Support Donna Edwards for Congress
Please take a moment to support Donna Edwards and tell our wimpy Congress to stand up. This is great email from Matt Stoller, BlogPac:
“I remember watching Nancy Pelosi sworn in as the first female Speaker of the House. What a moment, as the new Speaker surrounded herself with children and gaveled in what we thought would be new direction for America. While I knew that Democrats would have problems passing legislation, I didn’t realize that the Democratic leadership would capitulate so consistently to a President with a 24% approval rating without putting up a better fight. I thought impeachment was unlikely, but I didn’t realize they would expand his wiretapping authority, provide hundreds of billions of dollars of blank check war funding, and even approve of torture. But they did.
And so now it’s our time to show them that frustration is real, that we’re not going to be quietly taken for granted, and that Democrats must stand for the values on which they were elected or they will be removed from office. And that’s where Pelosi comes in, because she’s actively making the caucus worse.
Donna Edwards is a progressive primary challenger running to knock of a conservative Democrat named Al Wynn in Maryland’s fourth district, a heavily Democratic district. Wynn backed the Bankruptcy Bill, the Bush Energy Bill, and the war, and was a prime mover behind eliminating net neutrality and the estate tax. Last year, Donna nearly beat Wynn, losing by only 3 percentage points. This year, she is going to put the “better” into “more and better Democrats.”
Even with this clear progressive taking on an incumbent in a Democratic district, on Saturday, Nancy Pelosi held a fundraiser for Al Wynn.
A number of blogs – Dailykos, Crooks and Liars, Firedoglake among others, and ColorofChange.org, are raising $100K for Donna to counter Pelosi’s embrace of Wynn. So far, 1,969 people have given $89,757 to send a message to the Democratic leadership that they need to do their job. We just need a few more people to chip in to meet the goal. Would you put in $30 to build a better Democratic party?
http://www.actblue.com/page/betterdemocrats?refcode=Blogpac
I ran into Speaker Pelosi at an event yesterday, and when I mentioned this fundraiser, she turned her back on me. She is feeling pressure from this, real pressure that she cannot avoid. It’s not like the emails and phone calls we send to Congress.
Please chip in a few bucks if you can. This is working.”
http://www.actblue.com/page/betterdemocrats?refcode=Blogpac
Is this still true? Was it ever?
“It still seems to be amazingly hard for many women to say clearly what they feel most deeply, and to find the right words for what to them is most acute and actual, without saying too much or too little and without saying it with defiance or apology.”
Erik Erikson, Womanhood and the Inner Space, 1968
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