Comments on: Situating the voices in Whitney’s “The Mormons” http://bycommonconsent.com/2007/05/01/situating-the-voices-in-whitneys-the-mormons/ A Mormon Blog Tue, 14 Feb 2012 20:31:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: chas http://bycommonconsent.com/2007/05/01/situating-the-voices-in-whitneys-the-mormons/#comment-84364 Thu, 03 May 2007 19:56:44 +0000 http://www.bycommonconsent.com/2007/05/situating-the-voices-in-whitneys-the-mormons/#comment-84364 “Katrina is currently in her second bid for a congressional seat in New Hamshire.”

I so not think that quote is quite correct. She has run in the past (and I think should have won), but was not in the contest for 2006.
She is considering running for Senate in 2008.

]]> By: dmm http://bycommonconsent.com/2007/05/01/situating-the-voices-in-whitneys-the-mormons/#comment-84363 Wed, 02 May 2007 21:19:56 +0000 http://www.bycommonconsent.com/2007/05/situating-the-voices-in-whitneys-the-mormons/#comment-84363 I found this post on another thread about the program:

“I was interested in the story of the home schooling Tilleimann-Dick family (Kimber was the bubbly newlywed, Charity the opera singer suffering from pulmonary hypertension). So I did a Google search, and they are a very interesting family. First of all, the kids have all taken their mother’s hyphinated name (their father is named Timber Dick).

Also, their maternal grandfather is Tom Lantos, a California Democrat who has held a seat in Congress since 1980. Lantos is a secular Jew from Hungary, who was imprisoned in a Nazi labor camp for a time before he escaped and joined the resistance. He is the only Holocaust survivor to serve in the US Congress.
http://lantos.house.gov/HoR/CA12/About+Tom/A+Holocaust+Survivor/
After the war he moved to the US, got a PhD in economics from Berkeley, and married his childhood friend Annette Tillman, a Hungarian from a prominant family (she is a cousin of Zsa Zsa and Eva Gabor). Annette and their two girls, Annette Tillemann-Dick and Katrina Swett, joined the LDS Church at some point, although Lantos has not joined the Church. He appears to be a devoted an principled congressman, I did not read much about him I did not like. Here is a nice piece by his granddaughter Kimber.
http://www.lifestylesmagazine.com/website/past/stories/191/Lifestyle_05-2004_005.html

Katrina Swett is married to Richard “Dick” Swett, also a Mormon, and a Democrat from New Hamshire who served in Congress in 1991-1995, lost a Senate bid, and was ambassador to Denmark in the late 1990s. Katrina is currently in her second bid for a congressional seat in New Hamshire.”

]]> By: Antonio Parr http://bycommonconsent.com/2007/05/01/situating-the-voices-in-whitneys-the-mormons/#comment-84362 Wed, 02 May 2007 15:06:20 +0000 http://www.bycommonconsent.com/2007/05/situating-the-voices-in-whitneys-the-mormons/#comment-84362 I know that we don’t campaign in our Church, but . . .

Elder Marlin K. Jensen for the next vacancy in the Twelve!

What a wise, compassionate representative of our faith, who speaks in language that can be understood outside of the corridor. I thought that he was tremendous.

]]> By: DanM http://bycommonconsent.com/2007/05/01/situating-the-voices-in-whitneys-the-mormons/#comment-84361 Wed, 02 May 2007 14:54:13 +0000 http://www.bycommonconsent.com/2007/05/situating-the-voices-in-whitneys-the-mormons/#comment-84361 re 34: Alex Caldiero is indeed on the UVSC faculty and lives in Orem. I enjoyed reading his story on the PBS web site. Haven’t seen Alex for a number of years, but he is very active with spoken word performances and poetry and teaching, and sadly is a little less active in the church as of late. Utah Valley definitely needs more Mormons like him.

]]> By: PBS The Mormons--A Compendium « Messenger and Advocate http://bycommonconsent.com/2007/05/01/situating-the-voices-in-whitneys-the-mormons/#comment-84360 Wed, 02 May 2007 05:35:02 +0000 http://www.bycommonconsent.com/2007/05/situating-the-voices-in-whitneys-the-mormons/#comment-84360 [...] Common Consent Situating the voices in Whitney’s “The Mormons” “The Mormons” and Inoculation “The Mormons”: Pregame show Upcoming Films: The Triple Whammy [...]

]]> By: Jon in Austin http://bycommonconsent.com/2007/05/01/situating-the-voices-in-whitneys-the-mormons/#comment-84359 Wed, 02 May 2007 03:54:57 +0000 http://www.bycommonconsent.com/2007/05/situating-the-voices-in-whitneys-the-mormons/#comment-84359 Bryan Horn, the young guy who’s only quote was “You go, you go, you go…” (with reference to missionary work) was in my singles ward during the summer I spent in Happy Valley a few years back.

He was a convert who was studying to become a priest of some other faith when some anti material got him interested in the Church and he eventually joined and served a mission in Vegas if memory serves me correctly. He later finished that mission as a tour guide at the Conference Center.

Nice guy, I wonder in what context they found him to bring him in for an interview though…

]]> By: Mormon Mentality - Thoughts and Asides by Peculiar People » Frontline: The Mormons http://bycommonconsent.com/2007/05/01/situating-the-voices-in-whitneys-the-mormons/#comment-84358 Wed, 02 May 2007 02:01:25 +0000 http://www.bycommonconsent.com/2007/05/situating-the-voices-in-whitneys-the-mormons/#comment-84358 [...] BCC:  Situating the voices in Whitney’s “The Mormons” [...]

]]> By: HP/JDC http://bycommonconsent.com/2007/05/01/situating-the-voices-in-whitneys-the-mormons/#comment-84357 Tue, 01 May 2007 23:40:23 +0000 http://www.bycommonconsent.com/2007/05/situating-the-voices-in-whitneys-the-mormons/#comment-84357 Aaron, he was and he is.

]]> By: Dave http://bycommonconsent.com/2007/05/01/situating-the-voices-in-whitneys-the-mormons/#comment-84356 Tue, 01 May 2007 23:27:23 +0000 http://www.bycommonconsent.com/2007/05/situating-the-voices-in-whitneys-the-mormons/#comment-84356 Yes, I just noticed it this afternoon reading one of the media write-ups. I’ll listen a little harder tonight.

]]> By: Left Field http://bycommonconsent.com/2007/05/01/situating-the-voices-in-whitneys-the-mormons/#comment-84355 Tue, 01 May 2007 23:09:16 +0000 http://www.bycommonconsent.com/2007/05/situating-the-voices-in-whitneys-the-mormons/#comment-84355 Did anyone else notice from the credits that the Narrator was David Ogden Stiers (sans the fake Boston accent from M*A*S*H)?

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