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July 13, 2007
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Political Priorities ·
Fair
Elections and Open Government ·
Fair Taxes
and Competent Spending ·
Investment
for Productivity ·
Quality
Health, Education, Jobs, Income and Retirement ·
Environmental
Protection and Energy ·
Personal
Security and Equal Rights ·
Justice and
Peace Everywhere ·
International
Cooperation and Leadership Conservatives oppose
all of these. Table
of Contents ** featured articles We Need More Correspondents and Members Commentaries from Our Members Sarajane Siegfriedt – Campaign for Clean Candidates ** Craig Salins – Clean Elections Campaigns Are
Working Chris Stedman – Ron Paul Is Consistent, Not Democrats Joe Lane – On Our Federal Debt Liberals and Democrats Eric Oemig – Master of Appropriate Technology ** Our Candidates Need Better Voter Databases ** Republican Beliefs, Mostly Nonsense Rodney Tom Joins Darcy Burner to Beat Dave Reichert Nation and World What about Republican Obstructionism? ** Pelosi–Reid ‘Get-Out-of-Iraq’ Strategy is Winning ** Our Iraq War Is Costing You $40 Per Month Economy flat. Profits and Stocks Up. Why? Labor Unions Struggle to Unite Globally State and Local Local Social and Democratic Party Pioneers ** Links to
Interesting Current News Our Liberal Spirit Recommended Books Vigiling to Bring Our
Troops Home Alive
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We Need More Correspondents and Members
Our
membership includes virtually no one associated with environmental
organizations such as the Sierra Club, Futurewise, and others. They seem little involved in Democratic party
politics, so aren’t encountered at political meetings. We have a few labor union members, but not
nearly enough to reflect their numbers.
We also have few ethnic minorities, and have found in canvassing that
they are generally not politically involved.
We do have gay and lesbian members, perhaps proportionate to their
presence in our
We need correspondents in all these
areas (environmental, labor unions, ethnic minorities and gay and lesbians) to
inform us of their concerns, proposals and activities. Please
recommend correspondents to us (their names and emails) and help recruit
members from these groups.
Commentaries From
Our Members
Published in
Campaign
for Candidates Who Vow to Run ‘Clean’
As a community
activist, I am grateful for Chris McGann’s research into lobbying dollars spent
in
We seem to be
divided into two camps: those of us who realize that our democracy is for sale
to the highest bidder and are too discouraged to do anything about it, and
those who are so angry that they feel they must do something about it. I’m in the latter camp.
This unwarranted
power means we won’t have health care for everyone because health care
providers, insurers and big Pharma are collectively the biggest gorilla in
The public can
take back the campaign process by funding it for any candidate who wishes to
run “clean,” using a few tax dollars – about $6 apiece – in exchange for not
raising private, special-interest money.
The real benefit
(in
Clean Elections Programs Are Working.
Other states are getting on
the bandwagon –