Dean reaches over 400,000 signed up today!!

[Larkspur]

Yippee!!
And he bashes Bush and Cheney again

Our founders spoke of their fear that economic power would one day try to seize political power. That day has now come with the Bush administration. Under George W. Bush, the oil companies write our energy policy; big pharmaceutical companies draft Medicare reform without price controls; and in Iraq, Halliburton is awarded a $7 billion no-bid contract.

It's a government of, by and for the special interests. But this is the September to Remember. This is the month when we are going to change all that.

On September 30th, the third quarter ends for FEC filing purposes. George W. Bush is planning on raising more than $35 million from the special interests, bundled by his "Pioneers" and "Rangers" -- in this quarter alone -- for a primary in which he's running unopposed. Why does he need it? So that he and Karl Rove can bombard the American people with nearly $200 million of advertising, to tear apart his Democratic opponent and confuse voters about the real truth behind Bushís agenda before we ever even get to the convention.

In George Bush's America, the special interests own the government. In Howard Dean's America -- in our America -- the government will again belong to the American people.

You have shown that there is a way for the American people to defeat the big money behind the Bush reelection campaign. During the last ten days of June, more than 83,000 Americans raised more than $7.6 million for Howard Dean. Your contributions not only made a difference -- they shook the foundation of the race for the Democratic nomination to the very core, and proved that we could compete against the other Democratic candidates.

Today there are more than 400,000 supporters for Howard Dean.

Help us reach our goal of 450,000 supporters by the end of the month by inviting a friend today:
http://www.deanforamerica.com/

[CMT]

1. now just got to get 50,000 more before end of month

to reach goal.

[ProfessorPlum]

2. Excellent. Good to see him talking about Halliburton's sweetheart deals

I realize that this could never "really" happen, but remember when we used to think that criminals would be persecuted? Do you think there will be any criminal repercussions after this regime is gone? Or will we just pretend that America wasn't raped and all go quietly about our business?

[liberalnurse]

3. I could get another 100 if I had more of

the mail-in cards. I'd even put the stamps on and mail them.

[plindner]

7. No postage, do it online...

Go here to sign up people online:

http://www.deanforamerica.com/site/PageServer?pagename=doubledean

No need for data entry or postage... Just do it! Reminds me that I need to whip out my clipboard and join up a few more people before the end of the month. It's actually quite easy to do....

[liberalnurse]

8. I'll do the clip bard approach.

Also, I can hand out literature...:)

[Demobrat]

4. Yeah, it is nice.

Now that he's done it maybe the other candidates will follow suit. Here's hoping.

[ProfessorPlum]

5. Kucinich, to his great credit, made a big point of it at

the Albuquerque debate. No one else touched it. I thought that was excellent of Dennis.

How long will we continue to ignore the elephant in the room?

[Demobrat]

9. Who?

?

[DrFunkenstein]

6. I Won't Speak Against Dean

But I know that Kerry intends to bring to hunting corporate crooks and cutting corporate welfare the same intensity that he brought to cleaning up the enormous backlog as a state prosecutor, to bringing down BCCI crooks, and tracking down the CIA connections to drug money in Latin America.

Kerry is committed to building a bad ass SEC and bringing the hammer down on off-shore tax-shelters. He also is going to bust up the practice of CEO golden parachutes.

"WorldCom and other corporate scandals have made life more difficult for middle-class families. Because of WorldCom’s mismanagement and the corruption of its executives, Americans have lost jobs, lost savings, lost hope. Iowans lost more than $2 billion in their 401K’s from the corruption at WorldCom and other such scandal-ridden corporations.

But despite WorldCom’s status as a corporate criminal, the Bush Administration has been tripping over itself to provide the company more government contracts. WorldCom received $122 million in contracts in 2000 when George Bush was elected – to $772 million today. That’s an increase of more than 600 percent.

As President, Kerry will crack down on dishonest companies and close corporate tax loopholes in order to pay for tax relief to the middle class."

http://www.blog.johnkerry.com/blog/archives/000212.html#more

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[KaraokeKarlton]

10. Not to try to be rude Funk

But is he going to start by getting his wife to shut down all the overseas Heinz operations? Sorry, but as good as what you said sounds, I can't trust him on it as long as his own wife has offshore businesses.

[w4rma]

11. I'm gonig to defend Kerry on this one

IMHO, it is utterly impossible to compete against multi-national corporations, because of our nation's free-trade agreements, without building your factories overseas where the labor is ridiculously cheap, the environmental regulations are ridiculously lax and the unions are most times non-existant or extremely weak.

I don't fault any buisness for doing what they need to do to stay in buisness. I do, however, fault buisnesses which lobby or lobbied for free-trade agreements.

[deutsey]

12. My Meetup list keeps growing and growing too!

It's really getting difficult to find a venue to house us all...that's good, I guess, but it's becoming a hassle, too. I'll put up with it, though.