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Mon Jul 19, 2010 at 10:41:05 AM MST
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| Said Roy Teicher, spokesperson for the Andrew Romanoff campaign in reference to Colorado Senators Udall and Bennet's vote-switch on an amendment by VT Sen Bernie Sanders (God bless his soul) that would have capped credit card interest rates at 15%. In other words, this was like a national version of Colorado's successful attempt at ending usurious payday lending practices, reform of which struggled though the Colorado state legislature this last session.
Remember that? All the fighting and all the buzz about protecting the middle class? Now we've lost an opportunity to protect the middle class in the worst recession since the Depression and our Colorado Senators voted in a most despicably suspicious way.
:( All this time I thought Udall was a Boulder liberal :(
To the discerning, perhaps intelligent eye, it looks like Udall and Bennet first voted No on the amendment but when they saw there was a majority of sell-outs in the Senate who were also voting No, pandering to multi-billion dollar bailout recipients who used taxpayer money to "invest" in our "democracy", they changed their votes to Yes so it would go on the record that they were in support of it when in fact, it's possible, they never intended to support it.
And since it's the US Senate AND 2010, it was caught on tape. |
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Matt Taibbi says:
You can see Udall and Bennet initially vote "no." Then you see them conferring with Chuck Schumer, at which point they're probably learning that the vote will lose. At 3:07:57 Bennet switches his vote, and 15 seconds later Udall does the same.
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