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(Crossposted from Free Speech Zone where it is un-cut)
(Part 4 of a 13 part series)
VOTED NAY on Helping Families Save Their Homes Act of 2009
Current Office: U.S. Senate
Seniority: Senior Seat
First Elected: 2000
Last Elected: 11/07/2006
Next Election: 2012
Party: DemocraticBackground Information
Gender: Male
Family: Wife: Martha Ann
2 Children: Benjamin, Christopher.
Birth Date: 01/23/1947
Birthplace: Beckley, WV
Home City: Wilmington, DE
Religion: PresbyterianEducation:
MBA, University of Delaware, 1975
BA, Economics, Ohio State University, 1968.
Professional Experience:
Captain, United States Navy/United States Naval Reserves, Vietnam, 1968-1992
Industrial Development Specialist, Delaware Division of Economic Development, 1975-1976.Political Experience:
Senator, United States Senate, 2001-present
Deputy Minority Whip, United States Senate, 2004
Governor, State of Delaware, 1992-2000
Representative, United States House of Representatives, 1982-1992
Treasurer, State of Delaware, 1976-1982.Organizations:
Vice Chair, Board of Directors, American Legacy Foundation
American Legion
Member, Amtrak Board of Directors, 1994-1998
Chair, Executive Board, Board of Jobs for America’s Graduates
Common Cause
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Vietnam Veterans of America.Caucuses/Non-Legislative Committees:
Chair, National Governors’ Association Center for Best Practices, 2000-2001
Democratic Policy Committee
Trustee, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee
Senate Centrist Coalition
Co-Chair, Senate New Democrat Coalition.
To get a Senate seat in this exciting state is quite a feat since in Delaware you have to really stand out to be noticed.
Ah Delaware, to some it is known as “The Pass Through State”, as in the state you have to pass through if you want to get to D.C.
I know it as the “paranoia-free” state right alongside Rhode Island in it’s “police nowhere to be found” aspect. Smoke’em if ya got’em!
To represent this state we have Tom Carper who voted against the “Cramdown” Bill in the Senate. To be fair I have yet to meet one person I know who actually lives in Delaware so I guess foreclosure isn’t that big of a problem for them.
Nonetheless, he [uncomfortably massaged] the rest of America by voting down Dick Durbin’s legislation to allow the poor to do what the rich do with their vacation homes all the time, so let us begin the crucifixion.
I would like to use the Senator’s statements on this bill as they are the most telling:
The legislation before us today is an improvement over some earlier versions. There are a couple of problems I have with it. I want to mention those, if I could.
One of the problems occurs when you have a situation where a person has asked a lender to modify a mortgage and the lender has agreed to do that and then in the next year or two the homeowner, who has actually gotten out of bankruptcy a better deal, turns around and sells their home at a profit.
I believe the lender, having gone through the bankruptcy and the mark-down, if you will–that lender should be able to participate more fully than is envisioned in this underlying bill.
I would like this to go on record as the [fudging] LAMEST excuse ever. In other words, his objection is that the person who declared bankruptcy due to a worsening economy and having an unaffordable mortgage (both created by the financial and banking industry) hurts the bank by declaring it and that this bill would allow the courts to decide a fair rate for the person without the say of the lender.
To which I respond, TOO [BLEEPING] BAD!
Mortgage rates are adjusted for the rich all the time and right now the government has to help the people survive the consequences of a predatory financial industry that [messed] the economy up by inflating the housing bubble. Due to the poor practices of investment banks even people with ok or good credit are being [uncomfortably penetrated] right now. Financial industry got their cut of OUR MONEY in the bailout so they have no say. Debts been paid.
However, my campaigns for my entire career isn’t RIDICULOUSLY financed by these “lenders” Senator Carper is trying to defend:
Commercial Banks
$455,312Insurance
$447,984Securities & Investment
$360,217Finance/Credit Companies
$329,332Real Estate
$321,953Business Services
$122,540Misc Finance
$111,094By Sector
Finance, Insurance & Real Estate
$2,160,628http://www.opensecrets.org/pol…
(All the big hitters paid him, including AIG):
DAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMN!
Even MoveOn.org got on this train recently:
Yes, shame on him for voting this bill down!
Nevermind the fact we’re the Top Contributor of Robert “The Exalted Cyclops” Byrd and gave him $80K for his entire career who also voted down the same bill:
Moveon.org
$88,615
Bet they won’t make him a video.
So I guess this explains Carper’s second part of his speech on the bill:
The idea of giving the lender a better opportunity to participate in appreciation of the home that later on comes out of bankruptcy, a person comes out of bankruptcy and sells their home for a profit, I think the lender ought to be able to participate more fully than is envisioned here in this amendment.
Wonder why he thinks that?!
Ya know, I bet you anything the for-profit healthcare industry has an influence on his decisions that are contrary to his responsibility of serving the people.
Let’s see:
Pharmaceuticals/Health Products
$186,964Health Professionals
$182,766By sector:
Health
$452,000
Ok, so there’s the money, and now for the litmus test….
Senator Carper voted NOProject Vote Smart’s Synopsis:
Vote to adopt an amendment that would define a “targeted low-income child” who is eligible for child health assistance under the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) as “an individual under age 19, including the period from conception to birth.”
[To Dixie with] your homes and your poor sick children.
Voting Record speaks like a true Corporate Democrat.
Carper is ALL-A-BOUT da mad paper stacks!
So in summation, [uncomfortably massage] this guy. He only cares about the lobby that pays him.
A Corporate Democrat if I ever saw one.
Part 1: Senator Max S. Baucus (D-MT)
Part 2: Senator Michael Bennet (D-CO)
Part 3:Senator Robert C. Byrd (D-WV)
3 comments
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like always.
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about public financing of campaigns caught my ear this week.
Might have a diary about a transformation of ground-up politics.
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the implicit in place of the explicit allows your filthy minds to imagine the word and then laugh to yourselves.
We now have an inside joke.