Faleomavaega the leftist

From its inception, Faleomavaega was a card carrying member of the left-wing Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC), a collection of the most far left fringe members of Congress started by Sen. Bernie Sanders, the only avowed socialist in Congress.

Now that Democrats have taken control of Congress, a number of CPC members have moved into positions of influence as full committee and subcommittee chairmen but Faleomaveaga is not among them. Somewhere along the way, Eni has quietly dropped his membership. Curious, since he hasn't changed his views and as recently as a couple of years ago he vigorously defended in the media his membership and the CPC's policies against an attack by one of his political opponents. However, he has only narrowly escaped defeat in his most recent two elections and in fact had the lowest percentage of the vote of any incumbent Democrat in the 2006 election. It is not likely that many voters in American Samoa have studied CPC's manifesto but it would raise more than a few hairs if some of CPC's policy positions were explained t them.