Dem Politicians Named as Punishers of the Poor (Dems exposed for harming poor!)

ICECAP ^ | 8-25-08

[Renfield]

Aug 25, 2008 Several Politicians Named as Punishers of the Poor at Press Conference

Denver, CO—A coalition of leaders from the African American, civil rights, faith-based and veteran communities this week blasted several Members of Congress as “Punishers of the Poor,” saying that they all scored a perfect zero on an affordable energy voting scorecard. The six politicians who earned top honors as the “worst of the worst” among those supporting higher energy prices—and who were memoralized in a Punishers of the Poor deck of playing cards—are these:

Joker: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Joker: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid Ace of Spades: U.S. Senator Dick Durbin Ace of Diamonds: U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer Ace of Clubs: U.S. Rep. George Miller (D-CA) Ace of Hearts: U.S. Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA)

Streaming video of the press conference to unveil the “Punishers of the Poor” at the Democratic National Convention in Denver can be seen here.

“These six politicians are the leaders and generals in charge of waging an unprecedented war on the poor,” said Niger Innis, National Spokesman for the Congress of Racial Equality and co-chairman of the Alliance to Stop the War on the Poor. “By pushing policies that restrict American energy supply and thus push prices higher, they are delivering daily punishment to low-income and poor families across the nation. What these politicians are doing is immoral, and we intend to wake up the American people to the fact that this war being waged in every city in America today.”

“We call this a war on the poor because high energy prices disproportionately impact America?s poor and low-income families,” said Bishop Harry Jackson, Chairman of the High Impact Leadership Coalition and national co-chair of the Alliance. “With prices expected to rise this winter from 25 to 50 percent, we are in a true crisis. These prices are actually a highly regressive tax on America?s most vulnerable citizens. The war on the poor must stop. To do that, we must increase our supply of all energy resources, including coal, oil and gas, nuclear power—and encourage greater conservation.”

“High prices hit poor families hardest,” said Bishop Phillip Porter, Chair of Colorado Consumers for Affordable Energy and the founder of All Nations Pentecostal Church of God in Christ in Aurora, Colorado. “A recent study shows that while median income families have to devote five cents on a dollar of their income to energy costs, poor families have to devote upwards of 50 cents on the dollar. That is fifty cents they can’t spend on health care, or education or food.” “The poor are being decimated by high energy prices, which are also driving up food costs and other necessities of life,” said Ralph Conner of the non-partisan Heartland Institute

Dennis Sykes, Chairman of Colorado Veterans for Energy Security, “Unless we as a nation become energy independent, we will have to continue sending U.S. troops overseas to die on foreign soil defending our access to foreign energy. That is unacceptable.”

The coalition leaders said the ongoing “punishers of the poor” expose will be bipartisan, with both Republicans and Democrats named as punishers.

Recently in Washington, D.C., leaders from the civil rights, African American, faith-based, senior, agriculture and consumer advocacy communities launched a national campaign to publicly unmask more than 100 politicians and 50 environmental extremist groups that are waging an immoral “war on the poor” by pushing policies that limit America’s ability to produce more America energy and drive energy prices skyward.

[BelegStrongbow]

Whoa, that’s going to leave a mark the size of Crater Lake.

Think MSNBC will have anything on it?

[Robert A Cook PE]

I'm surprised CORE (a notorious democrat/socialist/liberal “wright-wringer” group would associate themselves with ANYTHING that criticizes democrats!

[SMARTY]

Finally!!!! Maybe if the tunnel caves in on you ... you WILL see the light at the end? Think so?

Boy oh boy... I guess we'll bring these people into the GOP kicking and screaming AT LAST!!!!!

It escapes me why Liberals don't see that they DO have an alternative to groveling at the altar of the DNC for every crumb of subsistence ... When all they have to do is just stand up straight with us over here.

[Renfield]

CORE isn't all that leftist. Roy Innis, CORE Chairman, is a strong supporter of the 2nd Amendment, which puts him at odds with the Democratic Party establishment.

From an NRA-affiliated web site:

Roy Innis is the National Chairman of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). Born in the U.S. Virgin Islands, attended New York City public schools through Stuyvesant High, then after a tour of duty in the U.S. Army during the Korean War, attended the City College of New York, majoring in chemistry. Innis held positions in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries before being employed at Montefiore Hospital in medical research. In 1967, Innis became the first Ford Foundation Fellow at Metropolitan Applied Research Center (MARC), and in 1968, he was elected National Leader of CORE. Losing two sons to urban gun violence influenced Innis' views on crime and victims' rights so dramatically that he became one of the most vocal and active advocates of the Second Amendment rights-especially decent citizens' right of self-defense. Innis lectures throughout the United States and in foreign countries on gun issues.

Mr. Innes was re-elected to the NRA Board of Directors in 2002 for a 3 year term.

[LadyPilgrim]

I received this in an email yesterday.
You all may have seen it already. If so....please forgive me. ;-)
But here goes...listen all the way through....pretty powerful.

http://www.atlah.org/broadcast/ndnr07-28-08.html

[PhilCollins]

One of those senators (Durbin) is from my state. I wish that a conservative was running against him, but the republican candidate is pro-choice, pro-gun control, and pro-Hillarycare. According to the latest polls, Durbin is ahead by about 25%. I’ll probably vote for the Constitution Party candidate, Chad Koppie. He’s pro-life, pro-gun rights, anti-Hillarycare, and anti-illegal alien.

[Cacique]

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