Rep. Bobby Rush spoke about the future during  speech at the MMTC conference last week.  He recently lost to Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.) in the race for telecom ranking member, he was elected to lead Energy and Power instead. Some of his speech touched on the campaign launched by the group Color of Change against him during his bid for the post on the telecom committee. According to an article on the hill.com he thanked [...]

I had several initial reactions to your piece but I knew that others would have knee-jerk, emotional reactions as people often do, and that type of reaction normally fuels these policy debates, but we never really get to real facts. Your article really only brings two feelings for me, and those are confusion and concern. First, I’m confused about what your goals are here. I’ve watched you write articles, give speeches and have even sat [...]

I recently wrote a post on Politic365 about Color of Change’s attacks on Bobby Rush. You can read about it here. http://politic365.com/2010/11/19/color-of-change-challenges-rushs-bid-for-ranking-member/