What’s Andre Carson’s office response to CAIR?

Awhile back, I had some brief discussion here with a poster around Carson’s association with the Council on American-Islamic Relations.  After the exchange, I was curious how the Carson office would respond to the general question of CAIR and Carson.  Would they re-direct the association?  Would the deny it?  Would they even respond?  So, I [...]

Andre Carson attends White House Iftaar dinner with Bush

Andre Carson joined president Bush on the 17th in wishing Muslims around the world, “Ramadan Mubarak.”  The White House held it’s annual dinner celebrating the month of Ramadan, a tradition started by the Bush White House.  Carson was in attendance and received a nod from the President in his introductions.
A few words from the President’s [...]

Andre Carson at the DNC – “I’m a product of the [Indianapolis] village”

Via Wilson46201 at Blueindiana.net, we get a great interview from Rep. Carson at the Democratic National Convention:

Rep. Carson pays respect to Indiana’s 7th Congressional district and his grandmother with his statements around being raised by the Indianapolis village.  The village here in Indianapolis, despite its serious problems (IMPD, dirty air, dirty water, etc.), is a diverse landscape [...]

Andre Carson lends a hand to a battered IMPD

From andrecarsonforcongress.com(and curiously not his official House web site), Carson has secured a half million dollars to to fund technology upgrades for the Indianapolis Metro Police Department.  These laptops in patrol cars and a corresponding broad band network will “allow police officers to spend more time out on patrol keeping the streets safe and less time [...]

Islamophobia and Andre Carson

I received this post (actually two submissions of the post) in my spam queue when I blogged on Andre using twitter to keep us in the loop.  For those of you who don’t know, Andre Carson is the second muslim elected to the House (Go Hoosier progressives!).  It’s not surprising that there’s a large fear movement on Islam’s alleged takeover of the U.S.
There’s [...]

Twitter, a major variable in the open government equation

I want to know what Andre Carson is up to.  I want him to start blogging frequently.  He’ll look cool and hip.  Plus, we’d get to know what the freshman representative is up to. His official House blog kind of sucks.  It’s last update was mid-June!  That’s not good enough Andre!  We helped get you elected into [...]