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Monday, October 22, 2007 Flip-Flopping Is Very ContagiousFlip-Flopping: In a style reminiscent of John Kerry's back-and-forth vote on the Iraq War, U.S. Rep. Dan Boren, D-Okla., changed his vote on the controversial SCHIP bill last week. The House fell 13 votes short of overriding President Bush's veto of the $35 billion spending increase for health insurance for low-income children. Boren voted initially against the increase, but evidently changed his mind and voted to override the veto. Labels: Cong. Dan Boren, SCHIP Posted at 8:43 AM |Congratulations Congressman Boren!!! Washington - U.S. Rep. Dan Boren and his wife, Andrea Boren, announced the birth of their first child on Tuesday. Janna Lou Boren was born just before 11 a.m. at a Tulsa hospital. She weighed 6 pounds, 12 ounces.Read More Labels: Cong. Dan Boren Posted at 9:00 AM |Area tribes will receive $5.5 million in tribal grants WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Congressman Dan Boren announced Thursday the award of $5,546,943 in community development grants to seven tribes in eastern Oklahoma. The Indian Community Development Block Grants (ICDBG) are administered by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. The United Keetoowah Band of Cherokees and the Muscogee (Creek) Nation of Oklahoma each will receive $800,000. The funding will be used for the development of viable Native American communities, including decent housing, a suitable living environment and economic opportunities for low- and moderate-income families. Read MoreLabels: Cherokee Nation, Cong. Dan Boren, Muscogee Nation Posted at 7:37 AM |Locals Boo SCHIP Veto by Alice Collinsworth EDMOND — President Bush’s veto of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program has prompted a group of Oklahomans to plan a rally today in support of the program and call upon Oklahoma members of Congress to override the veto. A Rally in Support of SCHIP will be in downtown Oklahoma City at 5 p.m. Thursday in front of Rep. Mary Fallin’s Oklahoma City office, 101 N. Broadway. Fallin is one of the leaders who voted against this bill, which would ensure that up to 127,000 Oklahoma children who currently have no health insurance would have health coverage. Read More Labels: Cong. Dan Boren, Mary Fallin, SCHIP Posted at 1:40 PM |Boren Bill Would Mandate Colon Cancer ScreeningsWASHINGTON — Oklahoma Rep. Dan Boren, D-Muskogee, on Tuesday began promoting a bill that would mandate insurance pay for colon cancer screenings. Boren cited his family history as a reason for legislation expanding coverage to 28 states that do not require insurance companies to pay for the screenings. He was accompanied at a Capitol news conference by his sister Carrie Boren, missioner for evangelism at the Episcopal Diocese of Dallas. Read More Labels: Cong. Dan Boren Posted at 7:23 AM |OK Rep delays Cherokee cuts U.S. Rep. Dan Boren did the correct thing in convincing the House to hold off cutting Cherokee Nation funds until freedmen lawsuits are resolved. Earlier this month, the U.S. House voted to eliminate the federal funding to Cherokees that normally would be included in the housing assistance bill. But Boren pushed through an amendment allowing the funding to continue while federal courts hear the freedmen suits. The Cherokee housing funding amounts to about $30 million, 10 percent of the annual federal funding for the Cherokee Nation. Read More Labels: Cherokee Nation, Cong. Dan Boren Posted at 8:09 AM |Congressman Boren delivers bad news to Cherokee Nation, What Boren Can't Do For You The controversy over the Cherokee Nation's vote to exclude some descendants of slaves from tribal membership made it to the floor of the U.S. House on Thursday, and a last-minute compromise saved the tribe from potentially losing millions of dollars in housing aid.Rep. Dan Boren, D-Muskogee, brokered the deal with Rep. Melvin Watt, D-N.C., to allow the tribe to continue receiving federal housing assistance as long as the tribal court is deciding the validity of the vote to exclude Cherokee freedmen from the tribe. However, if the tribal court ultimately rules the vote in March was valid, the tribe could lose the assistance, which has averaged about $33 million a year, Boren said. Labels: Cherokee Nation, Cong. Dan Boren Posted at 9:11 AM |Humane Society: "Cong. Boren Supports Dog Fighting"Congressman Boren as an Honorary UPS DriverOf the 435 members of the House, there were 31 individuals (7 percent of House members) who voted against each of these measures. In short, they took the anti-animal position at every turn, defending dogfighting and cockfighting, the slaughter of wild horses for human consumption, and the needless killing of imperiled polar bears by trophy hunters.
Labels: Cong. Dan Boren Posted at 12:30 PM |In Oklahoma, a Patriotic Silence The Conservative Democrat Dan Boren The Washington Post has been following four members of Congress as they grapple with what to do about the Iraq war in the coming months. The focus during Congress's August recess is on what these lawmakers are hearing from voters in their home districts. Future installments will feature Rep. Jan Schakowksy (D-Ill.) and Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.). By Jonathan Weisman HUGO, Okla. R ep. Dan Boren (D-Okla.) was settling into his chair in the snug broadcast booth at K95.5 Country as the station's Jo Ann Matthews sing-songed her way through the subjects she wanted him to touch on. There was the bridge collapse in Minneapolis. Of course, talk about federal livestock assistance, she went on. Rep. Dan Boren (D-Okla.) meets with constituents in Hugo, Okla. At more than a dozen town hall meetings in the past two weeks, Boren has heard the subject of Iraq come up voluntarily only once. (By Jerry Ward For The Washington Post) "And I know the war is a big issue on everybody's mind, but," she said haltingly, her sweetly twanged voice tailing off to silence. Then, "I'm real impressed with the work you're doing on cancer," she finished. If lawmakers in most parts of the country are being accosted with questions about the September showdown on Iraq, here, in the sleepy southeastern corner of Oklahoma, the war is the subject that almost cannot be discussed. The McAlester Army Ammunition Plant in Boren's district supplies virtually all of the war's munitions. The hamlets and small towns, such as Antlers and Hugo, Miami and Nowata, have sent their sons and daughters to fight. About 3,200 Oklahomans are deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan; 18,428 have served since the wars began, from a state of 3 1/2 million. Most of the parents of those warriors split their tickets and voted for President Bush as they voted for Boren. Read more... Related: Sooner Thought: "DINO Dan Boren Takes the Heat for Supporting Bush" "Man Up, Grow A Pair And Stop Sniveling" Labels: Cong. Dan Boren Posted at 12:06 PM |The Conservative Democrat - Dan Boren Washington was buzzing over a heated meeting between President Bush and 11 moderate Republicans who told the president that their support for the war was slipping fast. That same day in May, Rep. Dan Boren and a group of fellow moderate-to-conservative Democrats made the trip to the White House to hear Bush out on Iraq. The tone, according to Boren, was quite different."Over the last six or seven years, he's really been knocked as someone who does not try to build bridges with Democrats, and I think over the last six months to a year, his office has really tried to reach out to members like me," Boren said. The congressman even has his own dedicated White House liaison officer, Marty McGuinness, whose phone line is always open. The White House knows that Boren is a man trapped between the conservative constituents of his eastern Oklahoma district and a Democratic Party pushing hard to seize control of the war in Iraq and bring it to a close. Read more... Labels: Cong. Dan Boren, Congress Posted at 11:52 AM |If You Lie With Dogs, You're Going to Get Fleas - The Democratic Gene Stipe Dilemma
From Bounded Rationality:
Thursday, March 15, 2007
It's not like the Republicans, at least on the national level, have clean hands on campaign fund shenanigans. But in Oklahoma, the Democrats have the corner on the notoriously corrupt market. Case in point: Gene Stipe. Apparently he likes to set up all his most powerful colleagues with illegal campaign contributions, in such a way that everyone can say they didn't know about the contributions. Pretty slick. The candidates can use the money during the campaign, and then just give it away to charity after the campaign. This is easy easy. Have the guy that's already in big trouble do all the dirty work. That way, the candidate can quickly distance themselves from the malfeasor. Somehow, if a candidate gives the illegal money to charity, and say they didn't know about the contributions, that absolves them of any responsibility. That's weak logic. Here is an opinion from the Techumseh Countywide News and Shawnee Sun Online News The Democrats who are getting dragged through at least a little mud as a result of the latest contribution talk are in order of descending rank: Gov. Brad Henry of Shawnee, U.S. Rep. Dan Boren who used to be from Seminole, Atty. Gen. Drew Edmondson of Muskogee and State Auditor and Inspector Jeff McMahan of Tecumseh. Three of the four, you may notice, are either hometown boys or the next thing to it. Read more... Labels: Brad Henry, Cong. Dan Boren, Drew Edmondson, Jeff McMahan Posted at 6:09 AM |Ex-lawmaker At Site As Grand Jury Meets
By SUSAN HYLTON
Friday, March 09, 2007
World Staff Writer MUSKOGEE -- Former state Rep. Mike Mass of Hartshorne was at the federal courthouse in Muskogee the same day a grand jury was in session Wednesday, but he said he was not there to testify. Mass, who is embroiled in an FBI investigation involving former longtime state Sen. Gene Stipe, visited the local office of the Oklahoma attorney general two days after he was subpoenaed to testify in a civil trial involving Stipe and Stipe's former business partner, Steve Phipps. The investigation concerns an alleged straw donor scheme in which people who contributed to several Democratic campaigns -- including that of U.S. Rep Dan Boren -- were reimbursed by companies controlled by Stipe and Phipps. Boren has claimed no knowledge of the scheme. Read more... Labels: Cong. Dan Boren, Gene Stipe, Jeff McMahan, Mike Mass, Steve Phipps Posted at 12:40 PM |FBI Says Stipe Illegally Funded Congressman Boren's 2004 Campaign We admit we're not big fans of today's reality shows. To us, they poignantly illustrate the void of creativity currently in the entertainment industry. But there is one show that has our attention every week. That show is the NBC Dateline series "To Catch a Predator".It has our interest, not because of the luridness of grown men having sexually charged online chats with underage girls and sometime underage boys. Or the sick perverts often driving several hours and hundreds of miles to the teenage decoy's home to engage in their disgusting fantasies. No. It is the fascination that with all the publicity the show has garnered over the months, there are still people who will risk everything; reputation, marriages, careers, and freedom to still attempt to break the law. There once was an episode of a pervert being busted twice in the same show! Our fascination is similar to the almost magnetic attraction human beings have with watching fist fights or traffic accidents. This brings us to former state Senator Gene Stipe The FBI says Stipe continued to illegally fund political campaigns EVEN AFTER HE WAS CONVICTED OF DOING THE SAME THING! The Oklahoman reports today that an unsealed affidavit says Stipe gave over $34,000 dollars to Congressman Dan Boren's 2004 primary campaign by reimbursing friends and associates for their contributions. Boren says he wasn't aware of the scheme. The March 2004 contributions were made two months after Stipe was sentenced to house arrest and fined more than $735,000 dollars for a similar scheme in a 1998 congressional campaign. Labels: Cong. Dan Boren, Gene Stipe, Jeff McMahan, Steve Phipps Posted at 11:00 AM |Boren Proud of Being at the "Ideological Center" March 6, 2007 Boren Bulletin Boren Recognized As One Of Most Centrist House Members - National Journal, a national publication covering politics and policy in Washington, D.C. on Friday released an analysis of last year's recorded votes. With a liberal score of 49 percent and a conservative score of 51 percent, I join three other Democrats and three Republicans at the ideological center of the House of Representatives.... Labels: Cong. Dan Boren, Congress Posted at 9:12 AM | |
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