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Antiwar Candidates Challenge Incumbent Democrats in House
and Senate Races
"The United States is Terrified" - Noam Chomsky
on Latin America's Move Towards "Independence and Integration"
Antiwar Candidates Challenge Incumbent Democrats
in House and Senate Races
The 2006 mid-term elections are just five months away. In
the Senate, close to three-dozen seats are up for grabs, while
all 435 seats are open in the House. Democrats hope growing
public discontent with the Bush administration will help them
win control of Congress from the Republicans. But some of
this year's most heated races won't just come down to Republicans
vs. Democrats - or Independents - in November. Rather, in
primaries this week and continuing through the summer, some
of the country's closely-watched races will pit Democrats
- against Democrats. And there's one main issue that's creating
the fault line: the war in Iraq.
Across the country, a handful of challengers are taking some
of the leading Democratic figures to task for voting to send
US troops to Iraq and refusing now to bring them home. On
this issue and others like government wiretapping, these candidates
say many elected Democrats have betrayed core party values
and provided political cover for the Bush administration.
We hear from four of these candidates that are shaking up
races across the country: Jonathan Tasini in New York, Marcy
Winograd in California, Ned Lamont in Connecticut and John
Bonifaz in Massachusetts. [includes rush
transcript]
We begin here in New York with Jonathan Tasini. He is a union
leader and organizer, and former president of the National
Writers Union. He is running against incumbent New York Senator
Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination.
Joining him here in our Firehouse studio is Cindy Sheehan.
Since the death of her son Casey in Iraq in April 2004, she
has emerged as one of the leading figures of the anti-war
movement in the United States. She is the co-founder of Gold
Star Families for Peace. She has called on Democrats to vote
against their pro-war incumbents. Welcome to Democracy Now!
We invited Senator Clinton to come on the program but her
office declined our request.
- Cindy Sheehan, her son Casey was killed in Iraq in April
2004. She is the co-founder of Gold Star Families for Peace
and a member of Voters
For Peace.
- Jonathan Tasini, union leader and organizer. He is the
former president of the National Writers Union.
Joining us from a studio in Los Angeles is Marcy Winograd.
She's a teacher and longtime activist. She's running against
incumbent California Congressmember Jane Harman for the Democratic
nomination in California's 36th Congressional District. The
primary vote in that race is today.
- Marcy Winograd, teacher and longtime activist.
We turn back to the Senate for one of the most-watched races
of the primary season. Joe Lieberman, the three-term Democratic
Senator from Connecticut, is facing his first major challenge
to re-election since he won his seat eighteen years ago. Senator
Lieberman has been one of the most vocal Democratic supporters
of the Iraq war. Anti-war sentiment is growing in Connecticut.
A recent poll showed more than 60 percent of the state's voters
believe the war in Iraq is wrong.
Disenchantment with Lieberman within his own party has grown
so vocal he recently refused to rule out leaving the Democratic
ticket and running as an Independent. His opponent joins us
now in our firehouse studio. Ned Lamont is a former telecommunications
executive. He won a third of the delegate vote at the Democratic
Party's state convention last month to put him on the ballot
in the primary on August 8th. We invited Senator Lieberman
on the program but he was unavailable to join us.
- Ned Lamont, former telecommunications executive.
As we continue our coverage of the candidates looking to
unseat key fellow Democrats this year. We go now to Boston
to join John Bonifaz. He is a Boston-based attorney and the
founder of the National Voting Rights Institute. He is running
against incumbent William F. Galvin for the Democratic nomination
for Massachusetts Secretary of State. John Bonifaz is the
only Massachusetts Democrat to challenge an incumbent from
his own party in this year's primary.
As we continue our coverage of the candidates looking to
unseat key fellow Democrats this year. We go now to Boston
to join John Bonifaz. He is a Boston-based attorney and the
founder of the National Voting Rights Institute. He is running
against incumbent William F. Galvin for the Democratic nomination
for Massachusetts Secretary of State. John Bonifaz is the
only Massachusetts Democrat to challenge an incumbent from
his own party in this year's primary.
"The United States is Terrified" - Noam
Chomsky on Latin America's Move Towards "Independence
and Integration"
Noam Chomsky - the renowned linguist and political analyst
- was in New York Monday where he gave a press conference
at the United Nations. Democracy Now! was there to capture
Chomsky's two-hour exchange with reporters. We play an excerpt
of the press conference where Chomsky talks about the current
political climate in Latin America. [includes rush
transcript]
Noam Chomsky - the renowned linguist and political analyst
- was in New York Monday where he gave a press conference
at the United Nations. Democracy Now! was there to capture
Chomsky's two-hour exchange with reporters. Chomsky is professor
of linguistics and philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology. He is author of dozens of books, including
his latest "Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the
Assault on Democracy." We go now to an excerpt of Monday's
press conference. Chomsky was asked to give his take on the
current political climate in Latin America.
- Noam Chomsky, speaking June 5, 2006.
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