TedKennedy.Com

by Chris Bowers, Tue Apr 19, 2005 at 07:18:23 AM EDT

Yesterday I had the opportunity to speak with Senator Edward Kennedy during a conference call. It was a remarkable experience, as he answered our questions and casually spoke with great erudition about the Constitutional Convention. He made it clear that elimination of the judicial filibuster was an abuse of power and an abuse of the Constitution. Personally, I prefer the term right wing power grab to "abuse of power," and if any Democratic Senators or staffers are reading this, please contact the Rockridge Institute (it is a 501c) about that term and consider using it during the upcoming struggle over the filibuster.

The Senator is launching a website, TedKennedy.com, that is connected to his re-election campaign but, since he will almost certainly not be facing a serious challenge, will primarily function as a national campaign to help Democrats in 2006. Later today the website will have a full-launch, but right now it links directly to a petition supporting opposition to one of Bush's judicial re-nominations, William Myers. Myers is unqualified, extremist and in the pocket of anti-environmental corporations. Check out the site and sign the petition.

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Ted Kennedy should be commended..

for his work on the behalf of North Korean refugees in China..

(China hunts them down and, stringing wire through their noses and hands to prevent them from committing suicide or fleeing, returns them to North Korea for a bounty that North Korea has put on them. When they are in the hands of the North Korean security police, many are executed, and most of the rest are imprisoned in concentration - actually, slave labor might be a better word- camps from which many never emerge..the only appropriate word for it is genocide..)

Thank you..Ted, if you read this..

by ultraworld 2005-04-19 07:25AM | 0 recs

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tedkennedy.com

Thanks for the post - the Senator really enjoyed talking with you yesterday. We're excited to get things rolling at http://www.tedkennedy.com, especially with all that's happening with the judicial nominees and the nuclear option. We're fighting this abuse of power, and anybody who wants to join in opposing this flagrant upending of Senate tradition can sign the petition at http://www.tedkennedy.com/page/petition/nomyers. Thanks again, I look forward to talking and working with the online activist community!

by Crystal Patterson 2005-04-19 09:40AM | 0 recs

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There are still a couple of good Democrats left

Right off the top of my head, Boxer and Kennedy are the only two Democratic Senators that have aggressively opposed Bush and the conservative agenda. It's too bad we don't have more like Ted and Barbara.

by Gary Boatwright 2005-04-19 10:24AM | 0 recs