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Left-Wing Extremists
You and I have seen this attack before.
Yesterday morning, the Miami Herald quoted Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart calling Joe Garcia and his supporters "left-wing extremists."
"Joe Garcia continues to align himself with left-wing extremists. The latest to join the ranks is Congressman Charlie Rangel," reads a statement from Diaz-Balart's campaign.
"He has a long and well-known history of supporting a radical left-wing agenda including supporting higher taxes on working families and appeasing our nation's enemies. Left-wing birds of a feather, tax and spend together."
I know we will not just stand aside and let these attacks go unanswered. Let's show this Bush-Republican machine what we can do when "birds of a feather" really flock together, contribute $20.08 to Joe Garcia right now.
http://www.actblue.com/page/supportjoe
During our Dean for America days together, we learned to always fight back.
Now, I'm the Senior Advisor to Joe Garcia's powerful campaign to take back south Florida. The early endorsement of Democracy for America led the way in bringing us a national spotlight, and helped us grow our people-powered, grassroots campaign. DFA members provide us with boots on the ground and the small-donor, financial support to back them up.
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Beat a Republican Extremist
I know you've heard of Oklahoma Senator James Inhofe.
He claimed that Global Warming is "the second-largest hoax ever played on the American people, after the separation of church and state." He believes the Weather Channel is behind the hoax to attract viewers. And he's compared environmentalists to "Nazis" and the Environmental Protection Agency to the "Gestapo."
We can make this Sen. Inhofe's last year in office.
Andrew Rice has a proven record in the Oklahoma Legislature having worked on issues like health care, veteran's rights, and the environment. Andrew will bring his experience to Washington to fight to end the War in Iraq, provide access to health care for all Americans, and solve the crisis of global warming.
Andrew Rice is the progressive Democrat who will finally bring change to Oklahoma. Support Andrew's campaign with a contribution of $25 right now.
www.actblue.com/page/supportandrew
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Fight McCain
The Democratic race for President has lost its focus. We have John McCain to beat in November, instead we fight each other.
Geraldine Ferraro. Reverend Wright. Rezko ties. Secret tax returns. If you're like me; you're sick of it.
We have a war to end, an economy in trouble, and $4 gas.
With hundreds of progressives to elect at all levels of office, it's time to leave the character attacks to Ann Coulter and Bill O'Reilly.
America needs to know why our candidates are better than John McCain and we need to hear it from Senators Clinton and Obama.
Fight McCain, not each other. Join me in signing an open letter to the candidates now:
www.DemocracyforAmerica.com/OpenLetter
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Chairman Reyes responds. Our answer: Prove it.
NOTE: The complete letter from Chairman Reyes to DFA is re-printed at the end of this post. Please click 'Read More' below to jump to the end.
Chairman Reyes responds. Our answer: Prove it.
Our campaign demanding Chairman Reyes stand up to President Bush is working. After 1,922 reported calls, the Chairman's Chief Counsel, Jeremy Bash, contacted DFA and insisted that we were "shooting the wrong target."
Our answer was simple: Prove it.
This morning, DFA received a letter that the Chairman asked we post on our website. Sadly, the Chairman still gets it wrong:
"The issue is how to craft legislation that only protects companies that acted lawfully."
Chairman Reyes: they don't need immunity if they didn't break the law. America doesn't need parsed words and legalese, America requires leadership.
Chairman Reyes got your calls; let's make sure he gets the message. Contribute $25 right now, so we can run ads that turn up the heat on Chairman Reyes.
www.DemocrayforAmerica.com/FISAads
Chairman Reyes has stood up to President Bush before, he must do it again.
On Feb 12, the Chairman wrote "it is an insult to the intelligence of the American people to say that we will be vulnerable unless we grant immunity for actions that happened years ago."
Last August, he voted against the Administration's bill, the Protect America Act. Last month, he insisted that Congress stand firm and not simply rubber-stamp the Senate FISA bill, despite over-heated rhetoric from the President that doing so would somehow endanger the country. He knew better, and he called out the President on his false rhetoric.
But last weekend, Chairman Reyes said "after receiving documents from the Bush administration and speaking to the [telecommunication] companies" a deal was likely "within the next week."
Rep. Reyes doesn't need to make a deal with President Bush and Vice President Cheney. He must hold the Bush administration accountable and not let AT&T and Verizon off the hook for spying on innocent Americans. Contribute $25 right now and send a clear message to Chairman Reyes to stand up to President Bush.
www.DemocrayforAmerica.com/FISAads
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Fight Back
President Bush and his stooges are back on the attack. They screamed that our country would be in imminent danger of terrorist attack if Congress did not renew his program of warrantless wiretapping.
They were wrong.
It's been 10 days since the law expired and yesterday four top intelligence officials sent a letter to Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell refuting his claims of impending doom:
"[The country is not] at greater risk. The intelligence community currently has the tools it needs to acquire surveillance of new targets and methods of communication."¹
President Bush doesn't care about the truth. A brand new right-wing attack group is already running ads targeting 15 House Democrats who stood up to Bush and voted against immunity for telecommunication companies who spied on innocent Americans.
Contribute $20 to DFA right now so we can fight back against the right-wing fear machine.
www.actblue.com/page/fisafightback
The Republicans in Congress will not let immunity die. In fact, Republicans rejected an extension of the current law because House Democrats stood up and refused to let Bush's telecom cronies off the hook. More proof that immunity for their law-breaking telecom buddies is all the Bush Administration cares about.
DFA will fight back against the Bush Administration and their right wing attack dogs. Together, we can make sure House Democrats stand strong.
Don't let Bush's telecom buddies have the "get out of jail free" card they want. Contribute $20 right now so DFA can stop telecom immunity once and for all.
www.actblue.com/page/fisafightback
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Stop Chairman Reyes
Last week, Speaker Pelosi and the Democratic majority stood up to the President’s fear mongering. They killed the Senate bill on FISA that included retroactive immunity for telecommunication companies who spied on innocent Americans.
But Republicans want to bring immunity back to life and the Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Rep. Silvestre Reyes (TX-16) said over the weekend he was ready to make the deal. We must stop him.
Call Rep. Reyes right now and demand he stands with the Democratic majority and against telecom immunity.
Intelligence Committee Chairman,
Rep. Silvestre Reyes
(202) 225-7690
Suggested Script:
"As the chair of the House Intelligence Committee, Rep. Reyes must stand with Speaker Pelosi and the majority of House Democrats against telecom immunity.
I am depending on Chairman Reyes to stand up to President Bush and protect America without granting a get-out-of-jail free card to companies that broke the law."
Please report how your call went:
www.DemocracyforAmerica.com/ReyesCalls
Make sure Chairman Reyes hears from you today. He needs to know we are counting on him. He needs to know that if he won’t stand up to President Bush, then DFA members will find someone to replace him who will.
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Take Back South Florida
Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart in FL-25 is one of the worst. He voted against expanding the Children's Health Plan to cover 10 million kids -- three times. He voted to grant immunity to telecommunication companies who spied on Americans. He supports the President's warrantless wiretapping and wants the government to read your emails and listen to your phone calls. And of course, he voted for the war and every single bill to fund or expand it.
Today, Democrat Joe Garcia joins the DFA-List and DFA members are already the boots on the ground working to make sure Joe wins. Back up their hard work with the power of our national community calling for change. Contribute $20.08 right now.
www.actblue.com/page/supportjoe
For 20 years, Joe Garcia has been a leader on the issues that affect the lives of real people. Joe understands that health care needs to be reliable, available and affordable. He supports expanding coverage to 10 million children immediately and will fight to bring health care to all Americans.
Joe will fight to end to the War in Iraq responsibly and bring our brave men and women home. He will strengthen the middle class by bringing new jobs to Florida and making college affordable. He will clean up the environment and protect the Florida everglades from big business polluters and reckless development.
Contribute $20.08 today and we'll take back South Florida:
www.actblue.com/page/supportjoe
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Will party insiders overturn your vote?
This is an unprecedented year. Thirty-seven states and U.S. territories have already voted and we don't have a clear nominee. Senators Clinton and Obama are in a delegate race to the nomination.
There are a lot of ways that delegates get assigned to a specific candidate, but almost all of the allocated delegates are directly tied and bound by the actual votes in each primary or caucus -- all of them that is, except super-delegates.
Super-delegates are a contingent of almost 900 elected officials, party insiders, and current DNC members and they aren't required to follow the voters. In fact, after every Democrat has voted and the last allocated delegates are assigned, super-delegates have the power to overturn the popular vote and crown a different winner.
That's right, if super-delegates don't like who you choose to be our nominee, they can overturn your vote. We can't let that happen. Our nominee must be chosen by Democratic voters, not by back room deals of the party elite. Sign our petition now to let the voters decide:
www.DemocracyforAmerica.com/VotersDecide
We must respect the 20 million Democrats who have already voted and the millions more who will vote before the convention. It's up to us to make sure the almost 900 super-delegates do the right thing.
Sign the petition today and we'll deliver all of the signatures directly to super-delegates.
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Your Grassroots All-Star Winner
You did it! Ninety-Eight candidates running for the U.S. House of Representatives competed for your support and the 2008 DFA Grassroots All-Star endorsement. In total, you cast over 51,500 votes. Today, I am proud to announce your winner:
Nancy Skinner is the 2008 DFA Grassroots All-Star!
Please contribute $25 right now and support our winner.
www.actblue.com/page/grassrootsallstar
Nancy stands for progressive values. She has a plan to turn Michigan's auto industry green. This will expand and rebuild our national economy and Michigan's industry base. We can reduce our dependence on fossil fuels and foreign oil while improving the global environment. Nancy knows that if Congress is going to get serious in our fight to end global warming, we need a representative from Detroit leading the way.
Nancy will fight for health care for everyone. She proudly supports expanding the State Children's Health Insurance Plan to cover 10 million American kids. Her opponent voted with President Bush and supported his veto of the plan.
Nancy will fight to end the War in Iraq and bring our troops home. Her opponent voted for the authorization and has rushed to support President Bush's reckless war at every step of the way.
Nancy will win, but not without your support. Please contribute $25 right now to make change happen.
www.actblue.com/page/grassrootsallstar
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The Winner Will Be Announced Today
The Winner of the 2008 DFA Grassroots All-Star endorsement will be announced today. Check back later to see who won.
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