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—-The Republican Bus Boycott —- **Did Barack Obama tell Republicans they have to sit in the back of the bus? According to something Fox News made up, yes he did! Watch The Daily Show and The Colbert Report’s live election night coverage, beginning tonight at 11pm/10c.
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Moments ago, I was briefed by our DCCC strategists on our final Election Day projections.
Your investments are paying off: we are seeing Democrats surging in key races and great early vote numbers. Several new key opportunities have opened up, but there are many races that are still too close to call.
We must stand united in these final critical hours if we don’t want to see what we have worked so hard for come undone. It will all come down to voter turnout.
Quite simply, we will win as many races as we can afford to send get-out-the-vote resources to this final make-or-break weekend. We must have $100,000 more in the bank by 5pm today to wire the funds in time. Time is running out; I need your support now more than ever.
Years from now, what will you tell your children about this historic election?
Will you say that you sat on the sidelines in the final days and watched the special interests with their secret money hostilely take over our democracy? Or will you tell them that you were part of the team that proved the pundits wrong and won another grassroots victory for Democrats on behalf of America’s middle class?
That story will be written in this weekend.
Please help us raise $100,000 more by 5pm today so we can wire resources to our campaigns for this final, make or break weekend.
Onward to victory.
Nancy Pelosi
Speaker of the House
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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
| 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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