TAKE ACTION: Help Find the Missing Democrats

Submitted by Shayne Munger on August 4, 2005 - 4:00pm.

Impeachment - Congress

Activists and fellow progressives;

Please take the action suggested in the following post, ( I have) from David Sirota's Blog. Let's tell these turncoat, Republican-cloned and corporate owned DLC Democrats that they are missing in action and a disgrace to the Democratic Party!

From the blog:

TAKE ACTION: Help Find the Missing Democrats

The Campaign for America's Future (CAF) today launched a letter-writing campaign, asking progressives to e-mail the chiefs of staffs of the Democratic Senators and Congressmen who have been consistently selling out America's middle class with their votes, and thus undermining the Democratic Party. Most of these Democrats are safe-seat Democrats on the list of Democrats that I previously noted were among the most egregiously disloyal in Congress. They and other nominal Democrats need to be shown that there are grassroots consequences when they undermine their party and the American people.

Go to CAF's special site at:

http://action.ourfuture.org/action/index.asp?step=2&item=27418

Let these Democrats know that they won't ever get to the majority if they keep undermining their party and selling out ordinary Americans.

Great idea. Done and bump!

Submitted by Bill Harding (not verified) on August 4, 2005 - 7:14pm.

Great idea. Done and bump!

The "Missing Six" Dems Sold us Down the River...

Submitted by CactusPat on August 6, 2005 - 6:18am.

Got the email from Borosage at CAF, alternate link suppled, http://action.ourfuture.org/ctt.asp?u=163808&l=101985
The "Missing Six" sold us all down the river...

The issues where the six Democrats went missing were the Bankruptcy Bill, the so-called Tort Reform bill, CAFTA and the Energy Bill -- all legislation cobbled together by corporate lobbies and all of it serving the few and undermining the many. Each piece of legislation endorsed by the missing six insults the basic progressive values that should define the Democratic Party.

>> The Bankruptcy Bill punishes the victims of financial catastrophe by allowing credit card companies to collect from them even after they are driven into bankruptcy from the loss of a job or a medical catastrophe. It is simply obscene that the missing six chose to stand with usurious credit card companies rather than working families in distress.

>> The so-called tort reform legislation severely limits the right of citizens to sue a corporation that does them harm through negligence, fraud or malfeasance. In the midst of the worst corporate scandals since the Gilded Age, it is outrageous that the missing six chose to protect corporations from the innocent citizens who are their victims.

>> The Central American Free Trade Agreement, CAFTA, extends the failed trade policies that have made America the world's largest debtor. We now are borrowing nearly $2 billion a day from foreign creditors, debts our children will work to pay off. CAFTA passed the House of Representatives by a single vote, meaning that each of the missing six House members is personally responsible for its passage.

>> The Energy Bill -- a business as usual, smarmy grab bag of corporate subsidies -- leaves America more dependent on foreign oil, does nothing for rising gas prices and surrenders leadership in the green markets of the future. Instead of focusing investments in the energy industries of the future, the missing six chose to lard billions in subsidies on oil companies already wallowing in record profits.

btw, the "Missing Six" are -
Clarine Nardi-Riddle, Chief of Staff, Office of Sen. Joe Lieberman

Colin Strother, Chief of Staff, Office of Rep. Henry Cuellar

Elizabeth Burks, Chief of Staff, Office of Sen. Blanche Lincoln

Jameel Aalim Johnson, Chief of Staff, Office of Rep. Gregory Meeks

Rita Jaramillo, Chief of Staff, Office of Rep. Ruben Hinojosa

Vickie Walling, Chief of Staff, Office of Rep. John Tanner

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