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Just because you are a Latino, doesn’t mean you are a Latino . .

January 27, 2012 in 2012 Elections

Ask Marc Rubio

No Somos Rubios.

How quickly some forget their roots.  SHAME ON Marco Rubio!

Marco Rubio: “I do not, and will not ever support blanket legalization of illegal immigrants. . .”

I wonder where Mr Rubio thinks that thousands of Cubans would be today if they weren’t the beneficiaries of what amounted to not only blanket legalization but over a billion dollars to these immigrants in government help? His parents emigrated to the USA in 1956 and became naturalized citizens. They were among the lucky ones who got out early.  But if “exceptions to the immigration laws” had not been made for thousands of Cubans, they and their descendants would not be living in the USA today.

The United States Congress passed the Cuban Adjustment Act in 1966. The Cuban Refugee Program provided more than $1.3 billion (approximately $4 billion in today’s dollars) of direct financial assistance. They also were eligible for public assistance, Medicare, free English classes, scholarships  and low-interest college  loans.   Some banks even pioneered loans for exiles who did not have collateral or credit but received help in getting a business loan. These loans enabled many Cuban Americans to secure funds and start up their own businesses.

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    Who was the biggest liar last night? Gingrich or Romney?

    January 27, 2012 in 2012 Elections

    Romney wins by a landslide for having told the most whoppers.  In other words, Romney is the biggest liar of them all by virtue of sheer volume.

    - Romney lied about not voting for a Democrat if there was a Republican on the ballot — He voted for Paul Tsongas in a Democratic primary in 1992 in the same election where President George H.W. Bush faced Pat Buchanan. [SOURCE WIKI]

    - He lied about telling us that he never said  his Massachusetts health care plan was a model for the nation — the truth is that he’s often said it was.

    - Romney claims that his great personal wealth is an asset to help America but he is not investing in America.  He has millions in offshore tax havens.  Such tax havens cost American taxpayers about $100 billion a year. [Source]

    - Romney lied about saying that he would not kick all the illegal immigrants out of the country. He has more than once, even during this debate season, said that if he were elected that he not only would he kick them out, he would veto the Dream Act.

    - Romney once again falsely accused Obama of saying “nothing” about the Palestinians launching rockets into Israel during a 2009 speech to the United Nations. [Here is a quote from Obama's 2009 address to the United Nations:  "We must remember that the greatest price of this conflict is not paid by us. It’s not paid by politicians. It’s paid by the Israeli girl in Sderot who closes her eyes in fear that a rocket will take her life in the middle of the night. It’s paid for by the Palestinian boy in Gaza who has no clean water and no country to call his own."]

    - Romney does not give a rat’s ass about the Latinos.  He even tried to make it sound like his father was a Mexican last night LOL.  Romney’s father was born in Chihuahua Mexico in 1907, the son of  USA Mormon missionaries.

    Note: In my opinion, no candidate can say out of one side of his mouth that he is for the Latino community and then out of the other side of his mouth say that he would veto the Dream Act if he were president.  Under the Dream Act,  young undocumented immigrants who have lived most of their lives in the United States and graduate from U.S. high schools would be eligible for a conditional six-year “path to citizenship” if they earn a college degree or serve two years in the military.  Romney has said that he would veto this bill .

    Another important point that the latinos of Florida especially should understand is that people migrate to other countries illegally under duress and in a matter of life and death for one of three main reasons:  1) war and/or the threat of a dictator such as Castro; 2) Unfair trade agreements that push people off their land such as NAFTA an unfair trade agreement that decimated the mexican corn farmers who could not compete with the heavily subsidized US agribusinesses such as ADM and Cargill; 3) Crop failure because of climate change.  People should not be castigated for trying to survive.

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    Thus, when it comes to volume, Romney wins.  However, if the lie(s) are to be measured by magnitude + the depth of psychopathic calculation and intent to deliberately deceive victims,  then Gingrich may hold the record for his lie that he balanced the budget

    Yes Gingrich, with the assistance of a Republican Congress and Bill Clinton did balance the budget–on the backs of the working people of the USA.  They “balanced” the budget by dipping into Social Security funds.  [More details of that here.]

    Of course, even Ron Paul left off the fact that while the majority of the working class pay Social Security tax on 100% of their income, the investor class don’t pay a dime of Social Security tax on amounts above $106,000 that they earn.

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    Speaking of Mitt’s Pseudo Latino Father, Newt gets a black mark for missed opportunity last night. Newt Gingrich is tying the wrong person to Saul Alinsky in his bizarre attacks on Barack Obama. BuzzFeed found old pictures of George Romney meeting with Saul Alinsky to discuss the grievances of the urban black poor.  [By the way, Saul Alinsky’s “crime” is helping the poor to organized their communities. Saul Alinsky has been compared to Thomas Paine as being “one of the great American leaders of the nonsocialist left.”   MORE

    Photos of Willard’s dad fraternizing with Saul Alinsky.

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    One thing is certain:  the tales of Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox pale in comparison to the tales told on the campaign trail.

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      About running for office as a 99%er

      November 18, 2011 in 2012 Elections

      As most of you know, I am planning to run for US Congress as a member of the 99% club against millionaire Pete Sessions, the current Republican Representative of the 32nd district in the state of Texas

      Someone wrote to me last night and asked me if I would answer two questions: 1) How did I hope to compete with the $2 million plus that Sessions will no doubt be throwing at his race and 2)  How do I answer the question that people are throwing away their votes if they vote for an Independent like me.

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      1)  I am not competing with Sessions for money or who can spend the most money on their campaign.  I am competing with Sessions for votes, for the hearts and minds and trust of the people that I am the best choice.  Pete Sessions certainly has far more money than I ever will. Think of me as the “Gandhi” underdog candidate only plumper, with more clothes and slightly more aggressive, but still in keeping with the nonviolent collaborative approach to solving the huge problems that our nation and indeed, the world, faces.

      I haven’t decided yet what I will do about the issue of money or even if I will need much money beyond what I can provide myself for my campaign. I don’t believe that the system is broken.  I believe that the people who run it are broken.  The system works just fine as long as it is not abused on behalf of special interests.   I’m hoping that I won’t need any beyond the few hundred dollars that it takes me to print out news pamphlets from time to time.  Do any of us really ever read those color brochures that swamp our mailboxes during Presidential election years?   I know that I don’t.  But I am certain that I will never ask the people in my district for more than $5.  If you think about it, that should be more than enough for any campaign and if you can’t get that, then you don’t have the support of the people.  The 435 Congressional Districts all over the USA average 600,000 people.  If even one third of the people in my district donated $5 to my campaign, that would be $1 million dollars.

      If I got that much money for my campaign, I would take volunteers to work to create a cooperative business for my district using those donations as seed money. That would be far better advertisement for my campaign than any fancy TV ads that I could run on corporate owned media.   Representatives are supposed to represent the constituents in their district–not themselves and not Wall Street corporations.

      Another part of my campaign:  no paid staff and no store front headquarters.  My campaign will operate out of my home and peoples homes who live in my district.  I want to establish new rules for running political campaigns in the USA and I plan to do it by example.  I’m not reading the Washington/Wall Street manifesto on how to run a campaign.  I’m blazing a new trail.

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      IF ANYTHING, AMERICANS “THROW AWAY THEIR VOTE” BY VOTING FOR A CANDIDATE OF EITHER PARTY

      2) As for the argument that Americans throw their vote away by voting for an Independent–well, that is an argument that both parties have used for years to control the people with fear and herd them into the party-run corrals.  However, the election of a Democratic majority in both houses in 2006 and  after three years of Obama, that fear should be removed.  Most Americans now see that the only real difference these days between a Democrat and a Republican is their rhetoric.  Their actions are indistinguishable.  

      It will be interesting in 2012 to watch the two parties try to distinguish themselves from each other.  After what Obama has done, Republican candidates are going to have a hard time making their “socialist” schtick stick.  After what Obama has done, Democrat candidates  are going to have a hard time presenting their party as “progressive.”

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      Republicans and Democrats Are Twins Separated at Birth and Reunited in 1987

      The Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) began in 1987 by the Democratic and Republican parties to establish the way that presidential election debates are run between candidates for President of the United States. The Commission is a non-profit, 501(c)(3) corporation as defined by Federal US tax laws, whose debates are sponsored by private contributions from foundations and corporations.

      Yes, you read that correctly.  The leadership of the Democrat and Republican parties formed a corporation whose purpose is to control the Presidential elections in the USA.  Further more, it is not funded by donations from people.  It is funded by Wall Street corporations.   Now do you get it?  Now do you understand, if you did not before, the Occupy Wall Street movement and why it is so important?

      THE DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS 2006 to 2009

      In 2006 We elected a democratic majority in BOTH houses to end the war in Iraq and bring all the troops home no later thanDecember of 2008.  And what did they do instead?  They continued to rubber-stamp every single one of Bush’s unfunded requests for military appropriations.  Furthermore, these “peaceniks” even voted to send 100,000 more soldiers over to Iraq.  That happened in the summer of 2007 when they had barely been in office half a year. Now how would a Republican Congress been worse?

      Then in 2008, we elected a Democratic President and what has he done?  Afraid that Obama won’t be re-elected?  I’m not.  I don’t care because I don’t see any difference between his leadership and that of someone like Romney.  and here are a few reasons why:

      HEALTH CARE
      He got a healthcare bill passed and it does help a tiny segment of those who can still afford private healthcare insurance–you can’t be ousted for pre-existing conditions  and people (again people whose jobs haven’t been shipped overseas) with children in college (again those who can afford it) can keep their children on their health policies.  But as for the majority?  Are you kidding?  It does N-O-T-H-I-N-G.  In fact, if anything, it penalizes them by forcing them in (2014 or 2016) to being forced to purchase what will amount to junk insurance from a Wall Street corporation–essentially providing Wall Street with 50 million new customers.

      TRADE AGREEMENTS
      Obama even outdid  Bill Clinton on NAFTA.  Obama passed not one but three devastating trade agreements. The Korean Trade agreement alone will ship 169,000 jobs overseas and will create a trade deficit of $16 billion dollars according to the Congressional Budget Office.  Now I ask you, what Republican President could have done better for Wall Street and worse for the American people?

      ON THE ISSUE OF IMMIGRANTS
      Don’t even get me started. . .

      In his seemingly never-ending quest to morph into a member of the Republican Party, President Obama has broken all prior records of any US President for deportation of undocumented immigrants. The Obama administration set a new record for deportations, removing nearly 400,000 undocumented immigrants in the last fiscal year. The Immigration and Customs Enforcement  removed 396,906 undocumented immigrants from the United States in the 2011 fiscal year, a slight increase from the previous year’s 392,826 removals.

      GUANTANAMO
      Bush and Cheney must be happy that Obama has kept their motel hell open for business.

      BUSH TAX CUTS FOR THE RICH
      Obama and a Democrat majority Congress in December of 2010 voted to extend the Bush tax cuts for the rich.  Do you think that a Republican President and Republican majority Congress would have done any different?  They wouldn’t.  These people in Washington today are one and the same.  Party means nothing other than a different style of rhetoric.

      OBAMA’S CABINET AND ADVISERS?
      He has a corporate stooge for Attorney General who got Chiquita Brands off the hook with a fine. If justice had been served they would be in jail today as accomplices to murder.  Vilsack, his Agriculture Secretary is a total corporate shill for Monsanto, one of the worst corporations in the world.  Obama chose as his “financial advisor”,  Jeffrey Immelt, CEO of GE, the largest Wall Street war contractor in the world and biggest Wall Street freeloader off the American people.

      I could go on and on, but this will have to suffice.  Other than rhetoric, where is the difference between Obama and a Republican?  Were does that distinction reside?  And Obama sets the standard for the party.  Ben Nelson (either one of them)–how different are they from a Republican?  and they are all on the take from Wall Street whether they are Democrat or Republican.

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        The Politics of Obama’s Hispanic Crackdown is not likely to play out well for him in 2012.

        October 30, 2011 in 2012 Elections, Immigration

         

        In his seemingly never-ending quest to morph into a member of the Republican Party, President Obama has broken all prior records of any US President for deportation of undocumented immigrants. The Obama administration set a new record for deportations, removing nearly 400,000 undocumented immigrants in the last fiscal year. The Immigration and Customs Enforcement  removed 396,906 undocumented immigrants from the United States in the 2011 fiscal year, a slight increase from the previous year’s 392,826 removals.

        A series of high-profile sweeps known as Operation Cross Check have netted thousands of what the Obama administration refers to as criminal aliens [Really?  789,732 criminals in past two years?  Such numbers stretch the limits of anyone's credulity--not because of the number, but that these are all "criminals".] And felony prosecutions for immigration crimes increased by 42 percent during President Obama’s first two years in office–and how much has THAT approach cost taxpayers?

        It seems to me that instead of taking a punitive approach that the 99% would be better served if our leaders busied themselves in passing legislation that created jobs for the 99% instead of passing legislation that makes criminals of a large segment of our population and then makes the remaining portion of the 99%  pay for their incarceration.  We need to replace our Congress with people whose thoughts are directed at pr0-active initiatives that benefit all instead of punitive solutions that benefit no one–except of course the 1% wealthy Wall Street investors who profit from such legislation.

        The Obama administration’s approach is good business for the Wall Street owned prison services like Corrections Corporation of America and their wealthy investors, but not so for the 99% of the American people whose taxes are spent on incarcerating these people and processing them out of the country.  Already the USA with 5% of the world’s population has 25% of the world’s population of incarcerated prisoners–a  costly proposition for the American taxpayer and another indication of the extent to which the USA has grown into a police state.  And who is paying to maintain this police state?  It’s the 99% while the 1% get rich off these investments.

        Other Disturbing Trends Resulting from the Obama Administration’s Hispanic Policies

        The Christian Science Monitor points out that [these policies] “. . .have profound implications for Hispanics – most of whom are in the United States legitimately, but some of whom make up the lion’s share of the 11 million illegal immigrants in America. In fact, Hispanics are now the majority group being sent to federal prison, largely because of the criminal prosecution of repeat border jumpers.

        Other disturbing trends, partially tied to the mass arrests of Hispanic male bread winners, are also emerging. For the first time, more Hispanic than white children are living in poverty. The unemployment rate for Hispanics is hovering around 25 percent. College-bound rates for Hispanic teenagers are flagging, and their grade school test scores are, on the whole, poor when compared with those of blacks, whites, and Asians. . .” [Source]

        Implications of this Harsh Stance Against Hispanics for 2012

        The stupid and self-destructive policies of the Obama Administration regarding their treatment of Latinos, ignores a two important political realities:

        1) The 99% don’t want to spend money putting people in jail and furthermore few and fewer Americans look upon prison as anything but a last resort solution that should be reserved for the worst of the worst. Our prisons are filled with people who should not be there in the first place.  The 99% want  legislators to spend money to create jobs.  Most of us realize that putting people in prison is not a wise solution in most cases. Americans spend $60 billion a year to imprison 2.2 million people — exceeding any other nation — but receive a dismal return on the investment, according to a report to be released by a commission urging greater public scrutiny of what goes on behind bars. A report, “Confronting Confinement,” by the National Prison Commission, says legislators have passed get-tough laws that have packed the nation’s jails and prisons to overflowing with convicts, most of them poor and uneducated. However, politicians have done little to help inmates emerge as better citizens upon release.  The consequences of that failure include financial strain on states, public health threats from parolees with communicable diseases, and a cycle of crime and victimization driven by a recidivism rate of more than 60%, the report says. The report can be found at http://www.prisoncommission.org

        2) The Latinos form a huge voter bloc–a statistical fact that seems to be ignored by all Presidential candidates except for Rick Perry. More than 6.6 million Latinos voted in the 2010 election—a record for a midterm—according to an analysis of new Census Bureau data by the Pew Hispanic Center.  The number of Latino eligible voters—adults who are U.S. citizens—also increased, from 13.2 million in 2000 to 21.3 million in 2010.

        Obama is dissing 21.3 million voters and so are all the other candidates except for Rick Perry.  Texas, under Rick Perry’s leadership has its own version of the Dream Act–a claim that no other state in the union  can make.  Perry has publicly criticized the notion of a border fence while Obama didn’t even bother to respond to a letter that the people of Brownsville sent to him in May of 2009 asking him to intervene on building “the Wall” that separates their community from Matamoros.  And Perry has actually had the courage to call other Republican candidates “hard-hearted” in their stance toward Latino immigrants.

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        The Obama administration’s punitive “law and order” solutions to immigration problems, which make George Bush look like an amateur drug-story cowboy by comparison, are particularly hypocritical when viewed in the light of the recent portion of NAFTA that just came into effect.

        Trucks from Mexico can now cross the borders into the USA

        Inspectors from the Texas Department of Public Safety have found a million violations in trucks coming from Mexico into El Paso, Texas between 2007 and 2011, according to a report by the El Paso Times. The report came just weeks before Mexican trucks will be allowed to begin shipping long-haul freight into U.S. territory.

        The first Mexican truck rolled into the U.S. last weekend (Oct 22, 2011) hauling a steel oil well drilling structure, heading for the Atlas Copco facility in Garland, Texas. The driver of the truck “waved from the cab, flashed a thumbs-up and thundered toward the bridge” as he crossed into the U.S. according to transportationnation.org.

        Allowing Mexican trucks to move into the U.S. may help drug violence to spill over from Mexico into the United States. The lawlessness of the drug cartels in Mexico have moved that country to the edges of being a failed state. Over 10,000 commercial vehicles were hijacked in Mexico in 2010, and drug cartels have become adept at cloning legitimate commercial vehicles to move drugs across the border. By allowing more trucks into the U.S. and allowing them to move more freely, it will only increase the  drug cartels to use them as a method for gaining greater access to the U.S. market for illegal drugs.

        NAFTA is just another one-way street to serfdom for the US workers

        Did you ever think about this way?  USA corporations are “people” only when that definition suits their purpose.  For example, USA corporation “people” are allowed to establish Maquiladoras (slave labor sweatshops usually located in border cities where assembly work is done for USA corporations).  USA corporation “people” are allowed to drive their trucks into the USA.  However, whereas the laws make it easy for  USA corporation “people” to “work” across the border, the same is not  to be said for individual Mexican citizens.  If they try to do this, they get put in jail.  In other words, the flow back and forth across the border is easy if you are rich and next to impossible if you are not.

        Putting people in jail has never in the history of the world been a successful solution to a social problem as it translates into oppression of victims–often of legislation passed by the rich.

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          Why Rick Perry is a Contender and Likely Winner

          October 20, 2011 in 2012 Elections


          Regardless the fervor with which the old guard neocon wing of the Republican Party have tried to beat life into tired old political horse Romney, that old horse is not stirring. As for Herman Cain, he is but a flash in the pan who,  like Romney is oblivious to the importance of the Latino vote, and thus they both badger Perry about his support of the Latino community making Perry look all the better to Latinos. Perry has even gone so far as to call the other Republican candidates “hard-hearted” in their stance on immigration.

          A chart from the Pew Foundation shows an accurate picture of the top three Republican contenders and you can see they there are all in the same range. Although Perry is in a downward trend at the moment, that can change at any moment–just ask some of his opponents from former races.  Also in the last 10 days since the chart below was created, Cain has begun a downward trend in the general direction of that 25% mark.

          These three rather lackluster candidates will all eventually settle to the same 25% range of public approval and positive news coverage. Perry, the master of winning when the order of the day is low expectations, will eek by with the Republican nomination for President just like he eeked out a 39% win for governor of Texas in 2006 when he was up against Carol Strayhorn, Kinky Friedman, and Chris Bell.

          In addition to his ability to stir the base as shown by his once 40% rating, Perry also has the best chance of capturing the most of the Latino votes–a critical requirement for capturing the presidency in 2012.  In fact, Perry has a better chance of capturing Latino votes than President Obama.  Perry signed the Texas Dream Act into Law. Perry has been critical of the border fence as a solution. And Obama?  He has not only broken every one of his promises to the Latino community, his administration has broken all records for deportations.  Thus far in 2011 over 400,000 migrants have been deported.

          According to the 2010 U.S. Census, the nation’s Latino population grew to more than 50 million, more than double its size in 1990, and up 46.3% since 2000. It is also the nation’s youngest ethnic group. The median age of Latinos is 27, while for non-Hispanic whites it is 42 and for non-Hispanic blacks it is 32. Among Latinos, a majority are bilingual.  The Latinos form a huge and important voting block in the USA.

          Univision, the largest Spanish-language network by far, continued to grow, reaching audience sizes that compete with the three major English-language broadcast networks (ABC, CBS and NBC). In 2011, it also announced the launch of a 24-hour Spanish-language news station. Univision is now the fifth-largest network in primetime audience in the United States. It is notable that none of the leading candidates helped their case with Latinos when they recently threatened to boycott Univision:  Mitt Romney, Rick Perry, Jon Huntsman, Herman Cain and Michele Bachmann have boycotted a proposed debate on Univision in January. Perry missed his chance on that one.  He should have kept his pie hole shut.  I don’t know what he was thinking.  I guess he wasn’t, but thinking has never seemed to be one of Perry’s strong points.  Yet, somehow he just schleps along and manages to win elections.

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          IFLW Comments

          There are those who say:  ”Oh but Texas is different. This is a national race.”   I say:  If you think that the voters in Texas are any different from any other Red state in the Union, you need to stop drinking that kool-aid.

          In fact, if you travel to the rural areas of ANY state in the union and you are going to see exactly the same voter profile that you see for the rural voters in Texas.  Perry is the native son for most of rural America.  Of all the candidates he is the most likely to capture the most of the necessary Latino votes.  Of all the candidates he is the most likely to capture all of the evangelical votes. Of all the candidates he is most likely to capture the majority of the rural vote.  And that is why, unless some wonderful alternative rises to take his place in the next two months, Rick Perry will eek out the Republican nomination for President.

          By the way, if you want to know why the Republicans captured the House in 2011, it was because they captured the rural vote.  The majority of the seats they captured were from rural districts.  I don’t think the deciders in the Republican Party will be forgetting that reality when they pick the nominee to push.  It’s obvious that they were hoping for Romney, but given that he has not risen to the occasion with the base, they will run the horse most likely to run the race–Rick Perry.

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            VOTE DEMOCRAT! They obviously need an even larger majority to combat the hatred and bigotry of the right.

            October 22, 2010 in Class War

            That’s right.  The GOP and the Tea Party anarchists do not represent freedom of religion.  They do not represent many of the laws that are currently in place to protect citizens from people like them.  AND these people are in the minority. The only power that we have over them is our vote.  That is our big stick.  They cannot buy our vote unless we are so stupid as to sell it to them.

            That’s right.  We have the 80/20 rule happening right now in the USA.   What we have in our nation today is about 20% of our nation trying to bully the other 80% and they are using the big stick of bigotry and hatred.  We also have big money and much of mainstream media behind these nut jobs.  What they DON’T have are the majority of Americans and that is why it is so important that you vote in November to preserve the principles on which this country was founded.

            If you are a senior citizen, black, Latino, or a woman who works for a living  and you vote for a GOP or a Tea Party candidate, you are casting a vote against your own best interests.  And you need to remember that we are the majority and that is why it is so important for you to vote.

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            We have GOP and Tea Party candidates all over the USA using every kind of sleazy tactic imaginable from the Koch brothers Tea Party sponsored hate speeches and defaced pictures of the President of the United States to attempts at voter suppression. We shouldn’t be too surprised by the Tea Party if you will remember that 1) it is bankrolled by the Koch brothers and 2) their father was one of the co-founders of the John Birch Society, a group who fought against the civil rights movement. These people and their side show bobs like Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck are manipulating the people’s rightful anger against our elected officials into a tool of profit for themselves.

            The John Birch Society morphed into such a vile organization in the 1950’s that all but a tiny handful of people turned away from it in disgust and that is exactly what the American people should do today:  Reject the ultra rich and their attempt to control our nation through their ultra right wing anti-democracy faux grassroots movements.

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            VOTER SUPPRESSION ATTEMPTS BY THE  GOP IN NEVADA

            The message behind a short-lived but highly publicized ad was clear: Latinos, stay home. Voter suppression isn’t usually marketed as voter empowerment. But in the ad by Latinos for Reform, an independent campaigning group led by career conservative Robert de Posada, the paradox was presented as plain sense: Because the Democrats haven’t delivered on immigration, exercise your right to vote by not doing so.

            Their advice, if followed in Nevada, would all but assuredly play to the benefit of the GOP, which has seen Hispanics move away from the Republican Party as they grow in the state electorate.  Thank God, one of the radio stations asked to run their vile ad refused to continue to run it and pulled it off the air.

            But the people are not stupid.  They are waking up to how the ultra rich are manipulating them.  The GOP attempt to suppress the Latino vote in Nevada has had a huge backlash and has energized a Hispanic voting bloc that may have been lethargic with a new and compelling reason to get out and vote — by and large, for Democrats.

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            Racist Slurs Abound this Campaign from GOP and Tea Party Candidates

            Many of the remarks featured coming out of the mouths of these Tea Party and Republican candidates this campaign season are even more disgusting than the “macaca moment” of George Allen in the Campaign of 2006.  In that campaign calling one of Webb’s assistance a “Macaca” lost Allen the race and his political career.  It put Jim Webb, the Democrat in the Senate.

            Yet it seems this year that GOP and Tea Party candidates are making racial slurs right and left and the media is not calling them on it.  Why?  It’s because the big money of the top 500 richest people in the USA want control of our government and they don’t care what they have to do to get it.  These people don’t give a damn about our nation and its people–all they give a damn about is their obscene and often ill-gained wealth.

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            In fact these people behind the GOP, Wall Street and the Tea Party movement don’t give a damn about anything but preserving their right to make a buck any way they can and that includes destroying our planet such as the Koch brothers seem bent on doing or starving millions of people all over the world to death as Goldman Sachs did in 2008.

            And Americans need to remember that the TARP bailout happened on George Bush’s watch in 2008–not President Obama’s.  Bush came like a lion with his huge tax cuts for the upper 1% and went out like a Lion with his $800 billion parting present to Wall Street.

            And Republicans who have done absolutely NOTHING for two years and who had control of our Congress for 12 years and the Presidency for 8 are bashing President Obama because he has not been able to entirely pull out nation out of the ditch that they have driven us into with their  war and deregulation of the financial industry. 

            Please!  if anything the last two years should have shown Americans that we need and even larger majority of Democrats in Congress.

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              Yeah right, GOP is so patriotic they are asking citizens to not exercise one of their most precious rights–to vote!

              October 19, 2010 in Class War

              WHY?

              Because they know there is no way in hell that they can defend racist, anti immigrant comments made by their candidates–especially Sharron Angle in Nevada, but candidates all over the nation, including Colorado.

              A third-party group headed by a GOP operative is out with a new Nevada ad spot encouraging Latinos in the state not to cast votes in this year’s midterm elections.

              Robert de Posada, president of Latinos for Reform and a prominent conservative operative and political analyst for Univision, has commissioned the ads in what he describes as a response to Hispanic resentment over the failure of Washington to address immigration reform despite repeated promises.

              “That message has to be denounced, its got to be thrown out,” President of the Hispanics in Politics organization, Fernando Romero told KTNV.

              “To ask a community, any community to silence their voice as a way to resolve or react during a time when their voice is most needed, is what makes all this reprehensible,” Luis Valera of UNLV’s Government Relations said, according to KTNV’s report.

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                by IfLizWereQueen

                Here’s some truth you won’t read in the Dallas Morning News! Democrats can win the Third US Congressional District!

                October 12, 2010 in Campaigning, Class War

                They can and will win if they don’t listen to the Republican truth benders from The Dallas Morning News.

                They can and will win if they are not discouraged by the cold shoulder that they get from the DNC who give donations from ALL Democrats to those races that they think have the best chances to win and not only ignore the other races but get mad at those candidates for not dumping some of their money into campaigns for the Party-selected candidates.   Of course  you are entitled to your opinion, but I say this is wrong.

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                JOHN LINGENFELDER CAN RETIRE SAM JOHNSON

                BUT ONLY IF PEOPLE LIKE YOU AND I GET OUT THERE AND SUPPORT HIM.

                For years the Democrats have been beaten down with the myth that we are outnumbered in the Third U.S. Congressional District.  This is not true. It is true that more Republicans than Democrats have voted in the last elections, but I don’t believe it is true that the Republicans outnumber the Democrats in the Third District and here are the statistics:

                Garland, a city included in the Third Congressional District, according to the U.S. 2010 census has a Hispanic or Latino population of 45.58%.  This amounts to 90,000 people.  In addition, 10.27% of Garland residents are black and 11.99% are from other races.

                TOTAL ESTIMATED MINORITY POPULATION FROM GARLAND IS 136,00O people.

                Then from Collin County we have 14.5% Hispanic who are Latino or Hispanic (roughly 112,000 people)
                8.2% who are black  (Roughly 16,000)
                10.2% who are Asian (Roughly 80,000)

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                Thus, the total population of the Third U.S. Congressional District consists of roughly 344,000 minorities.

                Since roughly 70% of the population of the Third District are over 18, we have approximately 250,000 possible voters for John Lingenfelder from just the ranks of the minorities in the Third U.S. Congressional District.

                DON’T TELL ME THAT JOHN LINGENFELDER CAN’T WIN!

                If I want to read those kind of lies, I’ll just open up The Dallas Morning News.

                You can tell me that you are lazy.  You can tell me that you cannot spare $5 for a better life.

                but if you do, then on the morning of November 3, all you will have are your excuses and two more years of the same do-for-the-rich representation of Sam Johnson that is passed off by the Dallas Morning News as representing the “majority”.   Majority my foot!  Majority of the rich, perhaps, but not MY MAJORITY of the working people.

                If John Lingenfelder does not win, it will only be because enough people in the Third District did not care enough to get off their couches and stand up for a candidates who will represent them.  Because folks, we outnumber the rich Republicans and that’s a fact!

                If we don’t get John Lingenfelder to Washington, It will be because you kept your hand in your pocket when you could have given $5.  If all the voters who say they would vote for John were to give only $5, his campaign would have $1, 250,000.

                CALL JOHN LINGENFELDER’S OFFICE NOW AND ASK WHAT YOU CAN DO

                972-468-1127

                GO ONLINE AND CONTRIBUTE

                WITH YOUR HELP JOHN CAN WIN!

                WITHOUT IT, HE LOSES.

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