This is Kevin McCarthy, the Representative from California’s 23rd district, House Majority Leader, who wanted to be Speaker of the House; the guy who said on Fox TV:
“Everybody thought Hillary Clinton was unbeatable, right? But we put together a Benghazi special committee, a select committee. What are her numbers today? Her numbers are dropping. Why? Because she’s untrustable. But no one would have known any of that had happened, had we not fought.”
Let’s forget for a moment that “untrustable" isn't even a word. McCarthy blabbed, gave away the game plan, spilled the beans, and as punishment didn’t get to be the Speaker of the House. I don’t think that’s quite punishment enough though, do you? I think a better consequence would be for him to get kicked out of the House altogether, and I’m counting on all the Hillary fans here at Daily Kos to help.
There is an excellent female candidate running against McCarthy, and the two couldn’t be more different.
She may be a first time candidate but she has experience dealing with the exact issues we are facing in the country today.
Wendy Reed founded and manages a nonprofit corporation that preserves wildlife habitat. In this role she works with state, county, and local governments, and engages citizens in regional government issues. She holds a Bachelors Degree from CSU Bakersfield and a Master of Public Administration from CSU Northridge.
The organizations she belongs to and activities she engages in are polar opposite's of McCarthy. Check out her web page here.
McCarthy authored a bill that would have stripped over 4 million acres of CA wilderness from federal protection. Who does that? Not Wendy Reed, for her, protecting the environment is a priority.
I love this quote from Wendy’s issues page on her website:
A strong economy must protect the resources on which people and businesses rely. Economies must operate safely. It’s not an economy if you can’t drink the water.
You can find out more about her at her website. Her list of endorsements is pretty impressive. I find you can learn a lot about a person from their twitter page. Wendy’s is here. Her Face Book page is here and DownWithTyranny wrote an article about her here. She’s a member of 90for90, which means she’s a strong advocate for voter rights, and is what drew me to her in the first place.
And you can donate to her campaign here.
Not all of have money to donate but a really big thing you can do is write about her. Do a diary on her, it’s a great way to get her attention and donations. Be sure to add her Facebook page and encourage people to “like” it.
You know, Darrell Issa recently told Doug Applegate over in CA’s 49th CD, “I hope you can get the DNC to spend eight million dollars to make this an interesting race.”
I gotta disagree a bit there. I don’t think it will take 8 million, I’m thinking more of the line from a song in the movie, Pretty in Pink; that it will only take “6 paperback books and a dying tree”. AND citizen activism.
That’s where we come in here at Daily Kos, we are the cream of the crop when it comes to citizen activists. Let’s replace McCarthy with Wendy Reed so that a President Clinton doesn’t have to deal with the weasel at all!!