Posted by
Defend America on Wednesday, March 24, 2010 10:15:22 PM
Via the Washington Post:
Rep. Artur Davis,
long regarded as one of the most promising of a younger generation of
black politicians that has emerged over the past decade, took a bold
stance this week as he seeks to become the first African American
governor of Alabama: distancing himself from the biggest legislative
achievement of the first black president.
The four-term lawmaker joined 33 other Democrats, most of whom hail
from the South, in opposing the health-care legislation that President Obama
signed into law Tuesday. Davis originally voted against the House
version of the legislation in November, and Democratic leaders did not
spend much time trying to get him to change his vote, perhaps in a nod
to the political dynamics of his state, where Obama won only 38 percent
of the vote in 2008.
But in opposing the health-care bill, Davis, a longtime Obama ally
who was one of the first lawmakers to back his White House run, split
from the other 41 members of the Congressional Black Caucus.
They not only all voted for the legislation, but cast it in historic
terms as an extension of the policies of the civil rights era.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/24/AR2010032401757.html?hpid=artslot