My Hurley Blog

     The Iron County Board of Supervisors will meet on Tuesday, September 30, 2008 at 6:00 PM at the Courthouse in Hurley, Wisconsin. The meeting is open to the public per Chapter 19, Sub Chapter V, Wisconsin Statutes.

     Seventh District Congressman Dave Obey (D-WI) said today that “like most Americans, I’m mad as hell that the reckless deregulatory binge of the last decade has led us to the point we find ourselves in today, but I reluctantly supported the financial rescue package that’s before Congress because it contains provisions that offer more protections to the taxpayers than the President’s original proposal and the alternative of doing nothing will put the economic security of virtually every American family and business at unnecessary risk.”

     Seventh District Congressman Dave Obey made the following statement on the House Floor this evening on the Main Street Stimulus package he authored.

     The House passed the package by a vote of 264 to 158.

Measure Intended to Help American FamiliesCope With Economic Turmoil

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     Seventh District Congressman Dave Obey (D-WI), the Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, today introduced an economic stimulus package designed to encourage economic growth and help Main Street America deal with the economic turmoil.

     The Town of La Pointe and Ashland County will soon be able to provide bicyclists with safer passage of County Highway H into Big Bay State Park as a result of a $608,800 Wisconsin Department of Transportation (DOT) grant, State Senator Bob Jauch (D-Poplar) and State Representative Gary Sherman (D-Port Wing) said today in a meeting with local officials to discuss the project.

     To help end unfair and abusive practices by credit card companies, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Credit Cardholders Bill of Rights today. Seventh District Congressman Dave Obey (D-WI) was a cosponsor of the consumer protection measure.

     Seventh District Congressman Dave Obey (D-WI) voted today to provide Congressional approval of the Great Lakes Compact. With today’s approval by the House, the interstate compact, which has already been ratified by all eight Great Lakes states and approved by the U.S. Senate, must now be signed into law by the President before it can take full effect.

Republican talking heads and McSame campaign surrogates are blaming the recent market meltdown on Alexander Hamilton and that "wishy washy liberal Democrat", Thomas Jefferson. They contend that this crisis has been building since 1776, pointing out that if the nation had continued the wise counsel of Millard Filmore (technically a Whig and No Nothing party member but forbearer of the GOP) famous for his 1848-49 reformation of the banking system, Texas would not have been admitted to the union and George W. Bu$h would not have been qualified to be pResident. Absent the Bu$h spin machine and Karl Rove, the Democrats might have prevented the dismantling of protective regulation of the banking industry by Phil Graham, McSame's primary economic advisor. Thru a campaign spokes person, candidate McSame stated, "We are proud of those who led the way, like Millard Filmore and his defender, Senator Henry S. Foote", who, on the floor of the Senate, nearly shot hard currency apologist Thomas Hart Benton, a known partisan Democrat, a duelist, and a topic from John F. Kennedy's Profiles in Courage.

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This item was called in to Phone eNews by Charles Lucas, a Missouri lawyer who, still now, wants wants a third shot at Benton.

• Board of Public Works – 6:00 P.M.
• Police, Fire & License Committee
• Finance Committee
• Parks & Recreation Committee
• City Council Meeting - 6:30 P.M.

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     Seventh District Congressman Dave Obey (D-WI) announced today that he is now accepting applications from those interested in competing for a nomination to one of the United States military academies for the class of 2013. The deadline for applying is November 15, 2008.