Senate Approves CAFTA

OK, so we're done with the preliminaries. The Full Senate has approved CAFTA. Now the real fight begins. In the House.

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I noticed that one of the Democrats who caved in to big business crossed the aisle was California's own Dianne Feinstein. I wrote her a letter:

Dear Senator Feinstein,

I would like to know your justifications for voting in favor of the Central American Free Trade Act (CAFTA).

As a Californian, I am proud of our state's legacy of environmental and labor protections. CAFTA, like NAFTA before it, at best gives lip service to those concerns. In addition, the investor rules of CAFTA represent a serious barrier to our ability to continue to protect our environment and our people.

Although I have supported you in the past, and have distributed literature advocating your election, I will be hard-pressed to do so in your upcoming re-election campaign.

Please help me understand your position.

If I had had more coffee before I wrote this I would have mentioned the report critical of CAFTA's labor protections that the Bush Administration tried to suppress.