Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D. MA) in support of her colleagues, U.S. Senators Sherrod Brown (D. OH), Tammy Baldwin (D. WI), Bob Casey, Jr. (D. PA), Amy Klobuchar (D. MN) and Tina Smith’s (D. MN) re-election campaigns:
It’s not easy to stand up to the big banks. They have power everywhere in Washington, and they are used to getting their way.
So I want to recommend five Democratic senators who have been fighting their hearts out for you this week: Sherrod Brown from Ohio, Tammy Baldwin from Wisconsin, Bob Casey from Pennsylvania, and Amy Klobuchar and our new Senator Tina Smith from Minnesota.
Will you chip in right now to Sherrod, Tammy, Bob, Amy, and Tina’s 2018 re-election campaigns to thank them for standing up to Wall Street? Even $5 makes a big difference.
Sherrod, Tammy, Bob, Amy, and Tina have worked their tails off trying to stop the Senate’s dangerous “Bank Lobbyist Act” to roll back Wall Street reform.
They remember the millions of people who lost their jobs, their homes, and their life savings due to Wall Street’s reckless greed – and they’ve fought back for working families all across the country.
It would have been easy for any of these five Senators to just go along with the big Wall Street banks. The Republicans have the votes to pass their bill. Sherrod, Tammy, Bob, Amy, and Tina probably would have made a lot of big banks and big bank PACs and big bank lobbyists very happy.
But they didn’t make the big banks happy. They stood up and they fought back.
And here’s the deal: Standing up to the big banks could have big consequences. All five of them already have tough, expensive re-election campaigns this November in states that Donald Trump either won or almost won in 2016. A vote against Wall Street is like putting out the welcome mat and asking the right-wing Super PACs to punch you in the teeth.
Tammy, Sherrod, Bob, Amy, and Tina don’t have billionaire donors bankrolling their campaigns. Their campaigns are fueled by the people they fight for every day: working people across the country. That’s why it’s so important that we step up and have their backs.
Tammy Baldwin, Sherrod Brown, Bob Casey, Amy Klobuchar, and Tina Smith are fighting for working people across the country – and they need our help now more than ever. Will you chip in $5 – or whatever you can afford – to thank them and help them fight back?
Thanks for being a part of this,
Elizabeth
Click here to donate to Brown, Baldwin, Casey, Klobuchar and Smith’s campaigns.