Help Progressives Win is a WEEKLY column,
posting at 9 am Pacific Standard Time each Saturday.
There are thousands of Progressive candidates running for office across America in 2016, and they need your help to win.
Please don’t forget those running for office in your city and county this coming year — those down-ballot races make a big difference in your daily life, from deciding which Traffic Engineer to hire this spring which translates into which potholes get fixed on your daily commute to work; to which Port Commissioner gets elected and has a massive amount of influence determining if a foreign corporation wins a bid to build and maintain a new Oil Terminal at the port in your town, putting the safety and health of your family and those of all your fellow residents at risk, just to line the pockets of investors on another continent!
So please step up and make some time in your busy schedule to help local candidates, who often have no resources or staff. You can find a local candidate by contacting your Local County Democratic Party. If you don’t know how to find yours, start at at the website of the DNC and their link to State Parties.
Click on your state and look for a Get Local link, like this:
It begins right at home in our towns and cities and with our own family, friends and circle of acquaintances. Far too many of our fellow citizens refuse or forget to vote regularly. They tell themselves “it just doesn’t matter if I vote, no one listens to me anyway. Besides, I HATE politics. None of those politicians know what my life is like and they don’t really care about my family or our problems.”
The following candidates for office DO CARE and they are espousing the policies and ideas which will help those dejected non-voters. But they need your help to be successful, to reach out to the millions who just can’t be bothered to be participants in their own democracy. So please, consider helping these candidates in any of the following ways…
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All three of these actions are helpful to a candidate trying to reach a larger audience or promote an event or action. Candidates need money to put on events and to pay salaries for staff and to buy the signs and ads which help to spread the messages they are putting out to the prospective voters in their city, county or state.
We need to start banging the drum for next year’s Progressive candidates today in order to have enough victories next November to stave off or even undo the advancement of the conservative lunatics who inhabit the current version of what’s left of the Republican Party.
Here are this week’s PROGRESSIVE CANDIDATES
They need your help TODAY, to win THIS November
Bernie Sanders
Candidate for US President
Campaign website: www.BernieSanders.com
Facebook page: Facebook.com/BernieSanders
Twitter: @BernieSanders
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a future to believe in
Bernie Sanders is a Democratic candidate for President of the United States. In 2006, he was elected to the U.S. Senate after 16 years as Vermont’s sole congressman in the House of Representatives. Bernie is now serving his second term in the U.S. Senate after winning re-election in 2012 with 71 percent of the vote.
In Congress, Bernie has fought tirelessly for working families, focusing on the shrinking middle class and growing gap between the rich and everyone else. Bernie has been called a “practical and successful legislator” and he was dubbed the “amendment king” in the House of Representatives for passing more amendments than any other member of Congress. As chairman of the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, Bernie worked across the aisle to “bridge Washington’s toxic partisan divide and cut one of the most significant deals in years.” In 2015, Democratic leadership tapped Bernie to serve as the caucus’ ranking member on the Senate Budget Committee.
Bernie lives in Burlington, Vermont with his wife Jane. He has four children and seven grandchildren.
His grassroots-driven campaign has already received over 2 million donations (under $30 on average), the most in US presidential campaign history. None of them from large corporations or SuperPACs.
If you want to see real, progressive change in America in 2016 and beyond, choose the candidate who is ready, willing and able to start us down that road on January 21, 2017…
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Heather Way
Candidate for State House
Texas State
49th State House District
Campaign website: www.VoteHeatherWay.com
Facebook page: unknown
Twitter: @hwayaustin
Where is the District?
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We Need Strong Leaders Who’ll Fight For A Fair Society, REAL REFORM & REAL RESULTS
From her campaign website:
I’m Heather Way. I’m an Elizabeth Warren Democrat. I’m running for State Representative because we need strong leadership to fight for progressive values at the Capitol – fighting for people instead of big banks, big oil, and big corporations.
The one percent have plenty of friends in the Legislature. We need bold leaders who’ll fight for the rest of us.
I’m a long-time community advocate, a UT law professor, a legislative reformer, and a PTA mom. I’ve helped create and pass state legislation, successfully defended our neighborhood schools, and led the reform of numerous laws to protect families and those in need. I have a record of standing up for our community – and getting results. It would be an honor to work for you in the Texas Legislature.
—Heather Way, Democrat For State Representative, HD-49
Heather Way has had a remarkable career as an agent of change and progressive reform. After graduating at the top of her class at UT Law School, she clerked for Judge William Wayne Justice, a towering figure in advancing civil rights in Texas. As a young lawyer with Legal Aid, she fought for the civil rights and dignity of low-income families. As a UT Law professor, she has led the development of progressive policies at the Capitol and City Hall. She and her husband Bill Christian are raising two sons in Austin public schools.
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Finally, your host, who is also running for office. You can see my full entry at this link
Angela Marx
Candidate for US House
Washington State
3rd Congressional District
Campaign website: www.Angie4Congress.com
Facebook page: Facebook.com/Angie4Congress
Twitter: @AngieinWAState
TOGETHER, WE CAN DO GREAT THINGS!
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If you have a favorite progressive candidate who should be featured here, please leave me a name and a race (State/County/City) in a comment, so that I can feature them in a future edition of Help Progressives Win.