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VanillaRhapsody

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12. Here is the list of those in the Progressive Caucus...
Tue Feb 4, 2014, 07:24 PM
Feb 2014

Arizona[edit]
Raúl Grijalva (AZ-3, Tucson) - co-chair
Ed Pastor (AZ-7, Phoenix)
California[edit]
Jared Huffman (CA-2, San Rafael)
George Miller (CA-11, Richmond)
Barbara Lee (CA-13, Oakland) - whip
Michael Honda (CA-17, San Jose) - vice chair
Sam Farr (CA-20, Monterey)
Judy Chu (CA-27, El Monte) - vice chair
Henry Waxman (CA-33, Los Angeles)
Xavier Becerra (CA-34, Los Angeles)
Karen Bass (CA-37, Baldwin Hills)
Linda Sánchez (CA-38, Lakewood)
Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-40, Los Angeles)
Mark Takano (CA-41, Riverside)
Maxine Waters (CA-43, Inglewood)
Janice Hahn (CA-44, San Pedro)
Colorado[edit]
Jared Polis (CO-2, Boulder, Fort Collins)
Connecticut[edit]
Rosa DeLauro (CT-3, New Haven)
Florida[edit]
Corrine Brown (FL-5, Jacksonville)
Alan Grayson (FL-9, Orlando)
Lois Frankel (FL-22, West Palm Beach)
Georgia[edit]
Hank Johnson (GA-4, Lithonia)
John Lewis (GA-5, Atlanta)
Illinois[edit]
Luis Gutiérrez (IL-4, Chicago)
Danny Davis (IL-7, Chicago)
Jan Schakowsky (IL-9, Chicago) - vice chair
Indiana[edit]
André Carson (IN-7, Indianapolis)
Iowa[edit]
Dave Loebsack (IA-2, Cedar Rapids)
Maine[edit]
Chellie Pingree (ME-1, North Haven)
Maryland[edit]
Donna Edwards (MD-4, Fort Washington)
Elijah Cummings (MD-7, Baltimore)
Massachusetts[edit]
Jim McGovern (MA-2, Worcester)
Joseph P. Kennedy III (MA-4, Newton)
John Tierney (MA-6, Salem)
Mike Capuano (MA-7, Boston)
Michigan[edit]
John Conyers (MI-13, Detroit)
Minnesota[edit]
Keith Ellison (MN-5, Minneapolis) - Co-Chair
Rick Nolan (MN-8, Crosby)
Mississippi[edit]
Bennie Thompson (MS-2, Bolton)
Missouri[edit]
William Lacy Clay, Jr. (MO-1, St. Louis)
Emanuel Cleaver (MO-5, Kansas City) - Former Chairman, Congressional Black Caucus
Nevada[edit]
Steven Horsford (NV-4, Las Vegas)
New Hampshire[edit]
Ann McLane Kuster (NH-2, Hopkinton)
New Jersey[edit]
Frank Pallone (NJ-6, Long Branch)
Rush Holt (NJ-12, Hopewell Township)
New Mexico[edit]
Ben R. Luján (NM-3, Santa Fe)
New York[edit]
Nydia Velázquez (NY-7, Brooklyn)
Hakeem Jeffries (NY-8, Brooklyn)
Yvette Clarke (NY-9, Brooklyn)
Jerrold Nadler (NY-10, Manhattan)
Carolyn Maloney (NY-12, Manhattan)
Charles Rangel (NY-13, Harlem)
José Serrano (NY-15, Bronx)
Louise Slaughter (NY-25, Rochester)
North Carolina[edit]
Mel Watt (NC-12, Charlotte)
Ohio[edit]
Marcy Kaptur (OH-9, Toledo)
Marcia Fudge (OH-11, Warrensville Heights), Chair, Congressional Black Caucus
Oregon[edit]
Earl Blumenauer (OR-3, Portland)
Suzanne Bonamici (OR-1, Beaverton)
Peter DeFazio (OR-4, Eugene)
Pennsylvania[edit]
Chaka Fattah (PA-2, Philadelphia)
Matt Cartwright (PA-17, Scranton, Wilkes-Barre, Pottsville)
Rhode Island[edit]
David Cicilline (RI-1, Providence) - vice chair
Tennessee[edit]
Steve Cohen (TN-9, Memphis)
Texas[edit]
Sheila Jackson Lee (TX-18, Houston) - vice chair
Eddie Bernice Johnson (TX-30, Dallas)
Vermont[edit]
Peter Welch (VT-At Large)
Virginia[edit]
Jim Moran (VA-8, Alexandria)
Washington[edit]
Jim McDermott (WA-7, Seattle)
Wisconsin[edit]
Mark Pocan (WI-2, Madison)
Gwen Moore (WI-4, Milwaukee)
Non-voting[edit]
Donna M. Christensen (Virgin Islands)
Eleanor Holmes Norton (District of Columbia)


So many Democrats....yet I don't hear much chatter about ALL these candidates from those on DU who claim to have the high ground on what is or isn't Progressive or Liberal.

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What is your definition of liberal? [View all] OmahaBlueDog Feb 2014 OP
I think we should ask Hillary Clinton about the Progressive part as she was the first one VanillaRhapsody Feb 2014 #1
I heard "Progressive" start being used frequently in '04 OmahaBlueDog Feb 2014 #5
before then! VanillaRhapsody Feb 2014 #7
Well ...yeah. Henry Wallace ran on the Progressive Populist ticket OmahaBlueDog Feb 2014 #10
Yeah well Progressive was used in the early 1900's too... VanillaRhapsody Feb 2014 #14
Good point democrat2thecore Feb 2014 #9
It was used much earlier than Hillary democrat2thecore Feb 2014 #6
a certain magazine just turned 100 a few years ago hfojvt Feb 2014 #15
Here's a Vonnegut interview from the Progressive that speaks to the subject matter of the thread Bluenorthwest Feb 2014 #90
Figures she would co-opt the term hootinholler Feb 2014 #23
Who decides that? VanillaRhapsody Feb 2014 #26
How I may or may not vote is big leap to make. hootinholler Feb 2014 #30
Then why beat up on Democrats now? VanillaRhapsody Feb 2014 #32
Um how exactly am I beating up on Democrats? hootinholler Feb 2014 #34
by saying that you might not even vote for her...even if she wins the primary VanillaRhapsody Feb 2014 #36
And making things up about what I said is pretty telling as well. hootinholler Feb 2014 #37
Its pretty easy to see.... VanillaRhapsody Feb 2014 #38
I'm not couching anything hootinholler Feb 2014 #39
"poster child for the right wing of the party." VanillaRhapsody Feb 2014 #40
She was featured prominently on the DLC website hootinholler Feb 2014 #41
So? VanillaRhapsody Feb 2014 #43
Are you trying to insinuate that I am a teabagger? hootinholler Feb 2014 #45
did I say that? No I didn't ... VanillaRhapsody Feb 2014 #46
ROFLMAO hootinholler Feb 2014 #48
Well you said what you said about Hillary....seemingly as if SHE isn't a force to be reckoned with VanillaRhapsody Feb 2014 #50
Yes, I believe she will not win the primary hootinholler Feb 2014 #53
So you are expecting something terrible to happen to Hillary? VanillaRhapsody Feb 2014 #55
Correct, Bernie has principles hootinholler Feb 2014 #60
the nazipoohs hate the term 'right wing' pretzel4gore Feb 2014 #78
Someone who can talk about ideas. oldandhappy Feb 2014 #2
oh, it is a poll. oldandhappy Feb 2014 #3
A Liberal is inclusive, A conservative is exclusive,, orpupilofnature57 Feb 2014 #4
Almost everyone is exclusive of some things PlanetaryOrbit Feb 2014 #92
Most people don't make it an art form . orpupilofnature57 Feb 2014 #93
Liberal: believes in reformed capitalism & the power of the markets to bring social change. Starry Messenger Feb 2014 #8
Hubert Humphrey OmahaBlueDog Feb 2014 #11
^^ this ^^ TBF Feb 2014 #25
Says who? You know this poll had an agenda right? and that some folks ignored it... VanillaRhapsody Feb 2014 #27
lol - you have no need to attack me TBF Feb 2014 #71
On anti-war stuff before 2008, DU definitely trended more left. Starry Messenger Feb 2014 #56
Yes - TBF Feb 2014 #70
Yes...AND Obama has ended ONE and is winding down the other... VanillaRhapsody Feb 2014 #73
This really isn't TBF Feb 2014 #74
but you neglect to take into consideration...DU is NOT representative of Americans in general. VanillaRhapsody Feb 2014 #75
And I would submit to you that some of those DUers TBF Feb 2014 #80
I agree....the bashing of folks for supporting Democratic candidates on a Democratic forum is the VanillaRhapsody Feb 2014 #81
Here is the list of those in the Progressive Caucus... VanillaRhapsody Feb 2014 #12
The opposite of Obama bigwillq Feb 2014 #13
That's not what the Republicans think. eom Jamaal510 Feb 2014 #54
I don't care what those fools think. bigwillq Feb 2014 #84
Two types that are somewhat opposite. Springslips Feb 2014 #16
And has this come about by accident? I don't think so. Egalitarian Thug Feb 2014 #19
Noam Chomsky is NOT a Democrat.... VanillaRhapsody Feb 2014 #28
Party affiliation is completely irrelevant to this topic, and to the larger question of Egalitarian Thug Feb 2014 #31
No this is about Democratic Underground... VanillaRhapsody Feb 2014 #33
I'm curious... Which of Chomsky's positions do you feel MannyGoldstein Feb 2014 #58
Not sure what Chomsky's position is on this. Springslips Feb 2014 #44
Not a political position, rather a linguistic analysis. Your first reply was essentially what Egalitarian Thug Feb 2014 #49
Yeepers. Springslips Feb 2014 #57
It would go a long way to stifling their power. Egalitarian Thug Feb 2014 #69
Nice post. Helps to explain why the verb "liberalize" means to "open up" or "remove restrictions". pampango Feb 2014 #85
It's in my sig line Beearewhyain Feb 2014 #17
The righties have made liberal the definition of a left doc03 Feb 2014 #18
Coincidentally, someone just posted this to my Facebook page Blue_In_AK Feb 2014 #20
+1 nt Earth_First Feb 2014 #22
Liberal vs conservative RobertEarl Feb 2014 #21
we should just stop the pretenses frwrfpos Feb 2014 #24
^^^^^ this is what tthe problem is right here... VanillaRhapsody Feb 2014 #29
It is a big part of what is making DU suck. OmahaBlueDog Feb 2014 #63
I'll repost my definition that was posted on said thread.. Cha Feb 2014 #35
No true Scotsman standards... Lost_Count Feb 2014 #42
A person who 1. has human happiness as their highest goal, and MannyGoldstein Feb 2014 #47
I would assert that Randian Objectivists believe that they make decisions based on evidence. OmahaBlueDog Feb 2014 #64
Liberal has little to do with issues KentuckyWoman Feb 2014 #51
Someone who believes that people are basically good, honest, and hard-working bhikkhu Feb 2014 #52
Oooh. I like! MannyGoldstein Feb 2014 #59
Thanks. bhikkhu Feb 2014 #66
Ten degrees to the left of center... DreamGypsy Feb 2014 #61
Ochs 'self identified' as 'a left social democrat who became an early revolutionary' Bluenorthwest Feb 2014 #89
Correct...at least after the Chicago convention in '68.. DreamGypsy Feb 2014 #91
FDR without the internment camps. Ed Suspicious Feb 2014 #62
Yeah, LBJ without Vietnam Art_from_Ark Feb 2014 #67
Liberalism, as a political philosophy, Agnosticsherbet Feb 2014 #65
Good definition. YoungDemCA Feb 2014 #68
Thanks. Agnosticsherbet Feb 2014 #79
I think that a good definition is impossible, because Liberals care about all sorts of el_bryanto Feb 2014 #72
Someone who sees, fearlessly, that there is enough for all... Orsino Feb 2014 #76
Someone that believes in and follows the "Golden Rule" Bandit Feb 2014 #77
Well... Ohio Joe Feb 2014 #82
I do consider myself a liberal. I have it in my screen name, but labels don't matter to me as liberal_at_heart Feb 2014 #83
I have 2 definitions. LWolf Feb 2014 #86
It's what a conservative calls a progressive. Iggo Feb 2014 #87
A liberal is someone who agrees with me all the time about everything. pampango Feb 2014 #88
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