Kerry email message - What They're Up Against

[IronLionZion]

Just a positive email message highlighting what was accomplished this past year. Damn, I hope he passes his Kids First act. Senator Casey will get elected and vote for it. Don't underestimate the power of positive thinking.

I've been hearing a lot of talk about what we're up against in the critical 2006 elections as we take on the corrupt, power-abusing, Swift Boat style-attacking Republican Party.

But, truth is, they need to worry about what they're up against.

Just look at what we've done in the last twelve months. Time and again, we've demonstrated that we have the power and political will to fight for the things we value most and for the candidates who embody those values.

This past November, our 3 million citizen volunteers helped spearhead Get Out The Vote efforts in critical Democratic victories across the nation ... And since the end of 2004, together we gave $4.5 million to Democratic candidates, committees, state parties, and progressive causes.

We mobilized to protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge from the Bush-Cheney drill-at-any-cost onslaught... And we garnered endorsements from over 700,000 citizens, from every state in the nation, for our Kids First Act to provide health care for the 11 million uninsured children.

Our national lawyers' network helped ensure that the voting problems of 2000 and 2004 were not repeated in 2005, and it is poised to do it again in 2006.

You also helped me travel around the country to rally citizens, engage grassroots volunteers, and help raise funds on behalf of Democrats.

In Pennsylvania, we've helped Bob Casey wage a strong Senate campaign that has incumbent Rick Santorum on his heels. Long a poster boy for mindless support of Bush policies and the right-wing agenda, Santorum is now scrambling to convince Pennsylvania voters otherwise.

In Washington state, we've stood by Senator Maria Cantwell. She joined me in leading the fight to protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge - and now powerful oil company special interests are coming after her with everything they've got.

In Florida, we're helping Senator Bill Nelson, who is running for re-election against Katherine Harris. As you know, Harris made a name for herself by playing a leading role in the 2000 Florida voting fiasco, and we will not allow her to parlay her partisanship into a seat in the Senate.

And that's just a small sampling of the dozens of candidates who have come to count on us to be there for them. Together in 2006, we're going to do even more to help pull through to victory Democrats running at the local, state, and federal levels.

We'll defeat candidates who refuse to challenge the Bush/Cheney administration's illegal, warrantless spying ... We'll replace Republicans who have refused to lift a finger to end the Bush administration's mind-numbing incompetence... We'll end the careers of Republican politicians who have cozied up to unethical lobbyists and sold out the American people.

And, we'll be there, each and every day, to make sure no Democrat stands alone in the face of the Republicans' desperate, underhanded election tactics and facts-be-damned campaign ads.

Thanks for all you've done to help Democratic candidates set the stage for victory. And stay tuned for the next steps in our work together.

Sincerely,

John Kerry

[ohtransplant]

1. Kerry has been busy

and working his tail off.

It's good to see him leading the charge

[politicasista]

2. I hope it passes too.

Thanks for posting this. Kerry is sure busy. :kick:

[applegrove]

3. As soon as they lost all power in 2004 - they said they would have

to fight state by state. But they did a good job on social security reform, being the grown-ups during Katrina, punching through to the truth about WMD, and much more.

Has been a hard time for everyone!

[DemBones DemBones]

4. Has he still got our back?

I lost all respect for Kerry when he folded like a cheap pup tent, couldn't wait to concede the election to his old Skull & Bones buddy Dubya AKA Temporary.

[YvonneCa]

5. You bet he has ! !

:patriot: :patriot: :patriot: :patriot: :patriot: :patriot:

[DemBones DemBones]

6. OK. . .

:eyes: :eyes: :eyes:

[IronLionZion]

7. We have two choices

1) Bitch and moan about what happened in 2004. (I didn't like it either)

2) Work together NOW to save our country from those who want to destroy it.


Me thinks if we go with choice 2, then 2006 will be a very good year for democracy. We can hopefully take back congress, get health care for kids, and start impeaching the bastards.

[woodsprite]

8. We can't get very far working for it, if the Dems in congress

won't play along. If we don't pull a rabbit out of the hat in 2006, they'll all find themselves out of a job. They need to realize that we're coming down to a last chance scenario here and they're throwing it away. They need to filibuster - they need to fight with all they have.

Some of them were in the military fighting for our country and freedoms when they were younger. Now, they have to fight the same fight in DC. When they were elected to their seats -- well, that was their draft. They need to fight just as hard as our loved ones over in Iraq are now, and ones before, that had previously fought in Vietnam, Germany, France, Korea, the Civil War.....

Or everything that our soldiers have ever fought for is lost.

[IronLionZion]

9. "mind-numbing incompetence"

It's so sad to think people actually voted for Bush.