Luck won't work with a stacked deck. It will take a revolution.
These self serving crooks are never going to go straight without a fight.
Ron Wilson
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nurev Ind Research" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2000 11:27 PM
Subject: [CTRL] What a pathetic democracy.
> 6/7/00
>
> If we're REAL lucky we can get the biggest, most corrupt government on
earth to
> pass laws that will shut down one of its most lucrative operations.
Legalized
> bribery.
>
> How to do this?
>
> By encouraging the self same slime to accept ' finance reform ' or some
watered
> down facsimile thereof, as a rider on the Space Based Weapons Bill, A.K.A.
Son
> of Star Wars, A.K.A. SDI.
>
> Is this what Capitalism has done to the American democratic experiment?
>
> Granny D has overexerted herself on her long admirable journey across
America.
> Let the bastards stink from the head. SDI is a cure much worse than the
disease.
>
> Joshua2
> =============
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Dennis Burke
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2000 1:01 PM
> Subject: Message from Granny D
>
> Dear Dennis, please send this out as soon as you can to my friends list.
> Doris
>
>
> Dear Friend,
>
> John McCain called to say he and Sen. Feingold will try to attach their
> soft money ban as an amendment on a big Defense Authorization bill today
in
> the U.S. Senate. John and Russ are sticking with this effort, and I think
> we should help them as much as possible by calling our own U.S. Senators
> and saying we care about campaign reform and we want them to vote in favor
> of the McCain-Feingold bill as an amendment to the defense bill.
>
> I know that long distance phone calls are expensive, but I hope you can do
> it anyway. All you have to do is call the Senate switchboard and they will
> put you through. If you forget their names, just ask the operator to help
> you. All they need is the name of your state, of course. There are two
> senators from your state, so two calls would be grand, but one would
> certainly help.
>
> I am very appreciative of any effort you can make on this. Time is very
> important! It may happen today or tomorrow!
>
> Very sincerely,
>
> Doris Haddock
>
>
>
> Ps. The Capitol switchboard is 202-225-3121. Also, if you can send this
> along to your friends, please do.
>
> Pps. Sen. McCain refused to attend a Bush fundraiser in Arizona last week
> because soft money would be raised in the room. I think that was the right
> thing to do. I hope some Dem. Senators will do the same in regard to Mr.
> Gore's soft money events.
>
> Pps. Here is a short speech I gave in Boston today, to try to help them
> save their campaign reform law, passed by the voters 2-to-1, from the
Mass.
> House, which is trying to gut it! If you live in Mass, I hope you will
> contact your state House member!!
>
>
> <?fontfamily><?param Helvetica>Thank you,
>
> We elect our representatives to represent our values and our needs in
> shaping public policy and allocating community resources. In this work,
the
> regular citizen doesn't stand a chance if elected representatives must
> first go to wealthy special interests to fund their campaigns. The
> representation game is over before it begins.
>
> It is nothing particularly new. But in the past, the wealthy lived among
> us. We shopped in their stores on Main Street and their children went to
> grade school with ours. We shared the same community interests and values.
>
> We are now talking about inhumane organizations of inhuman scale and
> international allegiance. They care not if our main streets or our
families
> prosper or if they blow away. We must not have these monsters influencing
> our community decisions. We must not allow them to provide funds for our
> candidates, where those funds will deny us proper representation.
>
> We struggle here for the very survival of representative democracy. The
> people of Massachusetts have seen this problem and they have acted at the
> ballot box to create a new way to fund candidates, free of excessive
> influence by wealthy special interests.
>
> But those same wealthy interests have their agents in this state house,
and
> they will destroy what the people have done at the ballot, if they can. It
> is called the overturning of an election, and the method of this coup is
> the continuing use of campaign contributions to corruptly purchase public
> policy.
>
> The people have have spoken clearly in favor of this historic reform. Did
> the members of the House not hear them? Do they need for the people to
> speak again--this time in the coming House elections?
>
> At the ballot box, the people have provided for the public financing of
> candidates who choose to say No to all special interest campaign
donations.
> Their action comes at a time when citizens believe that their voices in
> government are drowned out by floods of special interest money, and they
> are right. No one seriously argues that point anymore--the flood is too
> great Pubic interest groups on the left and right, from the Cato Institute
> to Common Cause, agree that, for every dollar given to a candidate by a
> special interest group, over ten dollars in special tax breaks are given
in
> return. This is nothing less than full public financing, but it is a poor
> system of public financing. By directly funding qualified campaigns with
> public funds, we can eliminate nine of the ten dollars paid by taxpayers
> --now paid in the form of tax loopholes for special interests.
>
> Any true conservative would trade a corrupt system of public financing for
> a clean one that costs the taxpayers one-tenth as much.
>
> Any true American would trade a corrupt system that deprives Americans of
> their proper representation and therefore of their fundamental political
> freedom, for a reformed system that makes our politics once again the
arena
> of our ideas, not our billfolds.
>
> Thank you.
>
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