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Raising Hell for Justice: The Washington Battles of a Heartland Progressive
By: David R. ObeyImprint: University of Wisconsin Press
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David Obey has in his nearly forty years in the U.S. House of Representatives worked to bring economic and social justice to America¿s working families. In 2007 he assumed the chair of the Appropriations Committee and is positioned to pursue his priority concerns for affordable health care, education, environmental protection, and a foreign policy consistent with American democratic ideals. Here, in his autobiography, Obey looks back on his journey in politics beginning with his early years in the Wisconsin Legislature, when Wisconsin moved through eras of shifting balance between Republicans and Democrats. On a national level Obey traces, as few others have done, the dramatic changes in the workings of the U.S. Congress since his first election to the House in 1969. He discusses his own central role in the evolution of Congress and ethics reforms and his view of the recent Bush presidency—crucial chapters in our democracy, of interest to all who observe politics and modern U.S. history.
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| Title of eBook: Raising Hell for Justice: The Washington Battles of a Heartland Progressive | |
| Release Date: 09-24-2007 | |
| Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press |
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Raising Hell for Justice: The Washington Battles of a Heartland Progressive
Chapter One
Roots
My father was the only person in America to move to Oklahoma during the Great Depression to get a job. That's why I was born in Okmulgee, Oklahoma, on October 3, 1938. But my family's roots have been in the Wisconsin River Valley for more than a century. My father, Orville John Obey, was born on November 2, 1915, to a French-Irish railroad worker, John, and a Scotch-English mother, Perle (Kimball). John Obey's father had emigrated from Ireland to Canada, from there to Tripoli, Wisconsin, and then to Tomahawk, Wisconsin. As a young man in search of opportunity, John moved to eastern Marathon County.
Perle Kimball's family brought her to Wild Rose, Wisconsin, from the White Mountains of New England. She was a tall, imposing, strong woman, and she needed to be. By the time my dad was five and his younger brother David was four, she was a single mother. John had pulled up stakes and left her high and dry to support two rambunctious boys on her own. He moved to Chicago after a divorce and later remarried.
My grandmother supported her two boys by working at the Pied Piper shoe factory on Wausau's west side-now long gone as are so many other companies of that era. After her divorce, she began to date Chuck Kuchera, a broad-shouldered Bohemian farmer turned auto mechanic and auto parts salesman. When she and Chuck began to talk marriage she became so fearful about how his family would feel about his marrying an older woman-she was five years older-that she decided to lie about her age. But her conscience fought her every step of the way, and in the end, she finally shaved only one yea
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