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| SECTION #2 CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT OFFICE CONTACT INFORMATION: |
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| SECTION #3 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR CONTACT INFORMATION: |
Write or email your local media:
| SECTION #4 THE HAMMER SWITCHBOARD: |
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| SECTION #5 BLUE DOG COALITION CONTACT INFORMATION: |
The Blue Dog Coalition |
Conservative Democrats represent 15% of registered voters and 14% of the general electorate. In the House of Representatives, the Blue Dog Coalition, a caucus of fiscal and social conservatives and moderates, primarily southerners, forms part of the Democratic Party's current faction of conservative Democrats. They have acted as a unified voting bloc in the past, giving its forty plus members some ability to change legislation and broker compromises with the Republican Party's leadership.
Historically, southern Democrats were generally much more ideologically conservative. Today, Democrats are usually classified as 'conservatives' on the basis of holding some socially conservative views to the right of the national party, even though their overall viewpoint is generally far more liberal than conservative Democrats of years past.
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The Blue Dog Leadership Team: |
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Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin (SD), Blue Dog Co-Chair for Administration |
Rep. Baron Hill (IN-09), Blue Dog Co-Chair for Policy |
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Rep. Charlie Melancon (LA-03), Blue Dog Co-Chair for Communications |
Rep. Heath Shuler (NC-11), Blue Dog Whip |
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Contact The Blue Dog Members: |
| SECTION #6 MODERATE DEMOCRATIC SENATORS CONTACT INFORMATION: |
Moderate Coalition of Democratic Senators |
| Leading this new group are Lincoln and Democratic Senators Evan Bayh of Indiana and Tom Carper of Delaware. Both Bayh and Carper were successful governors before coming to the Senate, and both are past leaders of the centrist Democratic Leadership Council. Lincoln and Carper bring bicameral experience to the group as former members of the House of Representatives. All three leaders are honorary co-chairs of Third Way, a progressive Democratic policy group.
Be cuatious when writing moderates. This loose coalition of Democratic Senators is also a Fabian style socialist group. "The Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) leads the New Democrat movement, a national network of elected officials and community leaders whose innovative ideas are modernizing progressive politics for the 21st Century." An active arm of the DLC is the Progressive Policy Institute, "a research and education institute that is a project of the Third Way Foundation Inc.," which is yet another arm of the DLC. |
| SECTION #7 CPC CONTACT INFORMATION: |
Congressional Progressive Caucus Membership |
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The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is the largest socialist organization in the United States with millions of members, and the principal U.S. affiliate of the Socialist International. Two of their early disciples were Karl Marx and Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. They have historically supported government or “public” ownership and control of the major economic institutions of society—the banking and financial industry, the health care industry and the large corporations—in order to eliminate as they state. “ the injustice and inequality of a class-based society”. As they mention on their website, http://www.dsausa.org/dsa.html, they’ve joined with others on the Left to build a broad-based, anti-corporate coalition, with the labor unions at the center, to address the needs of the “majority”. Many of them see the Democratic Party as the key political arena in which to consolidate this coalition, because the Democratic Party holds the allegiance of their natural allies, the feminist, gay and lesbian, labor, civil rights, and community organizing movements. They work with these movements to strengthen the party’s left wing, represented by the Congressional Progressive Caucus. The Democratic Socialist of America currently have 70 democrat members in the Congressional Progressive Caucus (listed below), eleven of which sit on the Judiciary Committee, led by their member, John Conyers. This is absolutely one group that we must oppose at every turn and actively campaign for their removal from Congress. |
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Representative Neil Abercrombie |
Representative Alan Grayson |
Representative Jerry Nadler |
| SECTION #8 HOUSE COMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND COMMERCE: |
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