Rep. Marcia Fudge, D-Ohio
It’s not by chance that the newly selected permanent chairwoman of the Democratic National Convention hails from the strongest Democratic voting bloc in the key battleground state of Ohio.
But what Rep. Marcia Fudge brings to the DNC this week – opening and closing each session and maintaining order in the nomination of Hillary Clinton as president and Sen. Tim Kaine as vice president – is of little consequence to her constituents from Cleveland down to Akron who make up District 11, contends the Republican challenger for her House seat.
Beverly Goldstein
Beverly Goldstein told WND that as she gets to know many of District 11’s 725,000 people, she’s discovering that Fudge is regarded as an “absentee landlord.”
“Do you think really poor people who aren’t eating in the inner city [care] that Marcia Fudge is gaveling the DNC?” Goldstein asked.
Fudge’s press secretary, Lauren Williams, did not reply to a WND request for comment.
Goldstein said District 11 constituents – about 54% are black – are saying that while they had no trouble seeing the congresswoman’s most recent Democrat predecessors, Stephanie Tubb Jones and Louis Stokes, they largely get no response from Fudge.
“If she has time to be at Hillary Clinton’s side, she has time to be in the district talking to some of the same people I’m talking to, to see what isn’t working and to identify the problems,” Goldstein said.
She said she’s heard a similar story from people of all walks of life, including veterans, poor people and consultants: They’ve each tried three or four times to get Fudge’s help but receive no response.
One constituent at a recent event in Cleveland remembered Goldstein from the week before.
“You know, you were here last week and you’re here today,” the constituent said. “You’re been here more in four months than Marcia has been in eight years. I’m going to vote for you.”
Goldstein met one woman in her late 40s who commented: “Nobody around here knows who Marcia Fudge is. She’s just a black lady who lives in the suburbs, and we all vote for her.”
Fudge won nearly 80 percent of the vote against her Republican opponent in 2014 and was unopposed in 2012.
She’s winning praise from Democratic leaders at the convention, however, including Rep. Charlie Rangel of New York, who said Fudge “has so many capabilities that every time I see an opportunity for her to excel I say I wish the whole nation and the world would know her as well as I do.”
“She’s good,” Rangel told NBCBLK, the NBC News black-oriented affiliate, in downtown Philadelphia.
NAACP President Cornell Brooks, speaking on a panel in Philadelphia, said Fudge “has a great legislative record.”
Goldstein, who has earned three degrees, including a Ph.D., has more than 40 years of experience in health care, including ownership of an audiology business in which she served people in the inner city through community clinics.
Funding Hezbollah
Goldstein told WND that one reason she is challenging Fudge, who has been in office since 2008, is because of the lawmaker’s support for the Obama administration’s Iran nuclear deal, which was strongly opposed by Israel.
When she was newly elected, Goldstein noted, Fudge stood up at a meeting of AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, and said that though she was new, Israel will never have a better friend in Congress than Marcia Fudge.
But Goldstein contends the deal threatens Israel’s security, including by releasing to Iran $150 billion in frozen bank accounts, enabling the rogue regime to further fund terrorism abroad.
She pointed out that Iran funds Hezbollah bases right across the border from Israel.
“If I know that and don’t serve in Congress, you would think that someone who represents 65,000 Jews would know that,” she said.
“Marcia Fudge has shown an incredibly intense and unwavering loyalty to Hillary Clinton,” Goldstein said. “She is there regardless of all of the factual information that has come out on Hillary regarding Benghazi, regarding the email issue.
“We want a healthy economy, less hunger, less domestic violence, less homelessness, less of every problem we have, but we didn’t get that under Obama and Hillary,” she said.
“When everything was hitting the fan for Hillary, Marcia probably never even thought to say, ‘Gee, Mrs. Clinton, is any of this horrible stuff about you true?’”
Fudge dismissed the scandals in an interview with NBC News.
“I think we just need to run our convention and let the email scandal take care of itself.” I can’t get into it, she said. “I haven’t even read the emails, thank goodness, so I can’t even discuss them with you.
“I just want us to do what Democrats do,” Fudge continued, “we’re gonna run the convention, we’re gonna make sure that everybody understands that it’s fair, that everyone has an opportunity to say what they want to say, and we’re gonna move forward.”
from PropagandaGuard https://propagandaguard.wordpress.com/2016/07/26/new-dnc-chair-absentee-landlord-in-home-district/
from WordPress https://toddmsiebert.wordpress.com/2016/07/25/new-dnc-chair-absentee-landlord-in-home-district/
No comments:
Post a Comment