According to the Washington Post, Rep. Mary Bono, Sometimes-45, missed 66 votes during the current Congress.  See how Bono voted on key votes — the most important bills, nominations and resolutions that have come before Congress, as determined by washingtonpost.com.

Mary Bono has missed 66 votes (5.9%) during the current Congress.  See a list of her missed votes since 1991.

Bono has voted with the Repugnant leadership and her party 89.3% of the time during the current Congress.  However, this percentage does not include the 66 votes during the current Congress where Bono voted “Not Voting.”  Here is a list of Bono’s votes that were against the Repugnant position since 1991.  Here is a list of the percentage of votes on which a Representative agrees with the position taken by a majority of his or her party members during the 110th Congress.  The scores do not include missed votes.  All lawmakers who served during this congress are included.

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Bono’s allegiance to the Repugnant party (89.3%) is only exceeded by the following members of her party:

• Rep. Charles Norwood (R-GA) – District 10 – 100%
• Rep. Thelma Drake (R-VA) – District 2 – 95.2%
• Rep. Mary Fallin (R-OK) – District 5 – 95.1%
• Rep. Jo Ann Davis (R-VA) – District 1 – 94.8%
• Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) – District 21 – 94.8%
• Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) – District 22 – 94.7%
• Rep. David Camp (R-MI) – District 4 – 94.6%
• Rep. Randy Forbes (R-VA) – District 4 – 94.5%
• Rep. Adam Putnam (R-FL) – District 12 – 94.5%
• Rep. Roy Blunt (R-MO) – District 7 – 94.4%
• Rep. Kay Granger (R-TX) – District 12 – 93.9%
• Rep. Jo Bonner (R-AL) – District 1 – 93.8%
• Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) – District 5 – 93.8%
• Rep. Adrian Smith (R-NE) – District 3 – 93.8%
• Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK) – District 4 – 93.7%
• Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) – District 6 – 93.6%
• Rep. Doc Hastings (R-WA) – District 4 – 93.6%
• Rep. Ron Lewis (R-KY) – District 2 – 93.6%
• Rep. Buck McKeon (R-CA) – District 25 – 93.5%
• Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) – District 21 – 93.5%
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According to the The Desert Sun Wire Service today, John Williams, Candidate for Palm Springs City Council, has requested a recount of the election results.  The initial unofficial vote tally had Williams losing to Lee Weigel by 104 votes.  The official tally shows the difference to be 76 votes, a narrowing of the difference by 28 votes.  If a recount delivers the election to Williams, then the majority on City Council would be 4-1 Democratic rather than the 3-2 majority of the incoming Council.

John Williams, who lost his Palm Springs City Council bid to former police chief Lee Weigel by a 76-vote margin, has requested a recount by the Riverside County Registrar’s Office.

County Registrar Barbara Dunmore says the recount will begin Tuesday at 9 a.m.

Some in the Coachella Valley decry the recount request as ‘sour grapes.’  Others, myself included, see it as insuring that every vote was counted, and that every vote was counted accurately.

Re full disclosure, BlueBeaumontBoyz has been an enthusiastic supporter of Williams.

Dennis Kucinich’s approach to the economy is so practical and farsighted, I sometimes wonder why it isn’t discussed more; even by Kucinich! But, I guess Iraq is always the dominating issue.

However, amazingly, this plan addresses: balancing the budget, tempering the Pentagon war machine, fair taxation reform, leveling the business sector to enable small businesses to compete, our $800 Billion trade deficit, worker’s rights human rights and environmental concerns, the millions of outsourced jobs, and  rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure-while at the same time creating more national wealth with millions of jobs, promoting renewable energies and saving families money on bills! It is insanely practical and wholly part of his message of “Strength Through Peace” for America.

In the same way that Dennis Kucinich will strengthen our security internationally by creating pragmatic relationships of peace, based upon equality and fairness, so he will at home by creating a more balanced economy and more equal society. To start with, Kucinich will repeal the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy and then double the tax refunds and credits for Americans earning $80,000 and less. He will create a more level playing field for small businesses by reconstituting the trust-busting powers of the Justice Department and breaking up the monopolies that make competition next to impossible in many industries. Further, he will slash the bloated Pentagon budget that we spoke about earlier by 15% to provide for universal education, pre-kindergarten/daycare through college, as well as a new public works program, called the WGA, which in turn will create millions of new jobs.

Regarding our massive trade deficit, mounting over $700 Billion/yr, and the millions of jobs our country has lost through trade agreements (3 million manufacturing jobs lost since 2000 alone) Kucinich is the only candidate willing to address the problem head on. As one of his first acts in office, he will notify NAFTA and the WTO that America is withdrawing from the agreements, thus protecting massive outsourced job loss, stimulating the economy and getting us on the road to recovery nationally; as America starts to produce goods that Americans purchase. No longer will it only be about corporate wealth, but national wealth as well, and Dennis will agressively pursue that these corporations pay their fare share in taxes too.

We will return to bilateral trade, based upon workers rights, human rights and environmental principles. No more exploiting workers for slave wages. No more ruining the environment for profit. Workers will be empowered and the rights of American workers to unionize and enact effective collective bargaining will gain more strength by Kucinich’s promise to repeal the Taft-Hartely Act.

And finally, Dennis will create millions of new jobs and more wealth among the middle and working class and small businesses, while simultaneously addressing our crumbling infrastructural problems and energy needs. Through his Works Green Administration, or WGA, Dennis is investing in the environment, as well as our future, while stimulating the national economy. Inspired by FDR’s Works Progress Administration, the WGA utilizes the Environmental Protection Agency to put millions of Americans back to work rebuilding our schools, bridges, roads, ports, water systems, and environmental systems. Not only does the bold practicality of the plan lie in putting Americans back to work by investing in the national wealth of our own infrastructure, but the plan also incorporates environmental and energy concerns to further create wealth for the country and save individual families more money. For example, not only will the public works projects stress green building and renewable energy technology, but the plan will enable homes to be retrofit with green building, solar and wind microtechnology which will save families money on their energy bills.

(Caught on film – promoted by jsw)

I took a video camera up to UCSB and found some folks luring students in with “help us cure cancer” when in fact one of their petitions is the so-called “Electoral College Reform Act” — a blatant attempt to steal the White House in 2008.

See the Courage Campaign YouTube here, and then send this on to your friends.  Tell them to keep their eyes peeled for dirty tricksters when they go shopping this weekend. If you encounter a petitioner trying to trick you with a line about “children with cancer,” then click here to report when and where you saw the dirty tricksters.

Last week, University of California student Steven Attewell discovered a team of petitioners on the university campus at Santa Barbara.  After discovering that the petitioners were trying to get signatures for the Dirty Trick Act, Mr. Attewell immediately contacted the Courage Campaign to help shine a spotlight on these illegal tactics.  The following day, we found the petitioners using their deceptive tactics to get signatures from unsuspecting college students.  And we had a video camera.

As you can see in the video, the petitioners said that their petition would “help children with cancer,” and then proceeded to instruct well-meaning students to sign several petitions that were attached together on a single clipboard.  The petitioners clearly tried to obscure the language on the petitions, using a rubber band to make it difficult for anyone signing to read beyond the first page.  When pressed, the petitioners described some of the other issues (besides curing cancer) they were advocating, but their descriptions of the petition language on eminent domain and presidential election reform was unclear or inaccurate.

According to an investigation from the UCSB Daily Nexus, the petitioners in Santa Barbara said that they work for Arno Political Consultants (APC), a notorious Republican consulting firm which has previously contracted to get signatures for tobacco companies, Mobil Oil, and they’ve been discovered tricking people into registering to vote as a Republican. APC has been in courts all over America, as you can see here.

APC said that their corporation bears no responsibility for the tactics seen in Santa Barbara, and that any violations of election law are the fault of the individual signature-gatherers in Santa Barbara.  This seems unlikely as reports are flowing in from across the state of APC petitioners using similar deceptive tactics used to get signatures on the Dirty Trick Initiative.

If you see anyone collecting signatures for the Dirty Trick, let us know right away by visiting CourageCampaign.org/sneaky.  Send us your video, your photos and your stories; we’ll post them and we’ll offer them up when it comes time to challenge the process.

Erik Love, Courage Campaign