Money Party Vs. People Party: Dueling Letters (Sirota -- update on trade agreement)

[antigop]

http://www.workingassetsblog.com/2007/09/money_party_vs_people_party_du_1.html

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In the ongoing battle between the People Party and the Money Party in Washington, we get dueling circulating on Capitol Hill today.

The first is a letter signed by Senators Brown (OH), Dorgan (ND), Stabenow (MI), Rockefeller (WV), Sanders (VT) and Casey (PA) demanding to Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez demanding to know why, in his desperate attempts to pass a Colombia Free Trade Deal, he would say tell National Journal this week that violence against union leaders in Colombia is “not a problem" when in fact more union leaders are executed in Colombia than the rest of the world's countries combined.

The second is a letter being circulated by the Bush White House to Democrats on Capitol Hill demanding Democrats back off their opposition to lobbyist-written trade deals with Peru, Colombia, Panama and South Korea. The letter is packaged as being signed by former Democratic congresspeople, Cabinet secretaries, and Clinton administration aides. What is not said is that almost half of these people signing the letter are or very recently were also registered corporate lobbyists whose clients have an interest in the passage of the trade deals
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[brentspeak]

1. This is an issue that should be getting people's full attention

[illinoisprogressive]

2. we cannot let the corporate wing win or we are screwed