According to the '08 exit polls, Hispanics made up 9% of the nat'l electorate. In states represented by GOPers whose '08 electorate was more than 9% Hispanic -- AZ (16%), FL (14%), NV (15%) and TX (20%) -- only one out of six sens. (the retiring [Mel] MartÃnez) voted for Sotomayor. Sen. John Ensign (R-NV), Senate Min. Whip Jon Kyl, NRSC Chair John Cornyn, Hutchison and McCain all voted against.
Source: http://hotlineoncall.nationaljournal.com/archives/2009/08/parsing_the_gop.php
Showing posts with label John Cornyn. Show all posts
Showing posts with label John Cornyn. Show all posts
Monday, August 10, 2009
Thursday, August 6, 2009
Obama Administration Producing Enemies List?
Texas Sen. John Cornyn, accusing the White House of compiling an "enemies list," has asked President Barack Obama to stop an effort to collect "fishy" information Americans see about a health care overhaul.
Cornyn, who leads the Republicans' Senate campaign effort, said Wednesday in a letter to Obama that he's concerned that citizen engagement on the issue could be "chilled." He also expressed alarm that the White House could end up collecting electronic information on its critics.
"I can only imagine the level of justifiable outrage had your predecessor asked Americans to forward e-mails critical of his policies to the White House," Cornyn wrote.
Cornyn was responding to a post on the White House's blog Wednesday in which users are asked to help stop the spread of disinformation about legislation to overhaul health insurance. The post offers an e-mail address, flag@whitehouse.gov, for users to forward anything "on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy."
The White House said the post was merely designed to fight "intentionally misleading" information in the health care debate.
Regardless of the intentions, what President Obama is doing is chillingly close to what was done in Soviet Russia and other totalitarian government, by using people thinking they are doing their country a favor to collect oppo information.
It is not appropriate and we urge all Democrats to ask the White House to put a hold on the free speech violations and start fighting against policy disagreements by pushing their own policies and not collecting others and calling them lies.
Source: http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/politics/state/stories/DN-cornynflag_06nat.ART.State.Edition1.4bb4d44.html
Cornyn, who leads the Republicans' Senate campaign effort, said Wednesday in a letter to Obama that he's concerned that citizen engagement on the issue could be "chilled." He also expressed alarm that the White House could end up collecting electronic information on its critics.
"I can only imagine the level of justifiable outrage had your predecessor asked Americans to forward e-mails critical of his policies to the White House," Cornyn wrote.
Cornyn was responding to a post on the White House's blog Wednesday in which users are asked to help stop the spread of disinformation about legislation to overhaul health insurance. The post offers an e-mail address, flag@whitehouse.gov, for users to forward anything "on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy."
The White House said the post was merely designed to fight "intentionally misleading" information in the health care debate.
Regardless of the intentions, what President Obama is doing is chillingly close to what was done in Soviet Russia and other totalitarian government, by using people thinking they are doing their country a favor to collect oppo information.
It is not appropriate and we urge all Democrats to ask the White House to put a hold on the free speech violations and start fighting against policy disagreements by pushing their own policies and not collecting others and calling them lies.
Source: http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/politics/state/stories/DN-cornynflag_06nat.ART.State.Edition1.4bb4d44.html
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