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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Where is Bernie Sanders on Gender Justice? [View all]Armstead
(47,803 posts)161. Oh I don't know why....
Voted NO on restricting UN funding for population control policies. (Mar 2009)
Voted NO on defining unborn child as eligible for SCHIP. (Mar 2008)
Voted NO on prohibiting minors crossing state lines for abortion. (Mar 2008)
Voted NO on barring HHS grants to organizations that perform abortions. (Oct 2007)
Voted YES on expanding research to more embryonic stem cell lines. (Apr 2007)
Voted YES on allowing human embryonic stem cell research. (May 2005)
Voted NO on restricting interstate transport of minors to get abortions. (Apr 2005)
Voted NO on making it a crime to harm a fetus during another crime. (Feb 2004)
Voted NO on banning partial-birth abortion except to save mothers life. (Oct 2003)
Voted YES on forbidding human cloning for reproduction & medical research. (Feb 2003)
Voted NO on funding for health providers who don't provide abortion info. (Sep 2002)
Voted NO on banning Family Planning funding in US aid abroad. (May 2001)
Voted NO on banning partial-birth abortions. (Apr 2000)
Voted NO on barring transporting minors to get an abortion. (Jun 1999)
Rated 100% by NARAL, indicating a pro-choice voting record. (Dec 2003)
Emergency contraception for rape victims at all hospitals. (Sep 2006)
Rated 0% by the NRLC, indicating a pro-choice stance. (Dec 2006)
Provide emergency contraception at military facilities. (Apr 2007)
Require pharmacies to fulfill contraceptive prescriptions. (Jul 2011)
Ban anti-abortion limitations on abortion services. (Nov 2013)
Protect the reproductive rights of women. (Jan 1993)
Ensure access to and funding for contraception. (Feb 2007)
Focus on preventing pregnancy, plus emergency contraception. (Jan 2009)
Equal pay for equal work by women. (Mar 2015)
Bushs tracking citizens phone call patterns is illegal. (Jun 2006)
Voted YES on reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act. (Feb 2013)
Voted NO on Constitutionally defining marriage as one-man-one-woman. (Jul 2006)
Voted NO on making the PATRIOT Act permanent. (Dec 2005)
Voted NO on Constitutional Amendment banning same-sex marriage. (Sep 2004)
Voted NO on protecting the Pledge of Allegiance. (Sep 2004)
Voted NO on constitutional amendment prohibiting flag desecration. (Jun 2003)
Voted NO on banning gay adoptions in DC. (Jul 1999)
Voted NO on ending preferential treatment by race in college admissions. (May 1998)
Constitutional Amendment for equal rights by gender. (Mar 2001)
Rated 93% by the ACLU, indicating a pro-civil rights voting record. (Dec 2002)
Rated 100% by the HRC, indicating a pro-gay-rights stance. (Dec 2006)
Rated 97% by the NAACP, indicating a pro-affirmative-action stance. (Dec 2006)
Recognize Juneteenth as historical end of slavery. (Jun 2008)
ENDA: prohibit employment discrimination for gays. (Jun 2009)
Prohibit sexual-identity discrimination at schools. (Mar 2011)
Endorsed as "preferred" by The Feminist Majority indicating pro-women's rights. (Aug 2012)
Enforce against wage discrimination based on gender. (Jan 2013)
Enforce against anti-gay discrimination in public schools. (Jun 2013)
Re-introduce the Equal Rights Amendment. (Mar 2007)
oted YES on reinstating $1.15 billion funding for the COPS Program. (Mar 2007)
Voted YES on funding for alternative sentencing instead of more prisons. (Jun 2000)
Voted NO on more prosecution and sentencing for juvenile crime. (Jun 1999)
Voted YES on maintaining right of habeas corpus in Death Penalty Appeals. (Mar 1996)
Voted NO on making federal death penalty appeals harder. (Feb 1995)
Voted YES on replacing death penalty with life imprisonment. (Apr 1994)
Rated 78% by CURE, indicating pro-rehabilitation crime votes. (Dec 2000)
More funding and stricter sentencing for hate crimes. (Apr 2001)
Require DNA testing for all federal executions. (Mar 2001)
Increase funding for "COPS ON THE BEAT" program. (Jan 2007)
Reduce recidivism by giving offenders a Second Chance. (Mar 2007)
Voted NO on military border patrols to battle drugs & terrorism. (Sep 2001)
Voted NO on subjecting federal employees to random drug tests. (Sep 1998)
Legalize medical marijuana. (Jul 2001)
Rated 7% by the Christian Coalition: an anti-Family-Value voting record. (Dec 2003)
Ban high lead levels in children's toys. (Nov 2005)
More funding & services for victims of domestic violence. (Jan 2013)
Voted for ObamaCare; but prefers single-payer system. (Apr 2015)
Move toward a single-payer system. (Mar 2015)
Voted NO on the Ryan Budget: Medicare choice, tax & spending cuts. (May 2011)
Voted YES on regulating tobacco as a drug. (Jun 2009)
Voted YES on expanding the Children's Health Insurance Program. (Jan 2009)
Voted YES on overriding veto on expansion of Medicare. (Jul 2008)
Voted NO on means-testing to determine Medicare Part D premium. (Mar 2008)
Voted NO on allowing tribal Indians to opt out of federal healthcare. (Feb 2008)
Voted YES on adding 2 to 4 million children to SCHIP eligibility. (Nov 2007)
Voted YES on requiring negotiated Rx prices for Medicare part D. (Apr 2007)
Voted NO on denying non-emergency treatment for lack of Medicare co-pay. (Feb 2006)
Voted NO on limiting medical malpractice lawsuits to $250,000 damages. (May 2004)
Voted NO on limited prescription drug benefit for Medicare recipients. (Nov 2003)
Voted YES on allowing reimportation of prescription drugs. (Jul 2003)
Voted NO on small business associations for buying health insurance. (Jun 2003)
Voted NO on capping damages & setting time limits in medical lawsuits. (Mar 2003)
Voted NO on allowing suing HMOs, but under federal rules & limited award. (Aug 2001)
Voted NO on subsidizing private insurance for Medicare Rx drug coverage. (Jun 2000)
Voted NO on banning physician-assisted suicide. (Oct 1999)
Voted NO on establishing tax-exempt Medical Savings Accounts. (Oct 1999)
MEDS Plan: Cover senior Rx under Medicare. (Jan 2001)
Rated 100% by APHA, indicating a pro-public health record. (Dec 2003)
Improve services for people with autism & their families. (Apr 2007)
Establish a national childhood cancer database. (Mar 2007)
Increase funding for occupational & physical therapy. (Apr 2011)
Preserve access to Medicaid & SCHIP during economic downturn. (Apr 2008)
Provide for treatment of autism under TRICARE. (Jun 2009)
Sponsored bill expanding the National Health Service Corps. (Mar 2009)
Collect data on birth defects and present to the public. (Apr 1998)
Make health care a right, not a privilege. (Nov 1999)
Voted YES on instituting National Service as a new social invention. (Mar 2009)
Voted YES on providing $70 million for Section 8 Housing vouchers. (Jun 2006)
Voted NO on promoting work and marriage among TANF recipients. (Feb 2003)
Voted NO on treating religious organizations equally for tax breaks. (Jul 2001)
Voted NO on responsible fatherhood via faith-based organizations. (Nov 1999)
Increase the earned income tax credit. (Jan 1993)
Fully fund Head Start; Job Corps; and WIC food program. (Apr 1993)
Support school breakfast for low-income children. (Mar 2009)
Reduce the concentration of wealth & wage inequality. (Nov 1999)
Rated 100% by NARAL, indicating a pro-choice voting record: Strongly Favors topic 1
Emergency contraception for rape victims at all hospitals: Favors topic 1
Rated 0% by the NRLC, indicating a pro-choice stance: Strongly Favors topic 1
Provide emergency contraception at military facilities: Favors topic 1
Require pharmacies to fulfill contraceptive prescriptions: Favors topic 1
Ban anti-abortion limitations on abortion services: Strongly Favors topic 1
Protect the reproductive rights of women: Strongly Favors topic 1
Ensure access to and funding for contraception: Favors topic 1
Focus on preventing pregnancy, plus emergency contraception: Favors topic 1
NO on barring transporting minors to get an abortion: Strongly Favors topic 1
NO on banning partial-birth abortions: Favors topic 1
NO on banning Family Planning funding in US aid abroad: Favors topic 1
NO on Unknown roll call for 2001-89: Favors topic 1
NO on funding for health providers who don't provide abortion info: Favors topic 1
NO on banning partial-birth abortion except to save mothers life: Strongly Favors topic 1
NO on making it a crime to harm a fetus during another crime: Favors topic 1
NO on restricting interstate transport of minors to get abortions: Strongly Favors topic 1
YES on allowing human embryonic stem cell research: Favors topic 1
NO on prohibiting minors crossing state lines for abortion: Strongly Favors topic 1
NO on defining unborn child as eligible for SCHIP: Favors topic 1
YES on expanding research to more embryonic stem cell lines: Favors topic 1
NO on barring HHS grants to organizations that perform abortions: Favors topic 1
NO on restricting UN funding for population control policies: Favors topic 1
Strongly Favors topic 2:
Legally require hiring women & minorities
(-5 points on Economic scale) Equal pay for equal work by women: Strongly Favors topic 2
Constitutional Amendment for equal rights by gender: Strongly Favors topic 2
Rated 97% by the NAACP, indicating a pro-affirmative-action stance: Strongly Favors topic 2
Recognize Juneteenth as historical end of slavery: Strongly Favors topic 2
Increase funding for occupational & physical therapy: Favors topic 2
Endorsed as "preferred" by The Feminist Majority indicating pro-women's rights: Strongly Favors topic 2
More funding & services for victims of domestic violence: Strongly Favors topic 2
Enforce against wage discrimination based on gender: Strongly Favors topic 2
Re-introduce the Equal Rights Amendment: Strongly Favors topic 2
Ban discriminatory compensation; allow 2 years to sue: Favors topic 2
Stronger enforcement against gender-based pay discrimination: Favors topic 2
NO on ending preferential treatment by race in college admissions: Favors topic 2
YES on $84 million in grants for Black and Hispanic colleges: Strongly Favors topic 2
YES on reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act: Favors topic 2
Strongly Favors topic 3:
Comfortable with same-sex marriage
(+5 points on Social scale) More funding and stricter sentencing for hate crimes: Strongly Favors topic 3
Rated 100% by the HRC, indicating a pro-gay-rights stance: Strongly Favors topic 3
ENDA: prohibit employment discrimination for gays: Favors topic 3
Repeal Don't-Ask-Don't-Tell, and reinstate discharged gays: Favors topic 3
Prohibit sexual-identity discrimination at schools: Strongly Favors topic 3
Enforce against anti-gay discrimination in public schools: Strongly Favors topic 3
NO on banning gay adoptions in DC: Favors topic 3
NO on Constitutional Amendment banning same-sex marriage: Strongly Favors topic 3
NO on Constitutionally defining marriage as one-man-one-woman: Strongly Favor
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Exactly... no one "painted BS as racist.." his supporters in his name.. just accused
Cha
Aug 2015
#27
I'M welcome that YOU educated Bernie Sanders to allow blacks to sit at the table? THAT'S fukn FUNNY
cherokeeprogressive
Aug 2015
#157
well. me and tons of others. you know, all those people you fought so hard against.
seabeyond
Aug 2015
#165
All those people I fought against? Was I fighting someone? I don't remember fighting anyone.
cherokeeprogressive
Aug 2015
#177
the picture was in a story of words about black life and experience. it was part of their story.
seabeyond
Aug 2015
#178
The picture was in a blog post that informed readers what the blogger thought about Bernie Sanders.
cherokeeprogressive
Aug 2015
#181
You are 100% correct in your statement that it's "really, not tough" yet still, you are wrong.
seabeyond
Aug 2015
#184
the picture had nothing to do with sanders. it had to do with black life experiences.
seabeyond
Aug 2015
#213
Making nice whenever possible actually feels like having a heavy load lifted from my shoulders.
cherokeeprogressive
Aug 2015
#220
Hillary Clinton spent 17 years preaching at me that she opposed my rights because of her 'faith'
Bluenorthwest
Aug 2015
#58
I thought it was funny to read that with her "H" logo avatar just to the left of those words LOL n/t
cherokeeprogressive
Aug 2015
#148
No one is "painting BS racist".. and they're not accusing him of being sexist. Only in the minds of
Cha
Aug 2015
#28
Where are the threads about Hillary, O'Malley, Chaffee and Webb on gender equality ...
slipslidingaway
Aug 2015
#35
For your reading pleasure: 32 Years Before Marriage Equality, Bernie Sanders Fought For Gay Rights
beam me up scottie
Aug 2015
#105
Seen that hit piece. It's speculation from a whiner who didn't get an interview with Sanders.
beam me up scottie
Aug 2015
#102
For a article supposedly about Sanders, seems odd that he isn't mentioned til 75% the way through.
Lancero
Aug 2015
#120
Hillary is great on all women's issue.. Don't care what some BS supporter has to say.
Cha
Aug 2015
#75
Of course she doesn't. She already has her ticket to the coronation.
cherokeeprogressive
Aug 2015
#152
Bernie is great on all women's issues, regardless of what some HC supporter has to say. nt
cyberswede
Aug 2015
#89
Oh yeah, they are.. no one gets to question BS. End of story. I've seen it too many times. and,
Cha
Aug 2015
#46
All you have to do is listen to what he says and if you are not willing to that at least ask ...
slipslidingaway
Aug 2015
#37
The op used a loaded question to imply that Bernie doesn't care about my rights as a woman.
beam me up scottie
Aug 2015
#53
Exactly.. and some still haven't learned that whole strawman attack didn't work out so
Cha
Aug 2015
#136
NO ONE... stated, implied, or suggest sanders was a racist. further, everyone clarified sanders
seabeyond
Aug 2015
#139
As a woman, working in a 'man's' job for decades, I can say with no regrets that Bernie is the only
peacebird
Aug 2015
#6
They're too busy acting like being a woman automatically makes Hillary a better candidate for women.
beam me up scottie
Aug 2015
#51
Why? She already declared that Bernie "struggles" to talk about gender issues.
beam me up scottie
Aug 2015
#78
Of course. Any issue that comes up... BS is perfect. Everyone else must have their "feet held
Cha
Aug 2015
#25
It's the new meme and it's just as hillaryous as the original 'Not Good Enough Bernie'.
beam me up scottie
Aug 2015
#52
They can REFUSE all they need to, she.. but, it's not going to do a damn bit of good. the questions
Cha
Aug 2015
#40
What legitimate concerns? The op is a do over of the 'Not Good Enough Bernie' hit piece you posted.
beam me up scottie
Aug 2015
#54
A more interesting OP might have asked where ALL the candidates are on gender justice.
Comrade Grumpy
Aug 2015
#38
Pfft. Legitimate question my ass. It's as legit as "When did he stop beating his wife?"
beam me up scottie
Aug 2015
#50
That's a reasonable response, although I disagree about the nature of these things
Armstead
Aug 2015
#57
I'm pissed off. Bernies been one of my heroes since the 1990's, and I cannot abide lies about him.
Armstead
Aug 2015
#84
The problem is that they have so little to work with in terms of Bernie's record
virtualobserver
Aug 2015
#106
No kidding. Upthread the op is trying to "prove" that Bernie didn't always support lgbt rights.
beam me up scottie
Aug 2015
#107
And in the process they're swift boating a true ally who fought for their rights.
beam me up scottie
Aug 2015
#110
Hillary Clinton on the Sanctity of Marriage, hers being so glorious she is allowed to judge others:
Bluenorthwest
Aug 2015
#60
And this - " its primary, principal role during those millennia has been the raising and socializing
djean111
Aug 2015
#91
Yep. And if Bernie had said anything at all remotely like what Hillary said ten years ago -
djean111
Aug 2015
#93
All Too True - Rationalization And Self-Deception Are Amazing Tranquilizers
cantbeserious
Aug 2015
#94
Didn't the Clinton's invent the "abortion ought to be rare" meme as a way to triangulate over
Warren Stupidity
Aug 2015
#124
same issue blm has. take it beyond the economic discussion. we need to know he GETS we are on an
seabeyond
Aug 2015
#215
There is no doubt in my mind after listening to several of Sanders' speeches that
JDPriestly
Aug 2015
#221
from the plans he propose to his insistence that economic equality will address the issues,
seabeyond
Aug 2015
#223
Okay ... but don't you, also, see this as, yet, another instance of ...
1StrongBlackMan
Aug 2015
#207
over the last couple months i saw sanders fail, the one opportunity being an advocate for women.
seabeyond
Aug 2015
#132
i remember that now, seabeyond. Oh but BS is perfect on everything.. his supporters accused those
Cha
Aug 2015
#133
but, you can darn well bet the sanders supporters appreciates and praises sanders for finally, .....
seabeyond
Aug 2015
#134
Precisely.. they conveniently dismiss the actions that resulted in people asking questions and
Cha
Aug 2015
#135
No you won't hear anything because he's oblivious to all social issues and he's hostile
Armstead
Aug 2015
#155
ya. i listened to that. good for him. said it well. so? still fucked up the planned parenthood
seabeyond
Aug 2015
#172
see, you pretend as if there is actually a conversation as you specifically go to extreme
seabeyond
Aug 2015
#174
I am sarcastic because I am sick of seeing him (and supporters) trashed for the wrong reasons
Armstead
Aug 2015
#175
i want him to advocate for women and our issues. blacks want him to advocate for blacks
seabeyond
Aug 2015
#179
no. he was not receptive. conversation was being had prior to netroot and he was not receptive
seabeyond
Aug 2015
#185
that really is the bottom line. we disagree. nothing nefarious nor insult needed.
seabeyond
Aug 2015
#188
at 17'ish% nationally and only two states of 50, you think it is a good idea to reject voters? lol
seabeyond
Aug 2015
#142
"I don't want YOU to." my comment is about you feeling it is a good move to reject sanders voters
seabeyond
Aug 2015
#159
psssst, you told a possible voter to go away. we all have unique ways to run campaigns.
seabeyond
Aug 2015
#171
you tell a voter to go away, i laugh and your conclusion is i have such a problem with sanders,
seabeyond
Aug 2015
#180
Maybe you ought to not tell people sanders doesn't need their votes, you think?
seabeyond
Aug 2015
#202
I trust Bernie on justice for all. If you wouldjust give him half a chance, you would see that he
Live and Learn
Aug 2015
#191
I'm going to assume Alyssa Peterson isn't as stupid as this piece makes her seem,
Maedhros
Aug 2015
#237