FW: Dear Elected Official who claims Democratic Party affiliation,

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From:  steve banyai <>
To:  steve bonzai <>, ANNE <>
Subject:  Dear Elected Official who claims Democratic Party affiliation,
Date:  Thu, 19 Jan 2006 16:50:43 -0800 (PST)

Dear Elected Official who claims Democratic Party
affiliation,

It's time for you to put up or shut up. If you are an
elected official who calls yourself a Democrat, it's
time for you to stop worshiping at the alter of the
swing voter and your corporate masters and start
fearing the rank and file.

If you do not support ending the madness in Iraq, go
find another party.

If you do not support filibustering Alito who will
turn over the last freedoms we have to protect
ourselves from the corporate elite,
go find another
party.

If you do not support impeaching a president who has
violated the U.S. Constitution, go find another party.

If you do not support a national health care plan that
insures everyone, go find another party.

If you do not support a progressive revenue plan that
taxes corporate wealth instead of personal income, go
find another party.

If you do not support the rights of women to decide on
personal matters of health without the government
looking over her shoulder, go find another party.

If you do not support a clean and renewable energy
plan that favors the environment over the needs of the
corporate elite, go find another party.

If you do not support open and fair elections that can
be audited, go find another party.

If you do not support restrictions on the limited
liability charter of
corporations and returning
individual rights to the people, where they belong, go
find another party.

These are non negotiable. Obviously, we all have
differences about how to achieve these items, but I am
pretty sure that going on Sunday morning talk shows
isn't a strategy. Talk's cheap, it's time to start
acting like Democratic representatives of the working
and middle class, rather than a frightened little
groveler at the feet of the corporate elite.

Signed,
Rank and File Democrats who are sick of feeling
powerless.  We put you in office, and we can take you out.

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