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Dino Rossi
wants to repeal the landmark health care legislation recently passed by Congress.
In our State Legislature he wrote a budget that denied health care to 40,000 low-income children, and opposed negotiating with drug companies to reduce the cost of medicine.
He voted against our Patient’s Bill of Rights, and against putting patients and doctors – instead of insurance companies – in charge of medical decisions.
Dino Rossi would vote to overturn our freedom of choice, and says he might support requiring rape victims to bear the children of their attackers.
Vote for Patty Murray for US Senate
Source: Emily’s List
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Election update …Seattle -a message from Adam
| Volunteers needed in Seattle: 1116 Volunteers signed up so far: 568 |
Hey,
I spent all night going over the latest numbers from across the country, and I wanted to fill you in on what we’re seeing with just 5 days left.
You’ve probably heard about some very scary polls. When you ask voters generically which party they’re going to vote for, Democrats are down by about 8 points. And it’s true that we’re playing defense for about 100 seats across the country.
But beneath the surface, when you look at specific races, we’re seeing that many of them are still quite fluid. Sure, some Democrats are losing ground, but others are surging in the polls, and there are some candidates who now seem more likely to win than they did a week or two ago (like Michael Bennet in Colorado, Patty Murray in Washington, and Ann Kuster in New Hampshire).
So it’s time to concentrate on the places where we can make the most difference.
We’ve decided to target 59 key races, including Patty Murray‘s, where we have reason to believe a flood of grassroots volunteers in the final push could make a real difference. And in those places, our volunteer numbers have been steadily climbing—we turned out about 20% more people last week than the week before, and we’re getting amazing feedback from targeted campaigns about how MoveOn volunteers are making a big impact in reaching out to voters.
Nevertheless, we’re still far short of our overall goals. In Seattle alone, we’re counting on 1116 volunteers, and so far we’ve only signed up 568. So our numbers need to improve dramatically over the next couple of days, in order for candidates like Patty Murray to run an effective voter turnout operation that can overcome the national trend.
So consider this a personal request: Will you sign up to volunteer for Patty Murray in Seattle?
Yes, I’ll sign up to volunteer.
Thanks for all you do.–Adam
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A message from Norman Lear …
| Please let me be the first person to welcome you to People For the American Way and www.pfaw.org. Every day, PFAW is fighting hard for the core American values we share: Liberty, Equality, Religious Freedom and constitutional principles like checks and balances and fair courts that provide access to justice for all Americans, not just the very powerful.
In 1981, I became deeply concerned with what I saw as a fundamental attack on the American values I hold dear. Televangelists, then the public face of the growing Religious Right, were increasingly filling the airwaves with divisive messages that mixed religious dogma and politics and that challenged the faith of anyone whose politics were not aligned with theirs. What I was seeing was not what our country was supposed to be about… this was not the American Way. I woke up one morning with an idea for a television commercial to counter their televangelists, and the response was overwhelming. It turned out that the concerns I had weren’t mine alone — they were shared by millions of Americans from every walk of life. Taking the energy created by that ad, I joined with the late Congresswoman Barbara Jordan of Texas, faith leaders and other concerned citizens to form People For the American Way Foundation, and three years later formed People For the American Way, an advocacy organization dedicated to exposing the extremism of the Far Right and defending the constitutional rights and values of all Americans. Over the next few weeks, we’ll help you get more acquainted with PFAW, teach you about the work in which we are engaged, and offer ways to get involved in the fight for issues you care about. For now, I would like to invite you to watch the TV ad that started it all, along with a more recent video that shows you what we’ve been up to in the nearly 30 years since that ad first aired:
And, of course, feel free to explore our web site at your leisure at www.pfaw.org. On behalf of the entire board and staff of People For the American Way and our affiliate People For the American Way Foundation, thank you for your activism and welcome to the family. Together, we can help make sure that America is the best it can be, and that the promises of Liberty, Equality, Justice for All — the American Way — become a reality. Sincerely,
Norman Lear, Co-founder NEXT: Look for an email soon from Michael B. Keegan, President of People For the American Way. |
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