2016 Postmortem
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Russ Feingold and Bernie Sanders both voted against the repeal of Glass-Stegall.
Glass-Steagall is a law signed by FDR to require savings banks, investment banks, and insurance companies to be owned by different corporations. It was repealed in 1999.
Russ Feingold and Bernie Sanders both voted against The Patriot Act. That law was signed by George W. Bush in 2001. It lets the FBI write its own warrants, which are euphemistically called "national security letters."
US Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI) lost his seat to a Republican in 2010. He's now running to get it back.
Fundraising Page:
https://secure.actblue.com/contribute/page/feingold-for-senate
Scuba
(53,475 posts)Did Russ Feingold Just End a War?
The unlikely story of how the former Wisconsin senator made peace in Congo.
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Feingold is 61 now, and his hair has grayed a touch since 2010, when, after 18 years in the Senate, he was beaten in his reelection campaign by Ron Johnson, a millionaire Tea Partier. Feingold had lost some weight on this trip, his seventh to the region since last June, when Secretary of State John Kerry named him U.S. special envoy to the Great Lakes region and the Democratic Republic of the Congoor SEGL as his staff call him, pronouncing it like Siegel. (Its perfecta Jewish name, Feingold said.) His mission: to end the civil war that has long engulfed the region.
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And in taking on eastern Congo, one of the most violent places on Earth, Feingold could hardly have chosen a more dead-end assignment. The conflict there dates back to 1994, when Hutu génocidaires fleeing Rwanda set up camps across the border in what was then Zaire. Rwanda then led an invasion that ended Congolese President Mobutu Sese Sekos 31 years of dictatorial rule but also turned the newly renamed Democratic Republic of the Congo into a nightmarish battleground of foreign armies and militant groups. Although Congos civil war formally ended in 2003, armed rebellion has continued ever since, especially in the two eastern provinces of North and South Kivu. The United Nations peacekeeping mission in the country is the U.N.s largest and most expensive, employing 20,000 troops at a cost of $1.5 billion a year.One 2010 study estimated that 48 women were raped in Congo every hour, and a U.N. official called it the rape capital of the world. Estimates of the conflicts death toll range in the millions.
Feingolds assignment came just as a new group of rebels, trained and equipped by Rwanda, was gaining strength in the east and even threatening to take Kinshasa, the Congolese capital. Since last summer, Feingold has undertaken a dizzying round of talks in at least eight different African capitals, cajoling leaders face to face, negotiating with skittish rebels late into the night and strategizing with fellow diplomats, all in a very uphill effort to stop a long-running conflict in a region littered with failed peace deals. Without a doubt, he said over coffee a few hours after the gorilla trek, this is one of the favorite things Ive ever done in my life.
vintx
(1,748 posts)Eric J in MN
(35,619 posts)NT
progressoid
(49,964 posts)SheenaR
(2,052 posts)I read on Democratic Underground that Sanders does nothing for anyone but himself
jwirr
(39,215 posts)Eric J in MN
(35,619 posts)NT
DLCWIdem
(1,580 posts)WHEN Sanders was at that democratic dinner right before the Wisconsin primary both he and Clinton were asked to mention him. ONLY Clinton did. He didn't have to fund raise or anything just give him a little publicity. It's kind of funny, that, now, when Feingold is getting his own publicity that Sanders is all interested.
Eric J in MN
(35,619 posts)...by doing that fundraiser for the WI Democratic Party.
DLCWIdem
(1,580 posts)It was the third strike, for me. I had been on the fence before that, it did not seem that he was interested in getting down tickets elected. It was then why Maddow started talking about fundraising for other dems. Yes that is the dinner I was talking about
demmiblue
(36,837 posts)Raine1967
(11,589 posts)I looked it up because what you provided didn't really give anything but a link asking for money.
pdsimdars
(6,007 posts)THEY are getting the money.
We heard for months how Bernie is not helping the party, etc. No, Bernie is not giving money to the DNC. All they do is cheat him and give all the money to Clinton.
And it turned out that Clinton wasn't really fundraising for the "party" but for herself. The states would send the money to the DNC and it would be used for CLINTON and they'd get 1% back or something like that.
Hillary only works for Hillary.