Speaking for Myself: Kendrick Meek = Good Bet for U.S. Senate

by D. Cupples |   I like Kendrick Meek for U.S. Senate (Florida).  Check out the ABC-televised debate involving him and his two opponents, and you'll see that Kendrick is anything but meek.

Friday, Congressman Meek spoke at the Eighth Judicial Circuit Bar Association luncheon in Gainesville.  Having been a blogger (and a political candidate), I’m not wowed by political speeches.  Not at all.  [Note: the EJCBA is a non-political and non-partisan group.  The people in the photo with Congressman Meek are members of the EJCBA who posed with him after lunch: they are not necessarily supporters or opponents.  I speak only for myself.]

What interested me about Kendrick Meek was what he said while facing our politically diverse group: some North Florida lawyers are progressive, but some certainly are not.   

First, I like that Kendrick Meek has a record of protecting social security from privatization.   Imagine what would’ve happened to millions of Americans whose nest eggs had been in the stock market if social security had been privatized before our financial system started melting down.  Our nation has been generous enough with Wall Streeters—at the expense of us taxpayers and ordinary shareholders. (Remember the great bailouts of 2008?)
 

Second, I like that Kendrick Meek supports real health care reform, instead of the watered down garbage that protects the very insurance companies, hospitals, and drug companies that have made a sport of overcharging us consumers and even (some of them) robbing us taxpayers through government contracts. 

Third, I like that Kendrick Meek publicly recognizes the absurdity of allowing American companies to easily ship our jobs overseas.  U.S. labor is too expensive, they claim: meanwhile, some public companies’ executives and managers are pulling in millions of shareholder-dollars every year (see here and here).  Should ordinary Americans work for peanuts and live on catfood?

Fourth, I like that Kendrick Meek opposes giving huge tax breaks to extremely wealthy folks (and the companies they run), while we ordinary folks get next to nothing on April 15.

I could go on, but you can check out Congressman Meek's voting record at Project Vote Smart and see how he stands with respect to issues that matter to you. [Click on the bill link, so that you can see what the bill that Meek voted on actually did; bill titles can be soooo misleading.]

 

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