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size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> discuss-bounces@paa-tx.org
[mailto:discuss-bounces@paa-tx.org]<B>On Behalf Of </B>Tami<BR><B>Sent:</B>
Monday, May 28, 2007 7:45 AM<BR><B>To:</B> PAA Discuss List<BR><B>Subject:</B>
Re: [PAA-Discuss] Precinct Workers Against-Pro-War Dems<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>I
looked over the list of who voted for this and the Democratic traitors in
Texas are: Gene Green, Sylvestre Reyes and Ruben Hinojosa. <BR><BR>
<DIV><SPAN class=gmail_quote>On 5/28/07, <B class=gmail_sendername>zappa2004
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<TD vAlign=top width="80%"><B><FONT face=Verdana size=2>May 26, 2007
at 20:49:33</FONT></B><BR>
<P><A onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"
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<P><FONT face=Verdana size=2><BR>What to do with the betrayal Thursday of
Congressional Democrats (90 in the House; 37 in the Senate) who voted to
pass the Iraq Supplemental<BR>II-"giving the Bushies another blank cheque to
continue their oil war to<BR>colonize Iraq (Johnson is still incapacitated;
Schumer was in NY being<BR>treated for Lyme's disease).</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Verdana size=2>I've read fury-filled blogs, messages from John
Edwards. And listened to today's enraged listeners/hosts on Air America.
Some are talking about quitting the Democratic party and politics
altogether. Some say they're going to join the Green party or
Independents-"or even the Republicans ("might as well because they still
control Congress"). Many like me have been tossing any pitch for
contributions to the Democratic National Committee, both the House and
Senate Democratic party's campaigns, and this week, Ted Kennedy's pitch for
the Committee for a Democratic Majority.-</FONT></P>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2>But it's been the Edwards and Kucinich
campaigners on their websites and organizations such as United for Peace and
Justice that urge far different action to get the attention of those
gutless- wonders we worked to get re-elected and who are terrified of
Cheney, Rove, Bush, the Republican National Committee, and our own traitor,
Rep. Rahm Emanuel, the voice of the Democratic Leadership; Council and all
the big lobbying donors who are moving their money to the Democratic
National Committee.- Every last Congressional Dem who voted for the
Supplemental knows full well that the Bushies/Pentagon have plenty of-
tide-over money to take up the funding slack. And, second, that they will
pull the kids out of Iraq rather than run short of materiél.-<BR><BR>Less
than an hour after the Senate roll call was announced, Edwards contacted all
of his supporters about this "serious blow." He's been on the hustings for
months saying that the first Supplemental should have been sent back
repeatedly until the public realized it was Bush who was flouting the voting
public's demand an immediate deployment out of Iraq. Said he: "After
tonight, one thing is now perfectly clear: No one else is going to end this
war for us. Bush will not listen. Congress will not fight. There's no one
left to lead the country now but we the people." He reminded us that we
enraged Dems "don't have the luxury of getting discouraged." And to think of
ways to change what just happened in that cave-in vote that gave the
Administration its blood money.<BR><BR>In talking to my cohorts at
Portland's South Side DFA MeetUp group, two ideas turned up to hit those-
"aye"-voting Democrats where they live-"aside from giving Rahm Emanuel the
same kind of pounding that ultimately frightened Pelosi, Clinton, and Obama
into voting against HR 2206.<BR><BR>1) A- Precinct Worker Strike in the U.S.
from July-August This Year:-Considering that grass-roots Dems probably make
up only 3% of party contributors, they'll never be concerned if we threaten
to close the purse. But they will be monumentally concerned if precinct
workers strike chiefly refusing to canvass or work phone banks.- In our
county, 66% of the districts have no precinct workers at all; a strike of
even half of the remainder would be devastating to the local Democratic
party organization. And if done all over the state, we certainly can
literally "scare up Congressional votes" on Part II of the September
Supplemental.<BR>The threat in July/August:-No
canvassing/phonebanking-"except for each person's- individual candidate.
Until the primaries are over. And then if the leadership is still
"weak-tea", in the second session of Congress, threaten not to lift a finger
for the presidential election from September-October 2008. Especially for
Congressional candidates who passed HR 2206.-<BR><BR>The black list of
Thursday's betrayers can be found on the following URL:<BR><A
onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"
href="http://thomas.loc.gov/home/rollcallvotes.html"
target=_blank>http://thomas.loc.gov/home/rollcallvotes.html</A><BR><BR><BR>Party
leaders in state and national organizations take precinct workers for
granted-"always-"for the grunt work of an election campaign. They
desperately need worker-bees, as those of us in the trenches know so well.
Thousands of us who worked to get that Dem majority last November feel
particularly outraged, hopefully enough to turn on the spineless legislators
and presidential candidates who, like those in other countries, do fight
when election fraud is apparent. We'll never forgive Kerry, a candidate
forced on us by the DLC with the slogan "he's electable," who wiped his
hands of us and the campaign the morning after the 2004 election was stolen
once again by electronic machine fraud in Ohio, Georgia, North Carolina,
Florida, and New Mexico.-<BR><BR>With so many primaries rearranged now to
the first of the year and Part II of the Supplemental coming due for a vote
in September (when Bush reports that things are coming right along on at
least one benchmark), the time to strike fear in the hearts of these
Democratic traitors probably should begin July 4. Let's scare the hell out
of them with a precinct workers strike so that the 2d session of Congress
won't vote Bush a dime.--<BR><BR>Sue Udry, spokesperson for UfPJ, emailed me
this morning that she's in "total" agreement that some sort of "electoral"
strategies need to be developed "where groups are connected to the
Democratic party and have some sort of power over precinct workers and
contributors." Her caveat was that the peace groups are totally disconnected
from party structures, however, though this idea will go on the table for
the UfPJ's national meeting.<BR><BR><BR>2) Lobby Hard to Get Tough
Congressional Leadership: We need an arm-twisting, powerful person like a
neo Lyndon Baines Johnson in both houses. What we've got now is Sen. Harry
("weak-tea") Reid in the Senate and Rep. Nancy ("Whatever the DLC wants,
I'll do") Pelosi- in the House. We're for Sen. Pat Leahy and one or the
other of Reps. Jim McGovern and Rush Holt now that Marty Meehan is resigning
July 1 to become chancellor of UMASS/Lowell.- With Tom Davis as whip (he
didn't wilt before the poor-pitiful-Pearl performance of Monica Goodling).
He's co-sponsor with Adam Schiff of the no-confidence in Gonzales bill that
had 117 co-sponsors as of this morning. Now there's a worthy successor to
LBJ.--<BR><BR>My suggested sign for striking precinct workers as they circle
the county/state/national Dem offices is below the line. So let's not get
mad, folks. Let's get even and either threaten to drive them out of Congress
in 2008 with this 5/24 albatross and all the KIAs/Woundeds in Iraq between
that date and July 4.-<BR><BR>Barbara Ellis, Portland
OR<BR>________________________________________<BR>Suggested strike
sign:-<BR><BR><BR><FONT color=#ff0000 size=6>Precinct
Workers<BR>Against-<BR>Pro-War Dems</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<BR>Tammera Halphen<BR><BR>The Democratic Party is a BIG TENT, but there is NO
ROOM for those <BR>who advance the agenda of THE RICH (Corporate Owners) at
the EXPENSE of LABOR and the POOR.<BR><BR>In EVERY case, "Barriers to Trade"
and "Restrictions on Corporations" were created to protect something valuable!
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