Global Stewards voting scorecard

[jpgray]

Senator John Edwards (NC)
Environment: 76%
Labor Rights: 94%
Civil Rights: 94%
Animal Rights (Pro/Anti/N.A.): 5/2/2
Auth. for War: Yes

Senator John Kerry (MA)
Environment: 96%
Labor Rights: 90%
Civil Rights: 100%
Animal Rights (Pro/Anti/N.A.): 8/1/0
Auth. for War: Yes

Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich (OH)
Environment: 90%
Labor Rights: 98%
Civil Rights: 89%
Animal Rights (Pro/Anti/N.A.): 9/0/0
Auth. for War No

Senator Joe Lieberman (CT)
Environment: 93%
Labor Rights: 81%
Civil Rights: 94%
Animal Rights (Pro/Anti/N.A.): 6/1/2
Auth. for War: Yes

http://www.globalstewards.org/democrats.htm

[Feanorcurufinwe]

1. Thanks for the informative post!

[wyldwolf]

2. Kerry and Lieberman better on environment than Kucinich?

Interesting.

[jpgray]

3. Here's the criteria

It's tabulated by the League of Conservation Voters (http://www.lcv.org/), and based on the 105th, 106th and 107th Congressional sessions.

[Feanorcurufinwe]

4. The environment is the brightest spot on Lieberman's record.

As for Kerry, he has been a leader on this issue since Earth Day 1970.

[damnraddem]

5. So-called animal rights does not belong there.

Except that my opinion of Kucinich drops a little in seeing him at 100%. But, then, it depends on what the specific votes were. Humane treatment -- fine. Saving endangered species and habitats -- essential. Treating animals as having rights akin to human rights -- ridiculous, harmful to humans, and harmful to the environment. That animal rights is somehow considered part of the left represents part of the left's clasping an asp to its bosom.

[jpgray]

6. PETA didn't do the scoring, it was the Humane Society USA

Here's a link to the pdf:

http://www.saplonline.org/humanescorecard/107thcongressionalscores.pdf