Dear Barb,
You guys have worked on “jobs” for almost 3 years now... thanks but no thanks.
Congress should just go home for 6 months and the American people will sort it out.
Understand, we are the ‘extremist’.../s
Barbara Lee
Political career:
While a student at Mills College, she was a volunteer at the Oakland chapter of the Black Panther Party’s Community Learning Center and worked on Panther co-founder *Bobby Seale’s 1973 Oakland mayoral campaign
*Bobby Seale - adapted activist’s slogan “Freedom by any means necessary” as their own. Seale became the chairman of the Black Panther Party
Bobby Seale was one of the original “Chicago Eight” defendants charged with conspiracy and inciting to riot, in the wake of the 1968 Democratic National Convention, in Chicago
Lee gained national attention in 2001 as the only member of congress to vote “No” on the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Terrorists (AUMF), stating that she voted no not because she opposed military action but because she believed the AUMF
Lee was ranked as the sixth-most Progressive member of the House by the National Journal, based on roll-call votes on economic, social and foreign policy issues in 2006.
Lee received a 97% progressive rating from “The Progressive Punch”
In 2010, Lee took the *food stamp challenge and also appeared in the documentary film Food Stamped.
*A food stamp challenge is a trend in the United States popularized by religious groups, community activists and food pantries in which a family of means chooses to purchase food using only the monetary equivalent of what a family that size would receive in federal food stamps. In 2007, this amounted to US$3 per person per day.
CNN reporter Sean Callebs did an experiment where he spent the month of February 2009 eating only as much food as what a person could get with the maximum possible amount of food stamps. Since he was living in New Orleans, Louisiana, this amounted to $176. At the end of the experiment, he said that he had eaten pretty well, and that the biggest drawback was a social one, not a nutritional one, because he could not go out to eat at restaurants with friends.