Dem wave brings diversity to the U.S. House leadership
An article in the NY Times yesterday had a run down of the outgoing committee chairman versus the incoming committee chairman in the U.S. House of Representatives. There are a lot of differences between the two groups, but one could have lasting effects that could dramatically benefit our country in the long run.
The new likely chairman list includes four African-American men. Rep. Charles Rangel will lead the powerful Ways and Means Committee, Rep. Alcee Hastings will lead the Intelligence Committee, Rep. Bennie Thompson will lead the Homeland Security Committee and Rep. John Conyers will lead the Judiciary Committee. The previous list had none. Does it matter? I think it does.
It means our country will see these men on television more often now. The nation will see black men in positions of power and prestige instead of the negative way they are often portrayed on television.
And hopefully that will have a lasting effect on our nation.
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But overall, only women won gains -- although a sweet sixteen woman Senators is hardly critical mass, with a way to go until true representation with fifty-two seats!:-)
But the numbers of African Americans and Hispanic Americans in Congress will remain exactly the same -- although it looks like Dems won back a lot of black and Latino/a voters.
So they must be heard and heeded for the next two years; they are not committed to the Dems. Same goes for the youth vote -- with so many broken-hearted by the success of the marriage amendment in so many states, especially in this one.
Same goes for women voters, almost sixty percent of voters in this state this time, and they split sixty-forty for Doyle -- so they are the voters who won Wisconsin for Doyle.
And Lawton. Believe me, she made a big difference with women for Dems.
(Listening to Doyle's acceptance speech, I think that he knows it.)
Had Falk been out there on the campaign trail as much as Lawton was, meeting with women as much as Lawton did, Falk might have won on Tuesday, too.
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