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  Marcy Kaptur - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kaptur was born in Toledo, Ohio and graduated from St. Ursula Academy in Toledo in 1964.
Kaptur served on the Toledo-Lucas County Plan Commissions from 1969 to 1975 and was director of planning for the National Center for Urban Ethnic Affairs from 1975 to 1977.
Kaptur was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1982 and began serving in 1983 (98th Congress).
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 MARCY KAPTUR   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur, born in Toledo, Ohio in 1946, represents the Ninth Congressional District in Northwest Ohio, is currently serving her ninth term in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Marcy Kaptur is a life-long resident of Toledo, Ohio, a member of Little Flower Roman Catholic Church, and a graduate of St. Ursula Academy.
In 1993, Representative Kaptur was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree by the University of Toledo in recognition of her "effective representation of the community," of the University and of Northwest Ohio.
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Marcy Kaptur is a Democratic Member of Congress who represents the Ninth District of Ohio, which includes Toledo and stretches from the shore of Lake Erie eastward to southern Lorain County southwest of Cleveland.
Kaptur is a member of the radical Progressive Caucus in the House of Representatives.
Kaptur is one of the most senior members of the powerful House Appropriations Committee and, as the longest-serving Democrat female in Congress, she is ranking member of its Agriculture, Rural Development, and FDA subcommittee.
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 Marcy Kaptur   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Kaptur was born in Toledo, EHandler: no quick summary.
Kaptur spearheaded the project and the memorial opened in 2004.
Kaptur represented Ohio as a delegate to the 2000 Democratic National Convention 2000 Democratic National Convention quick summary:
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/M/Ma/Marcy_Kaptur.htm   (810 words)

  
 Osama a Deist? Ethan Allen a Terrorist? Meet Marcy Kaptur   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Kaptur in 2004, called on her to resign in Friday’s paper.
Kaptur is 15, with a rating of 30 in 2001.
Kaptur’s acknowledged mentor, and who many credit for the Democrats dismal showing in the 2002 elections; and Ohio’s other political joke, Dennis Kucinich, who led Cleveland into default as mayor in 1977 and just flip flopped on abortion in his quixotic bid for the Presidency.
www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/Printable.asp?ID=6560   (1505 words)

  
 USATODAY.com
Kaptur had been an urban planner for 15 years, including a stint in the Carter White House as assistant director for urban affairs, when she won her U.S. House seat.
Kaptur later apologized and said her words were twisted by her detractors.
Kaptur serves on the House Appropriations Committee, where she is the ranking Democrat on the Agriculture andamp; Rural Development Subcommittee.
www.usatoday.com /news/politicselections/CandidateProfile.aspx?ci=405&oi=H   (570 words)

  
 CNN.com - Kaptur, Ohio congresswoman, enters Democratic leadership race - Nov. 14, 2002
Marcy Kaptur, an Ohio Democrat, entered the race Wednesday for House minority leader -- one day before her colleagues are to vote on whom they want to lead them in next year's Congress.
Kaptur, 56, joins California Rep. Nancy Pelosi, 62, who says she has the race wrapped up, and Rep. Harold Ford Jr., 32, of Tennessee, who says he represents the kind of change needed in the Democratic Party -- especially after the midterm elections in which Democrats lost House seats.
Kaptur, the most senior Democratic woman in the House of Representatives, said she would urge her colleagues to postpone the vote on leadership positions scheduled for Thursday.
archives.cnn.com /2002/ALLPOLITICS/11/13/democrats.leadership   (368 words)

  
 WorldNetDaily: Congresswoman compares Osama to U.S. founders
Kaptur said her political and moral views were influenced by her family's tradition of Roman Catholicism and service in the U.S. Marine Corps and Army infantry.
Kaptur said she does not believe the standards of the "Just War Doctrine," developed by Saint Augustine in the fourth century, apply to the U.S.-Iraq showdown.
Kaptur's pronouncements about bin Laden are reminiscent of Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., lauding the terror leader's nation-building tactics in December.
www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=31381   (634 words)

  
 spotlite
Rep. Kaptur was first elected to the House in 1982, and is serving her eighth term.
Kaptur is one of only 61 women among the 535 members of the 105th Congress.
Later, Kaptur was appointed as an urban policy advisor in the Carter administration.
www.rurdev.usda.gov /rbs/pub/sept98/spotlite.htm   (440 words)

  
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In 1990, Congresswoman Kaptur was elected by her colleagues to serve on the prestigious House Appropriations Committee.
Congresswoman Kaptur was a member of the Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs Committee where she was a strong advocate on behalf of our nation's financial independence and against America's growing dependence on borrowing from foreign creditors.
Congresswoman Kaptur also served as Honorary Chair of the anti-drug abuse campaign in Lucas County, C.A.R.E.S. In early 1989, Congresswoman Kaptur participated in the formation of a new local beighborhood improvement corporation, an effort she had encouraged for several years with the cooperation of the business community and neighborhood organizations.
www.mith2.umd.edu /WomensStudies/GovernmentPolitics/WomeninCongress/Biographies/House/kaptur-marcy   (1130 words)

  
 Marcy Kaptur
Kaptur, 55, a native of Toledo, is one of only 61 women out of 535 members of the 107th Congress, the senior-most Democratic woman in Congress and the senior Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee.
Kaptur received a Bachelor of Arts degree in history from the University of Wisconsin and a Master's degree in urban planning from the University of Michigan.
Kaptur's new district includes much of southern and western Lorain County and such localities as Oberlin, Amherst, Wellington and LaGrange as well as most of Lucas County, and all of Ottawa and Erie counties.
www.oberlin.edu /newserv/02apr/kaptur.html   (412 words)

  
 Marcy Kaptur Article Archives by KeepMedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur visited Bittersweet Farms Tuesday, a treatment facility for individuals with autism, to announce a $1.3 housing award for the construction of twelve new residential units on the...
Marcy Kaptur "said she may run for governor in 2006, the AP reports.
Toledo Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur says there is a need for an audit to determine if the $132-million set aside for Ohio elections was spent properly, given the situation in Lucas County, which failed to report...
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 In These Times * Saving the Democrats from Themselves
Kaptur, who won her first campaign for Congress in 1982 after being outspent 2-to-1 by a Republican incumbent, actually raises money with bake sales and fish fries in Toledo and surrounding towns.
Kaptur thinks that members of Congress and their constituents ought to be saying a lot of the same things—not just about issues of war and peace, but also about what opposition to the Bush administration and conservative Republican policies should look like.
Kaptur will not be in a leadership position in the House, but she will continue to be heard.
www.inthesetimes.com /issue/27/03/feature1.shtml   (1949 words)

  
 Marcy Kaptur addresses defense issues at Kendal
Kaptur promised to be a “constant, nagging voice” for a transition to energy independence.
Kaptur answered that she would not vote against a funding bill while American troops were in combat.
The most contentious part of the afternoon’s discussion was when Kaptur was asked about her position on “global reproductive freedom.” Kaptur said “I do not support federal funding of abortion...the priority has to be life.” Her answer elicited murmurs from the audience.
www.oberlin.edu /stupub/ocreview/2005/3/4/news/article7.html   (569 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Marcy Kaptur was born in 1946 in Toledo, Ohio, and still lives there.
Marcy Kaptur was elected to the U.S. House in 1982, with 58 percent of the vote, ousting incumbent Republican Rep. Ed Weber.
Kaptur was re-elected in 1998, defeating Republican Edward Emery with 81 percent of the vote.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/elections/2004/candidates/22380   (293 words)

  
 Toledo Talk Archives
Marcy Kaptur and her March 1st remarks (politics) by jr at Wed Mar 19, 2003 (6 comments)
Kaptur not backing down from her comments (politics) by jr at Sun Mar 09, 2003 (1 comment)
Marcy Kaptur claims our Founding Fathers were terrorists (other) by jr at Wed Mar 05, 2003 (3 comments)
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 Crosswalk.com - About Congresswoman Kaptur
Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur, who represents the Toledo area's Ninth Congressional District in Northwest Ohio, is currently serving her eleventh term in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Demonstrating international leadership through diplomatic contributions to the Middle East Peace process, Rep. Kaptur is responsible for directing the first surplus farm commodities in 1999 to support the peace process in the Middle East in Lebanon, Israel and the Palestinian Authority.
Kaptur is the key sponsor of regulatory changes that force accountability on Russian food aid relief, helping to insure one billion dollars of United States resources go to people in need, not into the fl market or pockets of government bureaucrats.
www.crosswalk.com /news/1189081.html   (834 words)

  
 BGSU TO PRESENT HONORARY DEGREE TO CONGRESSWOMAN MARCY KAPTUR   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
One of only 67 women in the 535-member 106th Congress, she is the senior Democratic woman in the U.S. House of Representatives and the senior Democratic woman on the House Appropriations Committee.
Kaptur practiced city and regional planning for 15 years in Toledo and Lucas County before seeking office and being appointed an urban adviser to the White House during the Jimmy Carter administration.
Kaptur completed her undergraduate work in history at the University of Wisconsin.
www.bgsu.edu /offices/pr/news/2000/April00/04-28/honorary_kapter.html   (237 words)

  
 Marcy Kaptur News
Marcy Kaptur News continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.
U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur continued to beat the drum yesterday for alternative energy sources at the Toledo Rotary Club luncheon at the Zenobia Shrine Hall.
Thursday, Toledo Mayor Carty Finkbeiner and Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur announced plans for a $17 million bio-diesel fuel plant in East...
www.topix.net /us-house/marcy-kaptur   (621 words)

  
 The Black Swamp Reader : The Agora
And here is the article about Marcy's address at a workshop for Catholics on the war, and her defense of her statements.
Miss Kaptur, a lifelong member of Toledo?s Little Flower Catholic Parish, said her political and moral views were influenced by her family?s tradition of Roman Catholicism and service in the U.S. Marine Corps and Army infantry.
2:22:56 PM Last week, Rep. Marcy Kaptur (my Congresswoman) was falsely accused by Rush Limbaugh and The Washington Times of equating the Founding Fathers with Osama bin Ladin (even Paul Begala, in one of his stupider moments attacked her on Crossfire) Anyone in her district knows that any such accusation is ludicrous.
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 cantonrep.com
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur is an institution in Toledo — as much a part of the city’s fabric as bowling and chili dogs.
Kaptur, a Democrat, created a stir when she told The Blade that “one could say that Osama bin Laden and these non-nation-state fighters with religious purpose are very similar to those kind of atypical revolutionaries that helped to cast off the British crown.”
Kaptur has remained popular among union members, in part, because of her ardent opposition of the North American Free Trade Agreement, which she says has siphoned thousands of jobs from Toledo to Mexico.
www.cantonrep.com /index.php?Category=13&ID=90509&r=1   (745 words)

  
 Toledo City Paper - 9.30.04   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Marcy Kaptur has long championed alternative fuels to break American dependence on oil and protect the environment.
Kaptur’s gotten 1.5 million federal dollars earmarked for a biodiesel pilot program involving Toledo Area Regional Transit Authority, Toledo Public Schools and the University of Toledo.
Marcy Kaptur: Our addiction to imported petroleum is our chief vulnerability from a defense standpoint and an economic standpoint.
www.toledocitypaper.com /news/kapturqa.html   (832 words)

  
 Welcome to Pakistan Link
Democratic Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur represents the 9th District in US Congress that includes the city of Toledo in northwest Ohio.
She was referring to the Revolutionary Green Mountain Boys, a vigilante band of zealots under the command of Ethan Allan who used intimidation and violence to prevent Vermont from becoming a part of New York.
Marcy Kaptur’s remarks have been used to stoke the fires of bigotry and intolerance that have become part of the neo-conservative agenda in this country.
www.pakistanlink.com /sah/03282003.html   (1041 words)

  
 Marcy Kaptur - dKosopedia
Kaptur had considered a run for the Ohio governorship after being encouraged by union leaders.
However, in January 2006, Kaptur decided against entering the Ohio gubernatorial race.
Kaptur considers run for Ohio governor By Jim Tankersley (Toledo Blade, Dec 15, 2005)
www.dkosopedia.com /wiki/Marcy_Kaptur   (74 words)

  
 Democratic Underground Forums - What did Marcy Kaptur say that was so awful?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Marcy Kaptur comparing the terrorists to the Founding Fathers.
Among the nontraditional American revolutionaries were the Green Mountain Boys, a patriot militia organized in 1770 in Bennington, Vt., to confront British forces, she said.
Marcy may utter tripe in the same way as Weiner Savage and Coulter.
www.democraticunderground.com /duforum/DCForumID66/1659.html   (593 words)

  
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Congressman Marcy Kaptur underscores her point during an address at All Saints Church in Rossford.
U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur said yesterday that not only does she not regret comparing Osama bin Laden to American Revolutionary War figures, she's happy for a greater platform to criticize the Bush administration's handling of the brewing conflict with Iraq.
Miss Kaptur said she's being attacked because she has been an outspoken critic of the way President Bush has handled the potential war on Iraq and calls this period the "most profound moment" historically in her lifetime.
www.toledoblade.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030308&Category=NEWS08&ArtNo=103080200&SectionCat=&Template=printpicart   (652 words)

  
 Toledo Talk Topic "MARCY KAPTUR FOR GOVERNOR???" id 1702
Marcy is LOVED as she FIGHTS against NAFTA -AND- CAFTA...her parents both "BLUE COLLAR" Auto Workers.
Whether Marcy is serious about running state-wide or not, the publicity of even having her talked about is good for her.
Miss Kaptur, a Toledo Democrat, told The Blade yesterday that she will pull the papers necessary to run for a 13th term sometime today, ending her latest exploration of a statewide run.
www.toledotalk.com /cgi-bin/comments.pl/16/1702   (2073 words)

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