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Originally posted by Spanky
This issue may seem trivial but it actually really important in the Bay Area right now. Two bay area Congresswomen voted against CAFTA who used to have the support of the business community. Ellen Tauscher and Anna Eschoo. Both Tauscher and Eschoo got massive pressure from the Democrat leadership (Nancy Pelosi) to vote against CAFTA to help stop Bush's momentum going into the Congressional elections. Pelosi also bombarded them with information of why CAFTA wasn't really good for business. Tauscher and Eschoo figured they could use those excuses to make the business community less mad or at least make a vote against CAFTA seem reasonable. I warned both Anna and Ellen that the business community would not buy it and the backlash would be horrible. They didn't believe me. Now the backlash is unbelievable. Worse than I even expected. Ellen especially was thought of a pro-business democrat but that reputation has been destroyed by this one vote. They have lost all support in the Silicon Valley which is pretty important in this area.
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OK, I so totally don't care about this. Was the point that you are on a first-name basis with these people? Maybe the serbian chick will go for that.
