88 Dems, including DWS, voted with 244 Republicans to allow racial discrimination in auto sales.

[HooptieWagon]

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/democrats-car-dealers-racism_us_564e440ae4b0258edb30ba10

The gist of the story...auto dealers had been tacking on extra interest to car financing to boost profits. Govt found minorities were getting higher interest rates, even with same credit ratings. Govt tried to shut the practice down, Congress passed a bill permitting it to continue. Minorities, the Third Way Democrats are not your friends. And this is a good example of racial justice being intertwined with economic justice.

[lob1]

1. This is disgusting. How can this racist bill even exist?

And why is the head of the Democratic party jointing republicans to pass this racist bill? We have to get her out of office. She represents nothing I believe in.

[HooptieWagon]

2. It exists because they represent monied interests, not us.

[lob1]

6. I know, I'm just shocked at how blatant they've gotten.

This can't be helping the Clinton campaign.

[jtuck004]

9. ",,,they've gotten." < "...we've gotten."

"So that happened. This week, the House of Representatives voted to help banks and car dealerships discriminate against customers of color. And it wasn't just Republicans -- 88 Democrats, including Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) -- voted in favor of the legislation."

From the article.

[Warren DeMontague]

3. DWS also has voted repeatedly to send sick people to prison for using medical marijuana.

Very little she does could surprise me.

[HooptieWagon]

5. She gets a lot of money from the liquor industry.

Possibly the private prison industry too.

[hfojvt]

4. hmmm including Grayson and Duckworth

Congress has not passed it though, only the House.

[cui bono]

7. My guy voted for it too. But my old guy, didn't. Both Dems.

I'm going to have to listen to that podcast they have up at the link tomorrow.



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[uponit7771]

15. Right, if they both voted yes I'm thinking there's some nuance to look into but on its face

... it looks like a bad bill

[malaise]

8. It is merely institutional racism

Same old same old

[steve2470]

10. very disappointing that Grayson and DWS voted for that nt

[djean111]

11. Interesting and appalling - Grayson and Patrick Murphy and Debbie DINO and Gwen Graham

all voted for it. I expected that from Patrick Murphy and Gwen Graham and Debbie DINO - all Florida DINOs and members of the Third Way-advised new Democrat Coalition. Did not expect it from Grayson - but that does not make Patrick Murphy smell any better in the upcoming primary for Rubio's seat.

[MerryBlooms]

12. Shameful. n/t

[monicaangela]

13. I have to say I am not only surprised by some of the names on this list...

I'm actually shocked by a few of them. However, here is the list:

The 88 House Democrats who voted to enable racial discrimination in the automobile market:
Pete Aguilar (Calif.) Debbie Wasserman Schultz (Fla.) Brad Ashford (Neb.) Joyce Beatty (Ohio)
Amerish Babulal "Ami" Bera (Calif.) Don Beyer (Va.) Sanford Dixon Bishop Jr. (Ga.) Brendan Boyle (Pa.)
Robert Brady (Pa.) Julia Brownley (Calif.) Cheryl "Cheri" Bustos (Ill.) Matt Cartwright (Pa.) James "Jim" Clyburn (S.C.) Gerald "Gerry" Connolly (Va.) Jim Cooper (Tenn.) James "Jim" Costa (Calif.) Joseph "Joe" Courtney (Conn.) Joseph Crowley (N.Y.) Henry Cuellar (Texas) John K. Delaney (Md.) Suzan DelBene (Wash.) Debbie Dingell (Mich.) Mike Doyle (Pa.) Tammy Duckworth (Ill.) Elizabeth Esty (Conn.) Bill Foster (Ill.) Tulsi Gabbard (Hawaii) Ruben Gallego (Ariz.) Gwen Graham (Fla.) Alan Grayson (Fla.) Eugene "Gene" Green (Texas) Janice Hahn (Calif.) Alcee L. Hastings (Fla.) Dennis "Denny" Heck (Wash.) Brian Higgins (N.Y.) Rubén Hinojosa (Texas) Jared Huffman (Calif.) Steve Israel (N.Y.) Marcy Kaptur (Ohio) William "Bill" Keating (Mass.) Dan Kildee (Mich.) Derek Kilmer (Wash.) Ron Kind (Wis.) Ann Kirkpatrick (Ariz.) Ann Kuster (N.H.) Rick Larsen (Wash.) Brenda Lawrence (Mich.) Ted Lieu (Calif.) Dan Lipinski (Ill.) Dave Loebsack (Iowa) Michelle Lujan Grisham (N.M.) Ben Ray Lujan (N.M.) Jim McDermott (Wash.) Grace Meng (N.Y.) Patrick Murphy (Fla.) Rick Nolan (Minn.) Donald Norcross (N.J.) Beto O'Rourke (Texas) Bill Pascrell (N.J.) Ed Perlmutter (Colo.) Scott Peters (Calif.) Collin Peterson (Minn.) Mike Quigley (Ill.) Kathleen Rice (N.Y.) Raul Ruiz (Calif.) Tim Ryan (Ohio) Loretta Sanchez (Calif.) Adam Schiff (Calif.) Kurt Schrader (Ore.) David Scott (Ga.) Terri Sewell (Ala.) Brad Sherman (Calif.) Kyrsten Sinema (Ariz.) Albio Sires (N.J.) Louise Slaughter (N.Y.) Adam Smith (Wash.) Jackie Speier (Calif.) Eric Swalwell (Calif.) Mike Thompson (Calif.) Dina Titus (Nev.) Paul Tonko (N.Y.) Norma Torres (Calif.) Nikki Tsongas (Mass.) Juan Vargas (Calif.) Marc Veasey (Texas) Filemon Vela (Texas) Tim Walz (Minn.) Peter Welch (Vt.).

Somehow I wonder if this wasn't included in some other bill. Does anyone know what number this Bill is? Is it on line yet so that we can read it as it moves through congress?

[hobbit709]

14. I'm glad to say my Congressman Lloyd Doggett was not on that list

[LiberalElite]

16. Mine voted for it - Crowley nt

[Deuce]

17. H.R.1737 - Reforming CFPB Indirect Auto Financing Guidance Act

https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/1737/text

[Igel]

19. And one step further into the underbrush ... What the brief bill actually affects:

http://files.consumerfinance.gov/f/201303_cfpb_march_-Auto-Finance-Bulletin.pdf

Annulling this is what the Huffington piece has to be about.

Much of this is aspirational. More than a bit is vague. Implementing aspirational, vague requirements can be a nightmare, esp. when you have to implement them without knowing whether or not you're actually stopping anything and when you're all but told you'll be legally liable unless you prevent somebody else who may or may not be doing something illegal from doing that possibly illegal thing. Intent matters, to be sure, but sometimes it's not enough.

It's written by somebody with a purely metaphorical axe to grind who's never actually learned how to chop wood but, having read that quarter-cut wood is best and a claim about the angle the blade should set at requires that all wood be cross-cut with axes set at that certain angle, and that wood-sellers should insist on wood choppers' compliance with his decree.

[LiberalEsto]

18. John K. Delaney (DINO - MD). Why am I not surprised?

Ever since Maryland's last, infamous redistricting and subsequent elections, we've been stuck with Delaney. He is a Republican through and through.
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