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Call on all MI Dems--including Kildee and Stupak--to support stem cell research

by: emptywheel

Mon Nov 20, 2006 at 13:21:04 PM EST


One of the things Speaker Pelosi has promised to do with her first 100 hours is to expand the kinds of stem cell research the federal government can fund. It's an important issue for families dealing with a range of terrible diseases. And, as Senator-elect Claire McCaskill has shown, it's a winning issue at the polls, even in purple states like Missouri. By delivering on  Pelosi's promise, the Democratic Party can take a firm stance in favor of science and hope. And with the new Dems in the House and Senate, we might even be able to overturn Bush's veto of the stem cell bill. But to do that, Pelosi will need to have the support of all the Democrats in Congress.

12 Democrats voted against the stem cell research bill. Two of those 12 are MI Congressmen--Dale Kildee and Bart Stupak. We as Michiganders need to encourage Kildee and Stupak to support our new Speaker--and to support the kind of research that can help save lives.

If you are a constituent, click through for contact information. Please consider calling your Representative and urging him to support this important effort.

Update: Three of the Republicans who voted against stem cells happen to be the three Republicans we're going to replace in 2008: Rogers, Knollenberg, and McCotter. And I think it's safe to assume that Walberg will join them. It may be worth calling them about this as well. But in any case, let's make sure our Democrats join the rest of their majority in support of this, so we can make this an election issue in 2008.

emptywheel :: Call on all MI Dems--including Kildee and Stupak--to support stem cell research
Dale Kildee

Flint District Office
432 N. Saginaw St. Suite 410
Flint, MI 48502
(810) 239-1437

Saginaw District Office
515 N. Washington Ave. Suite 401
Saginaw, MI 48607
(989) 755-8904

Bay District Office
916 Washington Ave. Suite 205
Bay City, MI 48708
(989) 891-0990

TOLL FREE to MI Offices 1-800-662-2685

Bart Stupak

Alpena
(989) 356 0690
Contact: John, Congressional Aide

Crystal Falls
(906) 875 3751
Part time - Monday and Tuesday
Contact: Jim, Congressional Aide

Escanaba
(906) 786 4504
Contact: Ann or Sue, Congressional Aides

Houghton
(906) 482 1371
Part time: Mon - Thurs, 9AM - 1PM
Contact: Amy, Congressional Aide

Marquette
(906) 228 3700
Contact: Tom, District Director
Glenda, Congressional Aide

Petoskey
(231) 348 0657
Contact: Jason (Monday - Friday) or Sue (part-time Tuesdays and Thursdays), Congressional Aides

West Branch
(989) 345 2258
Contact: Lori, Congressional Aide

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Walberg will for sure vote against any stem cell bill (0.00 / 0)
Schwarz, who Walberg unseated was for stem cell research.

I can't believe that we have to call a (0.00 / 0)
Democrat to ask him to vote for science
and against hocus pocus.  Maybe Kildee and Stupak need to go, too. Votes for a war that was an obvious lie, votes for the Patriot Act, bankruptcy bill, torture, illegal wire taps, and allowing the "decider" to declare anyone - including American citizens - a terrorist and to lock them up without legal rights has made me wonder if the Democrats have lost their minds.  There is a great post on MyDD about the struggle between the netroots(working folks)and the DC Dem elites.  We still need to keep knocking their blocks off until they come back home to the real base of the Democratic Party, which is average working middle class Americans who are too tired and too busy to care about gays and stem cell bogey men.

From your mouth to God's ears that we replace those three (0.00 / 0)
next time around.  And I hope all three have the same opposition they had this time and that they all get help next time around from the DNC and DCCC.


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