Rep. Marcy Kaptur is the longest-serving woman in the US House of Representatives. First elected in 1982 from a solidly middle class Catholic district in Toledo, Ohio, Kaptur has maintained a remarkably progressive voting record in her 26 years in Congress. She is enormously popular in her district, winning 60-80% of the vote in most elections.
Listen to Rep. Kaptur speak clearly on the “bailout:”
Kaptur has never been too friendly with the corporate wing of the party and has failed to play party politics well enough to capture any influential committee chairs. In 1996 her strong stance against NAFTA invited a bid from Ross Perot to be his running mate, which she rejected.
A religious Catholic, Kaptur holds more moderate-to-conservative views on abortion and stem-cell research, and has broken with the rest of the Congressional Progressive Caucus on a couple of votes on those issues. She does not, however, oppose Roe V. Wade, and believes in the right to privacy and keeping government regulations out of personal decisions.
She voted against the 2002 Authorization for Use of Military Force and frequently speaks out against the war.
Kaptur is a holdout from the old, pre-Clinton Democratic Party, elected from what used to be a reliably populist-Democratic state, who served with Senators John Glenn and Howard Metzenbaum, in then always-blue Ohio.
[Full disclosure: I worked on Rep. Kaptur's campaign staff in 1990.]
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September 26, 2008 at 5:43 pm
No wonder you worked on her campaign…she’s wonderful!
September 30, 2008 at 6:47 am
Marcy,
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! I listened to what you said to the House.
Thank you for having the backbone and courage to stand up to a bill that was trying to be “ramrodded” down the throats of the American people.
The Wall Street Fraudsters should have to pay for this! This is their greed and mess being manifested and then they want us to pay out of our hides. No! No! No! They must liquidate their personal assets and get themselves out of this mess! They have created a mess for the American people because of their greed and lies and tampering with their balance sheets! We say, “no”!
They need to go to jail and pay the consequences of their actions. There has to be accountability!
I applaud you! Please continue to stand up for the American people. There seem to be so few of you that have a backbone.
Thanks!!
Letha Henderson