-bad to blue-bad.

http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/elections/2004/images/1192.jpg
Vic Snyder
Marine... Physician... Liberal... Non-ironic Mustache Wearer
(and running uncontested this November!)

Until recently, I was in Texas Congressional District 10, which means Lloyd Doggett. However, since I moved a couple months ago, I'm not completely certain. I bet I'm in 22, now, so it's that fucking asshole Michael McCaul.

http://www.house.gov/jefferson/images/la02_jefferson_top_banner.jpg

bigger than the superdome, 90k in the freezer, corrupt fucking sleazeball, still better than any other sitting louisiana politician i can think of.

My district is still vacant! (Roger Wicker was bumped to Trent Lott's Senate seat.) There was a special election yesterday, but no majority, so Travis Childers and Greg Davis will have a runoff on May 13.

And then the regular November election for the seat. They should have just left it empty until then.

Edolphus Towns, who certainly has one of the beeter names in the house and this sentence in his bio:

He is married to the Gwendolyn (Forbes).

Ooooh, the Gwendolyn.

which reminds me:

FUCK YOU TOM DELAY, RICK PERRY, DAVID DEWHURST AND A SPECIAL UP-YOUR-ASS TO JOHN WHITMIRE

Rock, there was an article about your district in the NYT yesterday

Both of those guys look like Grade-A tools. The Repubs are spending a fair amt. on direct-mail and TV attacks on Childers. "He lets his nursing home patients suffer! He'll let YOU suffer!"

Marine... Physician... Liberal... Non-ironic Mustache Wearer

I don't know if I'd call him a liberal, but he's definitely further left than a lot of Southern Dems. Also a JD and an Oregonian.

Emily, at least Heppel occasionally rebels, Andrew Fucktard Smith never does!

oh man, 'biblical values' voter in gabs' link. I kind of want to start a biblical values thread now.

I don't know if I'd call him a liberal, but he's definitely further left than a lot of Southern Dems. Also a JD and an Oregonian.

Snyder's got a lifetime rating of 79% from the ACLU, just four points off from Ted Kennedy. Sounds pretty liberal to me.

Elijah Cummings. 7th District. He's pretty much a straight-up Democrat.

liberal ratings for Snyder are mostly below my threshold for liberal (85 at least)

compare Ted Kennedy

From Afghanistan to Iraq to Iran? Could this scenario actually play out? It is, among the vindicated, not at all absurd, for official Washington's sights have turned to Iran with "the same signs, a very similar drumbeat" as that which preceded the war in Iraq, says Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.).

Lee saw it coming -- not Iran, but Iraq. Back in September 2001, days after the terror attacks, she saw the broadly worded congressional resolution authorizing President Bush to use force to fight terrorism as giving him a dangerous degree of carte blanche.

That early resolution allowed the president to "use all necessary and appropriate force against those nations, organizations, or persons he determines planned, authorized, committed or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on Sept. 11, 2001, or harbored such organizations or persons, in order to prevent any future acts of international terrorism against the United States by such nations, organizations or persons."

It is language that haunts her still.

"I said then it was giving the administration a blank check to use in perpetuity," Lee says. "If you read that resolution, it's very clear that it was the beginning of a march to war."

She voted against that resolution -- the only member of Congress to do so -- and then took the barbs.

"It was a very tough period," she says. "To call me unpatriotic was the lowest of the low," especially considering that her father, an Army lieutenant colonel, served for 25 years and saw duty in World War II and Korea.

Now, she says, people are eager to tell her she was right. But "it's not about feeling vindicated," she says.

"I want people to understand that this is a very dangerous foreign policy, the administration's foreign and military policy is very dangerous, that the notion of preemptive war is very dangerous and that we need to support more rational approaches to our foreign and military policy."

Justine Greening (Con, Putney)

How Justine Greening voted on key issues since 2001:

* Has never voted on a transparent Parliament. votes, speeches
* Voted very strongly for introducing a smoking ban. votes, speeches
* Voted very strongly against introducing ID cards. votes, speeches
* Voted moderately against Labour's anti-terrorism laws. votes, speeches
* Voted very strongly for an investigation into the Iraq war. votes, speeches
* Voted very strongly for replacing Trident. votes, speeches
* Has never voted on equal gay rights. votes, speeches

* Occasionally rebels against their party in this parliament.

The man, the myth the legend.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/93/Slynch.jpg

Irish Catholic, therefore, strongly pro-labor and strongly pro-life and kind of a douche.

I use to be represented by Sander Levin who actually is a legend. I miss him.

How Jeremy Corbyn voted on key issues since 2001:

* Voted very strongly for a transparent Parliament. votes, speeches
* Voted strongly for introducing a smoking ban. votes, speeches
* Voted moderately against introducing ID cards. votes, speeches
* Voted very strongly against introducing foundation hospitals. votes, speeches
* Voted very strongly against introducing student top-up fees. votes, speeches
* Voted strongly against Labour's anti-terrorism laws. votes, speeches
* Voted very strongly against the Iraq war. votes, speeches
* Voted strongly for an investigation into the Iraq war. votes, speeches
* Voted very strongly against replacing Trident. votes, speeches
* Voted very strongly for the hunting ban. votes, speeches
* Voted very strongly for equal gay rights

my rep from home in princeton used to be a nuclear physicist and his bumper stickers all say "My congressman is a rocker scientist"

please let that not be a typo

Rush Holt, then

rocker scientist, like dexter holland?

http://i.realone.com/assets/rn/img/3/3/8/0/15710833-15710836-slarge.jpg

lol i wish dexter holland was my congressman

"church and state: you've gotta keep 'em separated"

Xavier Becerra
http://becerra.house.gov/HoR/CA31/About+Xavier/

http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlny/original/orleans.jpg

Betty!

my congressperson back in brooklyn is nydia "number one ranking as most progressive member of new york city delegation" velázquez.

http://www.house.gov/velazquez/

Rosie "Party Line" Cooper

back in my voting district it's John Linder, Mr. FairTax