Democrats or Socialists

I got this via email this week and was unsourced.

"The following is a list of members of congress that also belong to an organization called the Democratic Socialists of America. Also included are web pages and e-mail addresses for contact, and demand that they stop promoting their socialist agenda in Congress. For more information about the Democratic Socialists of America, you can go to their web site and find out for yourself what it is all about. The URL is (http://www.dsausa.org/)
At one time, the following list of members could be located on the DSA web site. However, Once this list was made public, The DSA removed the link to the Web page that listed the following members. Although they removed the link, they did not remove the Web Page. You can go directly to the Web page that contains the list of names by clicking on this link (http://www.dsausa.org/pc/pc.members.html). Now that this is exposed also, I wonder how long it will take them to remove the page altogether?" (emphasis in the original)

Well it didn't take long. Following the link gets you a "404 page not found error". However, the email lists out some of the Congressional folks involved.

"Rep Bernard Sanders (VT-AL), Chair
2202 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC 20515
http://b5.mail.yahoo.com/ym/hope4america.net/Compose?To=bsanders@hr.house.gov
http://b5.mail.yahoo.com/ym/hope4america.net/Compose?To=sanders@igc.apc.org
http://www.house.gov/bernie/

Rep Cynthia A. McKinney (GA-04), Co-Chair
124 Cannon House Office Building, Washington, DC 20515
No e-mail address found
http://www.house.gov/mckinney/
Rep Peter A. DeFazio (OR-04), Co-Chair
2134 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC 20515
http://b5.mail.yahoo.com/ym/hope4america.net/Compose?To=pdefazio@hr.house.gov
http://www.house.gov/defazio/
Rep Maurice Hinchey (NY-26), Co-Chair
2431 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC 20515
http://b5.mail.yahoo.com/ym/hope4america.net/Compose?To=hinchey@mail.house.gov
http://www.house.gov/hinchey/
Rep Major Owens (NY-11), Co-Chair
2305 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC 20515
http://b5.mail.yahoo.com/ym/hope4america.net/Compose?To=Major.Owens@Mail.House.Gov"

The list went on - a lot of the usual suspects. One thing that surprised me is that none of our Minnesota delegation was on this list. One that didn't surprise me though (based on voting records) was this one:

"Rep James A McDermott (WA-07)
2349 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC 20515
No e-mail address found
http://www.house.gov/mcdermott/"

Now if you take a look at the voting records of the folks on this list you can certainly understand why the connection is made. Any socialists piece of legislation that has been brought up on the floor of the House or or the Senate was either proposed by one of the folks on this list or voted one of the names on this list. Legislation for greater re-distribution of wealth, greater centralized government powers, you name it. Take a look at the voting records of all of these folks - many of whom are running for re-election and compare it to the stated ideals on the DSA website. The parallels are there.

Seattle certainly can do better than what they have now. Good Luck Steve. Fight the good fight and may November 8 find us all calling you "Congressman-elect".