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“Republicans tellingly showed zero interest in… the 19,000 sexual assaults of military servicewomen that occur each year.”

Posted by GottaLaff 
· Sunday, February 3rd, 2013 at 10:29 am 
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Today’s L.A. Times letter to the editor, because our voices matter:

Re “Hagel hearing reopens Senate wounds,” Feb. 1

By grandstanding their grievances with former Sen. Chuck Hagel for leaving the fold to serve in President Obama‘s administration as secretary of Defense, the neoconservative Republicans on the Senate Armed Services Committee rubbed salt in their own self-inflicted wounds. What a shameful spectacle of badgering, interrupting and berating a decorated war veteran with a stellar record of public service.

While wasting the day on cherry-picked policy positions that don’t even pertain to what a Defense secretary does, Republicans tellingly showed zero interest in the one that does: the 19,000 sexual assaults of military servicewomen that occur each year. Kudos to Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) for questioning Hagel about this “invisible war,” to which he promptly and correctly pledged no tolerance.

Wendy Blais

North Hills

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Kirsten Gillibrand, Barney Frank: President Obama may endorse marriage equality before the 2012 election

Posted by GottaLaff 
· Thursday, May 19th, 2011 at 10:38 am 
· 1 Comment 

How nice to treat you to some great news, via The Wonk Room. From an interview with the Advocate’s Andrew Harmon:

HARMON: So I’d have to pose the same question for President Obama. Do you think it’s possible that he could come out in support of marriage equality …

GILLIBRAND: Yes.

HARMON:…before the 2012 election?

GILLIBRAND: Definitely… [He] shows a shift in his willingness to use the power of the White House — the power of the administration — to change public perception and to change policy.

So I think we could get a very strong public statement out of him.

And this:

…Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) seemed to agree, telling a small group of activists, “This is just my intuition, but I think the President will be supportive of marriage in the states that offer it before the 2012 election.”

I can’t jump up and down quite yet, or maybe I will on just one foot, but this is still promising stuff. I just hope it isn’t wishful thinking.

H/t: Greg Ostravich

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Senate Dems presenting a united front against new GOP reproductive-rights restrictions

Posted by GottaLaff 
· Monday, February 21st, 2011 at 11:39 am 
· 4 Comments 

I had to rub my eyes and do a double take. A few Democrats are growing spines, something more of them should be doing on a regular basis.

The topic: Abortion. The spines: Boxer, Gillibrand, Blumenthal, Franken, and Shaheen.

The newly empowered House Republicans are pushing ahead with a slate of anti-abortion legislation, and a few Senate Democrats have been fighting back hard for weeks.

Democratic Sens. Barbara Boxer (Calif.), Kirsten Gillibrand (N.Y.), Richard Blumenthal (Conn.), Al Franken (Minn.) and Jeanne Shaheen (N.H.) have promised recently to block the Republican agenda to limit abortion services and defund Planned Parenthood.

Asked by reporters Thursday if the Senate had the votes to defeat Pence’s battle against Planned Parenthood, Franken offered a one-word answer: “Yes.” [...]

Democrats are accusing Republicans of abandoning an election mandate to focus on jobs and the economy. [...]

“I think this legislation has awoken the sleeping giant of my generation,” [Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.)] said. “It’s been complacent for so many years, taking the right to choose for granted, thinking it’s never under assault.”

Hey Boehner, where are the jobs?

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Video- Sen. Kirstin Gillibrand and Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz Describe How Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, Opened Her Eyes for First Time Since Shooting

Posted by Paddy 
· Thursday, January 13th, 2011 at 8:00 am 
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Harry Reid Calls Kirsten Gillibrand “Hottest Member”

Posted by Paddy 
· Tuesday, September 21st, 2010 at 6:30 am 
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Um, this is really inappropriate. Combined with calling Chris Coons his “pet” the other day, I’m wondering about Harry. Via Taegan-


Politico reports that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) gave Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) “an unusual form of praise” at a closed-door fundraiser.

Said Reid: “We in the Senate refer to Sen. Gillibrand as the hottest member.”

“The comment prompted Gillibrand to turn red… and created a bit of stir among the small crowd there.”

Incidentally, The Hill had Gillibrand as the third “most beautiful” on Capitol Hill.

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Four More Dem Senators Join Push For Vote On Public Option

Posted by Paddy 
· Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 at 8:44 am 
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Not going to get too excited, but Greg is reporting some good news.

Yesterday four Dem Senators made a big splash by signing a letter pushing Dem leaders to pass the public option via reconciliation, suggesting the provision may have a faint pulse.

Now four more Dem Senators have added their names to the list, their spokespeople tell me, doubling the number of signatories to eight and perhaps upping the volume of the public option’s pulse ever so slightly.

The new signatories: Al Franken, Pat Leahy, John Kerry, and Sheldon Whitehouse.

They join yesterday’s signers: Michael Bennet, Kirsten Gillibrand, Jeff Merkley, and Sherrod Brown.

The letter asks Harry Reid to stage a full Senate vote on the public option under budget reconciliation rules. It argues that there’s a history of using the technique for passing significant health care legislation and that a majority of Americans has consistently supported a public option.

The letter — the work of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee and Democracy for America — also bears the signatures of over a hundred House Dems.

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Mort Zuckerman Considers Senate Bid

Posted by Paddy 
· Friday, February 12th, 2010 at 4:30 pm 
· 1 Comment 

Zuckerman and McLaughlin have totally turned the McLaughlin Group into a half hour of PUMA style Obama bashing. Hopefully New York rejects another millionaire trying to buy a seat. Via Taegan-

Mort Zuckerman, real estate tycoon and publisher of The Daily News, is considering a run against Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), the New York Times reports.

Zuckerman regards Gillibrand “as vulnerable to a challenge and is convinced that, at a time of economic tumult and political unrest, his background as an outsider to government, and his record as a businessman, will appeal to the state’s electorate.”

He is also conducting a poll testing his viability.

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