Tag: elections
Posted on Sat Aug 28, 2010 at 09:07:59 AM EST
Tags: Elections, Power, Leverage, 2010 MidTerms, Liberals (all tags)
Glen Ford writing at Black Agenda Report said on Wednesday "We Are Cornered: There's No Way Out Without A Fight": "Obama and his Democratic legislative allies have successfully shielded their Wall Street masters from anything worthy of the name financial reform.", and "The pace of finance capital deterioration quickens, accelerating the timetable of the Right's offensive. As the hunger grows, Wall Street's servants become more aggressive and demanding, and there is nothing in the Democratic Party, as presently constituted, to stop them."
Ford closed his essay with: "One truth remains: only a massed people can defeat massed capital. If the American Left is capable of bearing that in mind in the critical times ahead, it might just escape the cul-de-sac and make some modest contribution to the world."
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Posted on Tue Sep 16, 2008 at 02:42:18 PM EST
Tags: Obama, Reid, elections (all tags)
With 23 GOP seats up for grabs this year -- versus only a dozen Democratic seats -- Senate Democrats see a once-in-a-generation opportunity to pad their majority with as many as four to seven new seats.
This could be a great chance to get that solid majority in the Senate we've been discussing...that senators have claimed they need to "get stuff done."
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Posted on Tue Jan 23, 2007 at 03:45:54 PM EST
Tags: elections (all tags)
Congresswoman Susan Davis (D-CA) has introduced the Federal Election Integrity Act (H.R. 101.) It would prohibit chief state election officials from engaging in political activity on behalf of federal candidates over whose elections the officials have supervisory authority.
How would this help? According to Rep. Davis's office (received by e-mail, no link)
This bill would prevent the troubling conflicts of interest that we saw in the cases of Ken Blackwell and Katherine Harris.
Whether the bill gets a hearing or even traction, depends in part on you. If you support it, contact your own member of Congress and ask them to sign on as co-sponsors of H.R. 101.
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