This is a copy of an email I sent to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, one of your "New" Democrats. But my email is also for all you New Democrat free (unfair) traders!
Shayne Munger
Leader Pelosi, The following position you are taking is misguided and ill conceived:
"House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) privately warned Democrats last month that a vote for CAFTA is a vote to stay in the minority."
By taking this position you are assuming that the Democrats need the endorsement and the campaign contributions of the multi-national corporations to win elections. This reasoning has led to the corporate control of our government. Why are you "New" Democrats so afraid to stand up for the working American and the Middle Class of this country? The majority of people in the country think that we are going down the wrong path and also feel that the economy is in trouble. This includes Independents as well as Democrats. The New Democrats' position is that unless the Democrats support globalization and these unfair trade agreements we are going to lose elections because we aren't "centrist" enough. That's crap! If that is true why is it that since the party started supporting this free trade philosophy (with NAFTA) in the mid 90's we've lost both houses of Congress, the Presidency and now maybe the Supreme Court? We have lost our base values of supporting the little guy and positions that are good for the American people rather than good for corporate America and the wealthy. We have "sold out" to the multi-national corporations.. This situation is causing a severe attack on the American Middle Class and the American family! The answer is to go back to getting support from the populist and progressive grassroots of our party, we will get the campaign contributions and the support we need from the average American that you are supposed to represent. Howard Dean has shown that by the use of the internet that is possible. Please abandon this multi-national corporation give away policy that is sending both American jobs and American industry to foreign countries at the
expense of the American worker, American security and the economic future of
our children and grandchildren! Get out of the pocket of Corporate America and vote against CAFTA! Also get us out of NAFTA, the WTO and the Chinese Trade Agreement. In addition rescind the fast track authority that was given to the Administration. Under the Constitution it is Congress's responsibility to regulate trade with foreign countries not the Administration. Why don't you take back that authority and start using it?
Shayne Munger
