Conghaileach
6th February 2003, 19:53
The Independent
Barbara Lee: Public enemy number one?
The key resolution enabling President Bush to launch his war on terror was opposed in Congress by only one person. Fergal Keane meets Barbara Lee, the woman whose political stand has enraged a nation
04 February 2003
A quietly spoken, grandmotherly figure in her fifties, the Congress-woman from Oakland was nobody's picture of a revolutionary. Barbara Lee was best known as a woman who worked hard on House subcommittees looking out for the interests of a largely blue-collar constituency back in California's 9th Congressional district. She was active in African-American issues, but not in a high-profile Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton kind of way; no stunts or grand gestures.
Congresswoman Lee was one of the quieter campaigners of American politics. As a member of the House subcommittee on Aids, she was an energetic champion of Africa's infected millions. She'd sponsored an education bill aimed at making young kids from the ghettos into better prospective parents. But a defiant figure? A woman to stand alone against the biggest Congressional majority in modern history? Few on Capitol Hill would have bet on it.
Full Story (http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=375453)
(Edited by CiaranB at 7:54 pm on Feb. 6, 2003)
Barbara Lee: Public enemy number one?
The key resolution enabling President Bush to launch his war on terror was opposed in Congress by only one person. Fergal Keane meets Barbara Lee, the woman whose political stand has enraged a nation
04 February 2003
A quietly spoken, grandmotherly figure in her fifties, the Congress-woman from Oakland was nobody's picture of a revolutionary. Barbara Lee was best known as a woman who worked hard on House subcommittees looking out for the interests of a largely blue-collar constituency back in California's 9th Congressional district. She was active in African-American issues, but not in a high-profile Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton kind of way; no stunts or grand gestures.
Congresswoman Lee was one of the quieter campaigners of American politics. As a member of the House subcommittee on Aids, she was an energetic champion of Africa's infected millions. She'd sponsored an education bill aimed at making young kids from the ghettos into better prospective parents. But a defiant figure? A woman to stand alone against the biggest Congressional majority in modern history? Few on Capitol Hill would have bet on it.
Full Story (http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=375453)
(Edited by CiaranB at 7:54 pm on Feb. 6, 2003)