Darcy Visits 33rd Legislative District Democrats

Written by: Tegan R on Jun 2, 2008 10:47 AM EDT

Linked to campaigns: Darcy Burner for Washington

Darcy spoke to a packed room at the 33^rd Legislative District meeting in Normandy Park on Monday, May 19th, 2008.  The crowd was enthusiastic and well informed about the race. At times they even shouted out additional talking points: "Tell them how ineffective Dave Reichert is as a legislator."  Clearly, many of the attendees in the audience were aware that that Congressman Reichert is ranked 401^st out of 439 members of Congress in effectiveness, dead last in the Washington State delegation and below the non-voting members of Guam and America Samoa.

The audience also raised their hands unanimously to agree with the point that Reichert is most certainly not a moderate -- despite his claims to the contrary. They knew that on the important issues -- the economy, the war in Iraq, to name two -- he marches in lockstep with President Bush, who has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for his reelection. The crowd sighed audibly when Darcy told them that Congressman Reichert had said at a public debate that he believes pharmacists should be allowed to substitute their personal moral judgments for sound medical practice by refusing to fill legal birth control prescriptions for women. 

Darcy assured the crowd that her decisions  when in congress will be based on 5 basic principles and that these principles draw a clear distinction between what she will do and what Congressman Reichert has done while in Congress.

Darcy's  five principles are:

1. Government should treat everyone fairly.
2. Hard Work should be rewarded.
3. Government should stay out of people's private lives.
4. We should keep our promises.
5. We Should leave our children a better world than the one we found. 

She brought up Reichert's most recent vote against the new GI bill. Darcy explained that this bill, which passed in Congress last week and is fully paid for by a modest one half percent tax increase on those who make more than $500,000 a year, will give our veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan the ability to receive a college education just like veterans from World War II. Reichert apparently believes that giving back even a tiny fraction of the huge tax breaks Bush has doled out to the top one percent to give our returning veterans the respect they deserve is wrong. Darcy shared her concern that Reichert's vote was not good for the district and did not uphold one of her basic principles of keeping our promises .She said we have a special obligation to keep the promises that we have made to the men and women who serve and have served our country proudly.

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