Women Senators Hutchison and Snowe leave parting words

Senate Women 

Bipartisan Power Workshop 

November 15, 2012

Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison 

(R-Texas): front right

Sen. Olympia Snowe

(R-Maine): rear four from right

Impenetrable internal divisiveness undermines provisions of Constitution, business of American people

Excerpting, editing, re-reporting by 

Carolyn Bennett

Atmosphere of polarization, ‘my way or the highway’ ideologies have become pervasive in campaigns, in governing institutions ─ Outgoing Senator Snowe

Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas)

FAREWELL

 “As I exit the Senate, I am aware that we are divided as a legislative body and as a country. I do not think we have different goals--not here, and not in America--but we do have different ways of reaching them.  

“Congress suffers a great deal of criticism for partisan acrimony. But while we may disagree politically and air our opposition in this Chamber, it is the conversation behind the scenes that cements and defines our relationships. I will leave the Senate knowing I have worked with men and women of great patriotism, intellect, and heart on both sides of the aisle.

“… We seconded one another at times and engaged in rigorous debate in others but the American people should know that, either way, we are collegial and we all understand that our States have different needs and there will be differences in priorities.

“But in the Senate, an adversary today will be an ally tomorrow. It is a rare occasion for acrimony to turn personal.

 “It [is] my parting hope that this collegiality will not be lost.

“When our committees function, we pass bills in vigorous markups, we put the bills in shape for floor debate. If they do not go through committees and are not allowed floor amendments, the quality of the legislation suffers and mistakes are often made. What differentiates the U.S. Senate from the House is open debate and open amendments.”

 

As is the intent of the Constitution of the United States, “protecting the rights of the minority assures that every Senator’s voice is heard and every State represented in the Senate is heard.” 

K

ay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas) served in the U.S. Senate from 1993 until this year (January 3, 2013).  She held positions of temporary co chair of the Republican National Convention in 1992; Republican Conference vice chair (2000-2007); Republican Policy Committee chair (2007-2009); deputy permanent chair of the Republican National Convention in 2004. She was not a candidate for reelection to the Senate in 2012.

Before elections to the Senate, Kathryn Ann Bailey (Kay) Hutchison was Texas state treasurer (1990-1993), vice chair of the National Transportation Safety Board (1976-1978); bank executive and general counsel; businesswoman; a television reporter; a member of the Texas House of Representatives (1972-1976).

She took her academic credentials at the University of Texas (Austin) and University of Texas Law School (1967). Kay Bailey Hutchison was born in Galveston, Texas (July 22, 1943).

Bibliography: Women in Congress, 1917-2006:  “Kathryn Ann (Kay) Bailey Hutchison” prepared under the direction of the Committee on House Administration by the Office of History and Preservation, U.S. House of Representatives. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 2006. HUTCHISON, Kathryn Ann Bailey (Kay, 1943 - )

Senator Olympia Jean Snowe (R-Maine)

PARTING WORDS

Quoted in Maine news sources, Senator Snowe said, “There is no reason that we should be in the economic doldrums we are in today but we have wasted precious time over the last few years by engaging in this political combativeness for the purpose of gaining political leverage in the next election.

“An atmosphere of polarization and ‘my way or the highway’ ideologies have become pervasive in campaigns and in our governing institutions and, realistically, “I do not expect the partisanship of recent years in the Senate to change over the short term,” said outgoing Senator Olympia Snowe.

“We should individually and collectively be embarrassed by what is occurring here.

“Political heavyweights are more interested in taking jabs at each other through press releases and floor speeches than they are in coming together and doing even the most basic legislative work [and] my concern is that this is going to create generation upon generation of lawmakers who think this is the only way to conduct themselves. But there is another way and there are some of us who still remember it.

“I don’t want to be part of the problem,” Senator Snowe said. “I want to be part of the solution and I just didn’t see it changing from the inside.”

“It is time for change in the way we govern and I believe that outside the United States Senate there are unique opportunities to build support for that change.

“I intend to help give voice to my fellow citizens who believe as I do that we must return to an era of civility in government driven by a common purpose to fulfill the promise that is unique to America.”

 

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lympia Snowe served in the U.S. Senate from 1995 until this year (January 2013).

Before elections to the U.S. Senate (1994-2012, she was not a candidate for reelection to the House in 1994 or to the Senate in 2012), she served in the U.S. House of Representatives from January 3, 1979 until January 3, 1995. In the 108th and 109th Congresses, she was chair of the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.

In her years preceding the U.S House and Senate, Olympia Jean Snowe was a member of the Maine House of Representatives (1973-1976) and the Maine State Senate (1976-1978); delegate to the Maine State Republican convention and Republican National Convention (1976); member of the Auburn board of voter registration (1971-1973); and was a businesswoman.

She took her academic credentials at the University of Maine (Orono, 1969). Olympia Snowe was born Olympia Jean Boucles in Augusta (Kennebec County), Maine (February 21, 1947).

Bibliography: Women in Congress, 1917-2006: ” Olympia Snowe” prepared under the direction of the Committee on House Administration by the Office of History and Preservation, U.S. House of Representatives. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 2006. SNOWE, Olympia Jean (1947 - )

Sources and notes

HUTCHISON

Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas), FAREWELL TO THE SENATE -- (Senate - December 19, 2012), Congressional Record, 112th Congress (2011-2012),

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/F?r112:51:./temp/~r1125CW5MQ:e0:

http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=h001016

Kay Bailey Hutchison urges common ground in Senate farewell speech

http://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/headlines/20121220-kay-bailey-hutchison-urges-common-ground-in-senate-farewell-speech.ece

SNOWE

“Olympia Snowe Says Good-Bye to US Senate” (WABI-TV5 News Desk) January 4, 2013, http://www.wabi.tv/news/36521/olympia-snowe-says-good-bye-to-us-senate

“Maine Sen. Olympia Snowe Says Goodbye” 12/13/2012   Reported By: Jay Field

http://www.mpbn.net/News/MaineNewsArchive/tabid/181/ctl/ViewItem/mid/3475/ItemId/25203/Default.aspx

http://thecommongood.net/2012/12/senator-olympia-snow-farewell/

 “Sen. Olympia Snowe’s full statement ─ U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe issued this statement this afternoon saying that she will not seek re-election,” February 29, 2012, Portland Press Herald

http://www.pressherald.com/news/Sen-Olympia-Snowes-full-statement.html

http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000663

Image: Mikulski, Senate Women Gather for Traditional, Bipartisan Power Workshop November 15, 2012: WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Barbara A. Mikulski (D-Md.), Dean of the Senate women, today hosted her traditional, bipartisan Senate Women Power Workshop for the newly elected women Senators. The Workshop is an opportunity for Senator Mikulski and the Senate women to discuss everything from how to set up their offices to getting on the power committees that make them effective advocates for their states, using the Senate rules to achieve their objectives and building coalitions to get things done in the Senate. 

In addition to Senator Mikulski, participants included Senator-Elect Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), Senator Susan M. Collins (R-Maine), Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Senator-Elect Deb Fischer (R-Neb.), Senator-Elect Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), Senator-Elect Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.), Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas), Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Senator Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), Senator Olympia J. Snowe (R-Maine), Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) and Senator-Elect Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.). http://www.mikulski.senate.gov/media/pressrelease/11-15-2012-2.cfm

Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison: front right

Sen. Olympia Snowe: rear four from right

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Women made history in THREE parties ─ Elections 2012

 Mentioned and unmentioned history-making woman achievements

Excerpting, editing, re-reporting by 

Carolyn Bennett

“People are starting to wake up and realize that the politics of fear - the politics of voting for lesser evils - is getting us all the things that we were afraid of getting in the first place” [Maine Green Party Chair Asher Platts]

Takes a lot of courage

Noteworthy omitted in Center for American Women and Politics data

Dr.Jill Stein
2012
U.S. Presidential
candidate with
VP Cheri Honkala

“Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein won more votes in Maine than in any other state”; and though one percent might not sound like much, it is the first time, since Ralph Nader in 2000, “that any state has voted at least 1 percent for a Green presidential candidate.”

Center for American Women and Politics data

113th U.S. Congress will see highest seating of women

20 women (16 Democratic Party, 4 Republican Party) will serve in the U.S. Senate; at least 77 women (57 Democratic Party, 20 Republican Party) in the U.S. House.

U.S. Senate assembled

UNITED STATES SENATE

Eleven (11) women won their Senate races (10 Democratic, 1 Republican; five newcomers, six incumbent reelections)

Four newcomers won open seats: Mazie Hirono (D-HI), Deb Fischer (R-NE), Heidi Heitkamp (D) and Tammy Baldwin (D-WI);

One, Elizabeth Warren (DMA), defeated an incumbent

Six incumbents won re-election: Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Claire McCaskill (D-MO), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), and Maria Cantwell (D-WA).

Nine women were continuing their terms and remain in the Senate (6 Democratic, 3 Republican)

Seventeen women (12D, 5R) were in the Senate in 2012; two Republican women (Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-TX; Olympia Snowe, R-ME, did not seek re-election.

U.S. House assembled

UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

Eighteen (18) new women (15 Democratic, 3 Republican) were elected to the U.S. House of Representatives (two races at the time of this report had not been called)

Fifty-nine (59) incumbents won re-election.

113th Congress:

Fifty-nine (42 Democratic, 17 Republican) re-elected incumbents

Four (4 Democratic) defeated incumbent members of Congress

Fourteen (11 Democratic, 3 Republican) women won open House seats.

New women in U.S. House:

Ann Kirkpatrick (D-AZ); Julia Brownley (D-CA); Gloria Negrete McLeod (D-CA); Elizabeth Esty (D-CT); Lois Frankel (D-FL); Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI); Tammy Duckworth (D-IL); Cheri Bustos (D-IL); Jackie Walorski (R-IN); Susan Brooks (R-IN); Ann Wagner (R-MO); Carol Shea-Porter (D-NH); Ann McLane Kuster (D-NH); Dina Titus (D-NV); Michele Lujan Grisham (D-NM); Grace Meng (D-NY); Joyce Beatty (D-OH); Suzan

DelBene (D-WA)

Three non-voting delegates from Guam, the Virgin Islands, and Washington, D.C., were re-elected.

The previous record number of women serving in the House was 73, which occurred between 2009 and 2012. 

When the 113th Congress convenes, it will include the largest class of women newcomers in a generation.

Seven women members were not general election candidates for the House: Mazie Hirono (D-HI), Shelley Berkley (D-NV); Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) ran for the U.S. Senate; Lynn Woolsey (D-CA) and Sue Myrick (R-NC) retired; and Sandy Adams (R-FL) and Jean Schmidt (R-OH) lost their primaries.

Capitol Building South CarolinaKatrina Shealy
in residence 

STATE HOUSES

New Hampshire became the first ever U.S. state to have an all-woman Congressional delegation ─ as well as a woman serving as chief executive.

Beginning in 2013, New Hampshire will have a woman governor, two women United States Senators, and an all-woman (two-seat) United States House delegation.

Governor-elect Maggie Hassan (Democratic-NH) joins seated governors of Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and South Carolina (Republicans)

Five women (1 Democratic, 4 Republican) will hold governorships, a decline from the current six, in 2013

Further History-making

United States Capital City
Capitol Building
Washington Monument

Twenty-eight (28) record-setting women of color in the House (26 Democratic, 2 Republican: 13 African American women, 13D; 9 Latinas, 7D, 2R; 6 Asian/Pacific Islander Americans, 6D)

New members: Six women of color (Democrats): one African-American (Joyce Beatty), three Asian/Pacific Islander Americans (Tammy Duckworth, Tulsi Gabbard, Grace Meng), two Latinas (Lujan Grisham, Negrete McLeod.)

Four states, for the first time, elected women to the U.S. Senate: Hawaii, Massachusetts, North Dakota, Wisconsin

Deb Fischer (R-NE) is the first Nebraska woman elected to a full Senate term.

Tammy Baldwin (D-WI): the first openly gay person in the U.S. Senate.

Mazie Hirono (D-HI): the first Asian/Pacific Islander American woman elected to the U.S. Senate, first U.S. Senator born in Japan, the second woman of color to serve in the Senate

Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI): the first Hindu-American in Congress. Two women military veterans among new women in U.S. House: Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) and Tulsi Gabbard. 

Katrina Shealy became South Carolina’s first woman elected to the State Senate, giving all United States state legislatures representation by women

Sources and notes

Elections data, Center for American Women and Politics

 http://www.cawp.rutgers.edu/press_room/news/documents/PressRelease_11-07-12.pdf

Center for American Women and Politics

The Center for American Women and Politics promotes greater knowledge and understanding about women’s participation in politics and government and enhances women’s influence and leadership in public life. A unit of the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers (the State University of New Jersey), the CAWP is nationally recognized as the leading source of scholarly research and current data about American women’s political participation.

Over four decades of analyzing and interpreting women’s participation in American politics, the Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP) has provided a foundation and context for the discussion.  http://www.cawp.rutgers.edu/

Eagleton Institute of Politics

Suffragist and founder of New Jersey’s League of Women Voters, Florence Peshine Eagleton’s bequest established the Eagleton Institute of Politics in 1956 at Rutgers University.The Institute explores state and national politics through research, education, and public service, linking the study of politics with its day-to-day practice.

Included in the Institute are the Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP) and the Eagleton Center for Public Interest Polling (ECPIP), both established in the early 1970’s. Eagleton houses the Center on the American Governor, the Clifford P. Case Professorship of Public Affairs, and the Arthur J. Holland Program on Ethics in Government. http://www.eagleton.rutgers.edu/about/mission.php

Katrina Shealy 

“Shealy Breaks Into South Carolina's All-Male Senate” (AP via USA Today, A woman broke into South Carolina’s all-male Senate on Tuesday as a petition candidate defeating longtime legislative foe of Gov. Nikki Haley, in the House, voters replaced a Republican woman with a Democratic one), November 7, 2012, http://www.wltx.com/news/story.aspx?storyid=208089 

Jill Stein

Worthy of note; it takes a lot of courage to accomplish what Jill Stein accomplished ─ Greens continuing progress

“Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein won more votes in Maine than in any other state”; and though one percent might not sound like much, it was the first time, since Ralph Nader in 2000, “that any state has voted at least 1 percent for a Green presidential candidate.

Municipal elections in Portland, Maine, saw two Green incumbents win re-election and another gained a new seat on the school board.

The number of votes Green presidential candidate Jill Stein won in Maine this election was just over 1 percent.

In 2000, Nader won 6 percent of the Maine vote.  Green Party member David Marshall said this year’s results are a good sign. “Our influence is growing in the state of Maine.” Maine was the first U.S. state to establish a Green Party back in 1984 and has the highest percentage of registered Greens in the nation.

“Maine Green Party Celebrates Election Milestones” (Reported by Patty B. Wight), November 7, 2012, http://www.mpbn.net/News/MaineNewsArchive/tabid/181/ctl/ViewItem/mid/3475/ItemId/24591/Default.aspx

More Center for American Women and Politics post-election data 

2012 Exit Poll Data: Presidential Vote in Battleground States http://cawp.rutgers.edu/press_room/news/documents/PressRelease_11-07-12-gendergap.pdf

State	Overall Results	Gender Gap	Women’s Vote	Women for Romney	Men for Romney	Women for Obama	Men for Obama
IA	Obama 52% Romney 46%	15 pts.	+19% Obama	40%	53%	59%	44%
NH	Obama 52% Romney 46%	11 pts	+16% Obama	42%	51%	58%	47%
NV	Obama 52% Romney 46%	10 pts.	+14% Obama	42%	51%	56%	46%
OH	Obama 50% Romney 48%	10 pt.	+11% Obama	44%	53%	55%	45%
WI	Obama 53% Romney 46%	10 pts.	+15% Obama	42%	51%	57%	47%
FL	Obama 50% Romney 49%	7 pts., 6 pts.	+7% Obama	46%	52%	53%	46%
VA	Obama 51% Romney 48%	7 pts.	+9% Obama	45%	51%	54%	47%
NC	Obama 48% Romney 51%	5 pts.	+29% Obama	49%	54%	51%	45%
CO	Obama 51% Romney 47%	0 pts.	+1% Obama	49%	46%	50%	50%

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New England lawyer w/ Okla. roots sights U.S. Senate

Elizabeth Warren says she “… came up the hard way, out of a hard-working middle class, in an America that created opportunities for kids like me”

Editing and re-reporting by Carolyn Bennett

She is widely credited for —   

• original thinking
• political courage
• relentless persistence leading to the creation of the new consumer financial protection agency, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Elizabeth Warren led the establishment of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, building the structure and organization to hold accountable even trillion-dollar financial institutions and to protect consumers from financial tricks and traps often hidden in mortgages, credit cards and other financial products.

From the U.S. state of Massachusetts (with roots in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma), Elizabeth Warren has set sight on the Senate of the United States.

http://www.elizabethwarren.com/priorities

“We can change course,” Warren says in her campaign literature.  “We can rebuild but we can do this only if we work together.” 

In the 21st century, she says, “We need to be able to invent things, create, and sell things to the rest of the world.  We need to build a manufacturing base and an expanded service capacity.  We need a set of workable rules that do not tangle up those who are trying to create something new.  We did that once. We can do it again.”

Warren has set these priorities as the basis for her rebuild campaign for the U.S. Senate.

Education — Investments in our people pay the highest dividends. Good public schools, good public universities, and good technical training [to] give us a workforce better than any in the world.  Well-trained workers are cost effective and give us a powerful competitive advantage in world markets. 

Construction — We can upgrade right now, create good jobs and invest in our future. Upgrade our aging roads, bridges, mass transit and water and sewage lines — basics necessary to manufacture goods and get them to market. 

Renewable energy — Investing now in 21st century energy lowers costs of production for all of our future work.  Renewable energy competes with old energies getting special breaks in Washington. 

Research — Increasing support for research that produces new products and new industries and creates demand for new technical jobs helps Massachusetts and helps the country.

Level playing field — We need rules that are written with small businesses in mind. Our self-employed and small businesses and the community banks that fund them are drowning in complicated regulations.  Long, complex rules create loopholes that the big companies can take advantage of, but they leave [small firms] out in the cold.  We need straightforward rules — such as the short and streamlined mortgage form the consumer agency is putting into law — that any small business can deal with.

Workers’ rights — We need to make it easier for workers who want to organize to have the chance to do so.  If people want to work together for better wages, for better health care, and for better working conditions — they should have the right to do so.

Fair trade — We need to ensure also that those with whom we compete respect workers’ rights and environmental rules.  If we are going to sell our products to the rest of the world — we need to strengthen trade laws and ensure their enforcement. 

Instead of giving tax breaks to the already-rich and already-powerful, to the corporations and CEOs who have already made it, it’s time America recognized the working people and small businesses still trying to build a future.     

“We believe in a country of opportunity,” Warren says, a world in which “children will do better” than the previous generation.  Values that “made America special and strong are slipping away [and it] is time to rebuild.…

We can rebuild  —  but we can do it only if we work together.” 

Sources and notes

About Elizabeth Warren, http://www.elizabethwarren.com/elizabeth

Elizabeth Warren priorities, http://www.elizabethwarren.com/priorities

Further notes on Warren

Special Advisor for the United States Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, 1st Chairman of the Congressional Oversight Panel, Elizabeth Warren on September 14, 2011, declared her candidacy (2012) for a seat in the Senate of the United States.

On November 14, 2008, United States Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid appointed Warren to chair the five-member Congressional Oversight Panel created to oversee the implementation of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act. The Panel releases monthly oversight reports that evaluate the government bailout and related programs.

Under Warren’s leadership, the panel’s monthly reports covered foreclosure mitigation, consumer and small business lending, commercial real estate, AIG, bank stress tests, the impact of TARP on the financial markets, government guarantees, the automotive industry, and many other topics.

In statements Newsweek published in answer to a question about congressional reform of financial regulation, Warren said, “To restore some basic sanity to the financial system, we need two central changes —

Fix broken consumer-credit markets and

End guarantees for the big players that threaten our entire economic system.

If we get those two key parts right, we can still dial the rest of the regulation up and down as needed; but if we do not get those two parts right … the game is over.

Warren has been a law professor at Harvard for nearly 20 years. The Massachusetts Women’s Bar Association honored her with the Lelia J. Robinson Award. The National Law Journal named her one of the Most Influential Lawyers of the Decade. On May 27, 2011, Warren delivered the commencement address for the 2011 graduating class at the Rutgers School of Law (Newark). The law school awarded her an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree and conferred membership into the Order of the Coif, an honor society for United States law school graduates. Law students at American law schools who earn a Juris Doctor degree and graduate in the top 10 percent of their class are eligible for membership if the law school attended has a chapter of the Order.

Lawyer, law school professor and author Elizabeth Warren (b. Elizabeth Herring in 1949 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) studied at George Washington University and the University of Houston before taking her law degree at Rutgers School of Law (Newark, New Jersey). In 1992, she was the Robert Braucher Visiting Professor of Commercial Law and before that the William A. Schnader Professor of Commercial Law at University of Pennsylvania School of Law. She has also taught at the University of Texas School of Law, University of Houston Law Center, University of Michigan and Rutgers School of Law (Newark).

Warren has written many books and scholarly articles, including (coauthored with her daughter, Amelia Tyagi) All Your Worth: The Ultimate Lifetime Money Plan and The Two-Income Trap: Why Middle-Class Mothers and Fathers Are Going Broke

Notes from her Senate campaign website say —

http://www.elizabethwarren.com/priorities

Elizabeth Herring Warren learned early and first-hand about the economic pressures facing middle class families.

At age nine, she got her first job, babysitting for a family across the street from her house. 

When she was 12, her father suffered a heart attack and the store where he worked changed his job and cut his pay. Medical bills piled up.  The family lost their car. To pay the mortgage, her mother went to work answering phones at Sears.

At age 13, Elizabeth Herring started waiting tables at her Aunt Alice’s Mexican restaurant. 

At 19, she married and, after graduating college, started teaching elementary school. Her daughter, Amelia, was born when Warren was 22 years old.

Elizabeth Warren ‘came up the hard way…out of a hard-working middle class family in an America that created opportunities for kids like me.’ She has made her life’s work fighting for middle class families. 

Married 31 years, Elizabeth Warren and her husband Bruce Mann [native of Massachusetts] live in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Warren

Website Harvard Law (http://www.law.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/index.html?id=82), Elizabeth for MA Exploratory Committee (http://elizabethforma.com/) 

Newsweek, December 7, 2009, (http://www.newsweek.com/2009/12/07/reining-in-and-reigning-over-wall-street.html) 

See also

“Democrats Lose Weiner’s Seat; Warren Announces Run for Senate,” September 16, 2011, Uprising program guest: John Nichols, political writer for The Nation Magazine, contributing writer for The Progressive and In These Times and the associate editor of the Capital Times (daily newspaper in Madison, Wisconsin), co-founder of Free Press, co-author of The Death and Life of American Journalism: The Media Revolution that Will Begin the World Again; Nichols’ article about Warren’s Bid for Senate: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/09/15-3

Listen to uprising program, http://uprisingradio.org/home/

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