Thank you Senator Barbara Boxer, for standing up for yourself and for women

[omega minimo]

and men and children and the nation and posterity and history and the Constitution, when you -- AND ONLY YOU -- challenged suspect Ohio electoral results, with Senator Stephanie Tubbs-Jones in the SECOND STOLEN ELECTION handed to Dubya Bush in recent memory.



http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200501/07/eng20050107_169988.html

There's a double or triple standard for how women reached that level of governance. Is the dedicated and high achieving representative expected to accept how our representatives are (dis)respected? Are you as senator expected to accept a double standard?

There even seems to be some faux controversy over whether the general "intended" any slight or not. It really doesn't' matter. I'm sorry it will take another 100 years for for the general public and hypocritical political supporters to see that.

For this Californian, the context is not military protocol or even Senate protocol or who's zooming who, but the fact that your service to your state and your nation and this planet is of such stature and integrity that -- while you may yourself be a humble individual in public service -- your constituents value and appreciate your service, enough to support your simple request to be called "senator."

http://nostolendemocracy.typepad.com/blog/2005/01/senator_barrbar.html

Senator Barrbara Boxer's Letter to Representative Stephanie Tubbs Jones

U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) sent the following letter 
to Representative Stephanie Tubbs Jones on January 5, 2005:

January 5, 2005


The Honorable Stephanie Tubbs Jones
1009 Longworth H.O.B.
U.S. House of Representatives
Washington, D.C. 20515
Dear Representative Tubbs Jones:

I am in receipt of your letter that spelled out concerns about the election irregularities in Ohio during the November 2004 election.
The fact that you are from Ohio and that you are a former judge gives great weight and much credibility to the points you cited and to your plea that these issues be addressed by the Congress.

I was particularly moved by your point that it is virtually impossible to get official House consideration of the whole issue of election reform, including these irregularities.

I have concluded that objecting to the electoral votes from Ohio is the only immediate way to bring these issues to light by allowing you to have a two-hour debate to let the American people know the facts surrounding Ohio’s election.

I will therefore join you in your objection to the certification of Ohio’s electoral votes. Attached is my signature on a copy of your written objection.
Sincerely,

Barbara Boxer
 United States Senator

Published on Thursday, January 6, 2005 by the Associated Press
Dems To Force Debate on Ohio Results





U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney (L) smiles as he talks with Dennis Hastert, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, after Cheney made official the results of the Joint Session of Congress verifying the official Certificate of Electoral Votes from the 2004 U.S. Presidential election, on the House Chambers floor on Capitol Hill, January 6, 2005. U.S. Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones protested the results for Ohio and delayed continuation of the proceeding, which resumed with the a vote against the protest. (Reuters)



http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0106-02.htm

Stephanie Tubbs-Jones Interview
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HonAgIz0CTQ

http://boxer.senate.gov/

http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/mikeinthenews/index.php?id=887

Representative Stephanie Tubbs Jones, Ohio, Presents the Objection to Dick Cheney
http://www.michaelmoore.com/_media/Objection1.mov

Representative Bob Ney, Ohio: Mr. President, the certificate of the electoral vote of the well-known and great State of Ohio seems to be regular in form and authentic , and it appears therefrom that George W. Bush of the State of Texas received 20 votes for President and DICK CHENEY from the from the State of Wyoming received 20 votes for Vice President.

Dick Cheney: For what purpose does the gentlewoman from Ohio rise?

Representative Stephanie Tubbs Jones, Ohio: Mr. Vice President, I seek to object to the electoral votes of the State of Ohio on the ground that they w
ere not, under all of the known circumstances, regularly given and have a signed objection, and I do have a Senator.

Cheney: Has the Senator signed the objection?

Jones: The Senator has signed the objection.

Cheney: An objection presented in writing and signed by both a Representative and a Senator complies with the law, chapter 1 of title 3, United States Code.

The Clerk will report the objection.

Clerk: We, a Member of the House of Representatives and a United States Senator, object to the counting of the electoral votes of the State of Ohio on the ground that they were not, under all of the known circumstances, regularly given. Signed Stephanie Tubbs Jones, State of Ohio, Barbara Boxer, State of California.

Cheney: The two Houses will withdraw from joint session. Each House will deliberate separately on the pending objection and report its decision back to the joint session.

The Senate will now retire to its Chamber.



Downloads:
A Status Report of the
House Judiciary Committee Democratic Staff
Preserving Democracy: What Went Wrong in Ohio
Appendix A: Video the Vote, A Film by Linda Byrket
Text of Fundraising Letter from Ohio Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell
Eyewitness Accounts of Ohio Voter Disenfranchisement
Barbara Boxer to General: Call me "Senator," not "Ma'am"


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryEGmkjv8R8

In Memory of Stephanie Tubbs Jones
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oz00okxjtjE&NR=1

http://www.thecongressionalblackcaucus.com/

http://boxer.senate.gov/CAbases/20050112_CBSRPF.cfm


What a "bitch" -- devoting her life to work for everyhing you pretend to beileve in.

Have you got the gonads to cry?
United States Senator Barbara Boxer wipes tears from both her eyes as she listens to U.S. Representative Stephanie Tubbs Jones discuss their filing of a formal objection to the certification of President George W. Bush's general election presidential votes from the State of Ohio at the U.S. Capitol in Washington January 6, 2005. (Reuters)

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1. We are so fortunate to have her

as one of our senators. Wish the other senator was half the senator Boxer is.

[omega minimo]

3. Half?

It seems to an alien type of physiology altogether.

Foreign concept to old lizards that gonads are universal,,,,,?

[EFerrari]

2. That's my SENATOR!

k&r

[omega minimo]

5. Right ON!!!!!

[Iwillnevergiveup]

4. K&R

She's a fearless champion. Can't say the same for Notfeinstein.

[omega minimo]

6. OH god, silly ME

I KNEW it'd take a HUNNERT YEARS. No reason to thing more DUers would pick up within like the speed of SOUND er sumthin.

Damn uppities. Whatever flavor they come in, it's alweez like ya nivver had it before.

[Greyhound]

7. K&R for integrity

something far too rare in DC.
:kick: & R

[omega minimo]

8. I KNOW!! huh?

:think: Maybe it's too well kept a secret!! :toast:

[omega minimo]

9. God FORBID that women should speak up on their own behalf while they SPEAK UP for the sake of us all

[sisters6]

10. Happy to take it to the greatest. thanks for the post

[JDPriestly]

11. K&R Boxer is the best.

I won't be able to donate to her campaign this in 2010, but I will proudly walk my precinct and talk to my neighbors about voting for her. Absolutely.

[democracy1st]

12. 69 yo getting better with age K & R