Congressmen Bob McCloskey &Charles Coleman running impeach Bush ads

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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=106x28103

DUer mom cat posted in the Activist HQ the URL for the group running the ads tomorrow, but I thought it might also be cross posted in GD-Politics.

http://www.usalone.com/coleman/pnum299.php
http://www.usalone.com/impeachteam/donations.php


The email cut and pasted below explains the ad buy, and of course requests donations.


Dear Friends and Activists,

Thanks to your donations, the two candidates in California, Bob McCloskey (29th Congressional District) and Charles Coleman, Jr. (28th Congressional) this morning started running a banner at the top of the Los Angeles Times daily news email to their web subscribers, calling on others to join them in standing up for impeachment now.

Thanks to your donations, this week Air America radio will feature links to the new Impeach Team action pages in their own weekly mailing, and they have already purchased their first block of streaming "call to action" audio spots on Air America.

What these brave candidates are doing is not just promoting names to vote for, they are promoting an ISSUE, and mobilizing people around that issue in a way that will have lasting positive movement value. We can do alerts to our own participants of course, but how much better is it to apply our energies to recruit OTHER people to their good sense, who were not already speaking out?

We are off to such a good start with this campaign, but we need to do so much more in the next 2 weeks. We need to help them to expand their presence in the Los Angeles market with targeted mailings. We need to get them on the local Air America affiliate as well, to accelerate the people's impeachment movement.<snip>

We can agree that the biggest problem the Democrats have is being perceived as not standing up for their own declared principles. Regardless of how corrupt and incompetent the Republicans show themselves to be (though that might alone result in seat gains), full advantage cannot be taken while Democratic incumbents fail to stand as a courageous minority. The only way to REALLY turn this around is by demonstrating that we are fighting for the people now, and not just waiting to get elected to do so.<snip>

Some fear that taking a strong stand for impeachment will hurt our chances in November. The opposite is in fact true. Your fellow constituents, and this crosses party lines, are just as appalled as you are with our current members of Congress and their continued failure to stand up for us. Strong candidates who are NOT afraid to speak the truth, and NOT afraid to stand up now help our chances in November. By supporting these candidates, we can inspire the turnout we need to overcome the expected pre-meditated election fraud.

Some fear that challenging the president will mobilize his base against us. What base? Less than 30% still cling to the vain belief that Bush and Cheney are either competent or truthful. Instead, we will rally our own base in a way that is not otherwise possible, and it will be the other side who sits out the election in disgust with the neocon nightmare we have for an Administration.

Some fear that any replacement for either Bush or Cheney might be equally as bad. All we know is wherever the people's impeachment movement takes us we must go there. Only if the voice of the people is strong can we stop the slide into the unitary dictatorship being exercised now. At the very least we will be able to chasten their successors.<snip>

[Vidar]

1. Music to my ears anyway. Thank you.