COMMUNISTS IN THE US CONGRESS? WEST IS NUTS? WELL HERE'S THE LIST - He only missed by 4.....DL 24/7%

[Patricia M. McBride]

I thought this is VERY interesting - and scary.  They are "out there"!!!!  One of FCTP's team leaders found this and was kind enough to share it, so I will post it since this is making news again.............thanks to Allen West.  Gee I wonder why they don't run under the flag of the party they actually belong to and choose instead to be deceptive and run as democrats except of course Bernie Saunders from Vermont.

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After WEST was castigated by the media concerning his statement about “80 Communists” serving in Congress, I went on line to research this.  In 2009 the Democratic Socialist Party Of America proudly published a list of DSA members serving in Congress.  All hell broke loose.  Almost all of these people had run as “democrats!” and very possibly feared their socialist commitment might hurt their chances for reelection.  So the DSA “disappeared” the list.  You can’t find it on their web page any longer. I found it elsewhere. 

The source for this list is the Wikipedia On Line Encyclopedia. They refused to print the list, yet ran a front page banner headline story: “WEST UNABLE TO BACK UP “80 COMMUNISTS IN CONGRESS.”  The same day that headline ran I sent the below list to THREE newspaper Op-ed page editors and it was summarily rejected because they said my “source was not reliable.” 

WEST did not miss by far.  While not card-carrying members of the Communist Party – WEST criticizes the way they vote, speak, think, their attitude toward the Constitution, and their hostility to those of opposite loyalties. Almost all are reelected over and over again by those who may not know of the DSA listing.

Wiki states: “All listed below are members of the Democratic Party or caucus with the Democratic Party. There are currently 76 declared Socialist/Progressives, including 73 voting Representatives, two non-voting Delegates, and one Senator.” 

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Arizona

• Ed Pastor (AZ-4, Phoenix)
• Raúl Grijalva (AZ-7, Tucson) - Co-Chair

California

• Lynn Woolsey (CA-6, Santa Rosa)
• George Miller (CA-7, Richmond)
• Barbara Lee (CA-9, Oakland)
• Pete Stark (CA-13, Fremont)
• Janice Hahn (CA-36, San Pedro)
• Michael Honda (CA-15, San Jose)
• Sam Farr (CA-17, Monterey)
• Xavier Becerra (CA-31, Los Angeles)
• Judy Chu (CA-32, El Monte)
• Karen Bass (CA-33, Baldwin Hills)
• Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-34, Los Angeles)
• Maxine Waters (CA-35, Inglewood)
• Laura Richardson (CA-37, Long Beach)
• Linda Sánchez (CA-39, Lakewood)
• Bob Filner (CA-51, San Diego)

Colorado

• Jared Polis (CO-02, Boulder)

Connecticut

• Rosa DeLauro (CT-3, New Haven)

Florida

• Corrine Brown (FL-3, Jacksonville)
• Frederica Wilson (FL-17, Miami)

Georgia

• Hank Johnson (GA-4, Lithonia)
• John Lewis (GA-5, Atlanta)

Hawaii

• Mazie Hirono (HI-2, Honolulu)

Illinois

• Bobby Rush (IL-1, Chicago)
• Jesse Jackson, Jr. (IL-2, Chicago Heights)
• Luis Gutierrez (IL-4, Chicago)
• Danny Davis (IL-7, Chicago)
• Jan Schakowsky (IL-9, Chicago)

Indiana

• André Carson (IN-7, Indianapolis)

Iowa

• Dave Loebsack (IA-2, Cedar Rapids)

Maine

• Chellie Pingree (ME-1, North Haven)

Maryland

• Donna Edwards (MD-4, Fort Washington)
• Elijah Cummings (MD-7, Baltimore)

Massachusetts

• John Olver (MA-1, Amherst)
• Jim McGovern (MA-3, Worcester)
• Barney Frank (MA-4, Newton)
• John Tierney (MA-6, Salem)
• Ed Markey (MA-7, Malden)
• Mike Capuano (MA-8, Boston)

Michigan

• John Conyers (MI-14, Detroit)

Minnesota

• Keith Ellison (MN-5, Minneapolis) - Co-Chair

Mississippi

• Bennie Thompson (MS-2, Bolton)

Missouri

• William Lacy Clay, Jr. (MO-1, St. Louis)
• Emanuel Cleaver (MO-5, Kansas City) - Chairman, Congressional Black Caucus

New Jersey

• Frank Pallone (NJ-06, Long Branch)
• Rush Holt (NJ-12, Hopewell Township)

New Mexico

• Ben R. Luján (NM-3, Santa Fe)

New York

• Jerry Nadler (NY-8, Manhattan)
• Yvette Clarke (NY-11, Brooklyn)
• Nydia Velázquez (NY-12, Brooklyn)
• Carolyn Maloney (NY-14, Manhattan)
• Charles Rangel (NY-15, Harlem)
• José Serrano (NY-16, Bronx)
• Maurice Hinchey (NY-22, Saugerties)
• Louise Slaughter (NY-28, Rochester)

North Carolina

• Mel Watt (NC-12, Charlotte)

Ohio

• Marcy Kaptur (OH-9, Toledo)
• Dennis Kucinich (OH-10, Cleveland)
• Marcia Fudge (OH-11, Warrensville Heights)

Oregon

• Earl Blumenauer (OR-3, Portland)
• Peter DeFazio (OR-4, Eugene)

Pennsylvania

• Bob Brady (PA-1, Philadelphia)
• Chaka Fattah (PA-2, Philadelphia)

Rhode Island

• David Cicilline (RI-1, Providence)

Tennessee

• Steve Cohen (TN-9, Memphis)

Texas

• Sheila Jackson Lee (TX-18, Houston)
• Eddie Bernice Johnson (TX-30, Dallas)

Vermont

• Peter Welch (VT-At Large)

Virginia

• Jim Moran (VA-8, Alexandria)

Washington

• Jim McDermott (WA-7, Seattle)

Wisconsin

• Tammy Baldwin (WI-2, Madison)
• Gwen Moore (WI-4, Milwaukee)

Non-voting

• Donna M. Christensen (Virgin Islands)
• Eleanor Holmes Norton (District of Columbia)

US Senate members

• Bernie Sanders (Vermont)

Former members

• Sherrod Brown (OH-13) - Elected to Senate
• Roland Burris (IL Senate) - Retired from Congress
• Julia Carson (IN-07) - Died in December 2007
• Lane Evans (IL-17) - Retired from Congress
• Alan Grayson (FL-8) defeated for re-election in 2010
• John Hall (NY-19) defeated for re-election in 2010
• Phil Hare (IL-17) defeated for re-election in 2010
• Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick (MI-13) defeated for re-nomination in 2010
• Eric Massa (NY-29) - Resigned in March 2010
• Cynthia McKinney (GA-4) - Lost Congressional seat to current caucus member Hank Johnson
• Major Owens (NY-11) - Retired from Congress
• Nancy Pelosi (CA-8) - Left Caucus when Elected House Minority Leader
• Hilda Solis (CA-32) - Became Secretary of Labor in 2009
• Stephanie Tubbs Jones (OH-11) - Died in 2008
• Paul Wellstone (MN Senate) - Died in plane crash in 2002
• Robert Wexler (FL-19) - Resigned in January 2010 to become President of the Center for Middle East Peace and Economic Cooperation