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Wednesday, February 3, 2021

Links to Membership Lists of Ideological Factions within the Two Major Parties in the U.S. House of Representatives

     The following list consists of links to the membership lists of the formal and informal ideological C.M.O.s (Congressional Member Organizations) in the United States House of Representatives. Some of the links below lead to information on how to contact these representatives.
     U.S. Senators may be listed as well. Readers should keep in mind that the Senate and House have their own separate organizations to represent these ideological factions. For example, a Republican U.S. Senator cannot become a member of the House Freedom Caucus because its membership is only for U.S. Representatives in the lower house.

     I would like readers to take note of the following two facts, which the below information makes clear:

     1) Not all so-called "Tea Party politicians" are (or were) formal members of the Tea Party Caucus in the House;

     2) The Tea Party Caucus appears to be defunct, so it's possible that it has no members anymore;

     3) The Republican Party only has two formal ideological C.M.O.s;

     4) The "Justice Democrats" is not a formal ideological C.M.O. in the House of Representatives, nor are the Democratic Socialists of America (D.S.A.); and

     5) The Populist Caucus of the Democratic Party, the Main Street Caucus, and the Republican Liberty Caucus, no longer exist.


     It's also important to notice how much influence the Ripon Society has within the Republican Party, despite the fact that it is not a formal caucus. The Ripon Society's centrist stance is arguably more liberal-friendly and libertarian than most of the Republican Party's membership, but it should still concern us that this public policy organization has a congressional advisory board that is made up of one-third of the set of currently serving Republican U.S. Representatives (about 70 out of 211).
     It should concern us because these 70 House members are working on the interest of the Ripon Society as an interest group, without the group being officially recognized as the ideological faction within the Republican House membership that it is.

     Readers should also note that some caucuses, such as the Tea Party Caucus, are (or were) open to members of both parties.
     Also, there are many caucuses in the U.S. House of Representatives which are non-ideological, that are not included below. Additionally, some House caucuses could be argued to be ideological, but were not included here because their ideological bent or angle is not immediately obvious.
     Lists of caucuses in the U.S. House of Representatives are available at the links immediately below:
     http://ballotpedia.org/List_of_caucuses_in_the_United_States_Congress
     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caucuses_of_the_United_States_Congress


     


REPUBLICAN GROUPS



House Republican Conference
     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_Republican_Conference



Formal Republican Party Factions/Caucuses

Republican Study Committee
     http://rsc-banks.house.gov/about/membership

House Freedom Caucus
     http://ballotpedia.org/House_Freedom_Caucus




Republican Ideological Factions Which Are Not Formal U.S. House Caucuses, But Are Similar Enough to Caucuses to Mention


Tea Party Caucus
     (Effectively defunct, although several current U.S. House members were Tea Party Caucus members recently)
     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_Party_Caucus

Tea Party politicians
     (includes list of House members, although not all are formal members of the House Tea Party Caucus)
     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_politicians_affiliated_with_the_Tea_Party_movement


Main Street Partnership
     (the Main Street Caucus was dissolved in 2019, although many current U.S. House members were Main Street Caucus members until that occurred just two years ago)
     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Main_Street_Partnership
     http://www.republicanmainstreet.org/members
     http://www.npr.org/2019/08/23/753404051/meltdown-on-main-street-inside-the-breakdown-of-the-gops-moderate-wing


Ripon Society
     (public policy organization with a congressional advisory board)
     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ripon_Society


Tuesday Group / Republican Governance Group
     (informal caucus)
     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuesday_Group


Liberty Caucus
     (Effectively defunct. There are current House members who still serve and were recently members, and they may still be members. It's unknown whether the group still has meetings or elects leaders.)
     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_Caucus

Republican Liberty Caucus
     (political action organization that endorses; affiliated with the non-profit 501(c)4 organization The Liberty Committee)

     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Liberty_Caucus
     List of former members: http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/The_Liberty_Committee








DEMOCRATIC GROUPS


House Democratic Caucus
     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_Democratic_Caucus



Formal Democratic Party Factions/Caucuses

Blue Dog Coalition
     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Dog_Coalition

New Democrat Coalition
     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Democrat_Coalition


Blue Collar Caucus
     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Collar_Caucus

Congressional Progressive Caucus
     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Progressive_Caucus




Democratic Ideological Factions Which Are Not Formal U.S. House Caucuses, But Are Similar Enough to Caucuses to Mention

Democratic Socialists of America
     (non-profit organization that endorses)
     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Socialists_of_America

Populist Caucus
     (Effectively defunct. There are current House members who still serve and were recently members, and they may still be members. It's unknown whether the group still has meetings or elects leaders.)
     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Populist_Caucus

Justice Democrats
     (progressive PAC that endorses)
     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justice_Democrats

Democratic Freedom Caucus
     (small caucus, no current U.S. Representatives are members)
     http://www.democraticfreedomcaucus.org/




Written, compiled, and published on February 3rd, 2021

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Tuesday, July 2, 2019

2020 Democratic Presidential Candidates Ranked by Preference

1. Mike Gravel
2. Andrew Yang
3. Marianne Williamson
4. Michael E. Arth
5. Harry Braun
6. Ken Nwadike
7. Bernie Sanders
8. Elizabeth Warren
9. Tulsi Gabbard
10. Julian Castro
11. Jay Inslee
12. Michael Bennet
13. John Delaney
14. John Hickenlooper
15. Bill deBlasio
16. Deval Patrick
17. Joe Sestak
18. Beto o'Rourke
19. Amy Klobuchar
20. Kamala Harris
21. Eric Swalwell
22. Pete Buttigieg
23. Cory Booker
24. Seth Moulton
25. Tim Ryan
26. Steve Bullock
27. Robby Wells
28. Kirsten Gillibrand
29. Tom Steyer
30. Michael Bloomberg
31. Joe Biden


Written on July 2nd and 3rd, 2019

Published on July 3rd, 2019

Expanded on July 22nd, November 14th, and December 3rd, 2019
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Tuesday, April 16, 2019

Partial List of Candidates Running for President in 2020

(?) = expressed interest, and/or formed an exploratory committee, but has not yet formally declared


Republican Party

1. de la Fuente, Roque "Rocky" (now running as the Reform Party candidate)
2. Hogan, Larry (seemed likely, but not running)
3. Istvan, Zoltan
4. Kasich, John (dropped out)
5. Sanford, Mark (dropped out)
6. Trump, Donald J. (incumbent)
7. Walsh, William Joseph "Joe" (dropped out)
8. Weld, William R. ("Bill") (dropped out)




Democratic Party

1. Abrams, Stacey (seemed likely, but not running)
2. Arth, Michael E. (probably ineligible; born in the United Kingdom)
3. Bennet, Michael (dropped out)
4. Biden, Joseph R., Jr. ("Joe")
5. Bloomberg, Michael (dropped out)
6. Booker, Cory (dropped out)
7. Boyd, Mosie
8. Braun, Harry
9. Brown, Sherrod (dropped out)
10. Bullock, Steve (dropped out)
11. Buttigieg, Pete (dropped out)
12. Castro, Julian (dropped out)
13. deBlasio, Bill (dropped out)
14. Delaney, John (dropped out)
15. Gabbard, Tulsi (dropped out)
16. Gillibrand, Kristen (dropped out)
17. Gleib, Ben
18. Gravel, Michael ("Mike") (dropped out)
19. Greenstein, Mark Stewart
19. Harris, Kamala (dropped out)
20. Hickenlooper, John (dropped out)
21. Horowitz, Ami (dropped out)
22. Inslee, Jay (dropped out)
23. Klobuchar, Amy (dropped out)
24. Messam, Wayne (dropped out)
25. Moulton, Seth (dropped out)
26. Nwadike, Ken, Jr.
27. o'Rourke, Robert Francis ("Beto") (dropped out)
28. Ojeda, Richard, Jr. (dropped out)
29. Patrick, Deval (dropped out)
30. Ryan, Tim (dropped out)
31. Sanders, Bernard ("Bernie") (dropped out)
32. Sestak, Joe (dropped out)
34. Steyer, Tom (dropped out)
35. Swalwell, Eric (dropped out)
36. Warren, Elizabeth (dropped out)
37. Wells, Robby (dropped out)
38. Williamson, Marianne (dropped out)
39. Yang, Andrew (dropped out)




Libertarian Party

1. Abramson, Max (withdrew)
2. Amash, Justin
3. Ardeleanu, Sorinne
4. Armstrong, Kenneth "Ken"
5. Ashby, Stephan Blake
6. Avouris, Aaron
7. Behrman, Daniel ("Dan")
8. Benedix, Daniel
9. Berry, Joey
10. Blevins, Kenneth
11. Brown, Keith
12. Campbell, Joseph Charles
13. Chafee, Lincoln (withdrew)
14. Christmann, Daniel
15. Cook, M. E. Sergeant, Sr.
16. Davenport, Daniel
17. DePriest, Kyler
18. Dryke, Benjamin T. (declined to run)
19. Dunham, Keenan Wallace
20. Ellison, Brian
21. Faas, Souraya
22. Faucett, Peyton
23. Gerhardt, Erik Chase
24. Gray, James P.
25. Gray, Phil
26. Greer, Evret
27. Hale, Dakota
28. Hartliep, Bradley Scott
29. Hill, Jedidiah "Jedi"
30. Hornberger, Jacob  (came in 2nd place)
31. Horst, Heather
32. Hurst, William Joseph
33. Jackson, Ryan
34. Jones, Cameron
35. Jefferson, Cedric
36. Jefferson, Dakinya
37. Jefferson, Demondria
38. Jorgenson, Jo (won nomination)
39. Kokesh, Adam
40. Ince, Cecil Anthony Southwest
41. Layton, Nyle Benjamin "Ben"
42. Lea, Brandin
43. Leder, Benjamin G. ("Ben")
44. Lee, Kip
45. Lee, Seymour Art
46. Lowe, Donald Eugene
47. Lynch, Lorraine
48. Maldonado, Joseph Allen
49. McAfee, John David (was rumored, seeking vice presidential nomination instead)
50. McCutcheon, Shaun
51. Monds, John
52. Morris, Rickey
53. Peach, Jason Daniel
54. Perry, Darryl
55. Peterson, Austin
56. Phillips, John R.
57. Reid, Derrick Michael
58. Richey, Steven Allen "Steve"
59. Robb, Samuel Joseph
60. Ruff, Kimberly Margaret ("Kim") (withdrew)
61. Salas, Sandra
62. Seder, Sam (possible)
63. Sibillo, Jason Michael
64. Smith, Rhett Rosenquest
65. Spivey, Mark Douglas
66. Sportsinterviews, Leonard
67. Stefan, Christopher
68. Supreme, Vermin (came in 3rd place, now running as write-in independent)
69. Vanacore, Louis
70. Vohra, Arvin
71. Weaver, Christopher Francis
72. Whipple, Krista Marie
73. White, Justin
74. Whitney, Mark Ellerton
75. Wilkerson, Terry
76. Williams, Andy
77. Wysinger, Demetra

Sources for this information include:

Learn more about many of the above candidates at the following link:
http://beinglibertarian.com/libertarian-potus-2020/




Green Party

1. Augustson, Alan
2. Desuasido, Ivan-Jan
3. Hawkins, Howie (won nomination; has also received the nomination of the Socialist Workers' Party and several other parties)
4. Hunter, Dario (came in 2nd place, now running as an independent)
5. Kreml, Bill
6. Lambert, Dennis
7. Manley, Elijah
8. Mesplay, Kent
9. Milnes, Robert
10. Moyowasifza-Curry, Sedinam (now running as Mark Charles's running mate)
11. Nichols, Curt
12. Ogle, James
13. Rolde, David
14. Schiakman, Ian
15. Ventura, Jesse (received several delegates, now running as a write-in independent)





Constitution Party
1. Blankenship, Don (nominated)
2. Bradley, Scott
3. Castle, Darrell
4. Copeland, Scott
5. Kraut, Charles




American Free Soil Party (may have disbanded, nominee unknown)
1. Ramos, Enrique
2. Seaman, Adam





American Solidarity Party
1. Carroll, Brian T. (won nomination)
2. Perkins, Joshua
3. Schriner, Joe (now running as an independent)





Other Parties
1. Collins, Phil (Prohibition Party)
2. de la Fuente, Roque (Reform Party)
3. Hammons, Bill (Unity Party)
4. LaRiva, Gloria (Party for Socialism and Liberation, Peace and Freedom Party, Liberty Union Party)
5. Myers, J.R. (Life and Liberty Party)
6. Segal, Jerome (Bread and Roses Party)
7. West, Kanye (Birthday Party)
8. Zion, Ben (Transhumanist Party)






Independent Candidates

1. Amash, Justin (ran as an independent, then as a Libertarian, then dropped out)
2. Charles, Mark
3. Cuban, Mark (said no in an interview, but did not rule it out)
4. Kroell, Ronnie
5. Marks, Christopher "Chris"
6. Pierce, Brock
7. Simmons, Jade
8. Supreme, Vermin (came in 3rd for the Libertarian Party nomination, now running as a write-in independent candidate)



Click on the following links to see more candidates for the 2020 presidential election,
including the full list of nearly 700 people who have formally filed to run for president:

 http://ballotpedia.org/List_of_registered_2020_presidential_candidates

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/16-candidates-now-qualify-for-the-first-democratic-primary-debates/

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-party_and_independent_candidates_for_the_2020_United_States_presidential_election








Originally Published on April 16th, 2019
Expanded on April 18th and 29th; June 24th;
July 3rd and 22nd; August 26th; September 21st;
 November 8th, 13th, 14th, and 19th; December 3rd, 2019;
January 28th; March 5th and 16th;
April 9th, 13th, and 15th; May 5th, and July 31st, 2020
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Sunday, February 12, 2017

Each U.S. State's Republican and Democratic Presidential Primary Selection, 2016


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Monday, April 28, 2014

Sen. Cliven Bundy: Harry Reid Owes Feds $1.1 Million

Nevada GOP Senator Cliven Bundy:
Landowner Harry Reid Owes Federal Government $1.1 Million



Nevada Senator Cliven Bundy with his wife Carol

     WASHINGTON - Yesterday in a press conference on Capitol Hill, Senate Majority Leader Cliven Bundy (R, Nevada) criticized Nevada landowner Harry Reid for collecting $1.1 million on an undisclosed 2001 land sale on the outskirts of Las Vegas.
     Bundy told reporters that “Dirty Harry” Reid and his armed supporters are “freeloaders”, adding that the federal government had title to the land long before Reid claims his ancestors settled the land. Bundy explained to the press that until 2004, Reid did not disclose to Congress his sale of the property to a company created by friend and casino lawyer Jay Brown.
     Property deeds show that as of 2004, after Brown's company sold the land to other developers, and Reid reported the sale, Reid had not personally owned the property for three years. Senator Bundy told reporters that “Reid failed to disclose the sale to the federal government until after he had taken a financial stake in the company, and transferred ownership, legal liability, and some tax consequences.”
     Sen. Bundy added, “Make no mistake; [Reid's supporters] are nothing more than domestic terrorists”, vowing that the federal government will take action to serve orders to collect the $1.1 million in lost revenues.
     “I repeat: what happened there was domestic terrorism”, he said, adding, “It's not over”.


Nevada landowner "Dirty Harry" Reid

     Harry Reid made national headlines earlier this month after a racist rant about Senator Barack Obama (D, Illinois), when he told Fox News's Sean Hannity that Obama is notably “light-skinned”, describing him as “with no Negro dialect unless he wanted to have one”, suggesting that he feels that Obama is white enough to be president.
     After taking some heat for those comments – including from Senator Cliven Bundy, who said “Today, Reid revealed himself to be a hateful racist” - Reid initially told the press that “If I say 'negro'... if those people cannot take those kind of words and not be offensive then Martin Luther King didn't do his job.”
     Reid later backed away from these comments, saying “I deeply regret using such a poor choice of words. … I sincerely apologize for offending any and all Americans, especially African Americans, for my improper comments.”
     Journalists favorable to Reid spun his comments as meaning that he “was wowed by Obama's oratorical gifts and believed that the country was ready to embrace a black presidential candidate ...”.


     According to a phone poll administered last week to potential voters age 18 to 34, 91% of young Americans responded negatively to the question, "Do you support land-grabbing racists owning vast tracts of land, and using women and children as political tools and human shields?".
     However, young potential voters were divided almost 50/50 concerning which political party they feel is most responsible, with 52% blaming the Republican Party.



     This has been a satirical news story.



http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-10-11-reid_x.htm?POE=NEWISVA



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Sunday, April 20, 2014

Critical Notes on Tammy Baldwin

Written on August 6th, 2011
Edited in April 2014



- Supported TARP / TALF, and nearly $¾T in 2009 stimulus

- Opposed Cut, Cap, and Balance

- Supported Obamacare

- Supported gun control measures

- Supported federal public funding for presidential elections

- Supported ineligible voters making campaign contributions

- Supported federal public funding for Planned Parenthood and ACORN

- Supported Cap-and-Trade; Supported Cash-for-Clunkers; supported energy efficiency tax credits; supported maintaining energy efficiency standards for incandescent lightbulbs; supported the non-renewable-resource-management bureaucratization of the Department of Interior; supported giving permission to the EPA to regulate greenhouse-gas emissions; and supported raising income taxes on ethanol producers

- Supported granting $2.46 B in 2006 military and economic aid to Israel

- Supported granting $2.48 B in 2006 military and economic aid to Middle-Eastern countries

- Supported granting $465 M to Mexico and Central America to combat drug trafficking

- Procured $200 M in pork to Wisconsin’s 2nd district over 7 two-year terms

- Supported expansion and financing of hate-crime legislation and prosecution; supported increased punishment of gender-based hate-crimes; and supported expansion of hate-crime legislation to include sexual orientation

- Supported granting $84 million to improve educational opportunities for blacks, Hispanics, and low-income students; supported the criminalization of unequal payment based on race, religion, sex, national origin, age, and disability; supported the expansion of unequal-payment criminalization to include sexual orientation; and supported funding for salary-negotiation skills-training for women

- Supported granting $5.8 B for Louisiana (and $2.7 B for other states) for natural disaster relief and recovery; granted $1.5 B to states to support small business; and supported aid to states for Medicaid, teacher employment, and other purposes

- Supported establishing an Office of Congressional Ethics

- Supported the FDA imposing more stringent tobacco labeling and bans on additives

- Supported funding to discourage the use of the word “Islamist” and other words in the intelligence community

- Opposed the appropriation of funds to transfer prisoners out of Guantanamo Bay

- Supported the extension of unemployment benefits at least three times



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Conversation with a Liberal on Taxing Marijuana

Written on April 9th, 2011
Edited in April 2014
Based on a real conversation



   Me: "I heard that taxes by governments make up 20% of the price of gasoline. That's more than oil companies make in profits. And the government doesn't even provide any service for the gasoline, except letting it come into the country."

   Liberal: "Well, government provides plenty of services. Health care for retired people, for instance. The public roads that we drive on. I mean, those taxes have got to come from somewhere."

   Me: "If you can name a problem and say the taxes for it have to come from somewhere, but where they come from can be totally unrelated to the causality of the problem, then you can justify taxing any random thing just because there are problems out there...
   "Say we decide to legalize and tax marijuana. When people smoke marijuana, it causes lung cancer. It has a health detriment. I have no problem with the government taxing alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana if they spend the tax money to address health problems caused by those substances. And they do, they spend tobacco taxes on children's health care. And the public roads, some of that money comes from tolls that the people who drive on them directly have to pay while they're using them. That kind of causality-based taxation makes sense to me."

   Liberal: "Well, okay, it would be fine if we legalized medicinal marijuana, and even recreational marijuana, if the government could tax it, and it would especially make sense if that tax money were spent on medical care."

   Me: "I agree, and some estimates say that if we did that, then the price of marijuana would go down more than 90 percent."

   Liberal: "Well, in that case, I would want the government to keep the price of marijuana artificially high, like, for example, the same price it was before. You don't want people who are disadvantaged to smoke a lot of marijuana."

   Me: "That's ridiculous. First of all, price-fixing is never a good idea, whether you're keeping the price artificially high or artificially low.
   "Second, if you allow the price of marijuana to drastically decline, drug dealers aren't going to be able to afford to make any money off of it, and they'll have to look for real jobs, which would eventually cause a decrease in unemployment.
   "Third, if government forms a price cartel on marijuana and makes marijuana dispensaries sell it at that fixed price, you'd still have pot dealers who are willing to use violence against their competition, which would then be government employees selling marijuana legally.
   "Fourth, lowering the price of marijuana is not going to significantly affect the amount of pot that poor people smoke; there aren't many people that really need more than an eighth a week.
   "And lastly, why would you want to keep it difficult for poor people to afford pot? Don't you think poor people would do better to spend $45 a week on food, instead of paying that money to the government in the form of a 900% vice tax?"

   Liberal: "I don't want to make it hard for poor people to afford drugs or food! How could you assume I meant such a thing!?"

   Me: "You basically said you don't want to make it easier for poor people to do drugs affordably. That's the obvious outcome of what you proposed."

   Liberal: "Well, that's not how I meant it."

   Me: "Oh, so you just want to impose huge taxes on whatever you can for the pursuit of whatever problem you personally feel exists. Well, at least you're consistent."
   "Do you suggest we use that tax money to beat up pot dealers who out-compete the legal dispensaries? I believe that qualifies as 'change we can believe in'."



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Friday, March 21, 2014

My Political Evolution, 1999-2014




My ISideWith.Com Results, December 2013 to October 2014





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