A disagreement with Mike Capuano

[cos]

Several years ago, when the country was plagued with touchscreen voting machines that made re-counts impossible and gave no way to verify that their counts weren't buggy, Representative Rush Holt (one of the few scientists in Congress) was pushing a bill that would've required these machines to at least produce a paper printout at the time votes

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Capuano

[tt02144]

Capuano has always shown himself to be honest, intelligent, and a straight-talker. He'll tell you the truth even if it's not what you want to hear......not a trait shared by most politicians. Capuano did put in the optical scan machines for just the purpose he stated. The old election process was being upgraded and these machines do a computer tally, but also produce a hard copy which can be re-counted

I like Capuano but

[drwex]

I can't vote for him as he supports healthcare+Stupak. NOW endorsed Coakley and so do I.

Re: I like Capuano but

[beah]

This voting record says that he voted *against* Stupak.

Re: I like Capuano but

[drwex]

Correct. He voted against Stupak but FOR healthcare-with-Stupak.

NOW, NARAL, and other womens' rights groups have taken the position that healthcare-with-Stupak is not worth getting. It's too big a compromise of womens' rights. I tend to agree.

Interestingly yesterday 538 ran a piece (http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009/12/in-polls-much-opposition-to-health-care.html) showing that much of the growing opposition to the current healthcare bill is coming from the left, who feel it gives away too much - that it's less a "compromise" and more a "surrender."

This is the position I took in my own LJ posting about a month ago: http://drwex.livejournal.com/234854.html

Re: I like Capuano but

[drwex]

I understand your inflexibility regarding your one issue, but I hope you can rationalize it with this:

"An estimated 47 million people in the US are uninsured, and every 24 minutes, an uninsured American dies because adequate health care is out of reach."

And while you might think Coakley will help you achieve your abortion funding efforts, please note that Capuano is not standing in your way.