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Oh, SNAP! Local leaders brace for cuts to food assistance programs. Andrew Morehouse can envision several likely outcomes to the battle over the federal food assistance program that’s now playing out in Congress. None of them is good. Read the Full Story
James Gandolfini, ‘Sopranos’ Star, Dies at 51 The PDA community lost a friend today:  PDA Raises The Roof--and Some Serious Money--in California   James Gandolfini, the Emmy Award-winning actor who shot to fame on the HBO drama “The Sopranos” as Tony Soprano, a tough-talking, hard-living crime boss with a stolid exterior but a rich interior life, died on Wednesday. He was 51 years old.       Read the Full Story
PDA Raises The Roof--and Some Serious Money--in California As a PDA activist doing Inside/Outside strategy, I developed a relationship with my congressman, Brad Sherman. (I’ve since been redistricted to freshman Tony Cardenas. But I digress.)  Read the Full Story
Boeing Told to Repay After Charging $2,286 for $10 Part The Pentagon’s purchasing agency says Boeing Co. (BA) must refund $13.7 million in excessive prices charged on spare parts, including a $10 device for which the defense contractor charged $2,286 apiece. Read the Full Story
Meet America’s Most Shameless Defender of the 1 Percent, Harvard Economist Greg Mankiw Is there anything Mankiw won’t say to serve plunderers and plutocrats? It’s not really news that America’s economics departments, particularly at elite institutions, are stuffed with people whose careers are founded on protecting monied interests. But it’s pretty rare when someone just comes straight out and announces the fact.  Read the Full Story
Street Heat: Progressives Protest Against Food Stamp Cuts Nationwide For weeks, Progressive Democrats of America (PDA) has been turning up the heat on Congressional Democrats in an effort to stop the proposed $20 billion in cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, AKA food stamps). Read the Full Story
House debates $20.5 billion cuts to food stamps Tuesday afternoon marked the beginning of the general floor debate for the 2013 House farm bill, which includes $20.5 billion in cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), more commonly known as the food stamps program.  Read the Full Story
Former Obama Campaign Staffers Protest Keystone XL Pipeline Elijah Zarlin, who worked as a senior email writer at Obama campaign headquarters in 2008, was back in Chicago yesterday—in the First Precinct jail, following a peaceful sit-in in protest of the Keystone XL pipeline. Read the Full Story
Medical Debt: A Curable Affliction Health Reform Won’t Fix Millions of Americans are deep in medical debt. Unfortunately, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) will throw a lifeline to very few. According to the Congressional Budget Office, even after health reform is fully implemented in 2014, 30 million to 36 million people will remain uninsured. Read the Full Story
Message to Congress: Immigrants Pay More Than Their 'Fair Share' of Medicare Immigrants don’t just pick our fruit, deliver our take-out food and design our computers — they pay for our medical care. Read the Full Story
Alan Grayson On Trans-Pacific Partnership: Obama Secrecy Hides 'Assault On Democratic Government' WASHINGTON -- Progressive Democrats in Congress are ramping up pressure on the Obama administration to release the text of Trans-Pacific Partnership, a secretive free trade agreement with 10 other nations, amid intensifying controversy over the administration's transparency record and its treatment of classified information. Read the Full Story
Activists Protest Possible Cuts To Food Stamps Activists held a series of demonstrations across the country today to call on influential Democratic members of Congress to prevent cuts to the food stamp program.  One of the demonstrations was in Springfield, Massachusetts. Read the Full Story
image Oh, SNAP! Local leaders brace for cuts to food assistance programs.
image James Gandolfini, ‘Sopranos’ Star, Dies at 51
image PDA Raises The Roof--and Some Serious Money--in California
image Boeing Told to Repay After Charging $2,286 for $10 Part
image Meet America’s Most Shameless Defender of the 1 Percent, Harvard Economist Greg Mankiw
image Street Heat: Progressives Protest Against Food Stamp Cuts Nationwide
image House debates $20.5 billion cuts to food stamps
image Former Obama Campaign Staffers Protest Keystone XL Pipeline
image Medical Debt: A Curable Affliction Health Reform Won’t Fix
image Message to Congress: Immigrants Pay More Than Their 'Fair Share' of Medicare
image Alan Grayson On Trans-Pacific Partnership: Obama Secrecy Hides 'Assault On Democratic Government'
image Activists Protest Possible Cuts To Food Stamps
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Saturday, 05 May 2012 16:05

Bothwell slams Rogers over payday loan industry donations

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Bothwell slams Rogers over payday loan industry donations

With election day, May 8, approaching fast, Cecil Bothwell is bashing his main rival in the 11th Congressional District Democratic primary, Hayden Rogers, for taking campaign donations from the payday loan industry. Bothwell and other critics of the industry say it profits from predatory lending that targets young and low-income workers.

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Wednesday, 25 April 2012 21:06

Congressman Raul Grijalva endorses Bothwell

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Congressman Raul Grijalva endorses Bothwell

Co-Chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus Raul Grijalva Formally Announces Endorsement

 

Congressman Raul Grijalva, Co-Chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus and Congressman from Arizona's Seventh Congressional district, today announced his endorsement of Cecil Bothwell for North Carolina’s Eleventh Congressional District.


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Friday, 23 March 2012 23:50

Bothwell adds PDA to list of endorsements

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Bothwell adds PDA to list of endorsements

Progressive Democrats of America have added NC 11 congressional candidate Cecil Bothwell to their national slate. Bothwell joins other PDA endorsees including candidates Norman Solomon (D-CA), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Winona Benally Baldenegro (D-AZ), Wayne Powell (D-VA), Eric Griego (D-NM), and incumbents Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-AZ), Rep. Donna Edwards (D-MD), Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA), Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), and Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA). Bothwell said, "I am proud to be in such good company!"

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Friday, 23 March 2012 04:21

The politics of baby-making— men should sit down and shut up

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The politics of baby-making— men should sit down and shut up

I am the only candidate for congress in North Carolina’s 11th Congressional District, in either party, who has taken strong positions in favor of women, women’s rights and women’s health.

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Friday, 27 January 2012 00:00

Bothwell Addresses Jobs, Education and Healthcare

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Bothwell Addresses Jobs, Education and Healthcare

Cecil Bothwell, who is challenging U.S. Rep. Heath Shuler in the 11th Congressional District primary in May, addressed jobs, education and health care at a town hall meeting Friday in Hendersonville.

Bothwell's campaign platform is built on "jobs, not cuts," "education for all" and "strengthening Social Security and Medicare."

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Friday, 03 February 2012 00:00

Bothwell goes on the stump in primary race for Congress

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Bothwell goes on the stump in primary race for Congress

Hoping to gather more name recognition and answer voter questions, Cecil Bothwell led an almost 90-minute-long meeting in which he addressed a variety of topics ranging from his electability to education. The mostly liberal-leaning audience also asked about subjects such as alternative energy, limiting the power of lobbyists and a tax on stock trading.

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