Kathleen Weisenbaum

Kathleen Eleanor Weisenbaum is a Confederal politician from North Roanoke representing that Member in the Congress of the Confederation She is a member of the Constitional Left Caucus and the Democratic Republican Party although she has been known to break with her party on a number of issues.

Weisenbaum is best known for her independent streak, for her defense of her right to vote her conscience, for her devout Orthodox Judaism and for her frequently professed admiration for historical figures such as William Gladstone, William Wilberforce, Woodrow Wilson and Edmund Burke. In fact, she quotes frequently and liberally from Burke's 1774 Speech to the Electors of Bristol in her speeches against those who claim that she has a duty to vote for her caucus who she sometimes describes as "advocated of Leninist democratic centralism."

Early life and career

Kathleen Weisenbaum was born in Armistice, North Roanoke to Henry Weisenbaum and Madeena Machuv. The Weisenbaums owned a dry goods store until Henry's retirement in 1998. Henry and Madeena had two other children, George and Susan Elinor. All three children attended Hampton High School where Kathleen founded a chapter of the Junior Classical League and learned Latin and Greek. Her parents also insisted that she attend the nearest Hebrew school in Walterstown regularly and become literate in that language as well.

Weisenbaum received her BA in political science from Vance University, the most prestiguous private institution of tertiary education in North Roanoke and one of the most prestigious in Laneria. She received her PhD from Warren University in the same subject and then accepted a professorship at Vance where she specialized in comparative democratic politics. She held this position until she was appointed part of North Roanoke's delegation to the Congress of the Confederation in early 2007.