Doggett For President!

[Dover]

I know, I know...he's far too free-thinking and has too much integrity to be accepted into the D.C. dungeon of thieves and posers. Plus we desperately need him in Texas where he is so loved. He's currently fighting for his life, to re-establish himself after the reshuffling of the districts by the repugs. He is the real deal with a long track record of taking his position as a true representative of the people and the planet to heart. If you've lost faith in your own representatives, consider supporting Lloyd instead. I promise you it will be money WELL spent.


A note from Lloyd,



Dear Friends,

Yesterday, Rush Limbaugh took offense to some comments I recently made regarding the Tea Party and its hijacking of the debt ceiling negotiations in order to promote hazardous ideas that would threaten America’s most financially-vulnerable citizens.

Well, if Rush Limbaugh doesn’t like my position, I must be doing something right.

Conservative talking heads like Rush Limbaugh and the politicians they support—like our very own Governor Rick Perry, who once referred to me as “vicious” for my attempts to ensure federal education dollars actually made their way to our vital neighborhood schools — have been calling for my head for years. I need your help to fight the Limbaugh-Perry Republicans who want to take my voice and your voice out of Congress. Please consider donating $5, $10 or $25 to my campaign and stand up to Tea Party Republicans.


They don’t appreciate my efforts to support a strong progressive agenda that protects and empowers financially struggling Texas families, historically disenfranchised minority groups and at-risk youth. They don’t like my views that the environmental landscape of Texas and the United States is often more valuable left untouched than stripped and harvested by the machinery of Big Oil and the mining industry. They certainly don’t care for my stance that multinational corporations who store their profits in tax havens and folks in the top tax brackets have moral and economic obligations to support and protect working families.

So if Rush Limbaugh doesn’t like me, if Governor Perry doesn’t like me, I’ll take that as a compliment.

Y’all probably know that, yet again Governor Perry’s minions in the Texas legislature are after my Congressional seat. The GOP’s redistricting plan is a craven effort to further disenfranchise minority voters in Texas. It disrespects two of Texas’ most important cities, San Antonio and Austin, by lumping them together in one bewilderingly skinny U.S. Congressional district. The redistricting map that Republicans shoved through the Texas House and Senate and Gov. Rick Perry signed is a truly political map. Better put, it is a dirty political map.

With your support, I will continue to fight for hard working Texas families and represent progressive values in the U.S. Congress. Please consider supporting me with a small donation of $5 or $10 or even $25. No denomination is too small (or great). I am humbled by and grateful for your support.

Since my early days as a young Texas State Senator, I have made my life’s passion my life’s work. It is an incredible privilege to serve Texans like yourself at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. Day in, day out, I will continue to fight for policies that take care of our elderly, veterans and children. I will continue to work tirelessly to see that children are given access to early education programs and institutions of higher education.

I can’t do this without your support, and I wouldn’t have it any other way. Take two minutes and make a contribution today.

Never give up. Never give in.

Sincerely,
Lloyd

http://doggett.house.gov/

About Lloyd: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd_Alton_Doggett_II

Contribute: https://www.votedoggett.com/contribute/

[TexasTowelie]

1. Great man!

He received my vote a few times while I lived in Austin.