Barbara Lee to present platform at convention
By Josh Richman
Friday, August 24th, 2012 at 12:26 pm in Barbara Lee, Democratic Party, Democratic politics, U.S. House.
Rep. Barbara Lee, along with Newark, N.J. Mayor Cory Booker and retired U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Claudia Kennedy, have been tapped to present the party’s platform to the 2012 Democratic National Convention on Tuesday, Sept. 4 in Charlotte, N.C.
This is the first time that Lee, D-Oakland, has been asked to speak at a Democratic National Convention, and it won’t be lost on anyone that one of the House’s most outspoken liberals is helping to present the party’s statement of core values.
“As a member of the Democratic platform drafting committee, I’m excited about presenting the 2012 platform,” Lee said Friday. “It is a strong document that clearly illustrates the contrasts between our party and the party of Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan and sets out the vision of how under the leadership of President Obama we can and must move America Forward.”
Lee won’t be the only California presence at the convention’s podium: Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is the convention’s chair, and California Attorney General Kamala Harris also is scheduled to speak.
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August 24th, 2012 at 12:41 pm
The dimmiecrats could not have picked a better person than Bobbie Lee. She personifies the finest dimmiecrat principles.
It was a no brainer.
August 24th, 2012 at 3:11 pm
It’s very unlikely Baba Lee will get any TV exposure outside the Bay. KPFA might not even carry it.
August 26th, 2012 at 7:48 am
Barbara Lee for President. She was anti war. Who else ever was? Will she be allowed to say anything anti war? Now the soldiers of the puppet government the U.S. installed, are killing our troops. Will Barbara Lee actually try to put anything sensible into the Dem’s platform?
August 26th, 2012 at 12:45 pm
“Will Barbara Lee actually try to put anything sensible into the Dem’s platform?”
Highly unlikely.
August 26th, 2012 at 2:50 pm
Certainly nothing so sensible as the abortion/”personhood” plank in the Republican platform, embracing the ever popular Todd Aikin “no exceptions” position. GOP platform chairman (emphasis on “man”), Governor “Ultrasound” McDonnell of Virginia defended it on the Sunday morning shows by noting that the same provision has been in the GOP platform for 30 years. Aren’t traditions wonderful?
August 26th, 2012 at 4:12 pm
What the hell is a platform anyway? The only time you ever hear anything about one is before the convention, and then as soon as the convention is over it disappears like a stone in the Marianas trench.
August 26th, 2012 at 5:14 pm
Re 6
That’s all very true. Unless, of course, the party spices up the platform with something that the other side can make some noise with to either fire up their own base or to gain support among swing voters. They can’t win votes with a platform, but they can lose votes.
August 27th, 2012 at 8:07 am
Elwood is right. Nobody gives a flyin rat tail about platforms in the real world.