Fundraising for reelection is all they care about, so it's time we tell their campaign fundraisers, "Not $1, not one phone call, not one door knocked on, not one voter registration drive, for Dems who join Republicans to "Waterloo" Steele/DeMint HC Obama's Waterloo President Obama's health care reform plan with a public option. No delays designed to kill the reform! August is their deadline, let them work like we have to work for one-tenth or less than they "earn". Like we work to NOT get benefits they get. These are our targets:
- DSCC Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee
DCCC Chair Rep. Chris Van Hollen, MD 3rd District, Phone: (202) 225-5341
- DCCC Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
DSCC Chair Sen. Robert Menendez, NJ, Phone: (202) 224-4744
We are being used and abused, and it’s time we make them know we will not be fooled again. Who are “they”? “They” are the Democrats who stand in our President Obama’s way, side with lobbyists, and undermine health care reform. “They” are the fundraising arms of the Democratic Party that don’t challenge or even expose the lobbyists that dump millions more than constituents can afford to donate, to get favors every single day:
- DSCC Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee
DCCC Chair Rep. Chris Van Hollen, MD 3rd District, Phone: (202) 225-5341
- DCCC Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
DSCC Chair Sen. Robert Menendez, NJ, Phone: (202) 224-4744
All they care about is money. Not the caliber of our Democratic senators or representatives. Not whether our Dems support our President or join Republicans in handing Obama his “Waterloo” – the defeat of health care reform with a public option.
Both these committees are not at all accessible to regular voters who have supported both the Party and our current President. They have a “comment” phone line you must be transferred to just to leave a message (the DCCC), or a list of leaders posted on their website with no phone numbers or direct emails to contact them not as constituents from their home states, but as Democratic Party members from all the states (the DSCC). Do you honestly think lobbyists don’t have their direct cell phone numbers?
Both these committees “do not get involved in primaries”. Therefore, they don’t help elect real Democrats. They support the Blue Dogs who have been in office for decades because those are the ones who will win the primaries, again and again – unless we stop them.
So I found the Chairs of those Committees, and they especially would care if you call and pledge not to donate to their committees, but to instead “Ned Lamont” the incumbents who stood in the way of health care reform with a public option.
DCCC Chair Rep. Chris Van Hollen, MD 3rd District, Phone: (202) 225-5341
DSCC Chair Sen. Robert Menendez, NJ, Phone: (202) 224-4744
Call and tell them:
This time, we will identify and run Democratic Primary Challengers who will work like Obama worked, like we worked, and this time we will beat those incumbents because:
- We have been trained to fundraise
- To run a field operation
- To educate the voting public
- To fight MSM distortions
- To register voters who have been too disgusted to vote in years
- We know how to target independent voters
- We can and will recruit and fundraise from Democrats and independent voters who, obviously, support real people and do not support corporate lobbyists – or they would be registered Republicans, for Pete’s sake!
If you had a role in the volunteer forces that elected Obama, tell them. If you were a delegate, tell them. If you are a member of any Democratic caucus/constituency (Latino, LGBT, African-American, Labor, Women, Disabled, etc.), tell them. If you traveled to one or more states to help elect Obama, tell them.
And tell them "Enough!"