RI-01: Segal has the SEIU Mo'!

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Thursday August 05, 2010 · 3:16 PM PDT

2010/08/05 · 15:16

I've written before about my friend David Segal -- congressional candidate in Rhode Island, in the 4-way September 14th primary to replace Rep. Patrick Kennedy -- who is a progressive champion that has spent four years as a state representative, and was a city councilman in Providence for four years before that. Lots of press on David's progressive bona fides here (Howie Klein) and here (Larry Lessig) and here (David Swanson) for those looking for more information.

I'm writing to give everybody an update, as the campaign is building tremendous momentum.

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Friday July 09, 2010 · 12:54 PM PDT

2010/07/09 · 12:54

With nine days left, Rhode Island Congressional candidate David Segal has emerged as the front-runner in Democracy for America's Grassroots All-Stars competition. To those of us who have worked with David, this accomplishment is a recognition of something we already knew: David Segal is the progressive candidate to support this fall. In my opinion, he is the single most exciting candidate for Congress in years, and I hope you'll follow me below the flip to hear why.

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Thursday March 05, 2009 · 6:12 PM PST

2009/03/05 · 18:12

Accountability Now - are you out there?

Here are the names of the 24 Democrats that just voted with the banks and Wall Street against American homeowners who need relief in the foreclosure crisis:

Arcuri, Berry, Boren, Boucher, Bright, Carney, Childers, Dahlkemper, Davis (TN), Edwards (TX), Ellsworth, Gordon (TN), Griffith, Hill, Holden, Kind, Kissell, Kratovil, Markey (CO), Massa, Matheson, Stupak, Taylor, and Teague.

Some of these are usual suspects who vote with Wall Street against Main Street all the time, others are supposed Netroots favorites like Massa and Kissell. NOT ONE MORE DIME. Let them hoover up campaign cash from Wall Street, but can we in the grassroots/netroots please be done with them?

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Will you ever give to Massa or Kissell again?

117 votes Vote Now!

Will you ever give to Massa or Kissell again?

Yes, there's a D next to their names!

27 votes

No, let them take money from Wall Street!

90 votes

NYTimes: New Movement Resisting Evictions - good for Obama

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Tuesday February 17, 2009 · 2:01 PM PST

2009/02/17 · 14:01

Fellow progressives, this is one of the most exciting grassroots responses to the foreclosure crisis at the heart of our economic meltdown yet.

From tomorrow's edition of the New York Times:

As resistance to foreclosure evictions grows among homeowners, community leaders and some law enforcement officials, a broad civil disobedience campaign is starting in New York and other cities to support families who refuse orders to vacate their homes.

The community organizing group ACORN unveiled the campaign with a spirited rally on Friday at a Brooklyn church and will roll it out in at least 22 other cities in the coming weeks. Through phone trees, Web pages and text-messaging networks, the effort will connect families facing eviction with volunteers who will stand at their side as officers arrive, even if it means risking arrest.

About. Damn. Time. Join ACORN's "Home Defenders" here, and learn more after the link, as well as analysis of how this great news will help the Obama housing strategy.

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Monday November 17, 2008 · 9:34 AM PST

2008/11/17 · 09:34

I think most everyone is already caught up on why Larry Summers would be a terrible pick for Treasury Secretary. Today, we see in polling that 41% of Americans think that the Treasury Secretary is the most important cabinet position for the Obama Administration. This pick is obviously of the utmost importance, and I believe there is one candidate who will reflect well on Obama's best attributes, and have a plan to get us out of the mortgage mess and fix our economy.

That candidate is Sheila Bair.

Not only would she be the first female Treasury Secretary in history, not only is she a highly qualified academic and not Wall Street crony, not only would she bring diversity to the cabinet as a Republican, she is the one and only prominent regulator that has consistently, unequivocally, and presciently been on the side of homeowners in this mortgage crisis. She is, in other words, a quadruple-whammy of a great pick. More biography and telling proposals over the bump.

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Your pick for Treasury Secretary?

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Your pick for Treasury Secretary?

Larry Summers

8 votes

Sheila Bair

63 votes

Other (nominate in comments)

15 votes

Paulson's "Bailout and Switch" reminiscent of WMD in Iraq

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Thursday November 13, 2008 · 8:25 AM PST

2008/11/13 · 08:25

Remember how a couple of months after we invaded Iraq, all of a sudden we were no longer there because of Weapons of Mass Destruction, but instead because we were spreading democracy?

So it is that as of yesterday, the TARP ("Troubled Asset Relief Program") will no longer be used to Relieve Troubled Assets. Now, it's all about direct cash equity infusions. Just like Iraq was an urgent threat, the $700 billion bailout could not be discussed, debated, and considered with level heads by Congress. It just had to be passed immediately, "clean", no questions asked. And if you did ask questions, you were declared an enemy of freedom/capital.

Although nobody should be surprised by these classic Bush tactics, this news is actually welcome as far as fixing the economic crisis, because instead of "Cash for Trash" welfare for Wall Street, we can now use the money to help homeowners. A prescription for what ails us and a 5-point foreclosure-fighting agenda over the bump.

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Thursday October 30, 2008 · 2:40 PM PDT

2008/10/30 · 14:40

First, John McCain released an ad blaming ACORN for the financial crisis. This is an absurd argument, but one that nevertheless at least has a little cache among the economically illiterate of the far-right. ACORN smacked him down on this front, systematically dismembering his illogical argument and indicting McCain's inaction in a brilliant report.

The wildly erratic, flailing McCain has now declared in a robo-slime call, "Since the Democrats took control of Congress only two years ago they have driven our economy into the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression." Huh? Are you freaking kidding me? You're not going to blame Democrats generally, or Clinton, or Bob Rubin (all of which perhaps deserve some blame) - McCain is blaming THIS DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS for a crisis with roots A DECADE OLD!!!

In so doing, he once again shows himself completely ignorant on the economy (which he admits in those rare straight talk moments). Analysis and links to the audio and other goodies over the bump.

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Wednesday October 29, 2008 · 9:11 AM PDT

2008/10/29 · 09:11

I have no idea whether this is running on the networks or cable or what, but I do know it's up on the internets via YouTube.

And let me tell you, this is one of very few political ads I've ever seen that have sent chills down my spine. Video over the bump.

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Wednesday October 22, 2008 · 2:11 PM PDT

2008/10/22 · 14:11

Although there was a great settlement in Michigan this week, in which the MI GOP agreed to abandon its plans to use foreclosure lists to block voters at the polls, this tactic is still a potential hangup in 49 other states.

Yes, that would include states like Nevada, the top foreclosure state, and 4th-ranked Florida, 5th-ranked Michigan, 6th-ranked Georgia, 7th-ranked Ohio, 8th-ranked Colorado, 14th-ranked Virginia, and 15th-ranked Missouri (see complete list here). In other words, not just the road to the White House but also many critical down-ticket races go right through the states worst hit by the GOP-induced foreclosure crisis.

Despite the settlement in Michigan, there is ample evidence that this disgusting tactic is set to be deployed in Ohio, Indiana, and now even FLORIDA! Analysis, links, and a great new report from ACORN over the bump...

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Thursday October 16, 2008 · 10:48 AM PDT

2008/10/16 · 10:48

So says a devastating new report just issued by ACORN. This is a response to the crazy, grainy-footage, scary-music ad that McCain released last week Friday attacking ACORN. For a laugh, you can watch the video here.

In it, McCain makes the absurd claim that "ACORN forced banks to make risky home loans, the same types of loans that caused the financial crisis we're in today." Oh, John. You just created an opening for ACORN to take the years of fighting they've done against predatory lending and foreclosures and compare it with your snoozing, deregulating, economically illiterate career in the Senate. Thus is born: "ACORN and John McCain: The real story of the financial crisis 1999-2008".

Senator, my friend, you're about to get pwned by ACORN over the flip.

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Tuesday October 14, 2008 · 9:47 AM PDT

2008/10/14 · 09:47

In successive events this morning at the National Press Club, which I watched on C-SPAN 2, the McCain camp rolled out the same tired, bogus accusations about ACORN, and then... ACORNactually spoke for itself! And damn, they did a great job.

It has seemed to many of us that ACORN has taken a lot of these nasty hits without really hitting back, but that is clearly last week's news. On top of their hilarious press release yesterday noting McCain's attendance at an ACORN-sponsored pro-immigration rally in 2006, today's press conference was a model of how to fight back against smears. It appears they have taken a page out of the Obama campaign book.

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Who won today's battle of the dueling press conferences?

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Who won today's battle of the dueling press conferences?

ACORN

164 votes

McCain

7 votes

Updated: ABC News: Palin flub on bankruptcy has McCain camp flailing

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Friday October 03, 2008 · 6:05 AM PDT

2008/10/03 · 06:05

As anyone who has followed the foreclosure crisis closely knows, there is currently a loophole in federal bankruptcy law that allows John McCain to protect his second through seventh homes and yachts and planes if he were to declare bankruptcy, but doesn't allow you and me to save our primary residence that we live in. Barack Obama has called for closing this loophole, Joe Biden has called for closing this loophole, and John McCain has defended it to benefit his banker buddies.

So, of course, I was thrilled last night to see Joe Biden press the McPalin ticket on this really important policy distinction, when he suggested that the GOP ticket opposed this important protection for homeowners. When Gwen Ifill pressed Palin on this point of whether she was opposed, she denied it, saying, "No, that is not so."

ABC News has this story this bombshell story up on their Political Radar blog, and the McCain campaign is already backtracking and trying to spin away Palin's answer, but it's revealing a deeper truth.

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