Alone On A Limb: On your mark ... Go!!!

Thursday, January 04, 2007

On your mark ... Go!!!

110th Congress:

New Democratic Members

Here are the men and women who, sometimes against very unfavorable odds, put themselves forward to challenge:

those who would limit our freedoms
those who would engage in preemptive wars
those who would have us fight wars without supporting our soldiers with the necessary tools
those who would put the costs of a terrible war on our children while cutting taxes on the wealthiest among us
those who would countenance or excuse torture and black sites
those who would hold the minimum wage at the same level for a decade
those who would deliberately suppress voter turnout

I have great hopes for this group. I wish them well. I call on them to live up to the ideals they have espoused. I gathered a few of their pictures and, I hope, all of their names below.

Arizona
Harry E. Mitchell (District 5)
Gabrielle Giffords (District 8)

California

Jerry McNerney (District 11)

Colorado

Edwin G. Perlmutter (District 7)

Connecticut

Joe Courtney (District 2)

Chris Murphy (District 5)

Florida

Kathy Castor (District 11)

Timothy Edward Mahoney (District 16)

Ron Klein (District 22)

Georgia

Hank Johnson (District 4)

Hawaii

Mazie K. Hirono (District 2)

Illinois
Philip G. Hare (District 17)

Indiana
Joe Donnelly (District 2)

Brad Ellsworth (District 8)
Baron Hill (District 9)

Iowa
Bruce Braley (District 1)
David Loebsack (District 2)

Kansas

Nancy E. Boyda (District 2)

Kentucky

John A. Yarmuth (District 3)

Maryland
John Sarbanes (District 3)

Minnesota
Timothy J. Walz (District 1)
Keith Maurice Ellison (District 5)
Amy Klobuchar (Senate)

Missouri

Senator Claire McCaskill

Montana

Senator Jon Tester

New Hampshire
Carol Shea-Porter (District 1)
Paul W. Hodes (District 2)

New York
Yvette D. Clarke (District 11)
John Hall (District 19)
Kirsten E. Gillibrand (District 20)
Michael Arcuri (District 24)

North Carolina