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RE: The Choice


I need you to make a choice today — a choice to help finish what we started together.

Voters go to the polls just three weeks from today. If we let up now, we’ll wake up on Election Day wishing we did more to fight back against the tea party mob and their corporate special interest backers.

That’s why I am writing with a very specific ask today — to own a piece of this campaign. If you could give $28 today, it would cover a grassroots organizing kit for one volunteer, if you gave $35, it covers an actual radio ad in one of our too-close-to-call districts, and $144 covers the cost per point of television in another tough district for us.

We are in 75 make-or-break districts and with 8 more states starting early voting this week, we must raise an additional $500,000.

Please rush an urgent gift today before Friday’s deadline to wire money to campaigns.

Together, we can be the difference between victory and defeat on Election Day.

Onward to Victory,

Jon Vogel
Jon Vogel
DCCC Executive Director

PNC: The Mountaintop Removal Bank


 

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Tell PNC CEO James Rohr to stop financing mountaintop removal.
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Wall Street doesn’t like King Coal anymore. In the last two years, the biggest banks in America have adopted policies to phase out financing of mountaintop removal (MTR) coal.

Unfortunately, PNC didn’t get the memo.

Send PNC CEO James Rohr an email and tell him to stop financing MTR now.

Since 2008, PNC has provided over $130 million to six of the eight largest MTR coal mining companies, including the worst of the worst- Massey Energy. PNC Bank is now the largest financier of mountaintop removal in the US.

While boasting to be the “greenest bank in the business,” PNC continues to bankroll the wholesale destruction of the Appalachian Mountains. Too bad the “greenest bank” is focused solely on greenbacks.

Tell PNC’s CEO to put his money where his mouth is and protect America’s mountains from MTR.

PNC has not made a single attempt to stop financing mountaintop removal. But we want to change that.

RAN and our allies have convinced much larger banks like Chase and Wells Fargo to move away from backing mountaintop removal mining. PNC is next.

We’re not stopping until there isn’t a bank left in the biz willing to finance the flattening of Appalachia and the poisoning of her people.

Thank you for taking action to save America’s mountains!

Scott Parkin

For the mountains,

Scott Parkin
Global Finance Campaign

Denounce Republican Sexism …


A Republican operative in Ohio actually said take Democratic Congresswoman Betty Sutton out of the House and put her back in the kitchen. This comes not long after House Republicans said that Speaker Pelosi should be put in her place. GOP Sexism like this needs our strong response.

Denounce Republican sexism. Sign the petition below telling Republicans that a woman’s place is in the House of Representatives:

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Angle: Two American cities under Sharia law (via Anderson Cooper 360)


“Republican Sharron Angle has said two American cities are under Islamic law.” width=300 height=169] Jeff Simon CNN (CNN) – Nevada GOP Senate nominee Sharron Angle told a crowd of Tea Party rally-goers last week that two cities — Dearborn, Michigan and Frankford, Texas — are under Sharia law, the sacred law of Islam. “We’re talki … Read More

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If you knew …


22 Days Until the Election

22 Days Until the Election

If you knew that what you did today could make a difference in stopping the destruction of three decades of progress on November 2nd — would you act?

Women have the most to gain from this election. We also have the most to lose.

Unless we stop the Republicans, this year may be the first year in 30 years that the number of women in Congress actually decreases. And that would be truly devastating to America’s middle class.

Courageous Democratic women across America continue to be the target of vicious Republican attacks by well-funded outside groups. I am asking you to help me raise $500,000 before Friday — crucial funds that could mean the difference between victory and defeat for Democratic women nationwide.

And that could mean a lot to you, or your daughters, sisters, wives or mothers. We must act now.

Your generous support is urgently needed to help our courageous Democratic women under attack by the Republicans and their outside groups so we can maintain our strong Democratic House Majority. Contribute $5, $10 or more today.

Women will decide the outcome of this election and the stakes have never been higher.

The very first bill President Obama signed was our Lilly Ledbetter legislation to restore the rights of women to challenge unfair pay. Democrats have continued to put women and children first, but now all of our progress could be turned back.

Republicans have pledged to dismantle our most historic achievements for women and families, including a repeal of health insurance reform that has ended the days where being a woman in America qualifies as a pre-existing medical condition.

Your generous support is urgently needed to help our courageous Democratic women under attack by the Republicans and their outside groups so we can maintain our strong Democratic House Majority.

Since 2006, Democratic women have known their power in elections. It is because of their determination and your generous support that I have the honor of being the first woman House Speaker. But we must work even harder in the days ahead.

Now is the time to remind ourselves of all that we can achieve for America’s women and families by maintaining our strong Democratic Majority and with our courageous Democratic women Members leading the charge!
Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi
Speaker of the House

P.S. With so many Democratic women in battleground races being targeted by vicious Republican attacks by well-funded outside groups, every dollar you give could mean the difference between their victory or their defeat. Contribute before Friday.