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Most Congressional Black Caucus members vote no on bailout bill
I was intrigued by the fact that the majority of the CBC voted no (this exploration was prompted when I found out my rep-Elijah Cummings-voted no). Any thoughts/info as to why? My guess was they are like many conservatives in thinking it was too big of a bailout, but not sure. I did find this:
While President Bush and Sen. McCain -- not to mention House leaders -- couldn't reel in the House Republicans needed to pass the bailout, a key constituency over which Barack Obama has considerable sway also opposed the bill.
More members of the Congressional Black Caucus, whose heavily black districts include many of Obama's most ardent supporters, opposed the bill than supported it.
Few of these members are in, or will ever have, tough re-elections.
Obama, it seems, could have helped deliver some of these votes if he had been more invested in the bill.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanmartin/0908/Most_CBC_members_bailout_bill.html
It was posted on Politico and since many, apparently, were not up for re-election or in tough races (ie-when Elijah Cummings was up in 2006, he was the only one on the ballot)...they were not in the group that Pelosi said it was okay to vote now (or at least that is what I think). So, I am just curious.
Re: Most Congressional Black Caucus members vote no on bailout bill
Interesting.
My rep, Bill Jefferson, who is a member of the CBC voted no too but he is up for a tough re-election. Of course it was going to be tough no matter what for him since he is under indictment for bribery. Although he had not been indicted during his last reelection the FBI was seriously investigating him and he still won. But around these parts we like our politicians crooked!!!
Wow meganne! I forgot William Jefferson was still in office. How did he get reelected??!
Tef - I have 2 guesses (1) too much pork was removed so there was no reason to vote for it and (2) their offices were flooded by bailout-hating constituents like every other member's office so they went with the mob.
Ditto and ditto.
The district encompasses the city of New Orleans and part of a neighboring parish. N.O. being predominantly African American while the suburb is predominantly white. Jefferson did make it into the runoff against State Representative Karen Carter who also is an African American and a pretty decent state rep.
Carter had said some very negative things about the police department of a city within the other parish regarding their behavior of blocking blacks from crossing the bridge during the aftermath of Katrina. Big lawsuit here that it was racially motivated but that is another story. So in the runoff the very popular sheriff of the neighboring parish told the majority white voters there to vote for Jefferson over Carter and so they did. Orleans Parish voted 51% to 49% for Jefferson. The other parish voted 71% to 29% for Jefferson. So Jefferson can thank all the white voters of the suburbs for his reelection.
Still not sure why Jefferson voted against it but the little bit I have seen in the news when New Orleanians have been asked their opinion of the bailout, they have been very against it. So it is possible it was a political move.