OWS most vocal supporter in congress, donna edwards faces democratic challenger w/ abramoff ties

[xchrom]

http://www.nationofchange.org/occupy-wall-street-s-most-vocal-supporter-congress-donna-edwards-faces-democratic-challenger-ties-ja

A band of loud Oc­cu­pyDC pro­test­ers held one of its largest ac­tions yet against the De­mo­c­ra­tic Party and big money pol­i­tics last week, pick­et­ing out­side of a fundraiser for the com­mit­tee charged with rais­ing cash for House De­moc­rats. Like most events of this na­ture, staffers for the party and se­cu­rity guards locked the demon­stra­tors out. Even­tu­ally, a con­gres­sional at­tendee emerged to join with the protest, Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Donna Ed­wards from Mary­land. She used the ‘human mic’ to de­nounce in­come in­equal­ity, and fin­ished her re­marks, "it’s time to Oc­cupy Amer­ica!"

In a post-rally in­ter­view with Ed­wards, the con­gress­woman promised to help the 99 Per­cent Move­ment fight against cor­po­rate cor­rup­tion of gov­ern­ment. But Ed­wards, a stand­out in Con­gress for her sup­port of Oc­cupy Wall Street, may lose her dis­trict to a chal­lenge from K Street.

Ed­wards faces cor­po­rate lawyer-lob­by­ist Glenn Ivey in the De­mo­c­ra­tic pri­mary next year. There were ru­mors of Ivey’s in­ten­tions to run against her in 2009. How­ever, Ivey an­nounced his can­di­dacy last month, shortly after Mary­land De­moc­rats re­drew Ed­wards’ dis­trict to in­clude Anne Arun­del County, a more con­ser­v­a­tive area.

De­mo­c­ra­tic in­sid­ers pre­dict that Ivey will raise vast sums to de­feat Ed­wards in the pri­mary.

[Scuba]

1. Another DINO that needs to be weeded out at the grass-roots level. Thx for posting. n/t

[malaise]

2. Wow

K & R

[mdmc]

3. ja can't kill the DLC

[sabrina 1]

4. He may find that having access to all that Wall Street money is going to become poison by

the time the election comes around. Regardless of anything, the American people are more and more aware of the money in politics being the root cause of the problems in this country. Donna Edwards can use this against him, with the help of the Occupiers.

She may not have Wall Street money, but she may have volunteers willing to go door to door to let people know that the Wall Street candidate will NOT be representing them.

This could become a huge issue in the election, and he should be challenged every day to stop taking that money since whoever is paying him is who he will be working for, and THAT is what needs to be changed.

[MisterP]

6. "poison Ivey"

[sabrina 1]

7. Lol, sounds good to me! n/t

[marmar]

5. k/r......Love Donna Edwards.

nt

[mdmc]

8. ..

[sufrommich]

9. Your article is from Dec. 11, 2011. A later article says that

Ivey bowed out.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/maryland-politics/post/glenn-ivey-quits-race-against-donna-edwards/2012/01/11/gIQAxjjFrP_blog.html

"Ivey had raised the ire of some party leaders for deciding to challenge a fellow Democrat for the newly drawn 4th Congressional District seat".