Swing State Project (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
? Volunteering : Marriage/partnership equality campaigns in three states are looking for help down the home stretch. The best part is, you don't even have to leave your chair - all three organizations are looking for folks to make calls to help get out the vote. So if you'd like to help, follow the links for Maine , Washington state , and Kalamazoo, Michigan . The folks in Kalamazoo are also looking...
Madville Times (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
This morning I posted " Thune Votes for Gang Rape; SF Media Gives Pass ," discussing on John Thune's vote on the Franken amendment and the Sioux Falls media's apparent ignorance of the story. I cross-posted on the blogspace KELO grants me . At 13:48 CDT today, I received the following request from KELO-TV: Cory, We’d like you to adjust the title of this blog entry: [URL] along with...
Blue Mass. Group - Front Page (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
30 Republican Senators - all of them men, strangely enough - voted against Sen. Franken's amendment to ban Federal funds going to any company that attempts enforcement of binding arbitration clauses in cases of sexual or civil rights abuse. The amendment is a response to the case of Jamie Leigh Jones , who alleges she was drugged, held captive, and repeatedly raped by fellow contractors while working...
Israelated (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
Jennifer Haberkorn and David M. DicksonTHE WASHINGTON TIMES Advocates of health care reform are relying on budget manipulations to stick with President Obama's pledge to overhaul the system without adding to the deficit, critics on and off Capitol Hill say. Both independent budget analysts and Republicans say a Senate vote expected this week on a 10-year, nearly $250 billion Medicare reimbursement...
S E N A T U S (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
Here is a list of Senators hitting the Sunday talk show circuit tomorrow: Face the Nation (CBS) – John Cornyn (R-TX), John Kerry (D-MA) and Judd Gregg (R-NH) State of the Union (CNN) – John Kerry (D-MA) Fox News Sunday – Kent Conrad (D-ND), Arlen Specter (D-PA) and John Thune (R-SD) Meet the Press (NBC) – Chris Dodd [...]
They gave us a republic (Free subscription) | 09/22/2009
From Repub Bill Would Choke New Network Neutrality Rules : Since the internet is the only remaining reradily available channel for the free exchange of opinions and ideas, I'm in no way surprised that the Republicans... at the behest of their corporate masters of course... would attempt to thwart any attempt by the current administration to keep that single channel free and open. Unable to debate the...
Madville Times (Free subscription) | 09/06/2009
Somehow, I don't think we'd be having this discussion if Carrie's kids' teachers invited John Thune to talk to the class. Hello, Carrie Pederson of Sioux Falls . I'm sure you'll find this post unfair, insulting, and mean. But when you use the public airwaves to say stupid things, you must expect public criticism. What stupid thing did you say? In reference to President Barack Obama's upcoming speech...
Madville Times (Free subscription) | 08/07/2009
Senator John Thune voted against H.R. 3435, the two-billion-dollar extension of Cash for Clunkers yesterday. The bill still passed on a mostly party-line vote*, despite failed wiseguy attempts by Thune and his GOP colleagues to delay the bill with non-germane amendments , like Thune's Government Ownership Exit Plan (not that I can blame a guy too much for trying). What I find interesting here is that...
Daily Kos (Free subscription) | 07/29/2009
Thanks again, Max Baucus, for the Max Baucus Committee Bill. In case you hadn't noticed, the rest of your official committee is just a little pissed off about that whole thing. And with damned good reason. The more we find out about it, the worse it gets . But some liberal Democrats, like Senators John D. Rockefeller IV of West Virginia and Debbie Stabenow of Michigan, expressed reservations about...
Objective Conservative (Free subscription) | 07/27/2009
Here's the latest update from the Washington Post of Republicans who have declared their vote for the warm and fuzzy, empathetic Supreme Court nominee who will use her experiences as a Hispanic woman to make better judgements than an old white man. For some reason Nebraska's U.S. Senator must be having some trouble showing any leadership here. These are not back-bench decisions where we wait to see...
Times of the Internet (Free subscription) | 07/25/2009
WASHINGTON, July 25 (UPI) -- Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, says he will oppose the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court. Cornyn's announcement Friday on the Senate floor made him the fourth member of GOP Senate leadership to oppose Sotomayor's nomination, joining Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl of Arizona and Republican Policy...
PrairiePundit (Free subscription) | 07/25/2009
Houston Chronicle: Texas Sen. John Cornyn announced Friday he will vote against Judge Sonia Sotomayor's confirmation as the first Hispanic on the U.S. Supreme Court, even though the decision could carry political risks among his Latino constituents. The former Texas Supreme Court judge and state attorney general said the “stakes are simply too high” to confirm a jurist to a lifetime appointment...
News Unfiltered (Free subscription) | 07/22/2009
Paul Helmke, President of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, issued the following statement on the U.S. Senate rejecting an amendment to a Defense bill authored by Senator John Thune (R-SD) related to concealed weapons permits. Full release.
2 Political Junkies (Free subscription) | 07/22/2009
From The Hill : Senate Democrats on Wednesday banded together to defeat — barely — a Republican proposal to allow concealed weapons to be carried across state lines. Voting 58-39, the chamber beat back an amendment by Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), a potential presidential hopeful who has taken on a growing role among Senate Republicans, that would have permitted weapons to be transferred from...
Pam's House Blend (Free subscription) | 07/22/2009
The idea that a gun permit issued in a mostly rural state like South Dakota should be honored in New York, where urban crime makes it essential that there are tougher restrictions on the books, is ludicrous. Yet that's what the National Rifle Association wants, using its tool, Sen. John Thune (R-SD) to add an amendment stripping gun control laws (Thune Concealed Carry Amendment - S.845/H.R.197/H.R.1620)....
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