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It feels good to win


Last night, we won again. DFA-List endorsed candidate Elaine Marshall won the Democratic primary runoff in North Carolina with 60% of the vote. That’s not the only good news. Everyone from The Hill newspaper in DC to Talking Points Memo are giving you the credit and Washington insiders are getting the message. Here’s just a sample:

From The Nation:

Progressive Challenger Defeats Washington Establishment in North Carolina

The progressive groups who unsuccessfully backed Bill Halter over Blanche Lincoln in Arkansas’ Democratic Senate runoff on June 8 scored a victory tonight when Elaine Marshall defeated Cal Cunningham in North Carolina’s Democratic Senate primary.

From USA Today:

She defeated a candidate who was handpicked by national Democratic Party leaders. Backed by liberal groups MoveOn-org and Democracy for America, (Elaine) campaigned as a liberal insurgent against Cal Cunningham.

Together with DFA-List candidate Joe Sestak in Pennsylvania, we’re showing Washington insiders we don’t support just any Democrat — we support better Democrats. Now, it’s up to us to make sure she beats Republican Senator Richard Burr in November.

CONTRIBUTE $5 OR MORE TO ELAINE MARSHALL RIGHT NOW

You don’t have to look far to see corporate interests’ fingerprints all over Richard Burr’s campaign. In his reelection kick-off he stood up for Big Insurance and called for the repeal of President Obama’s healthcare bill.

After the oil disaster in the Gulf he stood up for Big Oil and actually called for less restrictions on offshore oil drilling. Now, he’s standing up for Wall Street as Congress debates reform while funding his campaign with over $1 million in Wall Street special interest money.

Wall St. and Big Oil don’t own Elaine Marshall. The people do. She’s working to represent the people of North Carolina and working Americans everywhere, not Goldman Sachs or BP.

But after months of hard campaigning to win the primary and run-off elections, Elaine needs financial support to rebuild her war chest and beat Senator Burr in November.

 SEND BURR PACKING — CONTRIBUTE TODAY FOR PROGRESSIVE VICTORY IN NOVEMBER

DFA members told us to take back the U.S. Senate from corporate interests by supporting progressive candidates who will win. Contribute right now to make it happen.

Thank you for everything you do,

-Charles

Charles Chamberlain, Political Director
Democracy for America

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HR 3548 … President Obama signs Bill


Obama Signs Homebuyer, Jobless Bill Assistance

The Senate approved it unanimously on Wednesday, The House vote 403-12

Posted on 11/6/2009

President Barack Obama signs a $24 billion economic stimulus bill providing tax incentives to prospective homebuyers and extending unemployment benefits to the longtime jobless who have been left behind as the economy veers toward recovery.

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


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


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?


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.