by Robert in Monterey [courtesy of Calitics - Front Page]

[courtesy of The California Majority Report]

It doesn’t get any simpler than this: thou shalt not hold thy constituents in contempt.
 
But Jeff Denham has gone out of his way to break the rules:

• He campaigned on a promise to improve school funding -- then voted against the budget to fund schools, against school bonds to rebuild classrooms and even against legislation to update school lab equipment.
• Denham crowed to the media about being a fiscal watchdog and turning down pay raises, but three times secretly raised his own pay, increasing his take-home total by 20 percent. 
• And when Denham had to choose between his constituents and lobbyists for the subprime lending industry, he picked the lobbyists and voted against helping homeowners in his own district avoid foreclosure.

Jeff Denham wouldn’t play it straight with the voters, and now they’re gearing up to get even. Some 50,000 Dump Denham recall petition signatures have now been filed, well above the 31,000 required to force a recall election this June.

He’s busy pointing fingers and trying to blame his political enemies for his troubles. He ought to look in the mirror.

by David Reiter [courtesy of Blog for America]

50,000 PETITION SIGNATURES NEEDED TO COUNTERACT NEWSPAPER BLACKOUT
      

Rep. Robert Wexler (FL-19) and two other Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee - Luis Gutierrez (IL-04) and Tammy Baldwin (WI-02) - today called on the committee to begin impeachment hearings for Vice President Cheney.

They declared, "The charges are too serious to ignore. There is credible evidence that the Vice President abused the power of his office, and not only brought us into an unneccesary war but violated the civil liberties and privacy of American citizens. It is the constitutional duty of Congress to hold impeachment hearings."

The three Democrats wrote an op-ed to announce their position, but none of the nation's leading newspapers would publish it - just as they refuse to include impeachment in their polls, and just as they refuse to publish their own investigations of the crimes of the Bush Administration. Why? Because the Corporate Media is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Republican Party, as it has been since the Reagan Revolution of 1980.