Posted on 03/07/2012 4:20:19 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
He has maintained a relatively low profile on the Sandra Fluke story, but Democratic Rep. Elijah E. Cummings played a big role in putting the Georgetown law student in the spotlight and sparking a nationwide conversation over contraceptives.
It was Cummings who helped put Fluke on Washington's radar. Aides to Cummings, the ranking Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, discovered Fluke weeks ago as they were scrambling to find a witness to testify about the Obama administration's controversial contraceptive policy.
Staff first noticed the third-year law student and former president of the school's Students for Reproductive Justice group on C-SPAN. Fluke was speaking at a televised Feb. 9 press conference at the National Press Club.
After hearing her story, the aides decided she would be a good witness for a hearing that the oversight committee.
Cummings had his staff tape a video of Fluke telling her story and posted it on his website, where more than 75,000 people watched it in four days. House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi then offered Fluke an opportunity to speak before a televised meeting of the Democratic Steering and Outreach Committee, which was the video that prompted Limbaugh's remarks.
(Excerpt) Read more at baltimoresun.com ...
Cummings is a real “hater”. He can stand “whitey”.
Interesting how they always have to "scramble" to find people in favor of these "popular" policies.
“Cumming plays role in Fluke saga”
That is what I read originally. I responded “no duh...”
There was a National Press Club event on 9-Feb called Catholic Students for Women’s Health, but the video is no longer there:
http://press.org/events/catholic-students-womens-health
The above site names Francesca Witcher as the contact person for this NPC event. Here’s what Google says about her:
http://feministcampus.org/blog/index.php/author/fwitcher/
Ms Witcher is a National Campus Organizer at Feminist Majority Foundation according to LinkedIn.
Was he not a player in the hissing and spitting reports?????
Had to click on the article to realize they were talking about Elijah. You’re not alone.
Cummings strikes me as a once truly righteous man who after wallowing with dogs is irreversibly infested with fleas and G_d knows what. His perpetually sad face perhaps gives voice to his sense of what he’s become.
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