Get the Senate Immigration Bill on to the House Floor

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Friday June 28, 2013 · 8:27 AM PDT

2013/06/28 · 08:27

While we ordinarily expect GOoPers to be unreconstructed haters, every once in a while they can surprise us. As such, we should give them the opportunity to do so.

While Speaker Boehner makes noise about refusing to put the Senate Immigration Reform Bill on to the House floor (in part to protect his own Speakership) there are certainly some members in that GOoPer majority who want it to pass.

Who are they? We should find out!

If you live in a Congressional District represented by a GOP Rep who's made noise about supporting Immigration Reform, how about giving that Rep a call to see if they'd:
(a) vote for the Senate bill if it makes it on to the House floor
(b) take procedural steps to get it there.

Log the response in comments!

wideye

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Wednesday June 27, 2012 · 9:59 AM PDT

2012/06/27 · 09:59

Over the past few months a group of workers at a Blu Homes factory in Vallejo, CA have tried to organize a Union to assert their dignity at their workplace, improve their working conditions, and improve their wages. As usual, the company is mobilizing all its resources to fight the workers. The thing though is this company is branding itself a uber-green and its CEO is an “experienced environmental entrepreneur" who has made a number of documentaries extolling union organizing efforts in the developing world and in West Virginia's Coal Country.

Below the fold is a great write-up of the workers' campaign and the extraordinary lengths that Blu Homes is going to prevent the workers from exercising their rights.

wideye

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Tuesday January 25, 2011 · 3:01 PM PST

2011/01/25 · 15:01

If off-shoring of manufacturing burns you up, so should the elimination of prevailing wages in construction

For years we’ve been hearing about the devastation caused by the off-shoring of manufacturing capacity. Families that were firmly in the middle class experienced dramatic declines in their standards of living as their jobs were shipped off to a far off location where the work would be done at a fraction of the cost because the CEOs could pay workers a pittance while evading the costs of keeping the air and water clean. When the left-behind workers found new jobs, the wages and benefits were nowhere near what they had lost. As families became poorer, communities suffered as their coffers emptied because residents had far less to spend back in town. Entire industries and the technical know-how of their workforce have disappeared in the United States.

wideye

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Monday December 29, 2008 · 10:33 PM PST

2008/12/29 · 22:33

I'm going to keep my comments here short as I say that Rachel's speech below offers a fantastic way to approach a 21st century infrastructure policy.

While I don't particularly agree that the "second age" of infrastructure has entirely passed nor that development has declined as a serious motivation/argument for infrastructure investment (tell that to the poor folks in the Central Valley without a working water system), this and other minor quibbles are really secondary. The broader point, that water (and other) infrastructure investment makes our country stronger, more secure, and yes more globally competitive is central to defeating the Dems who only want to put money into retro-grade projects as well as the Republicans who don't want to invest anything into our country.

wideye

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Wednesday December 05, 2007 · 10:02 PM PST

2007/12/05 · 22:02

I saw this mentioned in one diary but it should really be called out on its own.

Today's SacBee Capitol Report links to an LA Times article telling us that a major Hillary Clinton supporter and old-time Clintonista Chris Lehane will be signing up to provide damage control and PR for studios in the Strike.

This raises two questions?

Will HC repudiate the fella? More importantly, why is it that people who seem to have no qualms about siding with management in a labor dispute like Mr. Lehane and her pollster Mark Penn seem to flock to her?

wideye

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Thursday July 20, 2006 · 2:59 PM PDT

2006/07/20 · 14:59

Phil Angelides needs help booting Arnold out of office.

For the past six months I've been kicking around an idea for a humorous flash animation ad that distills Arnold's governing style and directly confronts the Angelides' perceived twirpiness.

Unfortunately I have no animation or artistic skills and simply can't do something like this myself. But perhaps there are some Kossaks out there who can help.

Contact me at wideye (at) earthlink (dot) net to help.

Thanks

the energy economists were wrong

wideye

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Tuesday April 18, 2006 · 8:52 PM PDT

2006/04/18 · 20:52

I distinctly remember that a huge portion of the debate around the Kyoto pact was that the US economy would be seriously harmed by the imposition of a carbon tax to fund energy research and improve efficiency. The US's experience of the past several years shows that those economists were wrong. The only thing we have to show for their mistake is lost time and a slew of fat and happy energy execs and shareholders.

Here's what I mean...
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This legal immigrant supports all those who have come here for a better life

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Tuesday April 11, 2006 · 10:47 AM PDT

2006/04/11 · 10:47

The outpouring and daylighting of our nation's undocumented immigrant population has been nothing short of inspiring.

I came here in 1980 with my parents as a Soviet Jewish refugee and subsequently became a citizen. We didn't get into this country because we waited in a line, but because the US Government prioritized our entry due to the political environment we were fleeing. Many, if not most, of my family members did as well.

Those who come here illegally do so for the same reason as my family. They simply didn't have the 'fortune' of being born in a country on the US's shit list. Read More

You mean every phone in this country is tapped? (now formatted for easy reading!)

wideye

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Thursday April 06, 2006 · 5:52 PM PDT

2006/04/06 · 17:52

Last night my wife and I watched a satire from 1967 called the "President's Analyst". Its eery on two levels. First it foreshadows Nixon's abuses of power (there's even throwaway line about a plumber) and the findings of the Church Commission. Second, it seems like it was predicting today's headlines of Gonzales halfway telling us that the President's been engaging in purely domestic spying and the Electronic Frontier Foundation's suit of ATT for complicity with the lawbreaking. I just have to let people know about it in the hopes that someone can pull a very short clip from the DVD and play it for the world Read More

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