Akansas Lt. Gov Bill Halter is running against Sen. Blanche Lincoln in a Democratic primary! Click here to learn more and help him.
BIG NEWS: Bill Halter, the popular Arkansas Lt. Governor, just announced he will run against Senator Blanche Lincoln in the Democratic primary this year.
Blanche Lincoln is one of the worst corporate Democrats in Washington. She took millions from corporate interests and then joined Joe Lieberman in attempting to kill the public health insurance option.
Bill Halter is a populist — in his announcement today, he attacked Wall Street and the insurance companies! Corporations will attack him back, so we’re teaming up with other progressives to raise his campaign $500,000 in one week.
Then, please forward this email to every progressive you know who is sick and tired of corporate Democrats like Lincoln, Lieberman, and the rest.
An early show of strong fundraising will help Halter’s candidacy instantly be seen as credible.
This is the best opportunity we’ll have in 2010 to show corporate Democrats in the Senate that when they oppose change, there will be payback.
Please chip in $5 to Bill Halter today.
Thanks for being a bold progressive.
— Adam Green, Stephanie Taylor, Aaron Swartz, Max Berger, Forrest Brown, and the PCCC team
Be a Seed for Change 
Halter Challenges Lincoln, Democracy Challenges Capitalism
Since Blanche Lincoln started serving on Arkansas’ behalf on the Senate in the late 90’s 140 million American workers have been working harder and smarter raising their production per an hour steadily to keep this country running.
Gains for the lower percentile of income earners have always fared worse under Republican administrations than Democrats but the 2000’s were the first cycle that the overwhelming majority of workers actually had less at the end than the beginning.
How does Blanche Lincoln respond when she finally has a Democratic administration to work with?
She sides with Republicans to obstruct. Opposing a strong public option in HCR, opposing EFCA and opposing Craig Becker’s nomination to the NLRB. Blocking efforts at every turn to shift policy away from a regressive, supply-side, dept funded consumption economy to a more progressive approach investing in real growth from the bottom up.
Blanche Lincoln has apparently developed a connection to corporate contributors and their supply-side philosophy that she doesn’t believe is in her political interest to break.
The real problem standing in the way of Americas progress and a sustainable economy with wide spread wealth are the senators like Blanche nestled in the big bucks of the consolidated status quo.
We are fortunate to have a candidate like Halter ready to run. This will shape up to be a bell-weather race between Blanche Lincoln and Bill Halter for the fight among Democrats between a corporate, centrist or people-before-profits, progressive approach. And the larger debate about which should be driving economic policy; capitalism or democracy.
Is our Senate working on behalf of regular folks, growing good paying jobs and the middle class?
Or is our Senate working to prevent interference of wealth going unfettered straight to the top (small government), reserving the American dream for only those able to afford their own Senator.
This will be an important contest that helps define the balance in the 21st century between democracy and capitalism, between consolidated wealth and grass roots people power.
There’s no shortage of funding for Blanche and no shortage of will power from global industries headquartered in Arkansas to spend to defeat progressive policies that might interfere with there access to the profits of our productivity as their own personal ATM.
Wall-Mart, Tyson and many, many others will spare no expense to defeat a pro labor, pro health care campaign. Needless to say I’m pleased to see this critical primary battle unfolding. I’m confident that Progressives will win as Arkansans struggle to pry our country out of the deadlocked grip of the status quo.
Thanks Bill Halter for stepping up to the plate.
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