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Rep. Barbara Lee Faces Challenge From Ex-Green Official
The political fallout has begun for the only member of Congress to oppose granting President Bush authority to use force against terrorists -- and a former Green Party elected official has volunteered to front the attack.
Rep. Barbara Lee Faces Challenge From Ex-Green Official
by Karen Gaudette, Associated Press
Thursday, October 18, 2001
SAN FRANCISCO –– The political fallout has begun for the only member of Congress to oppose a resolution granting President Bush authority to use force against terrorists.
Former state Assemblywoman Audie Bock announced Wednesday that she plans to challenge Democratic Rep. Barbara Lee for her northern California congressional seat in 2002. Bock said it was Lee's lone dissent that prompted her decision.
"I think that an elected official at the national level has a responsibility to represent the feelings of that district and to serve the national purpose," said Bock, who once was the nation's highest-ranking Green Party officeholder. "I began to feel that Ms. Lee has not done that."
Lee's office did not immediately return calls for comment.
Lee was elected to the House in a 1998 special election to fill the seat of retiring Rep. Ron Dellums. She has explained her recent dissent as an appeal for restraint.
"We must be careful not to embark on an open-ended war with neither an exit strategy nor a focused target," Lee told her colleagues last month. She later voted to spend $40 billion on anti-terror and disaster relief.
Bock, now a Democrat, said she thinks Lee's decision has made the rest of the country perceive that California's 9th district, which encompasses the historically dovish cities of Oakland and Berkeley, does not empathize with the rest of the nation.
Bock began her political career as a Democrat, but left the party in 1993. She won a special legislative election in 1999 to represent the 16th District, becoming the top Green Party officeholder.
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On the Net:
http://www.audiebock.org
http://www.house.gov/lee
© Copyright 2001 The Associated Press
by Karen Gaudette, Associated Press
Thursday, October 18, 2001
SAN FRANCISCO –– The political fallout has begun for the only member of Congress to oppose a resolution granting President Bush authority to use force against terrorists.
Former state Assemblywoman Audie Bock announced Wednesday that she plans to challenge Democratic Rep. Barbara Lee for her northern California congressional seat in 2002. Bock said it was Lee's lone dissent that prompted her decision.
"I think that an elected official at the national level has a responsibility to represent the feelings of that district and to serve the national purpose," said Bock, who once was the nation's highest-ranking Green Party officeholder. "I began to feel that Ms. Lee has not done that."
Lee's office did not immediately return calls for comment.
Lee was elected to the House in a 1998 special election to fill the seat of retiring Rep. Ron Dellums. She has explained her recent dissent as an appeal for restraint.
"We must be careful not to embark on an open-ended war with neither an exit strategy nor a focused target," Lee told her colleagues last month. She later voted to spend $40 billion on anti-terror and disaster relief.
Bock, now a Democrat, said she thinks Lee's decision has made the rest of the country perceive that California's 9th district, which encompasses the historically dovish cities of Oakland and Berkeley, does not empathize with the rest of the nation.
Bock began her political career as a Democrat, but left the party in 1993. She won a special legislative election in 1999 to represent the 16th District, becoming the top Green Party officeholder.
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On the Net:
http://www.audiebock.org
http://www.house.gov/lee
© Copyright 2001 The Associated Press
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She has never and will never represent anyone but herself.
The only reason she is running against Lee is because the job pays more than selling Avon.
I'm not saying Barbara Lee is perfect, but at least we know Lee has a few thoughts of her own, and every once in a while shows us that she has some backbone.