Mark Pryor Targeted by Progressives For Removal From Senate in 2008

In the wake of his vote for the FISA Amendments Act, Senator Mark Pryor has been targeted by progressives for removal from the United States Senate in 2008.

The FISA Amendments Act allows George W. Bush to conduct electronic spying operations against the American people with no restraint. Here’s what the law does:

makes it legal for the federal government to spy on you electronically – Reading your email, listening to your telephone calls, watching what web pages you visit, including tracking you on Gather, following your financial transactions

without any explanation of why they’re doing the spying

without anyone outside of the Executive Branch knowing that the spying is being done

without oversight by Congress

gives telecommunications companies retroactive immunity for helping the government do this even before the Protect America Act was passed

The truth is that Mark Pryor’s problems go way, way back. The Progressive Patriots legislative scorecard for Mark Pryor gives him a score of just 6 out of 100.

Senator Pryor was placed into the United States Senate by his daddy, who was also Senator Pryor in his time. They treated it like a family inheritance instead of a democratically-elected position. So, Mark Pryor does not feel beholden to Democratic voters in Arkansas so much as he feels beholden to his father’s buddies and political allies. Those political insider friends of Mark Pryor have made sure that there is no Democratic Party primary challenger for Pryor in the 2008 Senate election. As always, Mark Pryor gets the skids greased for him all the way.

Rank and file Arkansas Democrats have had it with Mark Pryor’s two-faced politics. In 2008 in Arkansas, ordinary Democrats are against Mark Pryor, and many are defecting to the Green Party campaign of Rebekah Kennedy.