RonPaulFanInGA
04-13-2009, 02:14 PM
http://www.insidebayarea.com/timesstar/ci_12128546
Every year or two, Rep. Pete Stark, D-Fremont, sits down to lunch with reporters in his district for a chat; we broke bread today at Paradiso in San Leandro.
Stark held one of his monthly town-hall meetings April 6 in Fremont, and he had another tonight in San Leandro. Constituents aren't happy that we still have troops in Iraq, he said, or about all the money that's getting funneled to Wall Street to bail out the banking system. Stark, an outspoken opponent both of the war and of the bailout, said he's telling them "I didn't vote for it. "... Talk to the other guys."
I told him I'm working on a story about bipartisanship, and Stark, 77, promptly whipped out an iPhone to read some words of praise he received from the Alameda County Republican Party for having opposed the banking bailout; the local GOP also urged him to sign onto Rep. Ron Paul's HR1207, the Federal Reserve Transparency Act of 2009, which he did. "How about that for bipartisanship?" he said, laughing, adding that he feels as if he should put the GOP's rare praise for him on a billboard in the district.
List of H.R. 1207 co-sponsors (http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/D?d111:1:./temp/~bdYPYX:@@@P|/bss/111search.html|):
"Rep Stark, Fortney Pete [CA-13]"
Every year or two, Rep. Pete Stark, D-Fremont, sits down to lunch with reporters in his district for a chat; we broke bread today at Paradiso in San Leandro.
Stark held one of his monthly town-hall meetings April 6 in Fremont, and he had another tonight in San Leandro. Constituents aren't happy that we still have troops in Iraq, he said, or about all the money that's getting funneled to Wall Street to bail out the banking system. Stark, an outspoken opponent both of the war and of the bailout, said he's telling them "I didn't vote for it. "... Talk to the other guys."
I told him I'm working on a story about bipartisanship, and Stark, 77, promptly whipped out an iPhone to read some words of praise he received from the Alameda County Republican Party for having opposed the banking bailout; the local GOP also urged him to sign onto Rep. Ron Paul's HR1207, the Federal Reserve Transparency Act of 2009, which he did. "How about that for bipartisanship?" he said, laughing, adding that he feels as if he should put the GOP's rare praise for him on a billboard in the district.
List of H.R. 1207 co-sponsors (http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/D?d111:1:./temp/~bdYPYX:@@@P|/bss/111search.html|):
"Rep Stark, Fortney Pete [CA-13]"