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Shop at Target?

08/03/2010 Nativegrl77

Target just gave a huge contribution to a anti-gay, anti-immigrant, anti-progressive candidate for governor in Minnesota. Will you send a message to Target CEO Gregg Steinhafel that you won’t shop at Target unless they stop trying to buy elections? Click here:

Sign the petition

Get this: Target, the retail giant, just became one of the very first companies to take advantage of the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision allowing unlimited corporate cash in elections.¹

Target has spent over $150,000 in the Minnesota Governor’s race backing state Rep. Tom Emmer, a far-right Republican who supports Arizona’s draconian immigration law, wants to abolish the minimum wage and even gave money to a fringe group that condoned the execution of gay people. ²

Target must think customers won’t care. They’re wrong: We do care, and we need to let them know that we want Target—and all corporations—out of our elections.

Will you send a message to Target CEO Gregg Steinhafel telling him that you’re not going to shop at Target unless they stop trying to buy elections? Click here to add your name to the petition:

http://pol.moveon.org/state/target/?id=22247-9640874-l21BYfx&t=2

Once we get 150,000 signatures, MoveOn members in Minnesota will hand deliver the petition to Target headquarters.

The stakes are much higher than one candidate and one company. Other CEOs are in “wait-and-see” mode following the Citizens United decision, according to a former Federal Trade Commission counsel quoted on NPR.³ If we don’t push back hard, this will just be the tip of the iceberg. Other corporations will learn that they can pour money into elections to buy the outcome they want—without paying a price with their customers or shareholders.

We all knew Citizens United would benefit candidates who stand up for corporate CEOs instead of everyday people. But you wouldn’t expect a company like Target to jump in and try to buy an election so quickly. After all, Target made its name by being thought of as the more progressive store in the wake of numerous WalMart scandals.

That’s why MoveOn members are following up on actions of groups like Human Rights Campaign and the Alliance for a Better Minnesota by telling Target that we won’t shop there unless they stop trying to buy elections. Please add your voice now:

http://pol.moveon.org/state/target/?id=22247-9640874-l21BYfx&t=3

Thanks for all you do.

–Ilyse, Robin, Anna, Mari, and the rest of the team

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Count down to health care … scroll down, go to: Linked Up and click on the link…sign up !

11/05/2009 Nativegrl77

Stand up for the Public Option!

John Boehner says he has not met anyone who supports public option. Prove him wrong by signing the public option petition today.

Thank you for standing with Congressman Weiner in support of a strong public health care option.

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HR 3962…Affordable HC for America…vote is scheduled for 11/07/09

11/05/2009 Nativegrl77

Congress Summary, by OC

…Rep.John Dingell

To provide affordable, quality health care for all Americans and reduce the growth in health care spending, and for other purposes

This is the big health care reform bill in the House of Representatives that will be debated and voted on during the week of November 2nd. It is the final, reconciled version of the health care bill that was amended by three House committees over the summer. Broadly, it seeks to expand health care coverage to the approximately 40 million Americans who are currently uninsured by lowering the cost of health care and making the system more efficient. To that end, it includes a new government-run insurance plan (a.k.a. a public option) to compete with the private companies, a requirement that all Americans have health insurance, a ban on denying coverage because of a pre-existing condition and, to pay for it all, a surtax on individuals with incomes above $500,000.

check out opencongress.org for the full legislation text, you can download the 1990-page bill as a PDF from the House Rules Committee.

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Failed promises?

11/05/2009 Nativegrl77

my take on failed promises? or change to or redirection of promises?

i would say the day the system crashed was the day we all should have hit the re-set button to any campaign pledges that may need a new process to achieve a positive outcome.

… Community Organizer and Senator Obama watched from the side lines, watching, hearing and knowing the status quo had to change … no financial crisis to speak of but things were not as they should be

… Presidential candidate Obama had an agenda for America, some financial issues are brewing, the house of Bush was focused only on the Iraq war , Obama’s ideas seemed far ahead of the other competitors … he knew what he wanted to do… change the way things are done on the Hill … change takes a while maybe years and so does co-operation…as months go by there are more rumblings of financial problems, he is also faced with lots of criticism … was he an American? did he pal around with terrorists? could he bring in the vote of not only women but white women and men. Weeks go by when more and more information is coming out … more people notice that there were a lot of layoffs happening and some are talking about Bush being less available…and McCain tells Americans that our economy is still sound/strong?

a few months before Americans had to vote for President of the United States the House of Bush slowly opens the doors of pain… why did they wait until the next administration was about to be put into place?

Wall Street, Main Street, AIG and a lot of Banks Crash … with the house of Bush and Paulson making back room deals …

quite frankly sworn in President Obama had a different Presidency to come into than most

we all need to understand the need for change, redirecting any and quite possibly all campaign promises, why? because our American lives changed, they got worse and the elements needed to create a better situation are not playing … the banks are flexing their muscles, lobbyists are standing in the way, Republicans/Conservatives cannot accept Obama as our President and have become more than just the party of no, some are trying to provoke fear and hate not bipartisanship, and is socialist a code for the n word?

Conservative Dems, Congressional folks are not all in for the change the rest of us believed in or want. we need to tell them … be outraged at the nonsense going on…

we need to reform a part of our economy monopolized by one entity.

so… while President Obama did promise change and he has kept a lot of them, he also stated that he could not make changes alone … we all would have to participate.

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11/02/2009 Nativegrl77

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