DEFEAT ERIC CANTOR! Exclusive DU chat with Dem Strategist Dave Mudcat Saunders, LIVE TODAY 2pm ET [View all]

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LIVE CHAT ON NOW: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021051897



Democratic Underground will host an online discussion with Dave "Mudcat" Saunders, a Senior Strategist for the Wayne Powell for Congress Campaign, which is challenging Eric Cantor in Virginia's 7th Congressional District.

DAVE "MUDCAT" SAUNDERS

Mudcat's Blog: http://davesaunders.wordpress.com/

ABOUT WAYNE POWELL

Powell for Congress website: http://www.powellforva.com/

Wayne Powell on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WaynePowellForCongress

Wayne Powell on the Ed Show: http://www.powellforva.com/2012/07/waynepowell-edshow-0718/

Can Eric Cantor: http://www.cancantor.com/

SOME DU THREADS ABOUT WAYNE POWELL

The ED Show - Massive political upset in Virginia? (Video)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/101742307

Cantor’s office wrote loophole into insider trading bill
http://sync.democraticunderground.com/1014172365

Wayne Powell remember this name
http://www.democraticunderground.com/125156765

Virginia Voters overwhelmingly reject Eric Cantor
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002640569

Mudcat Saunders will be discussing the Wayne Powell Campaign, defeating Eric Cantor, his recent piece in the Huffington Post, and and any other questions that DUers have. From the Huffington Post:

"New Information" Is Cantor-ese for "I Got Caught"
Posted: 07/26/2012 12:06 pm

When President Obama signed the STOCK Act into law on April 4, it appeared that the country was finally on the road to curbing "insider trading" by members of Congress and their staffs. Members from both sides of the aisle were giddy as they hailed the "Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act" as a move that would restore trust in government by making members and their staffs disclose their stock transactions within 45 days.

However, there were skeptics in the Capitol when it came to those exempted from the Act. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) railed that the Act did nothing to stop the lucrative and un-American industry of unnamed individuals selling "political intelligence" (he called it "political espionage&quot to Wall Street and offshore investment firms. He called for these pirates of "non-public information" to register as lobbyists and disclose to whom they were selling the inside dope. In the House, that provision was stripped out by Majority Leader Eric Cantor, drawing outrage from an emotional Grassley.

And now in a masterful case of investigative journalism, CNN reporters Deidre Walsh and Dana Bash have uncovered even more of Cantor's deceptive and intentional gutting of the Act. Their report revealed a huge discrepancy in the Senate and House Bill... namely, the exemption of spouses and dependent children. The CNN report revealed that the Senate bill did include a provision that covered spouses and children, "but when Cantor's office wrote the House version, this language was shifted to a different section of the bill." Spouses and dependent children were exempted from the House's new reporting requirements.

When CNN first came across this discrepancy in the Senate and House versions, Cantor's office claimed "it did nothing to change the intent of the STOCK Act. But when pressed with the new information uncovered by CNN, the majority leader's office conceded it made changes to the House bill that effectively took out the requirement for spouses and children to file these reports."

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dave-mudcat-saunders/cantor-stock-act-exceptions_b_1705142.html

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