Pick your Senate delegation!

[Keystone Phil]

This topic seems simple enough - Pick two people from your state that you'd like to see serving you as your U.S. Senators.


***However, there are three conditions***

1) Your delegation must be split. If you are a member of one of the two major parties, you must have at least one member from your party and a member from the opposite party or an Independent/Third party member. If you are an Independent/Third party member, you must have at least one member that is an Independent/Third party member and a member from one of the two major parties.

2) Both members must be currently living.

3) No member in your specialized delegration could have already served in the U.S. Senate at any point in their career. They could have been there for a day, they could have been there for four decades...it doesn't matter.



Now I understand that many Republicans will pick conservative Dems and many Dems will pick liberal Republicans to fulfill their split delegration committment. That's fine since it's your choice. However, I encourage participants to avoid that. It's easy for me to find some conservative Dem State Representative out in central or western PA to put in the Senate but that's no fun for me. Some may still call my choice a DINO or whatever but just keep in mind that I'm not just picking someone based on their ideology. If that was the case, I'd go with someone who was actually conservative.


Here's my delegation:


Representing the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the U.S. Senate


Senator Michael Nutter (D)
Senator Patrick Toomey (R)

[Jaggerjack]

Let me see...
Antonio Villaraigosa (D) (LA Mayor)
Tom Campbell (R) (ex-San Jose congressman. Oh yeah, and he's a RINO.)

[Gabu]

We don't have province-wide elected senators, but if we did...

Keith Martin (Lib.)
Jean Crowder (NDP)

Or if I have to pick a Conservative, Chuck Strahl.

[© tweed]

Charles Rangel (D), Roger Calero (Socialist Workers)

[Josh/Devilman88]

Alan Keyes (R-NY)
Wiliam Lipinski (D-IL)

[Keystone Phil]

Alan Keyes (R-NY)
Wiliam Lipinski (D-IL)

I figured that people would know that they have to be people that are actually from your state to represent you (even though Keyes just moves to where ever he wants to and runs).

[Blerpiez]

Brian Lees (R-East Longmeadow), former State Senate Minority Leader
Salvatore DiMasi (D-Boston), Speaker of the General Court

[bullmoose88]

Senator Edward G. Rendell (D-Philadelphia)
Senator James Greenwood (R-Bucks County)

Honorable Mention: Charles Dent (R-Lehigh Valley), Tim Holden (D-Berks?)

[Verily]

Sen. Loretta Weinberg (D-Teaneck) OR Sen. Rush Holt, Jr. (D-Princeton?)
Sen. Diane Allen (R-Edgewater Park)

Prominent independent politicians are too few and far-between to include one.

[Hash]

Québec Senators:

Mario Dumont (ADQ)
Gilles Duceppe (BQ)

Département d'Ille et Vilaine (FR) Senators:

Pierre Méhaingerie (UMP)
Edmond Hervé (PS)

[Josh/Devilman88]

Alan Keyes (R-NY)
Wiliam Lipinski (D-IL)

I figured that people would know that they have to be people that are actually from your state to represent you (even though Keyes just moves to where ever he wants to and runs).

Well I'm changing the rules

OK people from my state:

Walter Beaman Jones(R- Farmville, NC)
Jim Hunt(D- Wilson, NC)

[Flying Dog]

The Delegation from the Great Lakes State of Michigan:

Jim Barcia (D-Bay City) Former Congressman and now State Senator
Terry Lynn Land  (R-Lansing) Secretary of State)

[Jaggerjack]

The Delegation from the Great Lakes State of Michigan:

Jim Barcia (D-Bay City) Former Congressman and now State Senator
Terry Lynn Land  (R-Lansing) Secretary of State)

What happened to him?

[Bacon King]

Shirley Franklin and.. uh... Sonny Perdue?

[Sensei]

Jeb Bush [R-FL]

If Lawton Chiles was alive he'd definitely be there, instead I pick Kendrick Meek, if only because he went to my High School.

[7,052,770]

Charles Rangel (D)

boooo!!!!!




Anyway, I'd pick:
Mike Moore (D)
and
Amy Tuck (R)


However, if Jon Hinson were still alive, I'd easily pick him for the R.

[Jake]

Joe Peters (R), Security Consultant & 2004 Auditor Nominee
&
Chris Doherty (D), Mayor of Scranton

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

Ah, I like this topic.  I've met both of my choices, and they both impressed the hell out of me.

MAJOR PARTY:  State Rep. Paul Loscocco (R-Holliston)
INDEPENDENT: Jill Stein (G-Lexington)

Sen. Loretta Weinberg (D-Teaneck) OR Sen. Rush Holt, Jr. (D-Princeton?)
Sen. Diane Allen (R-Edgewater Park)

Prominent independent politicians are too few and far-between to include one.

I love your choices.  I'd have picked the same two for New Jersey.

And, just for fun, my old home state of Pennsylvania, as well:
REPUBLICAN: Charlie Dent (R-Allentown)
DEMOCRAT: Ed Rendell (D-Philadelphia)

[Frodo]

State Senator Creigh Deeds (D -Bath) and Congressman Tom Davis (R -Fairfax)

[nini2287]

Democrat:  Fmr. Gov. Mark Warner
Republican:  umm...Rep. Tom Davis I guess.  VA's Republicans are pretty weak.

[they don't love you like i love you]

Senator Scott Dibble (DFL-Minneapolis)
Senator Jim Rhodes (R-St. Louis Park)

Dibble's an openly gay State Senator with a strong great liberal record, Rhodes was a RINO state Rep. from a seat that voted 63% for Kerry, although he also lost that year as well. I was happy he lost because there's no reason any Republican should hold that seat, but he's still the most tolerable Republican in the state.

[jokerman]

Marion Berry (D-AR)
ehhh, there are very few sane AR gopers these days.  Too bad Win Rockefeller isn't still alive, he'd easily earn my pick.

I'm at a loss....the AR GOP has gone to sh**t.  I can't even think of any of them that I like on basis of personality.

[they don't love you like i love you]

The Delegation from the Great Lakes State of Michigan:

Jim Barcia (D-Bay City) Former Congressman and now State Senator
Terry Lynn Land  (R-Lansing) Secretary of State)

What happened to him?

He got redistricted into a seat with another Democratic congressman, so rather than fight a primary battle he opted to step down from Congress and run for an open State Senate seat.

[The Dowager Mod]

Jim Doyle (D)
Scott Fitzgerald (R)

[Lief 🗽]

Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D)
State Rep. Jim Pitts (R)

Lloyd Doggett is self-explanatory, I think. State Rep. Jim Pitts ran against Texas House Speak Craddick in January, making him a major freedom-fighter in my book. I have no idea what his stances on other things are though.