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A message from Speaker Pelosi

10/23/2010 Nativegrl77

Less than two weeks from today, the American people go to the polls. House Democrats are under attack from secret money from corporate special interests that favor shipping American jobs overseas, turning Social Security over to Wall Street, and turning Medicare over to the insurance companies.

According to news reports, these secretive special interest groups have spent more than $42 million on television ads that have aired more than 100,000 times attacking me. But this election is not about me; it is about the middle class.

Republicans want to privatize and cut Social Security and Medicare, give tax breaks for the wealthy, and send jobs overseas. Democrats want to preserve Social Security and Medicare, cut taxes for the middle class, and “make it in America.”

Please make a generous contribution to my campaign today. Your contribution will make a difference. It allows me to continue helping House Democrats facing special interest attacks from groups that are angry at the progress we have made for the American people.

We cannot wake up with a single regret that there was more we could have done to protect our Democratic House Majority.

Please contribute today so we can help courageous House Democrats fight back.

Onward to victory.

Nancy Pelosi
Speaker of the House

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Get-Out-The-Vote

10/18/2010 Nativegrl77

A few hundred votes…

That’s what will separate the winner from the loser in dozens of House races on Election Day.

It’s pretty simple: Whichever party can stay on the air with hard hitting ads and has the superior ground game to get their voters to the polls is the party that will win. And, we need to make sure it’s us.

My friends at the DCCC have the most sophisticated turnout models and Get-Out-The-Vote operation I’ve ever seen. And, the plans for their air campaign are second to none. But in order to execute this plan, they’ve got to hit this $300,000 goal by tomorrow night’s Two Weeks Out deadline.

Contribute $5, $10 or more before Midnight Tomorrow. This deadline is so important that a group of committed Democrats will match every dollar you give with one of their own.

I’m looking at the polls every day. And Democratic strategists are literally making decisions where to spend money on an hourly basis. The margin of victory in many races is going to be minuscule, just like in 2008, when Democrats won 16 races by 5% of the vote or less — including one by 727 votes.

There’s a real danger the massive amount of corporate money pouring into the elections in these last weeks can tip some of these close races in favor of many of the 129 tea party wing nuts running in House races.

If they manage to get themselves elected, they’re going to try and take us back to the bad old days when Wall Street, Big Oil and Big Insurance companies were calling the shots in Congress.

Contribute $5, $10 or more before Midnight Tomorrow. This deadline is so important that a group of committed Democrats will match every dollar you give with one of their own.

In these final days, these shadowy Republican front groups are throwing everything they’ve got at our candidates. They’re literally trying to buy this election right out from under the American people.

Well, I’m not about to stand by and watch that happen. And, I need you to stand with me and rush your contribution to support our Democratic candidates right now. Contribute Now.

James Carville

P.S. I guarantee you every single vote is going to count in this election. Don’t risk waking up the day after the election with any regrets about not having done more. Help House Democrats turn out the vote. Contribute before Midnight Tomorrow. This deadline is so important that a group of committed Democrats will match every dollar you give with one of their own.

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Three Days to Stop CEOs from Stealing Shareholder Votes

10/18/2010 Nativegrl77

The recently passed Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act gives shareholders—including workers’ pension funds—the chance to vote on CEO pay. But Big Business front groups are putting together devious loopholes, and we only have three days to stop them.

Take Action: Don’t let Big Banks and Wall Street brokers stamp out “say on CEO pay.”

Starting in 2011, shareholders will be able to vote on CEO pay packages. This is great news because:

1. Even if you don’t have any sort of pension, or own any stock, the bottom line is the new Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act will help rein in CEO pay if it’s allowed to work. That’s a good thing for working people and the whole economy.

2. Pension funds hold TRILLIONS of dollars in assets belonging to people who are currently working, as well as retirees. So starting in 2011, there’s a chance to use the collective power of working peoples’ pension money to rein in out-of-control CEO pay that goes against the interests of shareholders.

But the new law is already in danger. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Business Roundtable and other Big Business groups are lobbying hard for devious schemes to gut the new law’s “say on CEO pay” provisions, and we only have three days to stop them. They want the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to give corporations more control over the proxy voting system—which is how most shareholders would cast votes on CEO pay.

You can help stop their proposals by sending a public comment to the SEC. But hurry! The deadline to submit your comment is Wednesday, Oct. 20.

Tell the SEC: Shareholders should vote on CEO pay—not Big Banks and Wall Street brokers. (If you add your own words and personalize your comment, even a little, it will make a much bigger impact.)

If Big Business wins on CEO pay, the rest of us lose. The Chamber wants to give Big Banks and Wall Street brokers power to vote on behalf of shareholders—knowing they’ll almost always vote to rubber-stamp excessive CEO pay. And the Business Roundtable wants to weaken investor privacy protections so corporations can send shareholders junk mail soliciting votes in favor of…whatever votes management wants.

Send your public comment to the SEC: Don’t let Big Banks and Wall Street brokers rubber-stamp CEO pay.

Groups representing Big Business are hoping to sneak through these seemingly “technical” changes while nobody’s paying attention. But the fact is, these proposals will undermine the voting rights of shareholders in corporate elections—and because shareholder voting rights will rein in CEO pay, that’s a big deal for everyone who cares about working people in America.

We need your help to make sure the voices of working families are heard in this debate, loud and clear. Can you help? Personalize and submit a public comment now. It only takes a moment.

Thanks for making sure working people keep their say on CEO pay.

Sincerely,

Manny Herrmann, Online Mobilization Manager
AFL-CIO

P.S. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is already trying to buy our elections with gobs of money from secret donors. Don’t let the Chamber undermine our new rights to rein in excessive CEO pay, too. Tell the SEC to put the interests of shareholders—including working families and the pension funds that hold our retirement dollars—before the interests of corporate executives who are trying to suck the rest of us dry.

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PNC: The Mountaintop Removal Bank

10/12/2010 Nativegrl77

Tell PNC CEO James Rohr to stop financing mountaintop removal.

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!

		For the mountains,
		Scott Parkin Global Finance Campaign

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TGIF ….&some News

10/08/2010 Nativegrl77

My rant …sorry for the mis info this morn … the 60million dollar issue is addressed in an article on the blog …read it

Today we are not just talking about class war but the Republican Tea party has been able to stir up public dissent and obviously if given the opportunity will: put Corporations ahead of the people ,continue race baiting, using fear and hate to make points to win in November and it is starting to get under my skin. I know that this same crap happened when folks were debating how competent Palin was and if you were watching “the Media” played her as the spoiler ready to go. It was upsetting that so many had that same tingle going up their leg but with all the noise coming from so many places common sense prevailed. The question is will people come to their senses before making their final decision on Nov.2^nd or will we get played and succumb to repeal, replace, and an elimination of what America is. Will someone tell me what happened to our democracy that people would much rather vote for a looney tunes then those who truly have the people, the country in mind before profits and purity ideology….

When will Republican constituents finally get tired of do as we say not as we do mentally?

This morning while on the bus, I picked up on a possible shady move by Republican Governor Christie that should show all of us one of several reasons why we should not trust Republicans and why our economy has yet to improve. The money already spent and jobs lost from possibly killing the Hudson Tunnel project is an act that is reprehensible. The actions from Governor Christie plus major Corporations who seemingly are the ones who create jobs …are clearly holding out, outsourcing and refusing to be apart of the economic solution. They have quickly become an even bigger problem now that we are 2weeks away from the mid-term elections and if there is such a thing as fair and balanced all those who have dumped, solicited and took foreign money will be found out and be subjected to the rule of law. The Supreme Court, specifically Justice Roberts and the law he helped to enact which put Corporations on the same playing field as an individual seriously needs vetting. To continue …Since we only have a couple of weeks left before the mid-term elections the rants probably will be about the crap being said done or the videos being made by the Republican Tea Party that are questionable at best silly though not funny and offensive and racially moved. When i registered to vote it was to be a democrat, there was no question because my parents made it clear exactly which side of the aisle Republicans stand and why. It was clear then and now it has become even more apparent in this year of 2010 it is an American duty to vote for politicians that work for the greater good…People need to ask themselves what qualities are needed to do the peoples business not just a select few but for All Americans. The vote on November 2nd will be a vote for a Congress that will do more research before forcing a pre-emptive strike and going into war. someone open to new science…like stem-cell research, admitting that there are enough gays in congress and other parts of the political arena that the laws need to be changed, someone willing to say that women and men should be paid the same and change it, admit that minorities are not represented on all levels and change it , who have not lost compassion for others and are willing to stand up and speak out for the middle and lower class. The things we are going through are all non-partisan realities… we are living in a different world…one that requires us to come together and decide as a human race, not as democrats or republicans; at least that is what the American public use to think but after losing power to the Democratic Party in 2008 and having the first African-American President the Republican Tea Party has decided to go not just extreme but use discrimination as a threat to all those who are non-white i guess because I personally cannot think of anything else they can use. The mid-term elections were called the year of the woman, Republican Tea Party crazy women that is and got to say as a woman they not only offend me just exactly how Sarah Palin did back in 2008 with strange comments. It is offensive and apparently folks on the right of center would rather have the crazies in power and while the comments are outlandish and those of us with common sense say wow that is crazy but feel, no one could take this stuff too crazy. The fact is something ugly is going on out there and it is stirring up people to vote for a different party right in the middle of a recession just because the corrections have not happened yet. It is sad that folks think for even one moment that years of financial deregulation, Wall Street bets, and outsourcing would only take 2yrs to fix but when people actually start to believe that the Republican Party has more knowledge or trust to get us back on track we all have to wonder if people have lost their minds. I have to say -WTF because the house of Bush took office with a surplus and the end of his 2nd term he gave up his power with America just about ready to fall of the edge of a ditch. It is clear that folks just do not get that it will take time to fix our economy and right now if you are even paying attention the trickle down that Republicans talk about just ain’t happenin it didn’t then and it isn’t now … people need to understand that Corporations are holding back their funds until they get their way and who is suffering because of this -All Americans not just the democratic side of the issues. I cannot tell anyone how upsetting that states continue to lay off Teachers,firefighters, emts and the police …

What information do constituents of the Republican Tea party need …what will happen if they shut down the govt- what will happen to your family if they do repeal everything and more importantly what will your neighborhood look like when the chaos reaches your town.
im just sayin

“It is important to bear in mind that political campaigns are designed by the same people who sell toothpaste and cars.” — Noam Chomsky.

Other News …

**A NJ Gov killed the Hudson Tunnel project…after a visit from sec of transportation and has stated he will reconsider

**Gov Charlie Christie axes 60million dollars in projects

**a 6.4 earthquake in AK with several large aftershocks

**Cnn’s ed rollins says the hicky ad was an independent expenditure-the viewer/voter does not know, care or understand how that is suppose to explain away that stupid ad

**Paris decides to permanently ban burqa’s

**Tweetforpeace

**James Jones will step down as Nat’l sec adviser Donilon likely to replace him

**Facts: …95thousand govt jobs were lost -64thousand Private Sector jobs gained …unemployment is 9.6 for most …question is why are stocks doing so well, banks won’t lend, corporations outsourcing not being considered part of the problem

**Extortion …Cali Police have told JerryBrown that they have decided to hold their votes or will give their votes to Meg Whitman unless he changes his policy concerning their pensions

**Tennessee – Titanic Museum

**BankofAmerica and PNC have decided to put a moratorium on home foreclosures

**Tonite NYC Emmy Awards

**Cali…Knottsberry Farm -RollerCoaster accident

**Judge upholds President Obama’s HCR law

**Hurricane Otto forms in the Atlantic

CSPAN …