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I do have a problem (5.00 / 9) (#35)
by standingup on Sun Mar 23, 2008 at 11:06:26 PM EST
if there are too many pieces of legislation that Obama touts as his great accomplishments which we find out are like the following:

Surprisingly, one such reluctant Obama supporter is state Rep. Monique Davis, D-Chicago. A 17-year veteran legislator, Davis sponsored a pair of significant bills -- one designed to track incidents of racial profiling, and another that mandates the taping of police interrogations in murder cases -- that were central to Obama's campaign platform.

Though she worked closely with Obama to pass the bills into law, and says she toiled to keep the bills alive before he became their Senate sponsor, Davis claims her efforts were largely ignored.

"I was snubbed," says Davis, who endorsed Hynes in the primary though she belongs to the same church as Obama on Chicago's South Side. "I felt he was shutting me out of history."

This is from the original article Spivak wrote March 25, 2004 when he was still reporting for the Illinois Times.

Aren't these two of the bills that we hear Obama use repeatedly as an example of some of his best legislative accomplishments while he was in the IL State Senate?  I am not saying that he did not do anything to get these passed but I would like to know more about how much was his own effort and how much was the equivalent of an assist from Jones to give him a boost.  

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THe (5.00 / 1) (#81)
by tek on Mon Mar 24, 2008 at 08:31:02 AM EST
snubbed part rings true for me.  I am one of the great Obama's constituents.  Anytime I wrote him about any issue or question I got a very arrogant answer months after the contact.  He always evaded the issue and one got a feeling that he found it highly annoying to have to deal with the plebians--even though I'm sure his staff handled all of it.  

I know all of my Democratic friends had the same experience so I was shocked that most of them jumped on his bandwagon when Gore did not run.

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