You can help stop the Republicans from using the veto and the filibuster.

[liberaldemocrat7]

You can help stop the Republicans from using the veto and the filibuster.


Go to http://www.opensecrets.org

search on the name Mitch McConnell

He will serve as the minority leader of the senate in 2007. Find his campaign contributors and list the ones that sell consumer products. Find their email addresses and phone numbers and fax numbers.

Send each of his campaign contributors the following message.


Get your CEO to tell Mitch McConnell: Do not use the filibuster nor let George W Bush use the veto or we will not buy your products ever again and we will tell everyone in this country not to buy your products.


Then tell Senator McConnell, do not use the filibuster nor allow Bush to use the veto or I will boycott your campaign contributors that sell consumer products.

[radfringe]

1. some tidbits

The McConnell Machine
http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/news/special_packages/mcconnell

Price tag politics
Senator's pet issue: money and the power it buys
By John Cheves, HERALD-LEADER STAFF WRITER
In the early 1970s, Addison Mitchell McConnell Jr., a young and intense Republican lawyer, strode into the political science class he taught at the University of Louisville.


Good medicine for drug firms
By John Cheves, HERALD-LEADER STAFF WRITER
The pharmaceutical industry needed a friendly senator in 1999, and it was willing to talk money. Senate Democrats were pushing universal prescription drug coverage for senior citizens -- including a provision to let Medicare negotiate for cheaper prices. Drug companies wanted to stop them.


McConnell By the Numbers:

a few tidbits, more at

http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/news/special_packages/mcconnell/15763572.htm

$66,000: Donations to McConnell from employees of Guardsmark, a Memphis, Tenn., security firm for which he has co-sponsored legislation

$2 million: Amount casinos in the American Gaming Association gave to McConnell's National Republican Senatorial Committee for 1998 and 2000 elections after he courted them

$60,000: Donations McConnell took from UBS and Citigroup employees at a fund-raiser last fall after their employers successfully lobbied for a tough bankruptcy-reform law

$125,250: Donations to McConnell's National Republican Senatorial Committee for 2000 elections from a leading drug-industry group after it successfully lobbied to kill a price-cutting bill

$20,000: Total given to McConnell by Deloitte & Touche executives in 1995 as the company successfully lobbied for a law making it harder for investors to sue for fraud

[liberaldemocrat7]

2. Thank you for posting this.

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