Congratulations Dennis and Maxine: Congressman & Congresswoman of 2005

[Padme Amidala]

The PHDC announced their annual awards this week and Dennis Kucinich, Maxine Waters and Barbara Boxer were the best in Congress. Hugo Chavez is the best leader in the world.

Check out the press release at
http://patrickhenrythinktank.org/aa05-press.html


2005 Annual Awards Press Release

On December 20th, 2005 the Patrick Henry Democratic Club announced the winners of its annual awards. The membership of the PHDC includes lawyers, doctors, professors, engineers, writers, performers, congressional candidates, candidates for the state legislature, members of the State Executive Board of the California Democratic Party and other leaders. The annual awards were based on merit. The PHDC membership spent months going through the entire voting records of all members of Congress and reviewed events, accomplishments and activities of members of Congress, World Leaders and others to pick the individuals and organizations who most deserved the awards

The Winners are as follows:

Congressman of the Year: Dennis J. Kucinich
Congresswoman of the Year: Maxine Waters
Senator of the Year: Barbara Boxer
World Leader of the Year: Hugo Chavez
Villain of the Year (tie): George W. Bush, Wal*Mart
Patriot of the Year: Cindy Sheehan
Courage Under Fire Award: Ambassador Joe Wilson
Susan B. Anthony Award: Natasha Hull-Richter


All awards that were not presented last night will be personally presented or delivered to the winners

[oasis]

1. Maxine, Barbara and Dennis: They help to keep D.C. power in check.

:bounce:

[frogbison]

2. Would that there were more like them!

[NanceGreggs]

3. What a GREAT list of recipients!

And even Georgie made the list -- okay, not the most PRESTIGIOUS category, and too bad he had to SHARE it!!!!

[burrowowl]

4. Great list!

:bounce: :toast: :bounce:

[Rainscents]

5. Congrat to all who made the great list!

:bounce: :toast: :bounce: :kick:

[Patrick Henry]

6. kick

[Constitution]

7. Dennis and Maxine are awesome!

I'd love to see Bush receive his Villain of the Year Award. I understand the trophy is extremely appropriate.

[LWolf]

8. Great list!

Congressman of the year: 2005.

A well deserved award, as was this:

Ghandi Peace Award: 2003

And an incredibly long list of actions taken to oppose corrupt corporate control of government and stand up for all citizens.

I wish his own party valued him more. Interesting that my top choice for an '08 ticket both appear on this list; Kucinich/Boxer.

Kudos to my former Senator, Barbara Boxer, and to the rest of the list as well.

[Cults4Bush]

9. like everyone else here, great list! and oh so very K&R'd. n/t

[BrklynLiberal]

10. Excellent choices!!! Kudos to all.

:applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause:

[Cleita]

11. I like these guys!

Thanks for posting.

[nicknameless]

12. Surely wish John Conyers had gotten a nod.

He has fought tirelessly to combat the fascism of the reich.

[quiet.american]

13. Yes, me, too --

I have an image of him as an Atlas single-handedly carrying our democracy forward on his shoulders.

[quiet.american]

14. Dupe. Delete.

[GreenPartyVoter]

16. I was gonna say, he deserves tyo be on the list as well

[Junkdrawer]

22. Easily my pick..

And I said so with $$$... ;)

http://www.johnconyers.com/

[Padme Amidala]

26. If you look further down the PHDC main page, you'll notice

they gave Conyers an American Hero Award. The PHDC is impressed with Conyers. They are just more impressed with Dennis. They also gave American Hero Awards to Stan "Tookie" Williams (posthumously), Russ Feingold, Alexandar Hull-Richter and John Lewis.
http://patrickhenrythinktank.org/#Heroes

[nicknameless]

31. Hmmm.... I just read your reply #25.

I wasn't aware of that. Both the WTO and Yucca Mt. issues are outrageous. I see your point -- and Patrick Henry's.

Thank you for posting that information.

:)

[quiet.american]

15. Great choices!, but Conyers should be at the head of the class, too. n/t

[ailsagirl]

18. Definitely!! What happened??

:shrug:

[bvar22]

19. Great Site.

One of my very favorites.

Conyers get kudos all the time at Patrick Henry.
He was one of this months heros:

American Hero Awards
This Month's Winners

Stanley "Tookie" Williams (posthumously)
Sen. Russ Feingold
Alexandar Hull-Richter
Rep. John Lewis
Rep. John Conyers

http://patrickhenrythinktank.org/index.html

[nicknameless]

20. "Conyers get kudos all the time at Patrick Henry"

That's good to know, but I wish they had awarded a tie vote for "Congressman of the Year" to both Conyers and Kucinich.
(They had a tie vote for villain of the year)

Hard to overlook Downing Street and the Ohio voter suppression hearings, etc.

[Albert Einstein]

29. Bush and Wal*Mart tied for votes for villain

There were half a dozen villain nominees and the Villain Award went into a run-off and resulted in a tie-vote. The Villain awards are really cool. The villains are getting engraved trophies, each with a statuette of the back half of a horse.

[nicknameless]

32. Ooh. Horse's ass trophies. Very deserved by those two.

:)

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

21. I would place Conyers way ahead of Kucinich for the tireless work he's

done.

[Albert Einstein]

27. Kucinich has the best voting record & he's actually done more this year.

Check out his web site, kucinich.us, and you'll see all the stuff Kucinich worked on. He's the force behind getting out of Irza and pushing the FBI to investigate Bush. Kucinich has also been the strogest force in Congress against the PATRIOT Act, the WTO and Star Wars. When California needed someone to fight against Yucca Mountain, he was there, and virtually everyone else (including Conyers) voted for it twice this year. A lot more has happened this year than three items and events.

[ailsagirl]

17. kick

Those people ROCK

:yourock:

:kick:

[tavalon]

23. Um, where's John Conyers

He at least needs to be honored at their level if not a higher one.

[paineinthearse]

24. Concur. John Conyers hands down.

Conyers has been the most effective and consistantly leader of the progressive wing. Sorry, but the extent of Dennis' efforts have been one minute speeches in the well.

Conyers has brought investivative groups to Ohio and DC for ELECTION FRAUD and MEDIA MANIPULATION. He has also been in the fore for the DOWNING STREET MEMO, ABRAMOFF, GUCKERT, & RESURRECTION OF VOTING RESTRICTIONS.

I've ceased my daily posts to DU from the Conyers blogs for reasons known by a few, but am pleased Melissa B and others have been carrying on.

If it is not already your home page (or at least a daily read), go to http://www.conyersblog.us/

edit - one last DU Conyers post, for old time's sake - http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=5681707&mesg_id=5681707

[Padme Amidala]

25. They've given Conyers awards. Conyers had some really bad votes.

Conyers's voted for one of the war appropriations bills,twice for the nuclear bill (which included Yucca Mountain funding and funding for billions of nuclear weapons activities), against withdrawal from the WTO and for a bill which could give a child a national MDSO record for life for walking his sister to a date. He probably just wasn't paying attention when he voted. Despite that, Conyers has one of the best records in Congress. His record just isn't as good as that of Dennis Kucinich, Maxine Waters, Cynthia McKinney, Lynn Woolsey, Marice Hinchey, Jim McDermott or Jan Schakowsky.

The members of the PHDC considered Conyers. They felt Dennis had more activities and were impressed with Dennis's perfect voting record for the year. Dennis led the fight against the WTO and CAFTA. The Resolution of Inquiry into the leaks leading to the war and the bi-partisan bill to withdraw from Iraq were Dennis's. Then, there was the re-introduction of the Department of Peace. Dennis did a lot of work to get others on board with the actions Conyers took. Dennis sent out frequent action alerts asking people to sign on to the DSM petition and he was there January 6th.

Cynthia McKinney was the competition for Maxine as they have the best voting records of all the women in Congress. Maxine had more visible activities this year. Also, she has done a lot of work to help get the Democratic Party to take the correct positions.

[Albert Einstein]

28. It goes to show, you need to take everything into account

Hurray for Dennis.

[nofurylike]

30. hooray! i love them all! but where is Conyers? thank you! eom