Thread: Outed! Congresswoman member of socialist group

Outed! Congresswoman member of socialist group
President Obama also closely tied to Marxist-oriented organization
Posted: August 13, 2010
1:00 am Eastern

By Aaron Klein
© 2010 WorldNetDaily


Rep. Mary Jo Kilroy, D-Ohio

Rep. Mary Jo Kilroy, D-Ohio, was listed as a member of a U.S.-based socialist organization, it has emerged.

President Obama himself has been closely tied to the same organization, the Marxist-oriented Democratic Socialists of America, or DSA.

Multiple editions of the socialist group's official newsletter, the Democratic Left, listed Kilroy as a DSA member in the 1990s and described how other DSA activists helped with her various campaigns. The newsletters were first posted online by Trevor Loudon of the New Zeal blog, a researcher of communism.

Page nine of the socialist group's official November/December 1992 newsletter listed Kilroy as a member of the DSA.

"In 1991, DSA member Mary Jo Kilroy was elected to the Columbus school board," reported the DSA publication.

Kilroy served two four-year terms on the Columbus School Board after working in private practice as a lawyer.

Kilroy was also named as a DSA member on page 11 of the DSA's July/August 1992 newsletter in a report on a DSA national board meeting in Washington, D.C. According to the report, Kilroy participated in the DSA's high-level board meeting.


"On Sunday morning, participants [in the national board meeting] discussed electoral organizing strategies and tactics with Bob Fitrakis, DSA member and candidate for U.S. Congress; Mary Jo Kilroy, DSA member and Columbus school board member."

Kilroy later was listed in DSA literature as leading a workshop at the group's first national conference, "Arguing with the Right." The event was held Nov. 6-7, 1997, at the Clarion Hotel in Columbus, Ohio, in conjunction with the DSA national convention. Kilroy's workshop was reportedly titled "Arguing for Public Schools."

When Kilroy ran for Congress in 2006, her campaign was aided by DSA members, according to DSA literature.

States the winter 2006-2007 DSA newsletter: "Former Representative, now Senator Sherrod Brown is the most visible symbol of this change. ... A longtime critic of "free trade" agreements, frequently characterized as far left and out of the mainstream, Brown handily defeated the relatively moderate but free-trade proponent Mike DeWine.

"Trade was also an issue in the narrow loss of Mary Jo Kilroy to Deborah Pryce. Local DSAers worked in both the Brown and Kilroy campaigns."

Kilroy eventually lost the 2006 election after the counting of absentee ballots and other election recounts.

She had better luck in 2008 in an election in which the DSA says it campaigned from the outside on her behalf.

"In Columbus, Ohio, DSA members campaigned for both Obama and congressional candidate Mary Jo Kilroy, who, after a suspenseful count of provisional ballots was declared the winner in December, raising the Democrats' majority in the House to 257," reports the DSA's winter 2008 newsletter.

Since her election, Kilroy has not been without controversy.

She has taken heat from pro-Israel groups for signing a petition from J Street, a controversial group that markets itself as pro-Israel but is highly critical of the Jewish state.

Kilroy also signed a letter to Obama urging the scaling back of Israel's blockade of the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. Israel allows humanitarian aid into Gaza by land but imposes a naval blockade it says is necessary to ensure Hamas does not obtain weapons shipments that come in by sea.

Kilroy was also the subject of some heated blog posts when it emerged that Asma Mobin-Uddin, a pediatrician and president of the Ohio chapter of the controversial Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR, donated $250 to her campaign.

Obama connected to socialist group

Top Democratic Socialists of America members have been closely linked for years to Obama.

Obama himself spoke at a forum organized by the group at the University of Chicago in early 1996 called "Employment and Survival in Urban America."

Quentin Young, considered the father of the U.S. single-payer health-care movement, is a longtime Democratic Socialists of America activist. Young has had a relationship with Obama, particularly in the 1990s, when he reportedly advised Obama on health care.

Young was reportedly present at a 1995 meeting at the home of former Weather Underground terrorist William Ayers, who was said to have launched Obama's political career.

Young has been active in Chicago socialist circles and was previously accused of membership in a communist group. In 1992, Chicago's branch of the Democratic Socialists of America awarded Young, a member, with their highest honor – the Debs Award.

In a 2008 article in the official Communist Party USA magazine, Young noted Obama previously expressed support for a single-payer universal health-care program, although he later waffled when asked about his position.

As an Illinois state senator representing a mostly black district on the South Side of Chicago, Obama publicly supported universal health care. He also co-sponsored the Bernardin Amendment, which did not pass but would have amended the Illinois State Constitution to add health care to the list of basic rights for residents.

Meanwhile, Obama spoke at the March 29, 1998, memorial service for Chicago Democratic Socialists of America member Saul Mendelson.

Timuel Black, a member activist, mediated political disputes on behalf of Obama in the 1990s and was reportedly involved in Obama's campaign committee during his successful 2004 Senate race.

Longtime member activist Arnold Wolf was a member of "Rabbis for Obama" and has held fundraisers in his home for Obama, including a function in 1995 that was aimed at introducing Obama to the Hyde Park activist community.

Eliseo Medina, international executive vice president of the Service Employees International Union, has been honored by Democratic Socialists of America. During the most recent presidential campaign, Medina served on Obama's National Latino Advisory Council.

WND reported Medina, speaking at a 2009 Washington, D.C., conference, declared granting citizenship to millions of illegal aliens would expand the progressive electorate and help ensure a progressive governing coalition for the long term.

Working within Democratic Party

As WND was first to report, the DSA has been closely linked to the Democratic party, in particular to the party's Progressive Caucus.

Until 1999, the website of the Progressive Caucus was hosted by the DSA. Following an expose of the link between the two organizations in a WND column by Joseph Farah, the Progressive Caucus established its own website under the auspices of Congress.

The Democratic Socialists of America's chief organizing goal is to work within the Democratic Party and remove the stigma attached to "socialism" in the eyes of most Americans.

"Stress our Democratic Party strategy and electoral work," explains an organizing document of the DSA. "The Democratic Party is something the public understands, and association with it takes the edge off. Stressing our Democratic Party work will establish some distance from the radical subculture and help integrate you to the milieu of the young liberals."

Nevertheless, as WND reported, the goal of the DSA has never been deeply hidden. Prior to the cleanup of its website in 1999, the DSA included a song list featuring "The Internationale," the worldwide anthem of communism and socialism.

Another song on the site was "Red Revolution," sung to the tune of "Red Robin." The lyrics went: "When the Red Revolution brings its solution along, along, there'll be no more lootin' when we start shootin' that Wall Street throng. ..."

Another song removed after WND's expose was "Are You Sleeping, Bourgeoisie?" The lyrics went: "Are you sleeping? Are you sleeping? Bourgeoisie, Bourgeoisie. And when the revolution comes, We'll kill you all with knives and guns, Bourgeoisie, Bourgeoisie."

With additional research by Brenda J. Elliott

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=190761

CONGRESSMEN FAIL TO INCLUDE ‘DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS OF AMERICA’ MEMBERSHIP IN THEIR ELECTION CAMPAIGNS

John G. Winder, The Cypress Times
Published 08/09/2010 - 6:38 a.m. CST
Sheila Jackson Lee and President Obama ABOUT THE AUTHOR



Sheila Jackson Lee (Dem, TX 18th) serves as Vice Chair

An article appeared nearly one year ago in the Canada Free press outlining the intertwining relationship between the progressive movement, the socialist movement, communism, the Democratic Socialists of America, The Congressional Black Caucus and elected representatives of the United States House of Representatives. The article was completely ignored by the U.S. press.

On August 13, 2009, JB Williams of the Canada Free Press wrote the following:

“After decades of failed attempts to take over America via their third party initiatives that couldn’t break America’s two party system, leaders of both the Communist Party USA and Socialist Party USA chose a new strategy.

“Both being the ultimate 'party of the working class stiff,' they joined forces in a new venture that would work within the US two party system, by hijacking control of one of the two primary parties. As the Democrat Party had already spent years identifying itself as the “party of the working class,â€

c/o Rep. Dennis Kucinich, Co-chairman
1730 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, DC
20515
Phone :202-225-5871
URL: Website

Radical caucus of nearly six-dozen members of the House of Representatives

Until 1999, worked in open partnership with Democratic Socialists of America


The Progressive Caucus is an organization of Members of Congress founded in 1991 by newly-elected House Representative Bernie Sanders (Independent-Vermont), who is a self-described socialist.

As of April 2007, the Progressive Caucus included Sanders (who became a U.S. Senator in 2006), Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio, and 69 members of the House of Representatives, all of them leftist Democrats and almost all in districts heavily gerrymandered to guarantee the re-election of any Democratic Party incumbent, no matter how extreme.

On November 11, 1999, the Progressive Caucus drafted its Position Paper on economic inequality. It reads, in part, as follows: "Economic inequality is the result of two and a half decades of government policies and rules governing the economy being tilted in favor of large asset owners at the expense of wage earners. Tax policy, trade policy, monetary policy, government regulations and other rules have reflected this pro-investor bias. We propose the introduction or reintroduction of a package of legislative initiatives that will close America's economic divide and address both income and wealth disparities. … The concentration of wealth is a problem because it distorts our democracy, destabilizes the economy and erodes our social and cultural fabric."

In order "to bring new life to the progressive voice in U.S. politics," the Progressive Caucus has worked closely with Progressive Challenge, a project of the Institute for Policy Studies. Progressive Challenge is a coalition through which the activities and talking points of leftist groups are synchronized and harmonized with one another, producing coordinated, mutually-reinforcing propaganda from some 200 seemingly-unconnected groups.

In 2005 the Progressive Caucus crafted its "Progressive Promise" document, which advocates socialized medicine; radical environmentalism; the redistribution of wealth; higher taxes; the elimination of numerous provisions of the Patriot Act; dramatic reductions in the government's intelligence-gathering capabilities; debt relief for poor countries; and the quick withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq. These measures, says the Progressive Caucus, would help "re-build U.S. alliances around the world, restore international respect for American power and influence, and reaffirm our nation's constructive engagement in the United Nations and other multilateral organizations."

Until 1999, the Progressive Caucus website was hosted by the Democratic Socialists of America. After the press reported on this link, the connections suddenly vanished from both organizations’ websites.

As of June 2006, the following Members of Congress belonged to the Progressive Caucus: Neil Abercrombie; Tammy Baldwin; Xavier Becerra; Madeleine Z. Bordallo; Corrine Brown; Sherrod Brown; Michael Capuano; Julia Carson; Donna Christensen; William "Lacy" Clay; Emanuel Cleaver; John Conyers; Elijah Cummings; Danny Davis; Peter DeFazio; Rosa DeLauro; Lane Evans; Sam Farr; Chaka Fattah; Bob Filner; Barney Frank; Raul Grijalva; Luis Gutierrez; Maurice Hinchey; Jesse Jackson, Jr.; Sheila Jackson-Lee; Stephanie Tubbs Jones; Marcy Kaptur; Carolyn Kilpatrick; Dennis Kucinich; Tom Lantos; Barbara Lee; John Lewis; Ed Markey; Jim McDermott; James P. McGovern; Cynthia McKinney; George Miller; Gwen Moore; Jerrold Nadler; Eleanor Holmes Norton; John Olver; Major Owens; Ed Pastor; Donald Payne; Nancy Pelosi; Charles Rangel; Bobby Rush; Bernie Sanders; Jan Schakowsky; Jose Serrano; Louise Slaughter; Hilda Solis; Pete Stark; Bennie Thompson; John Tierney; Tom Udall; Nydia Velazquez; Maxine Waters; Diane Watson; Mel Watt; Henry Waxman; and Lynn Woolsey.

See also: Eni Faleomavaega, a former Progressive Caucus member.

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/grou ... grpid=6497


PDF of the goals from Democratic Socialist Party website. Lists Progressive Cacus and the Congressional "arm".
http://www.dsausa.org/pdf/widemsoc.pdf

So was Republican Congressman Lincoln Diaz Balart though he left the movement duriing the 1980s

Originally Posted by Richard

So was Republican Congressman Lincoln Diaz Balart though he left the movement duriing the 1980s

But that doesn't count!! Only democrats can be socialists, especially if you ignore the 8 years of Bush!! But I'll bet WND won't do an article about that, huh? How much GOP money is given to FOX and other propaganda outlets?

[quote:q90e75pr]Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2010 11:54 am Post subject:

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Richard wrote:
So was Republican Congressman Lincoln Diaz Balart though he left the movement duriing the 1980s

But that doesn't count!! Only democrats can be socialists, especially if you ignore the 8 years of Bush!! But I'll bet WND won't do an article about that, huh? How much GOP money is given to FOX and other propaganda outlets? [/quote:q90e75pr]

Well Darth,

House members
All members are members of the Democratic Party or caucus with the Democratic Party. There are currently 82 total declared Progressives including 79 voting Representatives, 2 non-voting Delegates, and 3 Senators

Supporting organizations
The non-profit organization most closely associated with the Congressional Progressive Caucus is the American Progressive Caucus Policy Foundation which works to connect the caucus to progressives outside the Congress.

In addition, an array of national liberal organizations work to support the efforts of the progressive caucus, including the Institute for Policy Studies, The Nation magazine, MoveOn.org, National Priorities Project, Jobs with Justice, Peace Action, Americans for Democratic Action, and Progressive Democrats of America. Also co-sponsoring the kickoff event were the NAACP, ACLU, Progressive Majority, League of United Latin American Citizens, Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, National Council of La Raza, Hip Hop Caucus, Human Rights Campaign, Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs, and the National Hip Hop Political Convention.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressio ... ive_Caucus

Neither party have been any great shakes, but the Republicans haven't formed a club sponsored by George Soros.