Bonior chose not to run in the 2002 election when his district was eliminated due to the redistricting following the 2000 U.S. Census. He instead ran for Governor of Michigan, but was unsuccessful in the Democratic primary, losing to Jennifer Granholm.
Bonior's contribution from Baghdad was to charge that ``a horrendous, barbaric, horrific'' number of cases of childhood leukemia and lymphomas have been caused by ``uranium that has been part of our weapons system that was dropped here during the last war.'' These weapons ``are coated with uranium that atomize and cause these serious health problems.''
This familiar accusation, which struck Bonior as new, concerns the use of (BEG ITAL)depleted uranium as a heavy metal (also used in the armor plating of U.S. tanks) to increase the armor-penetrating ability of anti-tank munitions.
McDermott's and Bonior's espousal of Saddam's line, and of Gore's subtext (and Barbra Streisand's libretto), signals the recrudescence of the dogmatic distrust of U.S. power that virtually disqualified the Democratic Party from presidential politics for a generation.
DavidBonior believes that polar bears belong in their natural Arctic environment — not in traveling circuses where they are whipped, poorly fed and kept in hot conditions.
Congress, DavidBonior worked to stop a back-door appropriations rider that would have blocked the implementation of any new sea lion conservation measures, allowed for the fishing industry to implement their own regulations, and removed the Secretary of Commerce’s ability to modify or reject those regulations.
Congressman Bonior led the whip effort and spoke on the floor of the House in support of an amendment to the farm bill that would have restricted taxpayer subsidies for large factory farms.
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